THE
temptation often comes to mortals to believe that God's work is yet incomplete, and that by petition or supplication divine purpose and action may be changed, the better to fulfill human desire in the supplying of what seems to be a human need.
THE
greatest spiritual teacher of all time said to one Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews who had recognized the Master's spirituality and approached him probably with a view to inquiry, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
The
forty-sixth psalm, possibly one of several written in celebration of the sudden deliverance of Jerusalem after the overthrow of Sennacherib's army, expresses unbounded confidence in God.
A Newspaper
published in a western American state recently contained the following statement: "Whether we believe it or not, the time is not far distant when the mass of people will be consecrating not only their individual lives to God, but also their homes, their business, their pleasures, and all of the activities of every day.
It
is very evident from a study of the epistles written to the early Christian church by the apostles, that many of the failings apparent among Christians in those early days are still rampant among us.