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It is always Springtime in the head when the head of the child is there, and so I shall not believe that your spring of life has passed. And certainly you are pursuing a method calculated to give you immortal youth. There is no decay for those whose lives are spent in the works you enumerate as being chosen of you, for the Angels have all such in charge. And I give an emphatic No! to your statement that something suggested by my verses "Indirection" is a "necessary" experience in our upward life. Is it "necessary" that there should - to the solution of spiritual questions - always be discord, blight, ruin, horrible spasms of hell, the failing of the earth beneath our feet? I will not believe it. My God! when I think how aimless and useless my life has been, and to what higher uses it might have been turned had something been different ten years ago, it makes me shudder. I have drifted like a log up and down the world, borne on the vagabond currents of the age, seeking the solution I could not find because of the death that would not come. Was all this "necessary?" but all this was. You have my thanks for your kindly greetings. I shall try to deserve my promotion, using the larger power subordinately to wise ends. That I have your own and your Sister's God speed I am glad. Meanwhile, dear friend, consider the "scolding" I have given your Sister in the matter of letters as applying equally to you. And so may the dear Father guide you, Amen. Richard Realf