Our Prayer And God's Mercy Are Like

We Are To Regard The Mind, Not As A Piece Of Iron To Be Laid Upon The Anvil And Hammered Into Any Shape, Nor As A Block Of Marble In Which We Are To Find The Statue By Removing The Rubbish, Nor As A Receptacle Into Which Knowledge May Be Poured; But As A Flame That Is To Be Fed, As An Active Being That Must Be Strengthened To Think And To Feel -- And To Dare, To Do, And To Suffer.

Christianity Alone Inspires And Guides Progress; For The Progress Of Man Is Movement Toward God. And Movement Toward God Wili Ensure A Gradual Unfolding Of All That Exalts And Adorns Man.

Faith Then, In Its Relation To Salvation, Is That Confidence By Which We Accept It As A Free Gift From The Saviour, And Is The Only Possible Way In Which The Gift Of God Could Be Appropriated.

Let The Church Come To God In The Strength Of A Perfect Weakness, In The Power Of A Felt Helplessness And A Child-like Confidence, And Then, Either She Has No Strength, And Has No Right To Be, Or She Has A Strength That Is Infinite. Then And Thus, Will She Stretch Out The Rod Over The Seas Of Difficulty That Lie Before Her, And The Waters Shall Divide, And She Shall Pass Through, And Sing The Song Of Deliverance.

In Christ We See The Strength Of Achievement, And The Strength Of Endurance. He Moved With A Calm Majesty, Like The Sun. The Bloody Sweat, And The Crown Of Thorns, And The Cross, Were Full In His Eyes; But He Was Obedient Unto Death. In His Perfect Self-sacrifice We See The Perfection Of Strength; In The Love That Prompted It We See The Perfection Of Beauty. This Combination Of Self-sacrifice And Love Must Be Commenced In Every Christian; And When It Shall Be In Its Spirit Complete In Him, Then Will He Also Be Perfect In Strength And Beauty.