Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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BY HENRY PROCTOR, F. R. s. L., M. R. A. s. (LONDON)
;¢r}_u1n|_f;;O many the very expression which heads
it H' this article will seem strange, abnormal,
if
*i* and to the man without spiritual percep-
°t* if' tion even absurd; but nevertheless it cov-
*5f"*"**$ ers a truth as deep and infinite as any that
the mind of man has yet conceived.
That the prayer of God is
SUPERLATIVE, SUPREME, INCESSANT,
is confirmed by natural and spiritual science, by philosophy
and logic, by the Bible and the Sacred Writings of
all the Great World Religions.
For all these agree in affirming that God is immanent
thruout the Universe of Space and Matter.
ALL MATTER is ALIVE,
because the Eternal, Immortal, Invisible Life is everywhere
present. The Universe is simply
A MANIFESTATXON OF GOD.
What mind is to the body of man, that God is to the
Universe. And just as the mind of man permeates the
whole of his body, so does the Spirit of God permeate the
whole Universe. And just as true prayer occupies the
whole mind and therefore the whole body of the man, so
does the prayer of God occupy the whole Universe.
It is the universal prayer for the whole Creation- "the
Spirit Itself maketh intercession with sighings unutterable."
As the Mind of God therefore permeates the
whole universe, so everything that occurs therein must be