eless force? You cannot ask yourself or your
fellows a more important question than this--"How shall we think about
God?"

Men had been filling their minds with all sorts of wild and foolish
guesses about God. This young man placed upon the lips of the race and
within its heart that great word "Father." "When ye pray say, 'Our
Father.'" Begin with those words on your lips, with that thought in
your mind and with the filial spirit in your heart. When you worship
"Worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeketh such
to worship Him." When you would turn away from the evil of your life
say, "I will arise and go to my Father." When you want assurance say,
"No man can pluck me out of my Father's hand." When you come to die
say, "Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." Death is the act of
a tired child falling back into the arms of his Father. He showed us
the Father and it sufficed us.

This great truth was the heart of this young man's message to the
race--God is our Father. God combines the strength and the tenderness,
the authority and the devotion, the responsible control and the
capacity for self-sacrifice which belong to fatherhood at its best.
Take the highest you have ever seen in fatherhood and raise it to the
_nth_ power, and then trust that, for that is God.

How many of you believe that? It is the easiest thing in the world to
say, "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth,"
but do you really believe it? Are you striving to live it? If God is
your Father, then you are His children, heirs of God, joint heirs with
Jesus Christ! Your interests are His interests. Your life and His
life, your destiny and His destiny, are not things apart--they are all
one.

In the light of that great overarching, underlying, interpenetrating
truth, there is no duty more commanding, no privilege more resplendent
than that of living daily and hourly in the filial spirit before Him.
When a man really believes that, he goes about saying by word and by
deed, "I am not alone, the Father is with me. I come not to do my own
will, but the will of Him who sent me. I must be about my Father's
business." When that great sublime truth is set within the heart of
the race, as it was set within the heart of this young man, it changes
the history of the world.

He also changed men's thoughts about goodness. What does it mean to be
good? When may we call any man good? There were m