The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-20

dren.. Step softly, my son, into the presence
of another great truth, new to the world,
which should move every heart to tenderness,
and lift from the race its most insupportable
eriefs-those caused by the deaths Of our little
ones. know physicians, as do you, who
disclaim openly all care concerning the deaths
of children under their treatment because, they
urge, if children we're not to die the world
would become over peopled. The pretence,
indeed, derives significance from the worlds
condition. That all children who are born
might live to old age human government would
have to give way to the divine. Should it not
move US to hurriedly uncover the skies that
we may seize our inheritance, that we may
bring to our sides the eager friends who are
its custodians, the weeping friends whom we
have so long denied, the unsel6sh friends who
have no cares but ours? Can there be to
your mind any more obvious violation of law
than the death of childf Can anything be
clearer than that if the human body is the pro-
duction of the divine laws and, for purposes
of the divine wisdom, is provided with con-
stitution adapted to life of 70, 50, 90 or $50
years every premature death must result from
violation of these laws? But do not pro-
pose to engage in this discussion now.
will submit for your instruction some re-
Elections which, as they may be continued in
the shape here presented. will call
FOUNTAIN IN THE ROCK.
1. Consider the yearning emptiness of an
unthinking old age.
2. The last sin consists in subordinating the
spiritual to the physical man; in other words,
in establishing over the intelligence the de-
potism of the senses; or, in other words, in
giving the angel Mind to the permanent en-
embrace of the beast Matter.
3. Mans life here is frail and brief as the
grass that perishes in autumn, or even the
flower that withers ON the lea. Why then
should he wrong his brother,-why himself?
Why give to mockeries the place of blessings,
and reject the right lest it dissolve his foolish
uICdiA uto aH-tlh al! AIutu III TIC IeeU-
lest mind has nothing to fear, error In the
strongest nothing to hope.
4. Just think of all the bewildered travel of
Young in the Night Thoughts after little
light.
S. The highest Summit to which the physical
sense can soar-the height of the Empyrean
of the Passions, the enchantment OF the veins
with the wine of reciprocal rapture - the cor
dial of ecstacy, is yet but fiat of desert sand
to the delightful and teeming fertility Of spiritual
endeaments.
6. The maximum enjoyment of the physical
life is to be reached only through the perfect
development of the spiritual senses.
7. The beginning and the end Of all things
is love.
Christian is pleased with every thing that hap
had first pleased God, and that which pleases Him
must be the best.
LAcoN.
Can the author of Lacon have meditated
upon the difficulty Of being pleased with the
selfish, brutal and bloody doings of this mis-
guided and revolted race, who hourly profane
this fair world with vice, wretchedness and
crime? What wonder of wonders, what mys-
terry of mysteries, what marvel to all minds if
there were God who could be pleased with
such deeds! Mott is not SO. God is Law,
and only when Law shall be supreme on earth
can that time betall when misery and crime
shall cease to prevail, and when God shall be
pleased with everything that happens"
In what depths of darkness must ordinary
minds be buried when we have such unreason
as this flowing, as it we're, from very fount
Of induction-the acute and polished mind of
the author of Lacon!
PowERLRss oMNIPoTRNcE.
God designs the human being for spiritual |
man and the laws provided for his govern
ment are exactly adapted to his happiness,
safety, and progress as such. But the human
being recognizes himself only as physical or
animal man, with no defined views, or even
Of an immortal life, and, of course
has no use for such laws. He hence makes
MS own laws and provides his own govern
nent, unheeding those provided for him, and
Ill wretchedness and wrong flow from this