Divine Dynamite by J.E. Conant

• Title Page
• Preface
• Introduction
• The Need of the Divine Dynamite
  • Glance at the Conditions in the World
  • Glance at the Conditions in the Church
• The Source of the Divine Dynamite
  • It Does Not Come from among Men
  • It Comes from God Alone
• The Operation of The Divine Dynamite
  • Power Possesses Us
  • Power Uses Us

It Does Not Come from among Men

But why not? On every hand man’s power is accomplishing marvellous results, and what is to hinder his getting results here?

Well, if man can accomplish results in this realm, in what will we find it?

Is it in eloquence?

There certainly is power in eloquence. Brought up in a college town, I have many a time sat in the college chapel and listened to the most famous orators of a generation ago, as they appeared from season to season on the college lecture courses, and have time and again found myself utterly oblivious of time, and place, and surroundings, and have even at times found my emotions running over at the eyelids, as some orator has thrilled, and moved, and fascinated me by his masterful oratory. There is nothing in all the realm of nature, unless it may be music, that will move me more. There is power in oratory; such power that there is scarcely a human being who could not be brought beneath its sway. For oratory quickens the pulse-beat, literary charm exuberates the mind, and eloquence melts the emotions. But the power we inquire for is not here.

Then is it in music?

There is magic power in music. The music in sounds rippling forth from the fingers of the musician has as great a power over humanity