Article August 5, 1911 Issue

TRUST GROWTH

REV. WM. P. MC KENZIE.

MARY the mother of Jesus reached the sure understanding that God is the one source and origin of life, hence she was able to maintain peace of mind regarding her child through her trust in the growth made inevitable by that life. The early history of her son is compactly stated in the words: "Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." When as a man he began to reveal the mysteries of life to his disciples, he bade them trust to the power revealed by growth, when he said, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;" indicating by his further explanation that if God so clothed in beauty the grass of the field, man having the greater need might more largely rely upon the supplying potency for all that he could possibly need.

It is not in the vanity of any man's mind to consider himself the origin of the flower he tends. He knows that there is a producing cause. He would not deny that it was, is, and ever shall be; therefore he does the work which his experience justifies, and trusts to inevitable growth. One wonders why it is that in dealing with human beings it is so difficult to have that compassion and patience which indicates trust in growth. Parents fail to comfort themselves by recognizing a continuing life for children, while in floriculture they would rely upon a producing cause ever present. Conceiving matter and personality as the source of man, they shut out the vision of life continuous and dwell within the boundary walls of superstition and fear which enclose a brood of monsters ready, as they believe, to pounce upon and end the feeble fluttering of life transient. They cannot be at peace, like Mary the mother, and allow divine Life to find its manifestation in man through the unfoldment we name growth.

Men and women are not patient enough with themselves, nor with others. Education is a process of discovery and development whereby we come to know what is true, and to be so much both in and of what is true that we become revealers of truth. The truth which becomes intelligence and life to us is not, however, either novel or transient; it is from everlasting. If we prove it and rejoice in it today, so also did the patriarchs in their time. Jesus could say to the Jews, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad." The truth which he was demonstrating was the same truth which Abraham discerned, and the father of the faithful was glad in the certainty that it would be demonstrated. May not we, like Abraham, be so friendly to God in this respect that we will trust the working out of good into universal manifestation. It is only when we look pervertedly at life that it seems to be "a ferocious struggle, a savage fight." It is valueless for a man to injure and embitter others for his own seeming advantage. All that is valuable and fine in life comes normally by way of growth.

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