If the absolute homogeneity of the race were once understood and
established in the minds of men, it would put an end to the varying
modes and methods of thought which now only tend to separate their
minds and hearts. To know, to feel the unity of soul with souls, and
of the minds of men with the Infinite would forever wipe out the
discord and inharmony which now prevail everywhere. Not my erring, and
human will, but thy Will of Wisdom and Love be done on earth as it is
in heaven, must be, finally, the attitude of every aspiring soul.
Too long the Christian world has accepted the legendary Hebraic God, in
the place of our real "Father who art in heaven." The teachings of
Jesus--the testimony he gave of the love of God, if taken to the
heart--must dispose forever of the perception of God as a Being of
cruelty and revenge, and given over to low attributes. The Creator of
the universe--"without whom was nothing made"--manifests to us through
the action of eternal and unchangeable law. This is demonstrated to us
by and through his vice-gerents, the angels of his who do his pleasure.
Down, down from the supernal regions, from the supernal plane of being,
comes the Divine Mandate which is made known to the human soul through
the instrumentality that can penetrate the surroundings, and best make
manifest the inspiration, the warning, or the perception of the
undeviating law which holds all human experience and its sure results
in its care and keeping. And those who dwell upon the threshold of the
door which opens upon the life eternal are those who have loved and who
still do love the children of earth--fathers, mothers, children,
friends who have walked the earth by our sides, and whom no starry
crowns, and no glorious heaven could tempt away from the work of
blessing and comforting the sorrowing souls still left on earth to
mourn the loss of their loving companionship, and sympathy. And this
is God's "Special Providence" made manifest in our lives whenever and
wherever we have eyes to see and ears to hear.
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Once the soul really looks forth and sees, there can be, after that, no
more sleeping. All is effort, weighing, balancing, deciding, groping
painfully along, or running swiftly the race, bracing against fearful
odds, or bravely out-riding the storm. Taking it all as it comes, it
is increasing action, motion, change.