| I do dimly perceive that while everything around me is ever-changing,
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| ever-dying there is, underlying all that change, a living power that is
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| changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and recreates.
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| That informing power or spirit is God, and since nothing else that I see merely
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| through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.
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| And is this power benevolent or malevolent?
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| I see it as purely benevolent.
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| For I can see, that in the midst of death, Life persists, in the midst of
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| untruth, Truth persists, in the midst of darkness, Light persists.
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| Hence I gather, that God is Life, Truth, Light, He is Love.
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| He is the supreme good.
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| But He is no god who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.
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| God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.
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| He must express Himself in every smallest act of His votary.
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| It is proved not by extraneous evidence, but in the transformed conduct and
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| character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
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| To reject this evidence is to deny oneself.
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| This realization is preceded by an immovable faith.
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| He who would, in his own person, test the fact of God’s presence can do so by a
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| living faith, and since faith itself cannot be proved by extraneous evidence,
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| the safest course is to believe in… the law of Truth and Love.
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| Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination
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| summarily to reject all that is contrary to Truth and Love.
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| I confess that I have no argument to convince through reason, faith transcends
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| reason.
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| All that I can advise is not to attempt the impossible. |