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CHAPTER III
Invocation.
III
In desert wilds, in midnight gloom; In grateful joy, in trying pain; In laughing youth, or nigh the tomb; Oh! when is prayer unheard or vain?
--ELIZA COOK.
MAHAVIRA, the very word is full of sweetness and light, of love and life.
It fills the air with odours like precious perfume poured forth.
It brightens the mind with a glory of truth which dismisses all fear.
It brings delicious peace to the disturbed
heart.
It gives to the soul the immortal strength of the Almighty Himself.
That name is the only answer to all our doubts, the only spring of all our courage, the only earnest of all our hopes, the Omnipotent Charm against all our foes, the only remedy for all our weaknesses, the only supply of all our wants and the perfection and fullness of all our desires.
