September 25
Companions of the Way (Morning)Ye shall find rest unto your souls.
(As we grow older)
WE no longer wish to control events, but to understand and co-operate with the Power which controls them. Petition forms a smaller and smaller part of our prayers. We know Christ less and less after the flesh. God ceases to be an object, and becomes an atmosphere. Our creed is simplified and intensified. There are a few fundamental religious facts of which we are quite sure, because we have experienced them. And among these facts is the power and vitality and intimacy of that spiritual presence, in ourselves and the world, which St. Paul called Christ. The Christ of experience is at once our moral ideal and the power which transforms us according to that ideal. He draws us to Himself. The normal development of religion culminates in that experience of complete harmony with a loving and wise spiritual Power which St. Paul expresses in the simple words: “For me to live is Christ.”
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
A RIPENING FAITH