Obedience

LOUIS A. STREMPLE.

The test of faith is obedience. God's son is always consistently sensible, always poised, always sane, always good and pure.

The first lesson for God's child is obedience. God cannot made a mistake when He calls one of His children into His work, and obedience is required,—absolute obedience. God's child never questions, but obeys with alacrity. The future call is prepared by obedience to the present. God decides our calling and our destiny. Questioning is always error, and is to be recognized as such.

All that God's child is belongs to God, and he must watch that he retain not a part for himself. God's will must be done, and he is a rebel if disobedient to the divine command.

To discern when suggestion comes and resist, is the duty of each one of God's children. Suggestion is our enemy, but it is nothing, and we must know it. Suggestion makes the thought of obedience unpleasant, but the testimony of spiritual sense denies the enemy, and puts the illusion to rout. Defeat comes only to illusion, never to God's children. Too many times we hear suggestion and too few God's voice.

Every son of God is independent, free, and must never believe the lie of bondage to sense. Nobody but a dreamer believes the lie of disobedience; nobody but a dreamer believes disobedience possible. My friends are they that obey God, and none other can be my friends. God's voice has been repeating, "Obey, obey," through all eternity.

The times are waiting for men who shall serve and not merely inquire, strive and not merely investigate, give to their age and their kind, not so much learning in bulk as wisdom in action; great doing is the only true fruitage of great thinking; the consecration to the uplifting of one's fellow-men of one's best rather than the conserving, by mere culture, of one's self.

Bishop Henry C. Potter in "The Relationship of the Citizen to the Industrial Situation."

Notice.—Applications for membership in the Mother Church must be in the hands of the Clerk on or before May 20, 1904.

An application sent to the Clerk of the Church does not constitute the applicant a member until he is elected to membership by the Christian Science Board of Directors, at which time notice of election will be sent.

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