Article November 25, 1905 Issue

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with contributions from W. Hanson Pulsford, Thomas C. Straus, William De Witt Hyde, Washington Gladden

You take a wire and stretch it on a frame and attune it to some given note, and let it stand there silent in the air. Then go to the piano, strike the full chord of the note loud and strong. Lifting your hand, the piano is silent, but the wire that no one touched is singing, singing its own note, the song which was latent when you strung it to that pitch. That is what God does with us. That is what environment does with humanity. The note of the great life is in us, but it is not singing until God plays about us on every side the great full chord which is our environment. Then, if we will, we may become responsive, may vibrate with the song of larger living, of serener strength, of a more splendid quiet. The great eager life which is the keynote of God all through the world, awakes in us at the challenge of circumstance. Then we lay hold of God, make God about us that to which God within us responds.

Rev. W. Hanson Pulsford.
The Christian Register.

Given a man receptive, deeply receptive, inwardly free, and the Word of the kingdom will prove its power and reveal its divinity by its divine effect on the experience and life of the man. Given a man unreceptive, superficially receptive, inwardly cumbered by fettering rival growths, and the effect of the Word will fail to be commensurate with its potency. The message is to be judged not by its unfruitfulness in the inhospitable soul, but by the quality of its fruitage in the soul that is thoroughly open to it. The reign of God gives no guaranty of efficacy when the Word of God comes to unreceptive souls.

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