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...taken us many centuries to understand these truths and even today we seem not to realize that all men are brethren. The Jews of old knew that God alone is master, no man else, and in a way recognized that all are brothers. For many democratic principles were their possession, notably the right of universal suffrages and popular education. Then came Christ and taught his disciples that all men rich and poor, are before everything else brothers...
Opposed to this voice of the tempter is the other voice, heard throughout the Bible. It says, God is law, and law is God. True happiness is not reached by self-service but by self-sacrifice. Success does not consist of so much power or so much wealth. Alexander listened to the tempter's voice and died in a drunken bout at thirty-three. It brought Caesar the assassin's knife, and gave Napoleon St. Helena. Jay Gould died hating the whole world and hated...
When a man prays, he puts himself in the same relation to God as that of a child to its-father. His prayer is but the simple expression of his dependence on a higher power; and he will surely be answered if the prayer is a true...
...there is any answer or not; but if a man once gets this idea, prayer loses all significance for him. He will no longer pray when he can expect no reply. Again, it is claimed that the answering of prayers involves a violation of the laws of nature. But God does not interfere with these laws. He is rather constantly working in nature. People speak of special answers to prayer as if to imply that God only occasionally interferes in the affairs of this world. This is not so. His providence is general, and it is when this providence...
Further, it is held that when God answers a prayer, His will must be changed; and this is opposed to the conception of His changelessness. We answer that His purpose is always the same and that on this very account its outward form of expression must change, even as a father's love for his child, though always remaining the same, will show itself in ever varying ways...