DURING the study of a recent Bible Lesson there was emphasized to my thought as never before the compassionate and unalterable relationship which exists between our heavenly Father, God, and each well-loved child, and since awakening to this fact I have found reassurance of the same comforting relationship in each lesson, scripture, and hymn.
As a closing benediction to each Sunday lesson the Scriptural reference from I John, 3, gives happy assurance that "now are we the sons of God," and would further imply that this relationship becomes apparent as we grow "like him,"—God-like in consciousness. Therefore as sons of God should we not, do we not, to-day possess the name and heritage of our Father?
The question occurs, how have we become possessed of the names we bear among men? Why is it that I am known as John Smith and not as Henry Jones? Even because I take according to law and custom the name of my parent before me. Can deception, argument, or ignorance change my identity and make me Henry Jones in fact? It is evident that nothing can alter the relationship I bear to my parent, and that I must ever be his son.
