le's tides may sweep back
and forth, but in the end, as it has ever been in all the long story of
man's conflict with nature, so in the conflict with every other foe, he
is bound to win. This is as true in the individual life of every
fighter as nature and history show it to be in universal life.

On our side there is the great world of the unseen. Little do we know
of it, but still that little gives us confidence to believe it is
peopled with our allies. Our fairest hopes of good angels may be
delusions as to details, but they are essentially true, being born of
an eternal verity.

The gospel of good hope declares there is One over all, the friend of
all; greater is He that is with you than any against you; greater is He
than your temptations, your adversaries, your difficulties, and your
sorrows. This was what the great Teacher came to tell men, that God
was on their side, seeking to help them, loving, caring, cooeperating,
leading them into the life of victory over every enemy.

Let a man face life in this confidence and he is invincible. He goes
forth and an unseen army goes with him. He gains the seer's vision to
see even the plotting of the enemy and the forces that fight against
him all working for his good. From many combats he gains strength for
the decisive struggle. All things work together for good. He serves
the right, the truth, the things that are eternal; he fights for
character, for manhood, and the good; and the eternal forces that rule
the universe fight by his side. He beholds the hills full of the hosts
of heaven; though he has no time to enjoy the vision he knows they are
there, his allies, his assurance of ultimate victory.

THE UNSEEN HAND

The mightiest and the eternal forces fight ever on the side of the
right. True, things do not always look that way. Sometimes Napoleon's
sneer about God being on the side of the largest battalions seems to
have truth in it. But ere long we see the large battalions swept away
before the strange, unaccountable, and irresistible power of an
insignificant body having truth and God on its side.

The man who takes up the struggle for truth, who puts his hand to the
sword for the oppressed, for the right, finds himself holding a
two-handled weapon, and if he grasps firmly the one hilt it is as
though there were an omnipotent hand grasping the other. He who fights
worthily, in fitting battle, never fights alone.

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