Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1912 — Analogies in Religions Discourse. [ARTICLE]

Analogies in Religions Discourse.

By Helen Mar. Always, our Savior compared the soul with something having the power to grow through the kindling of some latent power. You may repair the machinery in your shop because the needed material is at~Kand or because your workmen can suuply the needed repairs. But the spiritual growth is attained because there remains some germ of good to be called into life by suggestion, that is, an Influence emanating from the only true supply; no. matter through what medium it may reach sin-covered soul. The sculpter may see the form to be hewed out of the block of marble, or the machinist may see the once perfect machine to be wrought from the wreck, but though the ministry may yearn to kindle the spark, there must be that reciprocal longing for the human light, which is the expression of the Father’s love, in the sinner's heart. The moment we wake to the conviction that God is love and that His spirit dwells within ua and Hfa powers are at our command for good deeds, then we know no rest unless we are about the Father’s business, “How far that little candle sends its beams. So shines a good deed In this naughty world.”