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Show THE THOUGHT OF GOD LB BY DR. i VALES I. V VSCE. The thought of God is one which everybody has. We may not give God Ha, the same attributes nor call Him by the same name. We may not always believe that the thought has an an-swerlng an-swerlng reality, but there are few so crude and untaught but have moments when across the field of their mental tHfc vision Cheifa drifts the thought of God Whc-ro does the thought come The race seems always to have had it. You can go back far enough to gi t Hl behind some things, but you cannot IHV go back far enough to find a world h without the thoughl of God The race started tvlth U Almos' if not quite the first act of conscious being was a jlH recognition of man's responsibility to Wm the supreme power that rules the fuB world. HHH Wat It Invented.? In the annals of EhCH the race we have preserved the names rP of many of the sages and philosophers kjlLfik and atatesmen and poets and pioneers and history makers and world build-Ifl build-Ifl ers, but you will search in vain for the KIlB name of the man who invented the ufl thought of God. Is it a BUperstilution? If so, some HB of the cleverest people in the world jtfla have embraced it The people w ho believe in God nre not' all fools and mM mental incompetents If It be a super- mM stltlon, what lends plausibility to the thought? It has lasted too long to H be a Is it an evolution? If so. from w hat has it been evolved" It was full grown when first seen. It Is not the kind of H thought that Is produced so much as jHA 'he kind that produces it Is one of ajM the gr-at dynamic Idea.s of the race. Bj If. then, it is a thought that every- HB one has, that the race has always had, If it is not an invention nor a super- f stition nor an evolution, where dl 1 the thought of God come from ' The- most plausible explanation Is that it has come as every other high, straight, true thought has come froni reulity Buck of the thought of God is the fact of God. Men havo thought God because God K- |