States. You thought the people of the United States and the legislators in particular were doing all that thinking and talking for and against. Why, bless you heart, the people and the legislators are dummies in God’s mind—they are little thoughts moving around in the mind of the One Thinker—thought through which He weighs and balances and decides the equities. He thinks out and proves His intuitions in this way.
Now don’t all of you anti-expansionists jump up and screech at me that it is not equity that we should own the Philippines. You are only one side of the debate.
And don’t all you expansionists come smiling around to pat me on the back. You are only the other side of the question.
I AM on the fence and I can see you both. All keep still now and I will whisper to you a secret God hasn’t thought it all out yet. He is still thinking alternately on one side and then on the other. It is nip and tuck with him whether to hold the Filipinos or to let ‘em go. But He thinks He’ll let ‘em go—when he finds a way. He’s thinking it out through you and me and Governor Taft and President Roosevelt and the rest.
There is just One Mind, which fills space full. All minds are inlets of the One Mind. All thoughts are thoughts of the One Mind.
Desire is the will of the One Mind. All desires are inlets of the one desire or will. All desires are of God. They are God’s desires, fitting in with that particular train of thought. As the thought changes so will the desires. God’s thoughts and desires change through all eternity. His desires fit the particular train of thought He is working out—one thing in you, another in me; changing in each of us from day to day; but always God.
God is proving through you and me what is right and what is wrong; what is just and what is unjust.
Wrong ALWAYS brings unhappiness; right ALWAYS brings happiness.
It is not enough that you have been told that it is “wrong” to tell lies. God hardens your heart to tell lies and suffer for it until you have so thoroughly proved the wrong and unhappiness of lying that NOTHING could tempt you to lie. So with all other wrongdoings.
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