Paul said, "I can
do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." And all great
doers for God, in all ages, have gladly testified that they have been
girded for their work by the Almighty.
The designed outcome of this paper is that every reader should get a
fresh revelation of the immanency of God in the kingdom of nature and
grace; that the reader is more intimately related to him and his plans
than is gravitation; that there are laws as imperative, exact, and sure
to yield results in the mental and spiritual realms as in the material;
that he is a part of God's agencies, and that all of God's forces are a
part of his; that he may sing with new meaning,
"We for whose sakes all nature stands
And stars their courses move;"
that in the burning vividness of this new conception each man may
boldly undertake things for God--conversions, purifications, missionary
enlargements, business enterprises--that he knows are too great for
himself; that he may find new helps for spiritual victories as great as
this age has found for material triumphs in steam and electricity; and
that in all things man may be uplifted and God thereby glorified.
How shall it be done?
First, by a vivid conception that cooperation is designed, provided
for, and expected. We are children of God; there can be but one great
end through the ages in the universe.
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