(1) Tt was original teaching that God was Israel's power of development. In Amos, the predecessor of Hosea, God is represented rather as the weight of destiny. But it is a ground for hope if God is both requiring and enabling the increase, enlargement and fruition of His people. Man can go forth to his sowing among the clods and under the clouds of winter if he is convinced that in God lie the beneficent powers of the Summer, that He is "Lord of the harvest." Religion cannot mean a cramped and negative life if this is tr it is rather a condition of vitality and fruitfulness, of life in abundance.
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