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Speaker 1: Let us have faith, faith necessary in every human undertaking.

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You have faith in man, but are afraid to trust God.

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The universe if governed by law. The law is in

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operation everywhere. Don't be afraid. You are a part of

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the plan. Fall in with the law, Have faith, Have faith.

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When you take a journey by rail, you step into

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the car, settle yourself, take out a book and read,

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and give little or no thought to the engine or

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engineer in charge of the train. You go rushing across

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the country at the rate of fifty miles an hour,

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with no thought of possible disaster or accident, and for

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the time forgetting that there is such a person in

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existence as the engineer. You have absolute faith in the

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careful management of the road and in the intelligence of

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the man who has been placed in the engine. The

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lives of yourself and hundreds of fellow passengers are practically

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in the hands of one man. And that man is

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a stranger to you. You have never seen him, You

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know nothing of his qualifications. You only know that the

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management has picked him out to safely conduct you across

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the country. You take a steamship to Europe and place

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yourselves in the hands of a few men who are

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total strangers to you. You stake your life on their skill, judgment,

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and intelligence. You feel that they would not be where

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they are unless the management of the line consider them competent.

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It is all a matter of trust of confidence. The

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same thing is true when you take your seat on

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a trolley car, or on the elevated railroad, or even

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in a stage coach or a private carriage. In each case,

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you place yourself in the charge of another person in

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whom you have a certain amount of confidence, although he

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may be comparatively or wholly unknown to you. You place

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your wealth in a bank, having confidence in its management.

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You have business dealings with men whom you scarcely know,

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trusting to their honesty of purpose. In every transaction in life,

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you are compelled to have confidence in people. Your lawyer,

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your physician, your grocer, your clerks are all taken on faith.

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One cannot get away from it. If confidence were destroyed,

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the wills of modern life would stop in a minute.

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The so called hard headed practical man mays near at faith,

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but it underlies a pre manifestations of the life of

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his civilization. Man has faith and confidence in man, but

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is afraid to trust God. He looks about him and

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sees millions of worlds, each in its appointed place, each

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revolving in its own orbit. He has faith that at

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a certain time, each world will be in a certain position,

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which position may be calculated centuries in advance. But he

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lacks faith in the power that created these worlds and

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keeps them in their places. He has faith in certain laws,

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but he doubts the existence of the law maker. He

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sees the wondrous manifestation of life in great and small.

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He takes advancevantage of the telescope and the microscope, and

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explores new regions, and finds the law in operation everywhere.

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But he doubts the existence of the great law which

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governs his life, his incomings and his outgoings, his great

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deeds and his petty acts. He fails to realize the

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truth of the saying that the hairs on his head

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are numbered, and that not a sparrow may fall unnoticed.

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He seems to think that if there is a God,

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he must have made the world and then ran away

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and left it to take care of itself. He fails

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to see that the law must govern man's life as

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it governs the unfolding of the leaf the development of

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the lily. He fails to see that law is in

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full operation within him as well as without him. He

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fails to see that as he opposes the operation of law,

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pain comes by reason of the friction. He fails to

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see that the only true philosophy is that which teaches

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one to fall in with the operations of law and

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to let it work in him and through him. Do

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you think for a moment that God does not know

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what he is about? Do you doubt the supreme intelligence,

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which knows all things and is conscious of all things.

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Do you doubt the supreme power, which manifests itself in

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all forms of power. Do you doubt the universal presence

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which is in all places at all times. Do you

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suppose that the manifestation is everything and the manifestore nothing,

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poor man, Either the universe is without law, without meaning,

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without reason, or it is the manifestation of supreme and

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an infinite reason. Either it is the work of a

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demon who sits somewhere and grins and glouts over our misfortunes,

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our trials, our troubles, our pain, our follies. Or it

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is the work of an all knowing, all powerful, all

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present intelligence, power, presence which has taken into consideration everything

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within the universe, down to the tinest thing, down to

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the merest detail. And if this last be true, then

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everything that happens must be in accordance with law. Everything

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that happens to us must be the very best thing

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that could happen to us at that particular time and

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that particular place. Things are not run by blind chains.

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There is law under everything. Everything has some connection with

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every other thing. Every person has a relationship with every

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other person. All is one. The manifestations are varied, but

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there is but one reality. There is a great plan

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underlying all life, and life itself is in accordance with

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that plan. Nothing ever happens. Every occurrence has a bearing

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on every other occurrence. Chance has no part in the plan.

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Everything is in accord with well ordered laws. There is

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always an end in view In every thought, word, or act.

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We are constantly being used for the benefit of the whole.

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There is no escape, and when we get to know,

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we cease to wish to escape. He who understands not

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law is constantly struggling, striving, fighting and contending against it,

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and producing friction. He feels pain. He who understands something

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of law, cease to content against it. He lets it

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work through him, and is carried along with a mighty force,

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doing each day the best he knows how, expressing himself

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in the best possible manner, sailing to the right and

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to the left, with the wind and against the wind,

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but still being borne on by the mighty current, and

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resisting it not. He enjoys every mile of the journey,

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seeing new sights and hearing new sounds. Moving on. Ever,

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he who understands not rebels at being swept along. He

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wishes to stay where he is. But there is no

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such thing as staying. Life is motion, life is growth.

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If you prefer to pull against the tide, to row

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up a stream by all means, do so. After a

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while you will grow tired and weary, and will rest

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on your oars. Then you will find that you are

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moving on just the same to where the unknown seas.

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And you will find that it is much easier work

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rowing or sailing with the current, or from one side

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of the river to another, than to attempt to stay

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in the same place or to pull up the stream.

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All this fretting, all this worrying, all this contention and strife,

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comes from a lack of faith. We may assert feverently

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that we know that all is good and that all

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is best for us, et cetera, et cetera, But have

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we enough faith to manifest it in our lives? See

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how we endeavor to tie onto things, people, and environments.

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How we resist the steady pressure that is tearing us loose,

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often with pain, from the places to which we have

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wished to stay fastened. Like a parnicle, The life horse

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is back of us, urging us along, pushing us along,

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and move we must. The process of growth, development and

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unfoldment is going on steadily. What's the use of attempting

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to resist it. You are no more than a water

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bug on the surface of the river. You may dart

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here and there, and apparently are running things to suit

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yourself without reference to the current, But all the time

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you are moving along with it. The water bug plan

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is all right, just so long as we do not

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attempt to stop the current or to swim right against it.

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When we try this, we find out very quickly that

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the current has something to say about it, And before

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for long we get so tired that we are willing

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to fall in with the law behind the current, and

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yet even the opposition is good, for it teaches us

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that the current is there. We gain by experience. The

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new thought does not teach people to stem the current

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or to swim upstream, although some teachers and some students

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seem to be of that opinion. On the contrary, the

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real new thought teaches us of the existence of the

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stream and that it is moving steadily toward the sea

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of good. It teaches us how to fall in with

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it and be born further along in instead of attempting

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to hold back and become Parnicles, or to try to

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push back up the stream. It also teaches us to

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live in the now, to enjoy the darting backward and

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forward over the face of the waters. It also of

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the direction in which the current is moving, that we

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may move along that way without wasting our energies in

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trying to go the other. It teaches us cooperation with

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law and instead of opposition to it. Why do we

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not have faith? Why do we not see the great

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plan behind it all? Why do we not recognize law

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as we have seen? We place our confidence in the

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engineer of the train, the pilot, the captain, the coach driver,

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and the other guiding hands, and yet we hesitate to

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trust ourselves in the hands of the infinite. Of course,

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it makes no difference to the infinite whether or not

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we repose trust in it. It moves along just the same,

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guiding and directing, steering and regulating speed. It minds not

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our doubts and obstructions, any more than does the great

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driving wheal mind the fly who is pershed upon it,

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and who does not like the movement and attempts to

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stop it by spreading out its wings and buzzing. The

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great will of the universe is moving around steadily and mightily.

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Let us go with it. And while we are going,

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let us spare ourselves the trouble and fully of the

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buzzing wings spreading business. Let us part with fear and worry.

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Let us cease our imagining that we can run the

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universe better than the engineer who has his hand on

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the throttle. Let us cease imagining that God needs advice

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on the subject. Let us stop this fully of saying,

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poor God with no one to help him run things.

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Let us trust the engineer. Let us have faith. Let

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us have faith