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temple of the Holy Ghost, and ye are not yourown ! "

Glorifying God with His body and His soul Hebecame the great healer from sin and illness whichpractically flow from the same source. Strongand beneficent as the sun, He radiated the divinelight into the world, submerging Himself into thedivine will He became free and strong as God Himself. We, too, as His followers are called tothe glorious freedom of the Children of God.

(2) The universality of grace stands beside " theInner Light " as the second pole of Quakerism.Devout Quakers died a martyr's death on BostonCommon in the seventeenth century for confessionof this faith. The spirit of God not only speaksin the depth of every individual human soul,it is revealed in mankind as a whole,

There is no sphere of life which is to beabandoned to its own worldly authority—neitherart nor science, whose close relationship toreligion, leading scientists are emphasising to-day,so for example Einstein . Economics and politics,cut off from a religious core, turn into the huntingground of demons. There is no race or peoplewhich is not included in the scheme of salvation.Even at the utmost bounds of the ocean, whereverthe missionary comes, to quote the fine words ofZinzendorf, the Holy Ghost has already visitedthere. This is particularly true of the greatpeoples of Asia, with whom Quakerism to-daystands in a relationship of spiritual exchange,claiming at the same time their political in-dependence and national self-determination.