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This Hand Makes No Mistakes
Beloved, now are we the-sons of God, and <t
doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we
know that, when He shall appear, we .shall
be like Hem; for we shall sse Him as He ts.—
1. John 8:2.
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tion by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
—very impressive.
There is no greater proof
of justice and mercy in the
power controlling us than
| the fact that the mind
" creates and believes its own
lanation and comforts—
all our problems are fived within our own brains
if we think, s ekeand are determined to find.
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What is the ruling power that surrounds, con
trols and guides us?
What is God?
This picture shows the encient belief that still
abides with many—a personal hand reaching
down %o earth from sky to reward and punish
here—dwelling above, judging, rewarding and
punishing there.
Faith believes—a million things that express
the character of the believer—and asks no ques
tions,
Science can tell us nothing, except that the uni
verse is a marvelous machine governed by law.
Plato defined God as ‘‘The Eternal Geome
trician.”’
Science, reason, investigation only tell ns that
behind each veil there is another and behind that
another,
The astronomer whose brain can measure the
sun’s distance, weigh accurately this planet and
a distant star, knows no more about the real force
controlling star and planet than is known by the
savage flat on his face, before an idol painted
green.
Reason and research can only tell us, that
. beyond thought, beyond the reach of the tele
scope, resides a persistent, consistent, beneficent,
just force that men have called God and shown
in a thousand forms, from the hideous Moloch of
Carthage, recetving as sacrifices live babies to be
burnt in the furnace within, to the high ideal of
Zoroaster or Confucius, or to the symhotic
kinder teaching of christianity, borro the
idea of single and infinite power from the Jews,
modified by the thought ‘‘God is love.”
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The mind of man cannot even comceive the
meaning of the word ‘‘million,’’ and must imag
ine it. How can that mind conceive the power
that holds, directs and balances billions of suns
in infinite space through endless time.
‘‘“There is infinity between God and us,”’ said
Voltaire. And Voltaire, denounced as an atheist
by the viclous and ignorant, believed absolutely
in the real existence of a Supreme Mind, and for
his belief wrote and thought most logically,
It was not lightly or unbelieving that Voltaire
said: ‘‘lf there-had been no God, it would have
been necessary to invent one.’’
He knew that man and the world had need of
a God, and he believed firmly in God’s existence
when he wrote his name above the door of the
church that he, Voltaire, built on his land at
Fernex. Concerning the truth of God’s existence,
Voltaire wrote: ]
“It is impossible to resist that truth, sur.
rounding us and pressing upon us from all sides.
Is God in one place, or in all places, withou
occupying any space? Of that I know nothiné
Has he, of His proper substance, arranged all
things? I know nothing. .Is He immense, with
out quantity or quality? Of that I know nothing.
All that I know is that we must adore Him, and
act justly.”’
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You may judge a man by his belief in God,
that is to say his belief in eternal justice,
Faith tells you that God made man in his own
The history of a hundred religions tells you
that man has made his God in the image of man.
The god of the savage is a sdvage delighting
in cruelty. e
The heaven of the Mohammedan sensualist is
a heaven filled with immoral ladies eternally
young—with the earthly wife carefully excluded.
The heaven of an Oriental people fond of gold,
jewels and brilliant display is a heaven in which
the cheapest material is gold, in which trees, flow
ers, lakes and green grass are not mentioned.
The vengeful man creates a vengeful god,
stern and cruel.
The poor, oppressed slave, craving pity, cre
ates and establishes a merciful God: promising all
things to the poor and humble.
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The strangest thing in man is this, with but a
few days to live here he spends so many of those
days wondering and worrying about the time to
come and the probability of future life—like a
man forgetting the banquet before him to worry
about next morning’s breakfast.
‘‘The immortality of the soul,’”’ says this same
much abused Voltaire, ‘‘is not a mere probable
truth.” It is & mathematical truth. God is wise,
¢he adjusts means to ends. The destiny of the
Cogyright, 1018, by the Star Pobftuiing
Stae Compaxy. Great Britain Rights Resewved.
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2 BRI Y SESEECE
The World Is Controlled by Infinite Wisdom and Power. Many a Question
ing Mind Will Find Comfort in These Verses by Ella Wheeler Wilcox :
Whatever Is---Is Best
I KNOW as my life grows older
And mine eyes have clearer sight
That under each rank wrong, somewhere,
There lies the root of Right.
That each sorrow has its purpose
By the sorrowing oft conquered,
But as sure as the sun brings morning—
Whatever is—is best!
soul is immense, and physical life measured by a
few days.
‘‘God is just; he gives to each according to his
works; not all punishment or all reward are given
SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1918,
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I know that each sinful action,
As sure as the night brings shade,
Is somewhere, sometimes, punished
Tho’ the hour be long delayed.
I know _that the soul is aided
Sometimes by the heart’s unrest
And to grow means often to suffer—
But whatever is—is best!
here below.”’
In five lines of verse the great Frenchman
painted religious faith in a way that professional
preachers might envy,
I know there are no errors,
In the great Eternal Plan, -
And all things work together
For the final good of man.
And I know when my soul speeds onward
In its grand Eternal quest
I shall say as I look back earthward
Whatever is—is best. ~
We translate literally as nearly as possible.
A caliph of other times, in his last hour,
To the god that he adored addressed but this
prayer,;
I bring to thee, oh, only King, only being
without limit,
All that thau has not in thy immensity,
Defects, regrets, e:fls :nd itgnonnoo.
There are three kinds of religion within man,
one based on the hope of reward and striving for
it.
One based on fear of punishment and seeking
to avoid it.
One that neither fearing punishment nor crav
ing reward sees in divine majesty power and jus
tice eternal, revered for their own sake.
You might compare the attitnde of man toward
God with three attitudes of three men toward the
great cataract of Niagara.
One said, ‘‘l'll take good care to keep away
from it—l dread it's power.’’
Another said, /'I hope I may harness it, sell
the current, make myaelrrich"'
The third thought of great lakes from the ¥ar
West, pouring dver a precipice of rock, heard the
thunder, saw the beauty, adored the power with
out fear or tho of profit.
The best story of true religion is that of the
simple minded old peasont woman who said:
"I want to rise from my grave with a pail of
water.in one hand and brazier filled with burning
coals in the other.
‘‘With the water I will put out the fires of
Hell. And with the brazier I will set flre to
Heaven and burn it all up.
‘‘And then the people will love God and his
Son for themselves, alone not because they fear
llell'l fire or selfishly desire eternal bliss.’’
' e & @
You CANNOT THINK about God in a crowd
or with others.
At night, looking upward the earth a dark
ball under your feet, the sky blazing with a mil
lion points of light, each ome & firey sun, gazing
into infinity lying between you and God. your
feeble mind can at least think of the only ‘‘Being
unlimited.'’
Sta.ndi.:f by day, alone on a mountain, or on
the deck of a ship, with the earth curling away
before, clouds wiled up, and the sun sinking,
knowing that the world has rolled on for/millions
of centuries, that the sinking sun will rise and tes
on this earth ten million years fro mnow, that all
you can imagine is compared to in the universe,
less than a grain of sand on the seashore, you can
travel as far as your mind can rise toward con
ception of a Being whose power and nature are
absolutely above and beyond our wildest hopes of
understanding. A
s& @ &
‘“Whatever is is best,’”’ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
writes here in her poem. Men have said it, writ
ten it and lived it for half a million years.
In its day cennibalism was best. Without it
men could not have become developed fully—
there would have been no meat for children in
Winter, the human race would have remained un
developed. Better that half should be eaten by
the other half, and the race grow strong and out
grow cannibalism. There is nwowerful race
fiisfing to-day that has not balism in its
tory.
Blavery was best—the servitude and misery
of many gave to the few leisure for thought and
progress. Greece and Rome, thanks to slavery,
devetlgsed, the mental power thas in our day has
created machines of iron to take the place of
slaves, and democracy to take the place of political
slavery. It has always been the man at the top
working to help the victim at the bottom that has
brought the race forward and upward.
& & ¢
That which is, is best for the time at which
it exists.
Ninety per cent of this nation’s activities are
based now on the craving for unnecessary wealth.
A good thing. That craving makes the selfish
man, save, invest, employ men, develop and ime
prove industry.
The groundworm selfishly eating the earth as
he goes through it creates the fertility of the soil
—and does not know it.
The multi-millionaire of to-day selfishly get
ting everything for himself, makes the majority
work—a, good thing for them. The selfishness at
the top and hard work &t the bottom will produce
freedom and prosperity for all and enlightened
generosity—in the centuries to come,
All that is, is best—the best at least of which
man is capable.
The ants with villages in your gardem path,
the bees in your hive, the bats in their cave can
not have communities laws or customs above the
capacity of ant, bee, bat.
Man has the best government that he deserves, |
the best religion that he deserves, the best time
that he deserves.
These times, these habits, laws, governments
and religions are infinitely better than olden times
past, And infinite time stretching ahead is full
of possibility, certainty and wonder. Time is
long, it can never end. Space and matter are in
-Itllnit‘a. They have no bounds. No use being in a
nnl;yelim that infinite justice rules, that-all is
for the best, make your own little moment on this
little planet better by DESERVING to have 8
better.
Then die contented, in faith that whatewey
comes next will be also for the best-