The Washington herald., 1917-02-10
Taking God Into Partnership
B.-eRIsoN SWEET mARDEN.

turies," says DR.. Abel T. Allen, "eom-
pares with this, that man has learned
to tap the universal mind, the infinite
reservoir of his own soul and thereby
create health, ability, character, or any
other quality he may desirei"
Henry Ward Beechcr said that think
ing is creating with God. Yet how few
of us realize even today that we can
not think without creating, and that If
we think rightly we are creating with
God.
This conception of God makes us
partners with Him, and when we real
ize the divine cooperation in our lives
we think as I'VE" not 81"
We now know that man is like a
partner in an enormous concern. His
resources are not limited to his own lit
tie capital He can draw upon the firm
as long as there is anything to draw.
We are all Gods partners, and our ca
pacity for creation depends very largely
upon our consciousness of our divine
partnership.
When man discovers his identity
with spirit he begins to manifect crea-
ton on his own account. No longer a
passive instrument, tool, or chessman
in the cosmic life, he becomes CEN
ter of creative power in himself.
When you realize your divine part
nership, it will enlarge your life and
multiply your effectiveness, because it
will take away from you all sense of
uncertainty, all feeling of inability to
buffet with the storms of life, i'll sense
of hopelessness in the presence of over
whelming odds. 1t will give a new
meaning to living because you will
know that you are not victim of fate,
but that your life is founded upon in
fallable fundamental principles.
1t is the great God force working
with and through them, this divine CO.
partnership, that has enabled men in
every age to accomplish the "impos-
sible." The divine plan is back of the
telephone, back of wireless telegraphy,
back of electricity, the automobile, the
airship, back of the phonograph, every
invention that has helped the world
along its upward path.
As a matter of fact, when a man in
vents or discovers that which benefits
his fellow man, whether he acknowl-
edges it or not, it is because the ere
ative force in him is cooperating with
the divine force in the universal intel
ligence which Is everywhere present.
1t is the creative force of divinity in
Edison that has produced these mar
velous inventions and facilities fo1
eliminating drudgeY from, and beau
tifying, life, which Edison and hi:
Maker together have given to the
world.
No inventor can take personal credi,
for the vision which came to him
ready made. 1t is in his personal ef-
fort, in his persistent self-sacrihcing
struggle to make his vision reality
that mans strength and divinity are
manifested He is the working medium
through which the electric light power
the telephone, the wireless and all the
came to the world
1t is man working with God, the d.
marvellous things we are now enjoying
Yine force, the God in man working
with the great creative divinity, that is
lifting the race, improving mankind
Man is not doing this as separate
unit. There is power in him, back OF
the flesh but not of it, working with
the divine intelligence in the great COS
mic ocean of thought of cosmic intelli-
gence. This power is everywhere oper-
ative, and Is destined to lift every
created thing up to the heights of its
greatest possibility.
This is what is going, above all, tc
help every man to play his part to the
limit of his ability in the great univer-
sal drama, to make his highest posi-
bic contribution to the universe. This
is how the millennium will be brought
about, by the cooperation of the divin-
ity in man with the divine intelligence
in the cosmic world: