THE
Responsive Reading and Lesson-Sermon to be used at the Thanksgiving Day service will not be published except in the Sentinel of October 30 and the November Journal.
LET
me not be influenced by material sights and sounds; let me hold my thought to the highest idea which comes to me from the Word of God; let me cling to that holy thought to the exclusion of every suggestion of self, and in that moment of clarified consciousness, the still, small voice will convey some truth to my spiritual sense; and it will thus become for me the voice of God, mightier than the noise of many waters, silencing in its perfect dominion all the discordant sounds of finite sense.
THOUGHTS
seem to have been unfolding themselves more than ever to me lately about Jesus, his mission and his life; and one of these thoughts was the tenderness of the divine Love which he reflected.
THE
farther one advances on the straight and narrow way which leads from the illusions of material sense to Spirit's immortal consciousness,— the Mind which is Life eternal, —the more utterly inadequate do words become to express one's gratitude for the discoveries and realizations by the way, and for the infinite glory of the prospect which grows on the awakened vision All attempts at human expression thereof seem futile, and communication of experiences ceases to be verbal, when reflected from consciousness to consciousness.
