What is God, and why and where?

Is there a God to answer prayer? Pray, pause and think. Is not your thought,

On what in nature has been wrought? What wrought it, was it you or me?

Or was it more than we could be. Do you think God is good and great?

Do you think God is chance or fate? Do you think God is right or wrong,

What is the burden of your song? What you think God is, that, is He, What you think God is, He will be To you, my friend - but, unto Me

He may be more than you can see. To you, He may be more, indeed,

Than ever I could have conceived; To you, my friend, God may be Love,

Or strength, or will, or power above, He may be cruel unto you,

Or, unto you God may be true. He may be vengence, or be joy,

He may be but a mental toy. Just what you think Him, that is God,

And, as you think, you feel His rod. 'Tis you who make the God, for you,

And as you make Him, pray be true, But never make some other knee,

Bow down to what is your decree, For - God to them is just as true

To what they think, as unto you, The strength of All in All is God,

And your own strength is your own God; You did not make the strength you own,

It is not strength to you alone, For you are but a part of All,

You only can your strength extol, Beyond your strength you cannot go,

Beyond your strength you cannot know, Yet, as you grow in strength, you see,

That something more than you, must be, That something more becomes your rod,

That something more, you know, is God.

C. H. WEBBER.