148 The Spiritual Life.
That isthe first great step,andin orderto
beable to take itthere is one secret that we
must remember: we must do everything as
thoughtheGreat Powerweredoingit through
us. That is the secret of what is called
"inactioninthemidstofaction." If amanof
the world would become trulyspiritual,thatis
the thought that he must put behind all his
work. The counsel, the judge, the solicitor,
whatmustbethe motivemeach man'sheartif
m these ordinary affairsof life he would learn
thesecretof thespirit? Hemustregardhim-
self simplyasan incarnationof DivineJustice.
"What,"aman says, "in themidstof lawas
weknow it?" Yes, even there, imperfect as
it is, full of wrongs as it may be, it is the
Justice of God strivingto make itself supreme
on earth; and the man who would be a
spiritualmaninthe profession of the lawmust
thinkof himselfasanincarnationof the Divine
Justice, and always have at the heart of his
thought: "Iamthe Divinehandof Justicein
theworld,andasthat Ifollowlaw." Andso
in all else. Take Commerce. Commerce is
one of theways by which theworld lives—
a
partofthe Divineactivity. ThemanmCom-
merce must think of himself as part of that
circulating stream of life by which nations are