The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-25
POSTAL GARD NO. 4.

MY DEAR SONNY reason for using Postal
Cards and printer, in our correspondence
was to give to others the opportunity, if they
have the curiosity or desire, to read them. In
doing this, took the chance of printers err
rors with my own. One Of these, which l
deem of sufficient importance to correct, oc-
Cured last week. appear to have said ''The
infinite Father only governs in His divine
way" but what l did say was, The infinite
Father CAN only govern in His divine way.
1t is true, as startling, that the infinite Father
does not govern at all, that we are not living
under His laws, which sought partially to
illustrate by explaining to you His provi-
dences. desire to-day, before going to the
subject upon which promised to advise you,
to correct the printers error. You will be
shown as fast as the limits of my future Postal
Cards will allow, why God permits wrong, or
shown, rather, that it is man who permits it,
and how-that God is powerless to prevent it,
and why. My task is very difficult, for you
can not, in the nature of things, realize the
truth of much of what shall write. 1t is the
law OF mind that it can get wisdom but from
its divine source, learn but by experience. All
else is theory. With a view to making it less
difficult, you are desired to not confound wis
dom, or truth, with knowiedge-the UNDER
standing of what pertains to the Unapparent
with what pertains to the Apparent Knowl-
edge may be taught, for it concerns objects
and events OF which our senses afford the
proof, but wisdom is acquired through facul-
ties that exercise no functions in the temporal
world. They open on the skies, and it is the
divine law that every one shall get his truth
for himself from the Summit of all Truth, that
he shall keep his mind open to give it access.
There is, besides, nothing in common in our
situations. 1t is difficult for one in my situa-
ton to be comprehended by one in yours. The
world is all before you-it is behind me.
Nothing, or little, remains of me but ideas.
Health, wealth, ambition, life's human pur-
poses without which it crumbles into decay,
life's human hopes without which its fires 90
out, are gone. have here no social life. My
associates and associations are of another
sphere. The glory and splendor of the I'M
seen world lie about us. and my brain, these
many years, has been encirced by its glowing
radiances and heavenly atmosphere. The
voices that are familiar to me are those of the
long ago, not as then, harsh with the worlds
dissonances, but inefable, and melodious as
the music of flowers.
You ask me if you should join church.
and what church? You know how much
have deplored your apparent aversion to reli-
giOus ideas and associations on the one hand,
and you know that hold every sincere reli-
gious sentiment sacred, whatever religious
creed or system claims it, on the other; so that
presume you desire to be told whether join
ing church will be likely to secure these. 1t
is many times important that you should not
profess religion you do not feel.
My reason for assigning this one among
your many questions for reply this week, was
because it invited me to consideration of
providences that are not Gods, and appropri-
ately follows last weeks inquiry concerning
Gods providences. All religions shackIe the
mind, and break the wings of thought, send us
to cemeteries for our departed friends, and
close the door in the faces of our dead dar-
lings who yeam for recognition in their old
homes and for the familiar caress which. more
than ever, their hearts crave. All religious
creeds shut the minds windows in order to |
keep out the only light that can light the world
for it has none of its own-the light from the