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

1917 SUGGESTIONS OF THOUGHT FOR MUSINGS 465
Then stop and consider the fact that worlds grow, and
according to their size is their age, and according to their
age is the state of their development and mental unfoldment;
and as worlds grow they incorporate added qualities,
which become part of the race. From this the
greatest minds of earth can form but a vague estimate of
what wonders of mind exist in the universe; and all this
mind grows from God, as the tiny branch grows from the
mighty oak. Now, as we live under the influence of these
wondrous mind-powers, how important it is that we
should avail ourselves of every facility offered us to increase
our capacity to receive, know and understand
these gigantic minds of other worlds.
Why, dear friends, could we but meet face to face
some of the lowest men of those grand suns that float in
space, their dignity, grandeur of mind, excellence of
quality, and wonderful luminous soul-powers would transcend
our highest idea of God-Divinity itself. How
small we seem when we "consider
the heavens"-God's
heavens; when we know that our earth is a little dark
grain of sand compared to the worlds and systems of
worlds that float in space.
Up to the present time the inhabitants of our world
have been ruled the same as are the beasts of the forest,
by brute force. Look at England, Germany, France,
Russia, and all the great nations, armed with their iioating
batteries and mighty guns, intimidating and holding
in check each the other by virtue of their power to kill
and destroy! Each animal fights for mastery, and when
he has obtained it, keeps ever prominent his power of
conquest. All the great nations of the so-called civilized
world are doing the same as the barnyard rooster, only
they have used mind-power to obtain facilities to destroy
life more quickly and effectually, but they are applying
the same law.