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...exile changed the tone of the Jewish people. Their country was in the main peaceful and they had a cheerfulness that came from feeling that God was on their side. After their exile they were scattered and as aliens were isolated and made to feel the strangeness of their situation. In some cases they were persecuted but not so much as we are apt to think. These persecutions were especially bitter about the second century...
...Science has answered that in physical matters an eternal energy is behind all. Ethics tells us that behind all this social agitation is the moral instinct of men, trying to make itself felt, and yet this moral life in man is only a part of the perfected life in God. The social struggle is really a struggle to spiritualize our material conditions...
Through personality God does his work. The implied meaning in the text is that it is the divine idea that special miracles should be done by every man. The conviction that each man has a work which he and he alone can do, is what we should strive to get. When a man raises himself from his sorrowful introspection, looks over his own smallness and realizes that a certain amount of work is planned for him to do, then he ceases to be a mere imitation and becomes a man, an active force in the life of the world...
...must remember that it is not the man by himself who is to work miracles, nor the tools which he uses, but the power of God working through the man. So it is that the banks and commerce and trade of our nation, the tools of men, are not to settle the destiny of the nation, but the spirit of the bankers and tradesmen. The Church is not guided by its external forms but by the godliness of the worshiper...
...question, then, comes to each man, "Am I doing the miracles which God wishes me to do, am I ready to say 'here am I, Lord, send...