The
student of Paul's career cannot fail to be impressed by the tremendous courage and fortitude which characterized the arduous experience of this militant apostle in carrying the gospel to the Gentiles.
When
, in the course of human experience, our dear friends are no longer visibly with us, we are reassured by the promise of the sweet bard of Israel, that the rod and staff of our loving Father-Mother God will comfort both them and us.
To
attempt to number Truth's triumphs would involve encompassing all time, since from the beginning to the end of time, Truth's necessity is to prove itself victorious over all the manifold claims of error.
In
Moses' great exhortation to Israel, which is set forth in Deuteronomy, are to be found the words, "And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee.
How
certain were the saintly men of the Bible that God was their sure deliverer from all untoward circumstances; that if they but listened for His voice He was their safe guide into the ways of peace and well-being! In the incomparable twenty-third psalm, the sweet singer declared in full faith, "He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Wonderful
it is to think that the children of Israel came to understand the loving-kindness of God as they did, came to apprehend in no small degree the fact that God is Love! One has only to study the psalms, those songs of the Hebrews, to notice how strong their conviction of God's loving-kindness had become, and because of it how they were learning to place their trust in His protecting care.
There are, perhaps, no words of Shakespeare more widely known than these which proclaim the beauty and desirability of divine mercy; and all certainly are wise who cherish this quality in their heart of hearts, allowing it to bring forth fruit after its own kind.
Perhaps
no phase of Jesus' incomparable message to the world has a deeper significance than his revelation of God as Spirit, infinite, ever present, and all-powerful.
How dear to every human heart is success! How men love the least thought of it! How earnestly they work for it, struggle for it, pray for it! The desire for it enters into the child's earliest experiences, and goes on increasingly through his later years.