The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-04-23

his being the case all that ever was. IS
or ever viii be- is necessarily Of Him He
is everywhere and at all times. He was
as much in Judas Iscariot as He was IN
Jesus of Nazareth. lie ordained every
thing that either said or did Both were
/ His Instruments. moulded Of similar clays
| by the same potter the one unto honor
/ and the other into dishonof, as honor is
estimated in our economy They were
both actors in the same play, the one could
not have performed his part without the
| other. God in His wisdom decreed the
drama. appointed the stage, ordained tie
actors and finished the scenes. He is m
capable Of any mistakes; hcnc5, neither
creates or ordans anything but what is
necessary IN His economy. We have the
testimony Of the holy prophet Isaiah, (see
43th Chap, 81 verses that God has de-
clared through this hoiy medium that He
in Ills wisdom creates evil as well as har-
many. This is a credible WitIess, aid
believe him. In every system we find a
centrarety Of influences, the one (ia its OPP
erationl opposing, yet necessary to the
other. Were it not for the centrifugal,
the eentriPetal forces would dcrange the
great solar system. and chaos result And
so We find in every system from the great
est to the most minute In our social.
political and religions economies we find
these contrary influences necessary To the
vitality and health Of the systems The
evils which the politician, the nloraliSt, the
christian, &c, bewaii aud would annihi-
late, are the counter influences Which
check the eircumventing tendency Of the
religions and keep our economy IN pro-
gressive order. The religion Of the church
cannot exist save by the stimulating ele-
ments Of evil. The prime order Of inear-
nate life is progress; and the vitality of
progress is opposition. Opposition is evil, :
and evil is necessary to perfect MS in viz
tue. In the christian economy we have
these contrary forces in the ensamplcs Of
Jesus and JRdas,--the one the type of
goodness; the other the type of evil; both
moulded, fashioned and inspired by the
same God, who * all il all and ever pur-
posing al
Having arrived at these conclusions
began a careful review of my own life
with the hope Of aseertainiug why it was
that ! had been continually erring from
my youth up, while the desire to become
good and useful was ever with me ! did
not pursue this inquiry far beforeI became
convinced, that, at best, ] was and am bat
clay IN the potter's hand 10 be moulded
and used as the Master saw and sees fiji.
and that as this potter-this Master Is
supreme wisdom, compromising all time
in one eternal now, therefore, foreknowing
all things, lie had, from before my incar-
nation, ordained my course Of action from
birth to the grave and thence onward
Admitting what seems to me to be a self
evident fact the supremacy of the wisdom
Of God and his forcknowledge Of all
things, establishes the fact of His fore
ordination, since he could not foreknow,
(ile being supreme power,) without he
had forcordainod. Hence, as He had from
my beginning numbered the hairs OF my
head, (sce Matt 10th Chap. Both verse. }
must conclude that He had decreed what
that number should be. Aud as this is the
case. and the actions of man being more
important than the number Of his hairs. it
rs fair also to presume that He also fore
numbered my actions in every function OF
life; and of course the numbering was
through His knowledge of the things-the
actions he had foreordained; and whatever
lie dceIees must Of a necessity take place,
hence. the conclusion that am child Of
destiny. Aud wherefore arose tile query:
what flicacy could there be in prayer if |
was constrained to certain rules Of Conduct
ordained Of Him vino never revolScs His de-
cree In answer. deduced that tile
prayer Of men could not change the will
or DEGREES Of God; but chat by prayer,
through the humiliation necessary thereto,
the heart, the mind Of man is converted to
that of passive seFgitudc which brings him,
more or less, in harmony 18th tho supreme
will And that the process Of prayer is
the schesl, and the only correct school.
through which the earnal mind can be
spiritually educated aud inspired to har-
mony aud that as we seek this education
or inspiration, so will We secure it; and he
or She who is ordained to receive it, is also
ordained To seek it. (See Romans 9th
Chap, 18th verse; Prayer, as I under
stand it, is not public demonstrations 10 be
seen and heard Of men, but the earnest
secret communion with God the Father,
for whatsoever is necessary for our good
and the good Of others, and to the honor
and glory Of him from whom all good em-
anates
As to the iilcacy ofthc prayer of one Pc r
son for the protection, welfare and spiritual
conversion OF another, have been able to
found reasons for believing that mar is
dual, and probably triune being-yet, in
the functionary organization Of his senses,
is a community Of intelligencies--and that
as he properly earnestly desires thing for
the good Of another, and that good to he
effected in and through the mind of that
/ other who cannot be elfectually reached by
oral suasion, the spiritual functions OF the
mind Of the party desiring the good
wrought in his friend is, through the law