Abram Herbert Lewis - Spiritual Sabbathism

BIBLICAL SABBATHISM 93
of the motions of piano-keys in motion, but the
little child who plays by ear does not know it, nor
indeed does the greatest pianist know it.
A nightingale
can draw harmony out of the atmosphere;
mathematics can not. A spiritual activity then is
able to reconcile, for us, the antithesis of these problems.
Sometimes that activity must be stern; sometimes
the struggle against sin must proceed without
the sense of God's perfect joy and rest in labor.
But
evil can be destroyed through the grace of God and
the effort of the forgiven soul. The will can be
proved free both by using it
and by surrendering it.
Even "a first cause" can partly be understood, as
we shall presently see.
All these facts are clearly enough suggested in the
Bible.
They are In the plan of creation and the plan
of salvation, and these plans are one. It Is a little
unfashionable today to
speak of the plan of salvation,
and Indeed the phrase may be abused. Man
Is
not so well acquainted with the plans of God as
some theologians have assumed. But that God
has a plan of creation and salvation, that he has an
eternal and joyful purpose—to deny this is to adopt
the planlessness of eternal energy, and the purposelessness
of eternal death.
The spiritual solution of the problems is, we repeat,
suggested In many places In the Bible, and