The Southern herald., 1915-09-03
god, THE father
Words of Scripture Convey Mes
sage of Truth to All Who
viii Read and Heed.

| allke. IL mas studied millions of souls
in every part of the earth and it finds
them exactly the same in their facul.
ties of knowledge, feeling and willing.
Men may differ in color, in language,
In size, in ability, but they don't diff
Ter as men. II one of them came
from a certain original source, all Of
them must have come from the same
original source, which proves that the
Father Of souls is the Father of all
souls, and therefore the All-Father or
the Universal Father.
Science also shows that all souls
are going through the same discipline.
No matter where we travel, we will
find sin and sorrow, light and dark
ness, pain and hardship, and all the
other things that try mems souls and
turn them out rugged and divine in
character. This being so, does it not
prove that God takes an interest, and
the same kind of an interest, in all
men? He is doing for all exactly what
he is doing for each, and he is doing
for each exactly what he is doing for
all. This is another proof Of his uni
versal Fatherhood and display of
his partiality and favoritism. Sci
ence will allow no religious sect to
monopolize God, any more than 1t
will allow one part of the world to
monopolize gravitation. Gravitation
is a universal law-everywhere found
and everywhere alike. God is a uni
versal Father, everywhere present and
everywhere alike.
Father Of All Mankind.
When we take the great-visioned
characters of the Pible-Jesus and
Paul-we find them united in believ-
ing God to be the Father of all man.
kind. Hear Jesus: when ye pray
say, Our Father" The our is an
inclusive and not an exclusive pro-
noun. Jesus authorized and made 1t
possible for every human being in this
world to lift up his voice and say:
"Our Father, who art in heaven" Hear
st. Paul. He is speaking to the Greeks
at Athens. They are not yet convert
ed to Christianity, SO that it cannot
be replied that he is speaking to
Christian Greeks. He says: God
that made the world and all things
therein. .. hath made of one
blood all nations Of men, for to dwell
on all the face of the earth.
In him we live ana move and have
our being; as certain of your own po-
cts have said, For we are also his
offspring" There you have the doc
trine Of the universal Parenthood of
God from Christs chief apostle and
the greatest Christian preacher and
missionary the world has ever known.
1t it hard for some PEOPLE to come
to this. They are as strangely deter
mined not to believe 1t as was Simon
Peter But he had to come to it
and SO will they. God sent Peter a
dream, a kind of heavenly parable, in
which he told him to eat certain
things that Peter, as a Jew, had al
ways thought he had no religious
right to eat. He thought that they
were unclean and were, condemned by
God himself. But God told him to
eat them. In other words, he COM
manded him to broaden out and to
see that what God had cleansed could
not be unclean, and also to see that
no one whom God had created could
be alien to God and should not be
alien to him. Peter opened his eyes
and said: "Of a truth perceive that
God is no respecter Of persons, but
in every nation he that feareth him
and worketh righteousness Is accept
able to him" (Acts 10:34) You and
l and everyone in Christendom and
in the rest Of the world should wake
up and see and know and believe in
the universal Fatherhood Of God. For
this is the latest and highest discov-
cry the soul has made concerning God,
the grandest discovery 1t can possibly
make. He is not only Father, but
a worldwide Father.
True Christianity.
Christianity, as Christ taught 1t, is
the only religion in the world that
proclaims the universal Fatherhood OF
God, and is therefore the only re-
ligion that can bring about the univer-
sal brotherhood Of man. If you do
not believe this doctrine, you have
stopped short in your search for a
Father, and have got q Father who is
altogether too small and too provin-
cial in influence to save the multitu-
dinous inhabitants of this globe. He
must be an All-Father, to save all.
And this is the purpose and program
dear to his heart, II l read the Bible
Alright and science Alright. The Bible
says that in the name Of Jesus Christ
every knee should bow, Of things, in
heaven, and things on earth, and
things under the earth, and that every
tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory Of God.
the Father" (Phil. 2:1O, 22.)
One God, one law, one element
And one far-off Divine event,
To which the whole creation moves.