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appearances. I believe in God here present in loving kindness." In such a seemingly hard set of circumstances as mentioned, you will find it the most comforting thing in the world to say, "I do not believe in the power of a whole army of evil conditions. I believe God is bringing us all through safely."

Why should you write a letter to your mother, or your uncle, or your brother, begging for help out of your misery, at a moment when the universe stands waiting for you to touch not the earth at any angle, but to touch God? This is called "The valley of decision." The whole world finds it so much easier to talk and think and write on the dark side that Joel said, "Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision." The worse the condition, the less you are to turn your mind toward it. "Touch it not. Touch Me."

Goethe, the mighty thinker, writing of choosing between your pathways of feeling, said, "Here eyes do regard you in eternity's stillness. Choose well; your choice is brief and yet endless." That which comes over us about whether we believe in God in us now, comes over us when we put our cheerful doctrine upon the world. It seems as if our world all turns against us. But we have no right to agree with what comes. The Jesus Christ Spirit within us, and shedding its radiance around us, judges not after the sight of the eyes, nor after the hearing of the ears. There is no combination of circumstances so hard, so black, so complicated, but what God can work a miracle in them.

Now, if we examine doubt a little more closely we shall see that it is not doubt of the Good at all. It is fear that the Good won't work NOW. We think the Good lets evil run on so long, and multitudes of good people pass away before their good deeds are respected, and ages go on before their character is believed in. You will see how we all have a sneaking feeling that we would like to know what good it will do us if our