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May 1950

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ONE night in a meeting a member asked this question; how will I be able to tell when I have had a spiritual experience? It seems to me that we hear very, very much about the penalty of drunkenness, but we never seem to hear enough about the spiritual reward of sobriety; to me sobriety goes hand in hand with faith; to me faith is the forth dimension of progress, while it is unseen it is a definite force that one day should bind mankind together into a single unit of thought and action. No man is born with faith--faith is an acquired virtue; faith in the future is built upon the mistakes of the past; faith is the substance of things for which we hope--faith is the evidence of things unseen.

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