Article October 18, 1913 Issue

Unity with God

FLORA R. TSCHOPIK

The desire of humanity is for peace. General and specific troubles always speak for the mistakes of mortal belief respecting the scheme of life. Consciously or unconsciously the blame for failure is usually placed upon God. The explanation is frequently offered, either that God for some inscrutable reason inflicts punishment, or that some earthly conditions are beyond the divine remedy; that we must pass through the ordeal of death to obtain His help. The covering of our own ignorance or wilfulness does not open the way for a betterment of conditions. In the prophecy of Jeremiah we read: "They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace." A poet expressed the truth about discord, in his lines:—

Thou great First Cause, least understood!
Who all my sense confined
To know but this, that Thou art good
And that myself am blind.

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