reasoning out things. All the brains God has are your brains and mine.

Just as in your brain you reason things for and against, wondering which

is right and waiting for time and experience to decide; so God reasons

one way through your brain and another and opposite way through my

brain, and then rests and observes until the "logic of events" shall

show him, and us, the point of real harmony. Just be still and let

God think through your brain, and don't kick up a muss because he thinks

out the other side of things through my brain, or your new

relatives' brains.

 

Toleration is a great thing; but loving willingness to let God think

out all sides of a question through all sorts of brains, is a glorious

thing. Let's stand for our point of view when it is called for, but

don't let's insist upon it. Let's remember always to use God's "still,

small voice."

 

Do I need to tell you that what I have just said applies to you whether

you have just married a second time or not? The whole world is our

family, you know. Let's respect it and be kind to it, and trust it to

recognize and appropriate our point of view just as far as is good for

it. Let's be more interested in getting at the other points of view

than insisting upon our own. That is the way we shall grow in wisdom and

knowledge. And, too, that is the way we shall all get close enough

together to really see the truth about things.