Article September 22, 1917 Issue

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with contributions from William H. Bown

[The Methodist Times]

One of the greatest of our misfortunes is that we are prone to take the material world as the real and practically the whole world. All else we are tempted to think exists on sufferance, and may be thwarted, or even crushed, by the brute forces which have the mastery of events. Such a conception is equally irreligious and untrue. The secret of the universe is revealed in the ideals—spiritual, moral, and social—which come to light and life in the higher consciousness of men. These unfold the meaning, purpose, and resources of the divine order of things as material facts and laws never can. These ideals in which the world is founded and for which it exists are eternal in God, and come to their own through the history of man; they abide permanent and reigning.

[The Christian Work]

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