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GLEANINGS FROM MANY GRADENS.

“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming convictions that I had nowhere else to go; my own wisdom and that of all around me seemed insullioient for the day.’"—Abraham Lincoln.

Prayer is neither chiefly begging for things, nor is it merely selfcommunion; it is that loftiest experience within the reach of any soul -communion with God.

There is nothing too great for the Creator to accomplish, and nothing too small for Him to attend to. The microscopic world is His, as well as the stars.

We must not conceive of prayer as an overcoming of God's reluctance, but as a laying hold of His highest willingness.

Not resignation to God s T ill, but co-operation with God’s will is t le truer expression of a Christian att*tude. We are not resigned anywhere else. We And an arid desert

and so far from being resigned, w» irrigate it until it blossoms like a garden. We find a thorny cactus, and commission Luther Burbank as speedily aa possible to make of it a thornless plant for food. We find social evils like slavery, and from Moses to Lincoln all that are best among us are willing to surrender life rather than rest content with wrong. Resignation in tin* presence of tlnngs evil or imperfect is sin; and all the heroes of the race hav« l*°en so far discontented and unresigned that Blake's challenge lias been kindred to their resolution.

“I will not cease from mental light. Nor shall my sword sleep in my

hand,

Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pkasant

land.”

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White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 383, 18 June 1927, Page 4

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GLEANINGS FROM MANY GRADENS. White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 383, 18 June 1927, Page 4

GLEANINGS FROM MANY GRADENS. White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 383, 18 June 1927, Page 4

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