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from it a cry for help from "the rock that is higher than I" (Ps. 61:2).

Every metaphysician either has reached, or must in the future reach, this place --- the place where God as cold principle alone will not suffice any more than in the past God as personality alone could wholly satisfy. There will come moments when the human heart is so suddenly struck as to paralyze it, and for the moment it is impossible, even with strained effort, to think right thoughts.

At such times there will come but little comfort from the thought: This suffering comes as the result of my wrong thinking; but God, my Father, takes no cognizance of it: I must work it out unaided and alone. Just here we must have, and we do have, the motherhood of God, which is not cold principle any more than your love for your child is cold. I would not make God as principle less, but God as individual more.

The whole business of your Lord (the Father in you) is to care for you, to love you with an everlasting love, to note your slightest cry, and to rescue you.

Then you ask, "Why doesn't He do it?" Because you do not recognize His indwelling and His power, and by resolutely affirming that He does now manifest Himself as your all-sufficiency, call Him forth into visibility.

God (Father-Mother) is a present help in time of