The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-02-21
THE SOULS 4 Will
A Resolve That Linked With the
Divine Power "Makes All
Things Possible"


teXt:-"I Will"
The souls determined and resolutei
II Will is the strongest force in this
universe outside of God. The works
OF man on this planet bear abundant
witness to the compelling power of the
souls determination. The mighty.
pyramids, the great cathedrals, the;
mightier works of modern times con-
structed with the aid of steam and
electricity, the massive triphammers
of the steel mills, the giant steam
shovels Of the Panama canal, the
monster oceangoing steamships, the
towering skyscrapers. all bear elo-
quent witness to the mighty power of
the human will over the material
world-man's puny strength multi
piled thousandfold by modern inven-
tons.
The soul has power likewise over
the body. There are secret reservoirs
OF being unknown and unsupported,
below the level of consciousness, resi-
dent In the individual. So speaks the
new psychology or the day.
Wonders Wrought.
By these dormant powers of the
soul the wonders of Christian Science
are wrought. BY the same psychical
power. in conjunction with the wise
use of drugs and medicants, the mod
ern physician heals. In the great
earthquake at San Francisco numer-
Gus persons bedridden for years
walked forth from crumbling buildings
to safety under the impulse of the
new energies of the soul aroused by
the earthquakes alarm.
If stubborn nature, unmanageable
matter, becomes Obedient to the will,
ii the physical body to a larger extent
than we realize is plastic in the hands
or the soul, how much more is the
spirit of man responsive to the slight
est influence? This view of things is
in line with the spiritual message of
Christianity, supplemented and re-en-
forced by the power of God. 81 can do
all things" said Paul, Through Christ,
who strengthened me-"
Side by side, however, with these
tendencies which make for the souls
cXaltation are other tendencies in our
modern life which would bind and
shackle it and explain away it's au-
tllOrity.
Checks to Souls Victory.
One of these tendencies is philoso.
ply, which now. as always. seems
never to find ungrudging philosophical
foundation for Il true doctrine of the
freedom Of the will, never seems to
give due weight to the instincts and
motives upon which common humanity
acts.
Science, too, lends it's reinforcement
to the fatalism of the day, though the
brutal statements of half century ago
are being revised today in the growing
light Of the new psychology.
Much of the sociology and economics
of the day adds it's emphasis with its
prattle that nothing matters but en-.
vironncnt. Don't blame the df1lnkard.
men say, for his evil condition. his loss
Of position, reputation and money.
Blame the saloOnkeeper Blame so.
ciety that permitted the sale of sc
powerful an agent of destruction!
So with the murderer. even. Don't
be too hard, juror, on the mun before
you! Consider his bringing up, his
parents. He sees "red." No man In
his senses could take the life of an.
other.
Exeusino the Wronodoer.
And thieves likewise, ranging from
the highest all the way down the line
to people who adulterate our food
poison the milk the babies must drink
dilute the drugs the sick depend on
makers of shoddy goods. sellers OF
short weights; don't blame them; they
simply follow the general practice OF
business; as though the trail of the
waving grain of the wheat field to the
loaf upon the table necessarily involved
dishonesty, adulteration, thieving and
graft!
, The result of all this is fatalism, a
blurrfng of the instinct of responsible.
ity, negation in practical life of the
souls power to rule.
How differently it is put on the
pages Of the New Testament: Pity for
the sinner, condemnation for the sin F;
the message Of forgiveness and free
dom.'' No fatalism here; all things pos
sible. the power'of God to help twill
arise and go to my father" said the
prOdigal. and he arose and went. The
gospel addresses man as imperial. free,
able. if'he wishes, with the divine
power to help, to choose the better
way.-Rev. DR.. Witt Lincoln Telton,
Phi. D., Rector st. James EPISCOPAL
Church, New York City.
A Kind Heavenly Father.
God is kind Father. He sets us
all in the place where he wishes us To
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