Article February 25, 1911 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from R. J. Campbell

[Watchman.]

There is a critical state of mind which characterizes many of the scholars of today and prompts them to dismiss at once, as legend or as impossible under the unvarying continuity of nature, all extraordinary or supernatural events as recorded in Scripture. But they may be lacking in that personal experience of divine power in their own life, and lacking in that spiritual insight into the presence and illimitable exercise of divine energy which comes through communion and realization of the spiritual side of life. The man who draws near to God in prayer and life grows more and more aware of the inner power of Spirit in the world. Faith becomes developed to a high degree and dares to do great things in the name of God. This is the religious and peculiarly the Christian point of view in life. This is the aspect of life from which Christ looked upon human experience.

Men of this aspect of life, who have come from the presence of God, are the men who have changed the world in a manner that seemed impossible to those who saw the natural condition of things. It is men of faith who have had the spirit and power that have made the great epochs of human experience. The wonders that they have wrought are in the same line as those of Elijah and have been accomplished through the same sort of experience on their part and through the same kind of exercise of power. The cool, critical man does not know it all. There is a spiritual side of life which he does not penetrate or appreciate. He knows nothing of the power of Spirit in man or in the world. The man of Christian experience does know and understand in same measure this fact of life from his own personal experience of divine grace and power. What if that experience is analyzed and tabulated by psychologists and the elements that enter into it are traced to their sources? This no more disproves their spiritual character than an analysis of the elements of the human body disproves the spiritual character of the intelligence and force that coordinates and cooperates them all.

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