Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1915 — Living in God. [ARTICLE]

Living in God.

Childlikeness, in its Scriptural sense, is a perfectness of trust, a resting in a Father’s love, a being -Dome on in its power, living in it — it means a simplicity which resolves all into the one idea of lowly-submis-siveness td one in whom it lives; a buoyancy of spirit, which is a fountain of joy in itself, always ready to spring forth afresh brightly and happily to meet the claims of the present hour, not looking lingeringly back to the past, nor making plans, independently, as of oneself, for the future; a resting contentment in one's lot, whatever that lot may be; a singleness of intention; a pliancy, a yielding of the will, a forgetfulness of self in another’s claims. To be thus childlike in the pure sense of such an ideal, is to be living in God, as one's Father, one’s Preserver, one’s Guide, felt to-be a perpetual Presence and Providence.—Carter.