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...God moves the earth and sun for man, prepares warmth and food and clothing and gives him opportunities. Man accepts the gifts but refuses to do anything more but struggle to be free from the duties. By this he loses the key to life. His danger is that of the man who had driven out one devil and had swept and garnished the house but, though free from crime, no life was in the dwelling and it was seized again by more evil than before. Activity is the true safeguard. Let the man who thinks he does not sin take...
...have wisdom without knowledge or knowledge without wisdom, but one in the latter class is nothing more than a learned fool. The literature of the Old Testament is a wisdom literature and while it does not give a solution to the mysteries of life, it teaches us to fear God and this is the beginning of wisdom. Religion is not an expression of opinion nor is belief in immortality, valuable as it may be, essential to it. It is, in its truest sense faith, hope and love. They are the threads of life and give the key to the solution...
There are two ways of looking at the world: one is that of the cynic and pessimist who maintains that the foundation of things is bad and that all so-called right and beauty is only a thin veil over it; the other view sees that God's judgment on his world is the right one and that the creation is surely advancing to perfection...
...condemning the world, men lift their own inventions to the dignity of God's creation. They impute to the Creator's laws the preventable evil and ugliness for which the human race is responsible and with regard to which it so shamefully neglects its duty. Again, the pessimist neglects the truth that this is a remedial world. Sin has in its company that which will eventually annihilate it. The sinner's conscience sets itself against him uncompromisingly; God's voice calls him from evil. Sin struggles hard but it is surely disappearing, and man's hope may well be strong...
...history there is only one opening through which God has been clearly seen - the life of Christ. He conquered evil and the world is being re-created. To those who do not see that God's thoughts are as far above man's as the heaven is above the earth, sin may seem dying too slowly. To the pessimist it may even seem gaining strength, but to the Christian, God's purposes are revealed in Christ. He sees the beauty and stainlessness of that character gaining the victory in the world and the new creation advancing when the world, concerning...