Editorial August 15, 1903 Issue

Specific Faith

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The manifestations of Truth, taken as a whole, beget a concept of law, the unfoldment of which measures our advance in spirituality, for the full meaning of Spirit's supremacy is revealed to us only as we demonstrate the control of right thought,—the Christ within,—over every detail of daily life. The divine government is, and ever has been, all-inclusive and complete, and it can in no wise be extended; but in human consciousness the progressive apprehension of its domain is attended by many of the happy surprises and enthusiasms of discovery. Our personal applications of a law which is without beginning or end of days, brings to us a sense of acquirement and progress which both satisfies and exhilarates. It gives us that "joy of the Lord" which is indeed our strength.

The immeasurable vastness of Truth, awaiting the adventure of the spiritually aspiring, presents all the allurements of exploration. Looking out over its boundless reach and profundity, Paul exclaimed, "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out !" The utmost flight of the imagination fails to find any bound to those green pastures into which inspired thought is led, and neither limit of privilege nor exhaustion of interest is known in that spiritual venture by which we are all to come "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."

In the presence of this inspiring prospect we may not forget, however, that our immediate and continuous task is to prove, each for himself, Truth's effective presence as ever-operative law, in all the circumstances and conditions of human need. This is the goal of our religious education, it is the overcoming which fits us to be "pillars in the temple" of our God.

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