Article April 1, 1944 Issue

God's Ever-Presence

[Of Special Interest to Youth]

LYMAN S. ABBOTT

God's ever-presence has been proclaimed by religious teachers ever since that day when Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and at night gathered stones for a pillow and dreamed of a ladder reaching from earth to heaven with the angels of God ascending and descending upon it. Awakening from his dream, Jacob exclaimed, "Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not." The Psalmist discerned God's ever-presence even more clearly and declared, "If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me."

Those who are called upon to serve in the armed forces of their country are finding that no matter where they may be, or what vicissitudes may come into their experience, they will find protection and guidance in the degree that they realize God's ever-presence and power, and turn confidently to Him in prayer.

Returning to his home after participating in fifty bombing missions in the African, Sicilian, and Italian campaigns, a young Christian Scientist who had served as radioman and gunner on a bombing plane, told of many instances in which he had definitely been protected through his understanding of God's ever-presence and power. Speaking in the terms of a radioman, he said that whenever he was sent on a mission, he knew that, while he might lose contact with his base, or with the other ships in the squadron, or even with the members of the crew in his plane, he could not lose his contact with God, because God is ever present and man is inseparable from Him. He knew, too, that man is God's responsibility, and that whatever he might be called upon to do, as long as he recognized God's ever-presence he would be protected.

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