Article October 10, 1903 Issue

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with contributions from E. W. WHITNEY, P. H. WICKSTEED, R. W. HOOKS

Association makes character. To be with God is to become godly. The effect is primarily a moral upward movement in ourselves. The effort to know the good gives power to be good. The moral effect of divine communings opens a whole inner world to us, so that it seems to be but a poor life that deals only with material facts. The voluntary personal relation thus established with the divine power opens a channel into our souls, through which God can radiate His love and His strength.

The simple fact is that we have been learning to give up the idea of going into another world to find God. The realm in which to find Him is the inner realm of to-day. His home, His kingdom, His presence, is within us. There is no mystery or artificial supernaturalism about it. Nothing is more plain than the road of good wishing and holy seeking. The sublimest fact made known by the most profound investigations of Nature is this, that the soul of the universe is open to the simplest desire of the simplest good wisher. We have never got beyond, nor shall we ever get away from, the simple aspiration, Our Father who art in the heavens.—The Christian Register.

Large knowledge or mental insight may separate a man from the masses, and make him feel alone in the world. But spiritual greatness, based upon sympathy and Christian love, is easy to understand. It was because the character of Jesus was so sincere and transparent, that he attracted the poor, ignorant, and sinful. He was tempted as we are, he sounded the heights and depths of human experience, he came to give spiritual truth and life to all men. "Follow me" is the command given to his disciples in all ages, and because of the limitless possibilities of the human spirit we can ever grow more Christlike.

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