Article October 6, 1906 Issue

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with contributions from A. J. Viner, George Batchelor

Is it not true, and do you not know it to be true, that the best things of your life have come not from without but from within—the loyal friend, the reciprocated love, the conscience at peace with God and man, the clear view upward, the large view outward. These things are like letting in the tide that comes bearing its rich argosies of joy from the far-off shores of the eternal day. The big house does not necessarily mean a happy home, a full pocket is not always the same thing as a light heart, and great affluence does not mean great influence. To walk down Regent Street on the sunny side of the way, the object of the people's desire, is a very different thing from having an angel in the heart to talk to and to listen to. Happiness grows, it is not made. Is not that so? Is it not character rather than circumstance that makes happiness, after all?

Rev. A. J. Viner.
The British Congregationalist.

In all his claims and invitations Christ is calling men to an experiment and venturing his own authority upon its results if fairly tried and faithfully carried out. But as it is an experiment in the sphere of personal relations it can be so carried out nowhere but in the experience of the individual. "Come unto trust in me, walk with me, undertake and persevere in my work," he says, and the result will be the discovery of God. "If ye had known me, ye should known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him." And again, in answer to the sincere inquiry of a listener in the crowd, "He that willeth to do shall know." To-day, as always, the way of knowing God is the way of this experiment with Christ on the conditions which he himself has appointed.
The Congregationalist.

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