Lastly, we may expect actual help.  These plans are all dear to God.  He wishes them all accomplished.  They have been wisely made.  Opposition has been diminished.  It only remains that our hearts be open to guidance and strengthening.  Moses was sure I AM had sent him.  Elijah had the very words to be uttered to Ahab put into his mouth.  Nehemiah told the people that for building a city “the joy of the Lord is your strength.”  God strengthened the right hand of Cyrus.  The three Hebrew children and Daniel knew that God was able to deliver them from fire and lions.  “Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thy heart.”  And the great promise of the Lord to be with his disciples to the end is not so much a promise for comfort as for the accomplishment of their mission.  Paul said, “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”  And all great doers for God, in all ages, have gladly testified that they have been girded for their work by the Almighty.

The designed outcome of this paper is that every reader should get a fresh revelation of the immanency of God in the kingdom of nature and grace; that the reader is more intimately related to him and his plans than is gravitation; that there are laws as imperative, exact, and sure to yield results in the mental and spiritual realms as in the material; that he is a part of God’s agencies, and that all of God’s forces are a part of his; that he may sing with new meaning,

  “We for whose sakes all nature stands
  And stars their courses move;”

that in the burning vividness of this new conception each man may boldly undertake things for God—­conversions, purifications, missionary enlargements, business enterprises—­that he knows are too great for himself; that he may find new helps for spiritual victories as great as this age has found for material triumphs in steam and electricity; and that in all things man may be uplifted and God thereby glorified.

How shall it be done?

First, by a vivid conception that cooperation is designed, provided for, and expected.  We are children of God; there can be but one great end through the ages in the universe.  There should be cooperation of every force.  There have been thousands of evident cooperations—­waters divided and burned by celestial fire, Pharaohs rebuked, Ninevehs warned, exiles recalled, Jerusalems rebuilded, Luthers upheld, preachers of today changed from waning, not desired, half-over-the-dead-line ministers into vigorous, flaming heralds of the Gospel, who possessed tenfold power to what they had before; we ourselves personally helped in manifest and undeniable instances, and so have come to believe that God can do anything, anywhere, if he can get the right kind of a man.  Promises of aid are abundant.  Heaven and earth shall pass away sooner than one jot or tittle of these words fail.  We are invited to test them:  “Come now, and prove me herewith, and see if I will not open the windows of heaven once more, as at the deluge, and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”