Chapter 15

And, if the reward of it all--if "reward" is what you seek--be but a Sleep Eternal, do not weep. If you have done your best, you will have left the world happier and better, and so more beautiful. To those around you, to those who walked with you a little way along the Road of Life, you will have brought Hope where before you came there was only resignation and despair; you will have brought laughter to eyes long dimmed by tears; you will have brought Love into lives so lonely and so desolate until you came. God surely can ask of no man more than this.

That, at least--is my Faith. That is also my "religion." Theology is unimportant: FACTS, concerning the reality of God and a Life Hereafter--matter little or nothing at all.

What is all-important is that _here on Earth_--in the world of men and women around us--there are many less happy than we; many infinitely lonelier, poorer, more desolate and depressed. To these--even the lowliest among us can give comfort, bring into their darkness some little ray of "light"--however small.

Let the "Christian" Churches quarrel as they may. The uproar of their differences in Faith, each seeking to be justified, is stilled before the Great Reality of those really and truly in Human NEED. Let us do all the good we may--nor ask the reason why, nor seek a heavenly reward. At every step we take along the Road of Life--there is someone we can help, someone we can succour, someone we can forgive. A truce to violent controversy around and around the Trivial. True religion is an _Act_--even more than a Belief, infinitely more than mere articles of Faith. By the greatness of our sacrifice, by the unselfishness of our Love; by the way we have tried to live up to "the best" within us; by our earnest wish at all times, and with all men--to "play the game"--surely by these things alone shall we be judged?

FINIS.