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

1917 PRAY ALWAYS 341
once said, "Behold, the days will come, in the which
there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall
not be thrown down;" evidently intending to impress the
lesson that all material things are transient, and that he
had no time to give to the consideration of what was of
passing interest.
same feeling seems
sages.
Thruout the history of the world the
to have possest the prophets and
Such a thought impelled the prophet to exclaim,
"All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as
the flower of the field, the grass withereth, the flower
fadeth. (Is. xl. 6, 7.)
He that would have unity with God must dwell always
upon things that are eternal. The one who does this will
be the one whose mind is constantly stayed on God; thus
he prays always and faints not, never ceases.
His object
being to reach the highest goal of attainment, and
realizing the truth of the axiom of old Hermetic philosophy,
"As below, so above," he will see in every material
thing something allied to, and teaching some law
of the spiritual, or cause world. Perceiving this, and
dwelling, as he does, among a people who need the light
of truth, he will find in every subject of conversation
some lesson to be taught concerning the things of God.
If the aspirant will thus centralize his mind on God,
on his law, his purpose,
and maintain the thought as
diligently and uninterruptedly as the artist pursues his
art or the business man his business, refusing to dwell
upon any other subject, either in thought or in conversation,
at the same time desiring with all his consciousness
unity with God, he will find after one month's continuous
effort that he is beginning to realize something of that
perfect peace of which the prophet sings, "Thou wilt
keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
thee" (Isa. xxvi. 3). Then let the individual spend five
or ten minutes in the ordinary gossip of the day, and