The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-21

sity until we are tested to the full
bent of our capacity. Thus does sweet
come out of bitter. The history of hu-
man progress is a history of struggle.
Progress means overcoming obstacles,
accepting ills. acquiring power, gain
ing. gaining immunity from our enc
mics, outgrowing our limitations, en-
larging the area of our possibilities
And in all this there is a dignity,
glory, a noble satisfaction impossible
on any other terms. We are not just
wards of the divine favor, not just SER
wants in our Fathers house. We are
let into the business of carrying on the
world on partnership basis. We are
coworkerS with God.
The process of evolution is manifest
in the law of compensation. Those
who have thought best on the order of
the universe, and especially on the
ways of God to man, have perceived
law of compensation in all things
whereby there Is a gain to match
every loss. And the working of this
law in our lives contributes powerfully
to the argument for evolution on the
spiritual plane. For where would be
the compensations for the sorrows and
deprivations of our earthly lot were Ii
not that we have within ourselves
capacity for increase of life? Sorrow
is subtraction; it is the taking away
of something that is precious to us.
Thereafter in any accounting of the
matter which leaves our human nature
without its divine element. its inherent
recuperative, expansive force, there
can be no such thing as compensation.
Our lives must remain forever less
than they were before they suffered
that loss. But this does not accord
with the finest experience of life.
Without doubt there is such a thing
as a law of compensation. 1t is often
through bitterest trial that the soul
energies into it's completest triumph.
The fact that every one does not do so
is no disproof. We may be refusing
our cooperation to defeat the action of
any beneficent law of our being. But
whoever with perfect sweetness and
trust accepts that life brings and
makes the best of it cannot fail to find
this great law of compensation work
ing in his behalf and to his lasting
good. But the only way in which such
law can work permanent gain is
through increase of life, the bringing
in of a more abundant life.
The law of life, then, is compensa-
ton, increase, growth, whereby all
losses are made good. Our deepest
and most constant want is Life, more
life" And through obedience to the
highest law of our being we can sat
isfy this want.
Thus, what we call the law of COM
pensation is but the revealing of the
divine potency within us. And this
law is nothing other than the law of
evolution in the spiritual realm, and
the revolution it makes is of our di-
vine kinship. We are made in the
image of God; even now we are the
sons of God, and pending the full I'M
folding of that sonship with all its
magnificent possibilities it doth not yet
appear what we shall be.
But there are some things which we
may confidently look for in the day of
that appearing. The old question that
has vexed the Christian world regard
ing the divinity of one man shall be
done away, for we shall all awake to
the great truth of the divine sonship
of all men. We shall know that we are
all sons of God.
Instead of the fanciful picture of a
childlike Adam in his ready-made gar
den, there shall appear the noble real
ity of the perfected man, the man
rounded out to full proportions dwell
ing in a world BETTING his high sta
ton, which he himself has had hand
in creating, fashioning 1t along lines of
enduring truth and beauty that the
great master workman has led him on
to discover and execute.
No naive, new-made Adam he. Upon
him are come the ends of the world.
He has suffered many things and en-
tered into his glory, and on his up
lifted brow is set the seal of victory.
the browning vindication of all the
tragedy of earth. Behind him is all
history, before him still the new dawn
of another day!