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Show Dr. James L Vance Is God a commodity to be monopolized monopo-lized by privilege? To find film, must one belong to a certain class and posses? pos-ses? a peculiar type Of mind and have had a certain course of training0 If s... ijod is a myth. The God Who cannot be found by the common man i b no) i God worth hunting for. If God Is real, Ih- must be level to the man of the street. How can such a man find God? Nut by an intellectual process. He may have doubts, but his doubts are not io be conquered, but rather confirmed by argument. Education i helpful, but plenty of edmated people instead of finding God have run Into a fog bank and concluded thai God does not exist The ministrations of the church are helpful, but joining a church Is by no means synonymous with the discovery dis-covery of God The method i.s far simpler than these ui others that might be mentioned men-tioned A common man may find God by living OS If (fl vvere a reality. That Is all, and It Is simple and can be (ml Hi to operation anywhere at any lime b; anybody. Religion is noi ecclesiastical i but experimental. People find the truth not so much through an Intellectual process as by living It. When a man I finds God In this way he gets past agnosticism, Doubts clear up, He .o hleves certitude, and there comes I an hour when he says. "I know." lie has tested God out in dally Ilfe and found that He Is not a lie f course many a man Is no I ready I to bunt for God in this way. 1" mean" that he must clean up his life, f,,, .,i the vii" start he finds that only the pure in he. irt can see God Hut If a man will honestly strive day bj da to do Hi's will, God is pledged to make Himself known. A farmer finds there Is a harvest by living as If crops grow, and a eom-j Ijnon man finds God by the same process- by living as If God Is. |