Hotel Mealpin, New York City
April 28th, 1919
(Stenographically reported)
Beloved friends: As we have gathered here day by day and
night by night in this room in the heart of this great city, we must have all
realized that we are in the presence of an extraordinary event, that as the
torrents of living water have poured from these great creative Tablets over our
souls, we have been submerged in a realm of light and beauty and love which
leaves us in great amazement. It may be that the most difficult thing for the
soul is to become conscious of the greatness of events with which we are
contemporaneous. We look back over the history of the human race and we see how
many thousand years ago God made covenant with mankind through Abraham, and in
that covenant He promised that the day would come upon this dark world when the
seed of Abraham should be as the stars of heaven and the sands of the sea.
When Moses gave the great Tablets to the Israelitish people
and they gathered on either side of the mountain and took an oath of allegiance
and devotion and love and loyalty to that great covenant of steadfastness and
servitude to the people, another great epoch in the seed sowing was
unfolded. When we look back upon such
periods in the world we realize their greatness. We understand their sublime
significance, and yet we here gathered are living in a period so infinitely
greater and more wonderful that we are dazzled by the brightness of the light
so that we cannot see. Those Israelitish people fulfilled their covenant and
were led away and found the Promised Land of God.
