The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-12-04

| thoughts OF Immortality. Men begin to Sc,
each other as friends who may meet hereafte
in a lovelier adjacentland. They build mem
cries that it will do to recall, establish inter
course that will bear to be continued, seek at
tachments that are worthy to to be pre-
| served.
Thus it is seen that Money results from the
preponderance of physical over spiritual law
and that Nature our al-ignorant Mother, anc
not God. our Al-wise Father, has to bear the
responsibility. Although the Father per.
mits our spiritual infancy to be sucked, to lol
in the Mother-lap of nature, TO hold to her
apron strings, to get bruises, as our spiritual
limbs are educated to their use, yet He takes
care that we get no fatal nurt and when we
learn spiritually to walk He puts us in the way
to 60. There is domestic dlssensien, for the
mother, will not learn wisdom. She resists
over-fonding, inspires us with foolish vanities,
Cultivates our limbs, dresses US in fine clothes,
gives us drums and epauettes. Her weak,
bids us go where we list and, by all means,
manage to crafty them. But we all soon grow
wiser than our mother. Then although we
love her no less, we are no longer led by
her counsel. We recognize the Father S
government. We regret the mistakes of our
poor mother, that from over kindness she led
us into wrong paths, awakened in US false de-
sires-ga7'e rs money. Although. poor thing,
she has herself no sense of accountability, yet
her children grow to it. Here arises the ques-
ton to be considered-the relation of mans
money to his Immortality.
You ask, if God did not institute money
how shall we be accountable to Him for its
use! We shall not. The plainest principles
discerned in our daily intercourse are forgot
ten when we come to consider the divine re-
latlon. If make you gift you are not &C
counable to me for your disposition OF It.
Shall God give less freely, or less generously?
Shall He meanly hold His child accountable
to Him for that which He has freely given
But His laws are adapted to our best good;
and they through the ever-unfoldng intelll-
genCe impose upon each mind accountability
to itself Thus God has the Divine Ability to
constitute every one his own accuser, witness,
Judge. Thus we account to OurSelveS-not to
Him And we are self-made to expiate often
Ses against the Divine Laws. From the time
when Life first twines its rosary of joys around
the heart of Youth, all along his path Of years,
and far into the Beautiful Land, till sin no
onger darkens his way with its remorseless
shadows, does the immortal and all-glorious
Intelligence constitute this grand tribunal in
he mind or every man, and preside therein
or the perpetual trial of its mortal self.
l believe that a rich man may enter into
he kingdom of Heaven-meaning by the
lingdum of Heaven that condition of
endless and inefable happiness, or delight,
which is inspired by our consciousne IS OF
peace, purity, harmony, unity, immo rtality,
ustice within US. This sublime conscious
ness is to be arrived at by degrees. Heaven
IS a condition to which all men must climb. |
The purest minds are lacking in wisdom, and
he wisest lacking in purity; while the wisest
md purest are constrained to furnish their
consciousness with supply of good works
lone. These good works are the rounds Of
he ladder onwhich weascend. Good intentions
With an indolent will, possessed with means
unused or abilities unemployey, are sinful.
food intentions unpertormed obstruct the |
way to Heaven. Through these our consci-
BUSINESS receives the promise Of good works,
# which it inevitably demands the realiz,-
ion.
To be wealthy is to be accountable in the
rst degree, for wealth is an influence which all
men first recognize. A man may possess Gods
reat gifts and not know his possessions. A
nan may be an intellectual or spiritual power,
nd yet babe among meaner men. But
wealth is gift of society, not of God, and its
ossessor and society alike, know its present
mnipotence. In the empires of temporal
God and evil it is undiSputed monarch. 1t
as no immortal sign, only the stamp of clay,
ct in the thoroughfares of life outweighs all
evine possessions. Therefore it is that, after
lis '.ftful fever has subsidized into the Sc
enc life, mans demand upon
imsef for good works done with
loney, is sterner than any other demand
lore answering than his accountability for
lie use Of intellectual gifts. The intellectual
lind for the sins of omission may reason that
onditions were unfavorable; may feel with
nth that money engrossed the world Of his
pportunty. But the rich man will know that
,r him, conditions were exactly appropriate;
lat he was a Ruler in kindom founded
fter his own heart; kingdom that resisted
[eaven kingdom that exacted perpetual /
ibute and unceasing homage from the
ind Of Gods Spiritual Republic. How will
= reason himself out of his responsibility ? >
Iow will he find recompense for opportunity [
,st, or obtain relief from the perpetual re-
ike of that grim monitor that shall haunt his
mament
with the still action Of STAR"
A mans responsibility for good works done
i'll be measured by his possessions. Every
,llar entails an accountability commensurate
it'll its value in society. The man of wealth
i'll not answer to himself according to that -,
hch to-day he deems righteous, but by that
,ht in which he shall see righteousness, .
'reafter-when money shall appear the ill to Z
hch he chung in place of good Whatever (
'od he did he will yet imagine more he <
ould have done. Whatever divine works :
: may have accomplished, he will sigh for
benifcences, which he will