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what can your memory not be if you de,

what can your memory not be if you de-
velop it.
Three. God has an imaginat ion-inf-
mite. You have an imagination in minia-
ture. The colors of Raphael, the tone
pictures of Beethoven, the word pictures
of Dante and Milton, are only hints
at the possibilities of your own magma
ton. You say you can't be either of
them? Oh, no, not here, but remember
you may have all eternity in which to
work if you choose.
"The imagination of God is majestic,
sublime. We do not appreciate it be-
cause we have not developed our own
Imagination to where we can. The day is
ushered in with the bursting of divine
symphonies and goes out in the sweet
quiet and beauty that stirs the painters
and poets soul. Cultivate that faculty
of your soul and you too can see the
beauty in the clouds and sublime
strength which means protection in the
storm. Above it all lives God, and lit
tie by little as our vision clears we see
the eternal and cry "Oh, it is the only
thing to live for.
Four. "God has the faculty of love
infinite. You have this faculty in minia-
ture This is the most Godlike of all. 1t
is the motive power of your life. 1t is
that sweet, subtle power that noiselessly
melts the cold, bleak, frozen crags of the
worlds sin. 1t is the power that makes
life livable and the world habitable. 1t
is turning swords into pillow shares
the present war. 1t is
that which grows within you, your larg-
er self-your eternal individuality. 1t
stops your pessimistic bemoaning your
own lot, and makes you appreciate your
blessings. 1t enables you to see the world
as God sees it. Love is eternal. Heaven
is it's haven. When it is fixed upon an
object as high as it is enduring-upo
God Himself-it becomes the means of
eternal happiness.
Train your intellect then to think
truth Gods thoughts). Fill your mem
Dry with noble deeds and great facts
divine data) and when you call upon
it it will not fail you. Cultivate your
till you can see the divine
beauty both in man and nature and you
IAN live high up the mountain side in
5he atmosphere of the divine. The thing
hat makes men pessimistic is that they
ire content to live low and breathe the
niasma of the moral swamps. Climb
Up with God and you will be thrilled
With a life yet unknown.
'Oh, you can be like God if you
choose. But it all rests on your choice.
Choose the swamps and you will drift
nto Sodom as did Lot. Choose the hills
If God and you choose life as did Abra-
lam. Have you ever noted creations
,ntithesis? Light, darkness, vile; good,
,vil; life, death; heaven; hell. You are
choosing this day one side or the other. !
You can not be on both. Do you choose !
ife, then it is yours to rise into your
;ull dominion and grow into the likeness /!
IF the eternal Father. ooh, it is great
20 stand shoulder to shoulder with God"
'Choose death and it is retrogression,
, failure, missing of all possibilities. /.
There shall be the weeping and the
gnashing of teeth Sin is fearful |!
thing, heinous thing. It blisters and
blasts and shrivels your life until it
warps and crackles and powders and is
blown away before the scorching breath
Of hell. 1t eats out your very vitals
and makes hideous monstrosities out of
possibilities. 1t thwarts your
1t stultifes your memory and
1t crucifies love!
Heaven can not be given or taken. 1t
must be grown into; and the growing
must be now.
II hold it true with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones
That men may rise on stepping stones
Of their dead selves to higher things"