The declaration of Christian faith that God is All-in-all, is so inclusive in its meaning, so conclusive and satisfactory in its answer to philosophic inquiry, and so inspiring and helpful to the awakening spiritual sense, that it may be reckoned the corner-stone of religious truth.
Many vain endeavors have been made to distort its meaning, and those who have inscribed it high upon their banners are not infrequently misunderstood and consequently misrepresented as pantheistic in the tendency of their thought, if indeed they do not identify God with the sum total of the universe. The true metaphysical sense of the declaration is, however, rapidly finding its way to the inner heart of the people, and days of Pentecost will surely result, for its apprehension is the basis of that practical demonstration over sickness and sin which alone is satisfying and determinative to the seeker after Truth.
The deepest, broadest truth can but be the most potential and efficient, and when Jesus declared that the knowledge of the Truth would set men free, his thought must have embraced the ultimate foundation of all science or knowledge; viz., a right apprehension of the nature of God and his relation to the universe, including man.
