Nay, rather, what may not be expected of such men?
But we will not forget that this great outcome is precisely the plan of
God for every man's life, and that when man works he finds that there
are forces outside of him thoroughly cooperative with him. He starts a
rock down the mountain side, but gravitation reaches out ready fingers
and hurls it a thousand times faster and faster. He launches his ship
on the sea and the wind and steam carry it thousands of miles. He
speaks his quiet breath into the ear of the phone and electricity
carries it in every tone and inflection of personal quality a thousand
miles. He vows, and works for purity and greatness of personal
character, and a thousand gravitations of love, a thousand great winds
of Pentecost, a thousand vital principles on which all greatness hangs,
a thousand influences of other men, and especially a thousand personal
aids of a present God, cooperate with his plans and works.
Of course every man who believes in a new type so high that good birth,
wealth, culture, education, and broad opportunity cannot attain it
believes in the divine co-operation to that end. It must be born of
the Spirit. God sends forth his Spirit into our hearts crying, Abba,
Father! It pleases the Father himself to reveal his Son in us.
Not only is this cooperation true in regard to the beginning of this
higher life, but especially so in regard to the development and
perfection of that life into the stature of perfect manhood in Christ
Jesus.
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