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Today's talk was edited and adapted from

Levels of Living, Essays on Everyday Ideals by Henry Frederick Cope, published in 1908. Every Force in the world works with the woman and man who seeks the good.

This is a good world, and only those who fight against the good, face the unconquerable.

Yes, we may meet rebuffs, the tides of battle may sweep

back and forth, but in the end we are bound to win. This is as true in the individual life

of every fighter, as nature and history show it to be in universal life.

On our side there is the great world of the unseen. Little do we know of it, but still that

little gives us confidence to believe that it is peopled with our allies.

Our fairest hopes of good angels may be delusions as to details, but they are essentially true,

being born of an eternal verity.

The Gospel of Good Hope declares there is one overall, the friend of all.

Greater is the spirit that is with you than any who are against you.

Greater is the spirit than your temptations, your adversaries, your difficulties, and your sorrows.

That was what the great teachers have come to tell humankind, that God is on their

side, seeking to help them, loving, caring, cooperating, leading them into the life of victory over every enemy.

When you face life with this confidence, you are invincible.

You go forth and an unseen army goes with you.

You gain the seer's vision to see even the plotting of the enemy,

and the forces that fight against you, all working for your good. From many combatants,

you gain strength for the decisive struggle. All things work together for good when you serve the right, the truth,

the things that are eternal. Fight for character, for virtue, and the good, and the eternal

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