Page:The Message and Ministrations of Dewan Bahadur R. Venkata Ratnam, volume 1.djvu/60

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Supreme Spirit in the hearts of all. By evidence flowing in increasing volume from all directions the conviction is borne in, that the cause of pure — spiritual, liberal, hopeful, catholic — theism is the cause of the future; that the dispensation of the Brahma Samaj is the gospel of the new age. It is becoming abundantly clear that, in the general trend of modern thought and aspiration towards a deep and enduring faith broad-based on the human intuitions and affections, a steady aud ceaseless inspiration from the All-permeating into every expectant soul, an open and direct access for every reverent soul to the world- wide sanctuary of the Ever-adorable One, a wide and sympathetic outlook on human kind as knit in one divine kinship, a devout and grateful appreciation of truth and prophecy with their several correlated expressions as radically one, a strong and cheering hope of God’s saving good falling at last to all, and a ready and loving dedication of human energies to the service of the world as a natural concomitant to the worship of God — that in this trend of modern thought