Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13

me. I will take that as a conviction.
| not as suggestion" emanating from an
| impersonal subjective mind" there shall
| be no dedication of the pineal gland; let
us be done with that. and let us turn to
the dear name. the Father within AS
sumo this conviction this moment that
| the life you are living lis not In your
power, in your own wisdom. See what q
new day will come to every one Of us.
mot a man or woman Of us but this
hour has temptations, and the morrow
will bring new supply of them, whether
| we be preacher, doctor, teacher or mer-
chant-each one has his own subtle
temptations. How is he to meet them?
There is one way to meet them-not to
argue about it. but to meet them the
way the Master met them, to take the
them, not around them. can do all
things. said Paul; I can do all things
in Him that giveth me strength And
| the epistle to the Hebrews gives this long
recital of men and women who out OF
weakness were made strong by faith; not
the effort to believe something which was
against their reason, not trying to accept
something which they knew to be untrue,
but the conviction of the reality OF things
which they could not see with their
physical eyes.
land this is just as true in our
triumphs as it is in our temptations. On
the whole 1t Is probably harder for men
to take the triumphs OF life without being
tions that come to them. The tempted
man has certain kind of sympathy.
| there is a certain challenge about 1t to
awake all of the spiritual power that Is
in him. but how many of us can stand
success? How few of us there are who
are not spoiled by good fortune? Our eff
forts relax we become mentally and spir-
itualy tiaccid. We become hard-hearted,
unsympathetic, self-conscious. No, what
is to keep us from being spoiled with our
y,-bo va thew ha eOmmprcI91 or
artistic or professional. is the conviction
that we are not doing this all alone. that
there is Another One doing 1t with lis.
What difference it would make In all OF
our professions and labors! The sick
man calls n phys stefan and the physician
gives him the medicine that God made:
there is not one III the whole pharma-
copeia that man unalded could make.
There is not one surgical instrument IN
this case that human skill alone could
devise or perfect. 1t is God that siveth
wisdom and all healing is divine healing.
All teaching is heavenly teaching and all
labor is sacramental.
And it is precisely so in the sorrows
that come to us. 1 question very much
whether the sorrows of life were ever
lishtened by argument. They do not
come by argument and they do not go
by argument. With our own unaided
strength we are not sufficient for these
things So as these sorrOwful expert
ences come to us we are not To meet
them with our own VigOr. with our own
strength, but we are to reflect that He
who sent us Is with us still; that we are
not alone: that if We could only have
the courage and faith to keep still We
should have the uplift which the children
OF God are entitled to.
But it crates on ones better nature
to thus divide our life into temptations
and triumphs and sorrows. for they do
not come that way. Life marches all
abreast with it's temptations and It's trials
and It's SORROWS all in line at the same
time. We are to have no private pre-
scription for each one. What we need
is the courage of SOUL the conviction of
the reality Of things which we do not
and women. 1t is this power which
Jesus speaks of. 1t is this power which
gives us the key to all religious history.
1t was this Light that guided the chill
dren Of Israel in all their wanderings
through their spiritual deserts. It was
this Power which wrote with It's own
finger the Ten Commandments, and has
written all Of it's supplements up to this
day of grace. 1908. 1t was this Power
which made the Master such a radiating
center of spiritual power and vigor For
there went forth from Him a power. and
as many as touched Him were made
whole. You and l would like to be that
kind Of man or woman, SO that people
would love to be In our presence; SO
the children would gravitate to us; SO
that when men in temptation come to
US they could say, I do not understand
Mrs So and So: she did not say one word
about my problem, but it all came to me.
Mrs. So and So said no word about my
great sorrow. and yet somehow now
have the strength to meet it. and the
light is already breaking through the