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the pupil and leaves him to Work out the solution; He is mot merely the skilled artist who sketches the design, and expects his humbler workmen to rear the edifice; He is not even the parent who apportions his or her life to the offspring and gradually consigns it to its own care. He is the ever-pressut, direct, immediate personal, controlling Power. Yes! Therein lies the intimacy, the immediacy of God's presence, control «and authority. From that place to this He has, in very fact, moved me to come to you. It has pleased Him to prompt you all to meet me, as a humble, trembling, erring exponent of this great truth today* He has desired that grain unto grain be attached in the plank on which we are seated. He has ordered that particle with particle be connected to make the floor on which we stand. He has arranged that layer upon layer be put into the spherical compact of this earth. Lastly, He has ordained that the whole fraternity of spirits do become one in Him.
Therein consists the religious gospel of
