The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-12-07
The Making d : Nan.
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that right thinking, right desires.
and right resolves. oft repeated,
would make it possible for any man
to resist temptation. Coupled with
this scientific growth Of the soul, the
most important factor is the power
of Almighty God. We donot know
what God is, for He is Spirit and
cannot be analysed any more than a
soul can be analysed, neither do we
know what matter is in its ultimate
substance. Many men differ in
their concepts of God, yet the most
skeptical must admit with Spencer
that We are ever in the presence
of an eternal and infinite principle,
from which all things proceed"
We should think of God as an Inf
mite Spirit, Omnipotent, Omniscient,
and Omnipresent, an all power
full, all wise, all producing, ever
present being. the literal Father of
us all, the Over Soul as it were of
the Universe, in whom all life in
heres. The old religions put God
above the world as maker and ruler.
He issued His commands from that
supreme throne to the universe. es-
tablished laws. and gave orders. He
made the winds His angles and Light
enings His messengers. He said to
his creatures, Go and do this, 90
and do that and they must not re-
ply, nor ask the reason why or how.
But with the advent of His Only
Begotten Son Jesus Christ, there
burst upon the world an altogether
different Being from that suggested
by the earlier conceptions of the
Almighty, for Christ proclaimed
Him as the heavenly Father, the
ever present friend. Again Christ
said that He and the Father were
one, and He left us the example of
His life as a guide for ours, it be-
hooves us to strive so to live day by
day as He lived when here upon
earth, that we may be worthy of
hat Kingdom where our lives shall
be hid with Christ in God, and to
his end we should constantly keep
Him before us. Without God the
world is great void, vast empti-
ness. an infinite disorder. There is
nothing permanent to love, to rever-
snce. to worship, to trust, only blind
'orces, only dead laws. The stream
# human history flows by. tending
Nowhere. Dark fate sits a gloomy
Iphinx by the wayside; the desert
lands drift over it for centuries, and
10 answer comes to our questioning
leart. To be without God is to be
without hope in the world. But,
When we come to know God, we
ave immortal life abiding in us.
then the soul is alive through and
through. Then sunshine returns to
ur days, strength to our will, activ-
ty to our intellect, satisfaction to
ur heart. Then we have Father
vho love us, and in whom we can
rust. As we seek to do His will and
epend on His providence, we know
lin more and more, until at last He
ecomes as real to us as that all sur
ounding nature which is His mani
sstation. Every earnest purpose,
very trusting prayer. brings us
carer to Him. We have the ev-
lence and witness of His being
i our soul. AS the shadows Of
light vanish with the coming dawn,
, our doubt and unbelief disappear
s we live from God to man. If you
'ould know God so certainly that
0 farther doubt shall be possible,
Ike the path of obedience, trust and
18th. Do His Will, and SO know of
le doctrine.
He who lives a generous life, en-
RS into communion with God, for
cd is love. He who in his feeble
ess prays for strength. in his an
lish of soul prays for comfort, in
IS sinfulness prays for pardon, in
IS longing for goodness and truth
pens his heart to the Infinite Good
sss, the inspiration of the heavenly
nmfortAr he shall at last come to