Power is indispensable to all of us. We do not make it, but it is perpetually active in us, and for us. By a creative power we exist. By a maintaining power we continue to be. By a controlling power we are governed. Because all that is true and real is of God, all real power is God's power, the power that inheres in pure intelligence. Says the Bible, "Power belongeth unto God;" and again, in the words of Paul, "There is no power but of God." True power may be thought of as God's ability to constitute, maintain, and govern. This ability God inherently possesses; man inevitably expresses.
In the human order, electrical and other forms of motive power have enormously multiplied in the past fifty years. Yet men have utilized only a small fraction of the physical power available. It is said that if the sunlight that falls on the earth's surface in one minute were harnessed, it would supply all the earth's heat and power requirements for a year. This is not yet accomplished because men have not learned how effectively to utilize solar power.
Yet the power that is most indispensable to the solution of human problems is not physical but spiritual power—the power of intelligence, of Mind. Charles P. Steinmetz, with his unexcelled knowledge of electricity, still saw that it would be spiritual, not material forces that would satisfy the needs of men. In referring to spiritual forces, he said: "Here is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest power in the development of men. . . . Yet we have merely been playing with it and have never seriously studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making men and women creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of God and prayer, and the spiritual forces which as yet have hardly been scratched."
