Excerpt from Spiritual Knowing or Bible Sunshine: The Spiritual Gospel of Jesus the Christ
The American people are unconsciously arraying themselves on one or the other side of a sharp dividing line. The standard or ideal of life on the one side is vigor, energy, activity, dominion, conquering circumstances by the strong right arm. It has recently coined a new phrase to express its ideal. It calls upon the youth of the land to follow "the strenuous life," which is an appeal for the strongest possible exercise of the human will. Its standard of success is material prosperity.
The ideal of the other side is exactly the opposite of this. It sees in the history of mankind a perpetual failure of the human will to give happiness, comfort, peace or even permanent prosperity. It sees that not only the teachings of the world's Saviour, the Man of Galilee, but the analogies of science show that the secret of happiness lies in surrendering the finite human will to the Supreme Eternal Will, and that true success is not to be gained by a strenuous materialistic life, but by a spiritual life.
An essential element of this movement is its larger and profounder interpretation of the word spiritual.
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