The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-06
POSTAL CARD NO. 10.

MY DEAR SON IL believe your next
question was in respect to Salvation" which
seem to have mislaid. As | have acquired
the fashion of making these papers quite too
long. will this week give you some brief
hints as to How you are to be saved, and defer
formal reply to your exact question to some
future time.
Happiness in the Future Life, as l have
taught you, depends upon ftness.to live that
life. We should qualify ourselves for it by
learning in what thai fitness consists, and how
to live up to it here. Or, in other words, we
should acquaint ourselves with the Laws of
Life or spiritual laws, which are the same in
all worlds, and live by them now. We are
living right against the spiritual laws. 1t is to
be done only through the the intelligence, as
was explained last week. But the intelligence
is universally applied to the uses of the pa-
terial life, and has no agency in those Of
spiritual one, for which alone it is designed.
All the uses of the animal life are served by
the animal brain, (P. c. No. 81, and to apply
the Spiritual brain, as it is universally
applied, to the same end, Is the one all-com-
prehensve sin which is parent of every other,
and out of which all the troubles of this world,
and of all worlds, grow.
1t is, therefore, not through the affections we
are to find our way, for they are blind and sure
to mislead us. Nothing like the frenzy called
worship, or alteration, does the Law, or if you
please the Lord, require Of men. 1t serves no
end but the very disastrous one of making the
race supremacy satisfied with its utter unftness
for spiritual life.
OF what avail is the parental love if the wis
dom is not found through which the child shall
learn how to live? Vain are warnings for the
embraces of the Divine Maternity, and fruit
less all prayer and praise, and the endless
devotional practices of men and women,
to that end. We may as we'll fall
down at the foot of mountain, and
by prayer seek to remove it from its base,
or on rivers bank, and seek to turn back its
tide that we may 60 on our way, as by such
means to remove the mountains of Ignorance
and the swift flowing rivers of Sin.
desire that you should Danish all solicit
tude concerning the Future Life, and heed
only the memorable demands of this one.
Here should begin and end all duty and all
desire. The present is a vast sea of opportun-
tiles upon which we must find our homeward
way, and we should see that all our faculties
are subservient to Divine commands that are
brought to us by every means which Nature,
from her lowest forms to her highest, from the
grovelling discourse of the insensate atom
to the sublimest reach of thought,
affords. five do not heed them there will be
no atoning sacrifices but those we have, and
shall continue to have, ourselves to bear.
Their names are care, toll, want, sorrow and
remorse, and they fill the world to-day, and
are perpetuated in other states and far over
the boundary of time. To escape them we
have but to open the eyes of our understand
ings, we have but to..restore Reason, the royal
prince whom our false religions have banished,
to his scepter and his throne.
My dear son-I thank you for the attention
you are giving to these cards which, l assure
you, will be the least of your rewards.
YOUR FATHER.
Charles Reade, whose labors have for three
years been interrupted by bereavement and
sickness. will return to fiction early in May in
the columns of Harper's Weekly. 1t will be
called "Multum in Parvo; a serious of stories
with no waste of words" The work
as !. whole will present wider picture than
usual of human life,