. Essays and addresses . THE PROGRAMME OFCHRISTIANITY What does God do all day ? bnce asked alittle boy. Oi\e could wish that mere grown-up people wovjld ask so very real\i(,7^^^^ti^^^*Unfortunately^ n^iOst cf us are not:!^Ven boysin religious inielilgence, but only very un-thinking children. It no more occurs to usthat God is engaged in any particular work inthe world than it occurs to a little child thatits father does anything except be its father may be a Cabinet Minister absorbedin the nations work, or an inventor deep in schemes for the worlds good ; but to this 9 lO THE pro(;

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. Essays and addresses . THE PROGRAMME OFCHRISTIANITY What does God do all day ? bnce asked alittle boy. Oi\e could wish that mere grown-up people wovjld ask so very real\i(,7^^^^ti^^^*Unfortunately^ n^iOst cf us are not:!^Ven boysin religious inielilgence, but only very un-thinking children. It no more occurs to usthat God is engaged in any particular work inthe world than it occurs to a little child thatits father does anything except be its father may be a Cabinet Minister absorbedin the nations work, or an inventor deep in schemes for the worlds good ; but to this 9 lO THE pro(;ramme master-egoist he is father, and nothing , whether in the physical or moralworld, is the great self-centred period of life ;and a personal God who satisfies personal endsis all that for a long time many a Christianunderstands. But as clear!} as there comes to the grow-ing child a knowledge of its fathers part in theworld, and a sense of what real life means,there must come to every Ch/istian whosegrowtessaysaddresses00drum

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