Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
ALL HEALING DIVINE HEALING, SAYS PASTOR

life and lifting it entirely out and down
from the realm of religion and interpret
ing it in terms of science and psychology.
So we no longer say that man has soul
but that he has a subjective mind God
is no more In the heart and conscience
of man, but there Is forgotten glory
from the Father that we call the sub
liminal self One does not need to be
simply the passing whlm Of temporary
stage in which we find ourselves. If we
should apply it all along the line there
is not one Of us but would resent II.
Suppose we Should interpret music In
that fashion and should value every piece
of music from the length of time it takes
to sing it. That has nothing to do with
it. Or suppose we should henceiorth
value painting by the square inch. That
has nothing to do about 1T. Or suppose
we should estimate sculpture by weight
or by cubic foot of marble or granite.
/ We should say, it is absurd. 1t is eX-
actly as absurd to interpret the religious
life in any other terms than religious
terms.
There are probably very few of us
who have not at some time in our lives
been made aware of this presence whose
dwelling is the light of setting suns,
very few of us who have not at some
time been made aware of the fact that
it is not in man that walketh to direct
his steps; that after we have explained
In materialistic terms as far as we could
the thing that we have explained is not
a man but something short of a real man.
And when we ask ourselves whether this
awareness that we have at times may
become habitual instead of occasional.
we may answer: Yes. 1t Is our business
to have it So. But we must understand
that the choicest experiences of life do
not always register themselves in our
consciousness. What deceives many of
us is that we hope that the presence
of God is to give US a great thrill,-a
physical thrill. We look for some kind
of physical exaltation, a species of spirit
ual intoxication, and when that fails to
come we think that the divine presence
is not a reality. But our best expert
ences do not register themselves in this
way. They make themselves felt most
when every outer door is closed and we
are in the secret chamber praying to HIM
who Seeth in secret.
But what has been said about the
subjective mind and the subliminal self
and the power of suggestion we are not
to interpret. OF course. as any lnvective
against modern psychology and its me
thods; but they are the language OF the
laboratory. not of the altar, or the IN
vestigator rather than of the worshiper.
How il it, one asks, that we are to
release this presence within us? What
are the steps whereby we are to realize
that He who sent us is with us. that we
have not been left alone? The answer
is in one word-faith. 1t is a word one
average man thinks that faith relates to
something that we do not know. And so
we speak of faith as opposed TO knowl-
edge Tlat is very crude. We might as
well speak of mathematics as being OPP
posed to music. Faith is not opposed to
knowledge. but to sight. Faith is seeing
with the inner eye what the outer eye
cannot grasp. the conviction that there
is more In this world than You see
with your physical eyes, that beyond the
physical laws of the development theory
there are higher and more sublimated
laws. not contradictory but supplement-
ing and supplementary, higher world
which the physical eye and the physical
consciousness alone do Aot register. No
man can give that to another. Jesus
Christ never gave it to one of His dis
ciples, but they saw it reflected in His
face. And one day when He came down
from the mountain they said to Him:
Master, teach us also how to pray lie
did not say: Do you not think that as
pray? TO that they probably would have
assented He said nothing of the Kind.
And lie gives us the key in these very
words, He that sent me. the power that
produced. created. guided and sustained
me, is with me today. He hath not left
me alone. He has not turned me over
| to inf1exible physical laws. I am in His
always the things that are pleasing to
Him.
TEST this by your own experience; take
no mans word for ii. AS we so home
today assume this attitude toward life
have the conviction of the reality of
eyes; say, Yes. there are d thousand
things going on in this world that I can
not see. there is higher Self than myself
ready TO cooperate with me and to guide