Growth
is the imperative demand of God, divine Mind, the eternal unfoldment of its own being, its own beauty, harmony, law, and power, within the infinite realm of its own reality.
No
doubt everyone is at some time assailed by the complaint of the woman who when questioned as to the reason for her seeming depression and gloom, which was not natural for her, replied, "Everything is so daily!" How weary the thought sometimes grows of the monotony of daily tasks, the same old things to do day after day, seeming to be in themselves drab and uninteresting.
Zechariah
, one of the minor prophets who after the Jews' return from Babylonian captivity lifted high the standard of righteous thinking and living, has left for posterity in the book which bears his name a code of ethics as immortal as truth itself.
In
Uncle Remus' "Legends of the Old Plantation" Brer Fox did the worst thing he could think of to Brer Rabbit when he slung him into the middle of the brier patch.
There
is light in the world today, inextinguishable light, to which men may look for guidance out of the falsities, the dark dreaming of mortality, into the full radiance of spiritual reality and immortal Truth.
What
a necessary companion to the Christian pilgrim is hope! In fact, in one of Thomas Fuller's sparkling apothegms we read, "He that wants hope is the poorest man alive.
What
comfort and inspiration for the earnest follower of Christ Jesus shine through the messages of the great Apostle of the Gentiles! Although a giant intellectually and one whose demonstrations of divine power naturally raised him to a position of leadership among the early Christians, Paul never seems to have lost what the poet calls "the common touch"—the tender ability to go, like the Samaritan, understandingly where his hearers were.
