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...There are three things necessary for the formation of a bit of pottery, the clay, the wheel and the potter's hand. So it is in the formation of a human being; there is the body and the mind corresponding to the clay, experience, environment, corresponding to the wheel, God, back of all the work, corresponding to the potter...
...three of these elements are present in every life and they are inter-dependent. Like the vases which the potter produces, men are made of different grades of material; some are good, some are bad, but all are worked upon by the wheel, experience, nature and God. As we study these three elements we study Philosophy, Science or Theology...
...there is an exhortation as well as an object lesson in the parable. Unlike the clay the human being has power to resist the operation of the wheel and the potter's hand. A man predetermins his own course. He may from choice make himself, against conscience and God, bad. The responsibility, then, rests on each of us to cooperate with, rather than resist the forces which are shaping our lives...
...choir sang the following anthems, "My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord," West; "Try me. O God," Roberts; "To Thee do I lift up my soul," King Hall...
...sight of God is only faith, is only a sight of men's own souls. In the back ground of every soul, behind all its sin, is a reflection of God's image. The sight of the invisible comes from looking inward, from the examination of souls. Christ saw so clear an image of God and modelled his life so truly after that image that his character became godlike. We can see the invisible in the character of Christ, an image of which we all have in our own souls and a sight of this invisible will make us like...