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2. THE FATHER-GOD.
" To me, I confess,
it seems a very considerable thing,
just to believe in God ; difficult
indeed to avoid honestly,
and not easy
to accomplish worthily ; a thing
not lightly
to
profess, but rather humbly to be sought ;
not to be found at
the end of any syllogism, but in the inmost fountains of
purity and affection ; not the sudden gift of the intellect,
but to be earned by a loving and brave life."
" I believe in God the Father dlmighty."
These simple, solemn, tender words contain
the Christian Thought of God.
word " Almighty " is
In the one
summed up Muhammad's
idea of supreme Will and Power ;
the Christian prefixes a Name to the attribute
which so governs
the sphere
of the
exercise of that will and power that it is
difficult to conceive that the two teachings
represent the same Being.
Father- In the view of Him to Whom we owe
hood the Father Idea, the All of God and the
All of
His universe are summed up
in the
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