ttle real spiritual feeling,
and the progress of the world is for the most part merely material. Men
are becoming like unto beasts that perish, for we know that they have no
spiritual feeling--they do not turn to God, they have no religion! These
things belong to man alone, and if he is without them he is a prisoner of
nature, and no whit better than an animal.

How can man be content to lead only an animal existence when God has made
him so high a creature? All creation is made subject to the laws of
nature, but man has been able to conquer these laws. The sun, in spite of
its power and glory, is bound by the laws of nature, and cannot change its
course by so much as a hair's breadth. The great and mighty ocean is
powerless to change the ebb and flow of its tides--nothing can stand
against nature's laws but man!

But to man God has given such wonderful power that he can guide, control
and overcome nature.

The natural law for man is to walk on the earth, but he makes ships and
flies in the air! He is created to live on dry land, but he rides on the
sea and even travels under it!

He has learnt to control the power of electricity, and he takes it at his
will and imprisons it in a lamp! The human voice is made to speak across
short distances, but man's power is such that he has made instruments and
can speak from East to West! All these examples show you how man can
govern nature, and how, as it were, he wrests a sword from the hand of
nature and uses it against herself. Seeing that man has been created
master of nature, how foolish it is of him to become her slave! What
ignorance and stupidity it is to worship and adore nature, when God in His
goodness has made us masters thereof. God's power is visible to all, yet
men shut their eyes and see it not. The Sun of Truth is shining in all His
splendour, but man with fast shut eyes cannot behold His glory! It is my
earnest prayer to God that by His Mercy and Loving Kindness you may all be
united, and filled with the utmost joy.

I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that
war and bloodshed may cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity
may reign in the world.

All down the ages we see how blood has stained the surface of the earth;
but now a ray of greater light has come, man's intelligence is greater,
spirituality is beginning to grow, and a time is surely coming when the
religions of the world will be at peace. Let us leave the disc