The Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwltea Counties Gazette FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1907. "God's Messengers."

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 192, 15 February 1907, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwltea Counties Gazette FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1907. "God's Messengers."

Mh Don Glover, of Lynton, North Devon, has founded "The Guild of God's Messengers." He told an Express representative that the organisation is the outcome of a year's sickness, seclusion, and deep reflection passed on the desolate wilds of Exmoor. "I wondered," he said, "how I could be of any real and practical use to humanity beyond merely satisfactorily carrying out my personal and ordinary duties to God and my immediate neighbour. One day I had been wandering far over the moor, and as evening earn© on a thick fog covered the hills and obliterated all tracks and landmarks, and I resigned myself to a cold night on the open moor. What followed 1 shall never clearly understand. I lay down on some dry heather, and was Boonjost in thought, trying to solve the problem ever present in my mind. I must soon have fallen into a trance or slumber, but my thoughts ran on in the same course, until of a sudden a great peace seemed to fill my mind, and then I seemed to hear the voice of God, telling me to teach to the world the true and simple faith of the Fatherhood of God and of man's real duty to his neighbour — to teach the true meaning of good- will, of peace, of Our duty to the poor and unfortunate, and of temperance in all things. These and other kindred orders seemed spoken clearly in my ear, and when I awoke beneath the rosy gleams of the rising sun the message — God' a Message — was indelibly stamped on my brain." Mr Don Glover has written a book embodying his "message." The guild has for its chief objects : — 1. To promote the universal worship and acknowledgement of God, the Creator of all things. 2. To promote universal good will among men. 3. To prepare all men for God's kingdom. 4. To spread the simple faith throughout the world. 5. To discourage all forms of religious dissension, bigotry, and sectarian uncharitableness. 6. To help the poor and unfortunate. 7. To teach the power of prayer. S. To promote temperance. 9. To aid and protect women and children. 10. To oppose every form of cruelty to animals. 11. To work towards the universal use of arbitration in all differences, whether between nations or individuals. 12. To teach the Ten Commandments. 13. To teach every ohild the Lord's Pras'er. The main and highest object of the guild is to spread the simple faith, for the other twelve objects are but part and parcel of the spirit of the faith. Simple faith is neither a compound nor an abstract of any human creed or ritual. It is the faith of all good men, be they Christians. Jews, Mahometans, Buddhists, or philosophers. It is the faith and law of God, it is the simple tiuth, and these are its articles: — 1. Simple faith and trust in God, the Creator of all things. 2. Simple faith and trust in the power of prayer to obtain God's aid in both spiritual and earthly matters. 3. Simple faith and trust in a future and better existence. 4. Simple faith and trust in virtue as tne only means of attaining spiritual as well as bodily perfecfection and happiness. 5. Simple faith and trust in the godly and immortal nature of the human soul.