We
read in Genesis that "in the beginning" God's fiat, "Let there be light," went forth with the inevitable result that "there was light"! From then until now this same command of God has been sounding its awakening note, since enlightenment is always needed everywhere.
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.
