Article April 25, 1959 Issue

POWER ACCOMPANIES CHEERFULNESS

ELLA H. HAY

Many have witnessed the ameliorative effect of good cheer in dispelling discouragement, sorrow, and fear. However, the cheerfulness which has a lasting effect in lifting men from despair is not merely a philosophical acceptance of evil as unescapable and hence to be borne cheerfully. The cheerfulness that evidences power is a spiritual understanding of God's nature and the positive acknowledgment of His supremacy.

God made all, as the Bible states. Reasoning from a spiritual basis, we see that since God is good, His creation also must be good. Therefore evil of every type is actually unreal, an illusion, counterfeiting God and His universe, including man.

Few would have the temerity to deny this fact; yet men are not always practical in demonstrating the power of divine Love in daily experience. We need to follow faithfully in the footsteps of him who through his abundant expression of Christ, the true idea of God, walked on the water, fed the multitudes, cleansed the leper, raised the dead, and stilled the tempest. Christ Jesus gloriously exemplified the real man, ever endowed with the divine nature or Christ and ever manifesting health, vigor, peace, and security.

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