We all need this sense of God with us, helping us in our lives. This
gives courage and confidence. It does not mean weak reliance upon
heaven to do things for us; it means entering on the things that look
impossible because we know that, if they are right, every great force
in the universe will coöperate with us.

This is the fine sense in which the human enters into partnership with
the heavenly. This determines whether we may call our work divine or
not. It is to be judged, not by whether it is pleasant or looks
respectable, but by whether it is the work in which we know the Lord of
all can lay His hand to the tool or weapon alongside of our hands.

With a consciousness like this, one attempts anything. The practical
question is not, "Can this be done?" but "Ought this to be done?" "Is
it such a task as will enlist the coöperation of the eternal spirit of
truth and right?" With the cry of Gideon on their lips, men have fared
forth facing fearful odds; their hands have fallen from their swords,
but the unseen hand has carried them on until the cause has won.

The Almighty, who would have love and peace and righteousness to
prevail, needs your hand for His sword; the sword of the Lord is vain
without Gideon. Ideals and spiritual forces may exist, but men must be
their realizations, their visible hands. God's work waits for you to
put your hand to the sword; you will find His already there.

This helping hand is always unseen; spiritual things are often
apparently unreal. God cannot be reduced to figures nor to material
elements. This hand that works with ours may mean one thing to one and
another to another. What we all need is to simply grasp the great fact