Year: 1874

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portant relation to progress and to ultimate


success in every department, yet when a man


has to do with the highest elements those


which pertain to the human soul-he will find


that he has task before him which cannot be


accomplished to-day, nor tomorrow, nor this


week, nor this year. fa


The work of soul-unfolding is slow because


it is so voluminous; it is slow because it be-
longs to SO high sphere; it is slow because it


requires the operation of both human and d.


vine influences. It is work which cannot be
concentrated. And in it's very nature it must
develop slowly.


A man sitting on his balcony says, /" It is not
for me to make summer. What am l, farmer
as am, that l should undertake to dictate to
God? My business is to humble myself and
pray" So he prays that he may have Indian
corn on one side of his farm, and wheat on an
other side, and good orchard on another side.
After praying, and praying, and praying he
looks up; but he sees no wheat, and no corn,
and no apples; and he wonders what it is that
hinders God from answering his prayers. He
does not know what to think.


Well now. how long do you think man
would have to wait after simply praying for
corn, and wheat, and fruit, before he would get
them, if he did not understand that when God
works he works by natural laws: and that the
most comprehensive form of natural law is that
which is wrapped up in the human organiza-
tion itself! Men who want harvests must
work for them and wait for them Men rec
ognize this in material things, but they think it
is different in spiritual things. They say, "It
holds good in the realm of matter, but not in
the moral kingdom of God" My friends, Gods
moral kingdom is the same as his natural king
dom. There is no distinction between these
two kingdoms except that which you make by
words. They are parts of grand unit. They
are one and the same thing Nature begins in
inorganic matter, and rises up through sentient
being to the throne of God itself. 1t is one
whole. The same analogical laws
run through it from top to bottom. The same
great divine process and methods belong to
every part of it. And that God who will not
make the wilderness to bud and blossom as the
rose without industry will not cause flowers
and fruits to spring up in the arid soul of man
without industry.


If, therefore, you are attempting to bring up
your children by prayer, l tell you, you are
like man who goes out to hunt, and says,
1.-The great power of hunting lies in the bow,'
and does not carry any arrows with him, and
twangs at deer, but does not hurt him or,
you are like man who goes out, and says,
" The power of hunting lies in the arrow" but
does not carry any bow, so that when he pulls
the arrow over his hand down it goes at his
feet and does not kill anything For success
ful hunting there must be good bow, and q
good arrow, and good man behind them both
If these conditions are complied with you will
hit. it there be any hit in you. Says the divine
Word. "Work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling is the arrow; "for
It is God that worketh in you''-there is the
DOW. The two things are necessary.


You who engage in moral enterprises must
think, must plan. must bring energetic organi.
zation and cooperation to your work; and
then You must have that which all high work
requires-patience. If God could wait thous-
,nds of years before he made the earth, and if
ne could wait through two, four, six thousand
years before the race was evolved, and if he
,an wait through ages in the future before the
'ace shall be developed to their highest destiny.
cannot we wait the short time which is need.
ul for the accomplishment of the lower and
Inferior ends which we are seeking in this life?


There is no greater work on earth than that
# developing everything in man. Of bringing
t into harmony; of holding it back from wrong
loing, and pushing it forward to positive ex-
ellences. He builds great thing who builds
pyramid; but he builds greater thing who
'uilds character. He has done noble thing
Who has erected a temple; but ye are temples
# the Holy Ghost, and in the future you wilr
'e transcendently nobler than St. Peters, st.
'aul's, or any doomed structure in the world.
t is great thing for a man to paint fine pie
ures, and carve noble statues; but Michael
Angelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel are not
0 be compared with the frescoes that are be-
ng painted in that wondrous hall, the human
oul He who knows how to live sweet, beau