The Washington herald., 1915-01-24
BY DIR. W. W. BAh Err.
CONTINUED FROM LAST SUNDAY.

! CONTINUED FROM LAST SUNDAY.
Another reason which is stronger tnan.
perhaps at first sight YOU may think, is
the ever-growing ,Xpectation and the
| feeling OF the world that it has need Of
a Teacher. That took place before the
coming of the Christ-a widespread eX-
pectation. You see traces of II in prophe-
cies among many nations, not only in
thos" Of the Hebrew people You ind
| the looking for one spread through the
| Roman Empire before the Christ APP
! p.aTed-of course among the Jewish
people in their hope OF a Messiah who
should conquer. and reign over them.
| .ind there Is reason why a widespread
vApectstio SHOULD come into the world
before some great event appears; for
| thought always preccdes action. and
thoughts in the higher worlds arc re-
| flected down here as expectations The
,, Thoughts of the great Spiritual BciUs =
who guide our world. Who shape the
fates OF nations. who work out the Di-
vine plan OF evolution. and turn the great
forces Of tIe earth along channels which
are deliberately made in order that they
may flow IN them and 50 brinS about
new conditions in our earth. the thoughts
of these mighty Beings turn to the
changing times fun OF the knowledEs
that a great Teacher is coming. for
they are engaged in the preparation for
the coming in the superphysicaI world.
The whole Of these great thought forms.
as We call them. are flung down into
the atmosphere of our earth. and create
in the minds Of men a widespread cN-
pectation. which is then but a promise
Of swift realization That proverb.
Coming events cast their shadows be-
fore really bodies a truth; for events
exist in the world OF mind before they
exist in the world of matter. Thoughts
come before activities. and a thought,
the shadow of the event is a prophecy
Of the coming event. So wherever you
find q very widespread expectation you
may be sure that there is q reality in
the higher world of which that eXpeCta-
ton is the shadow. That widespread
expectation which is now spreading
among the great religions Of the world
in all the great religious organizations
of the world. is literally a prophecy OF
the event which is to crown these expec-
tations with realization. the thought
heralds Of the coming Teacher prepar-
ing His way before Him.
But il is not only the worlds eXpeCta-
tion; II is the worlds need. That view,
perchancc, will appeal only TO those who
believe that the world is guided helped.
protected by higher powers than human
it!', by mshuere Beings than Ourselves:
who look ON the world as the huge field
of evolution in which Spirits are unfold
ing, and which exists for the very pur-
Jose Of their unfoldment: who realize
that the world has a mighty Architect
who plans out the progress OF humarity
and that that plan is worked out stage
by stage by His agents, His subordinates.
n no build slowly along the lines Of the
plan that He has designed and conceived
Then all thoss, when they see the terri
BILE need of tn world Of today, re-I hat
they need som" Master to voice and bring
down the help Of which tho world fca.s
the sore necessity. We need a ltader
one greater than ourselves. who, seeing
the mighty problems that to us are inso-
!uble. will point Us TO the road a'an-
which We may walk to their solution
one who will apply to the tanElc Of
earthly life these fundamental truths Of
morality which are unchanginE and cter-
nal. but which have never vet been ,hor-
oushly applied t" human society. or 10
the organizing of mon on III" principles
there laid down. The great teachers
have all SPOKEN with one Vore. They
have told US: Love ono another" They
have told us that hate ceases not by
hatred NJ any time, that hatred eases
bat by love; but although that WAS taught
ny III" Lord Buddha twenty-five centuries
ago. although the Christ in His cNuuisit"
sermon on the Mount pressed that Same
eternal teaching In words familiar to
ALL where do We find one nation that
puts these principles into practice, where
is single organization which is built aC-
cording to that moral law? There is tho
great need, then, of our time. We know