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

1917-18 THE EASY WAY 511
these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no
thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought
for the things of itself. Sufiicient unto the day is the
evil thereof."
This passage has been quoted by the unthinking
thousands, as favoring the idea that there is no
use in thinking or_ acting; to live in devotion, prayer is
the only essential.
But how can one live in accordance
with an injunction, or a precept spoken in an unknown
language? For certainly these words are no more understood
than if they were so spoken. Notwithstanding, if
men would read them with the same intelligent thoughtfulness
that they would history, or any work in the sciences,
they would readily discern the comprehensiveness
of these thoughts and their many leading lines.
Let us examine a few of the radiating lines in this declaration;
let us start out in some of the paths leading to
their comprehension. First, then, "to seek" athing is
to use all means known to us by which it may be found.
It is not enough to ask it of some one else and then sit
down; that is not seeking. The churches in the past,
while asking God for his kingdom have not been seeking
it themselves. Notwithstanding, the same great Master,
their accepted Lord and God, told them explicitly that
the kingdom of heaven was within them, they, contradicting
him, have said that man was born sin-curst and
vile, from his mother's womb. True it is we are vile
enough, still, if we ever find the kingdom of God, we
will find it within ourselves. So, then, there is no other
place in heaven, or in the earth, or under the earth in
which to look for the kingdom of heaven but within YOU.
Alas! that men, after looking within themselves for centuries
should conclude that they are only vile and sinful;
that they should make the mistake of continually seeking
the kingdom of heaven, or thinking they are doing
so, forgetting the main essential, the second part of the