The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
POSTAL CARD NO. 16.
Last of This Series.

Last of This Series.
MY DEAR SoN;-The state of my health,
and my whole situation, admonsh me that if
the History of my Life, of which you have
heretofore known but the external part. is to
be left after me, l must give it my exclusive
attention. will, hence, close this series of
Postal Cards with an advertisement which you
may find instructive.
To the Public.
The writer of The Postal Card, who is old
and infrm, wants to dispose of the half copy
right in a remarkable book, to obtain the
means of applying himself exclusively to its
preparation.
All my life, as much before knowing Of
spirit existence as after, have lived under
the spiritual laws, not the social laws. TO
this use was applied in order that the char
acter and operation of the spiritual laws might
become known, as they could only be by being
lived under. The work is the History, inter-
ior and external, of this remarkable life
The Life has been an arena where the two
great forces that have been in conflict on earth
since time began, have carried on with their
living armies the desperate strife which has
prevailed the world over, never understood by
men who are the slain of that battlefield, the
victims of the struggle. No such life could be
lived, its sufferings borne, its safety preserved,
it ends attained, but by the most signal aid
from the higher world.
1t is only since 1873, when rescued
from my long captivity in the hells, that
have been myself aware of the momentous
character Of my mission, or of any of the
truths it was to bring into the world. Thous-
ands appointed to it in the past have been
hunted down and lost, unrecognized by men,
their work unaccomplished, as will yet be my
fate if am not speedily successful in accom-
plishing it. This is my perpetual dread. The
invisible host whose immunities are at stake
give me no rest and my better chance lies
only IN better conditions, especially wider
expanse of thought.
The purpose and character of my mission
are these: Nineteen centuries ago the world
knew no God but one of wrath and revenge.
The Heavens then reached it with the great
truth that God was God of Love. Its con-
solutions were precious, but the evils OF the
world were perpetuated and it became obvious,
and seemed inexpllcable, that an omnipotent
God of Love could not relieve the world of
its sutteringS and its wrongs. Men threw
themselves in the arms of blind faith and,
with shut eyes, staggered into the gloomy
grave that closed over them in darkness and
there yet they 60 to find their dead.
The army of immortals who use men for their
worldly purposes have rolled religion, as a
stone, against the door that opens to the Spi-
itual Heavens, and have provided the world,
through those who yet found door, with a
Spiritualism that runs the social mind in
grooves which exactly adapt society 10 their
uses. 1t is they make its laws, keep it in
darkness, wall out access to the Heavenly
hosts, tempt ii into sin, its crimes their lusts
and Qualifications, its consciousness and sell
hshness their indulgence, its miseries their
Jest, its helplessness their triumph. They are
governors and rulers in the world of men
while the Heavenly hosts are blinded with
centuries of tears. MY life of suffering has
demonstrated these truths and illustrates what
the History only, when furnished, can make
known, to-wit the relative situations
and operations of these contending forces
in the strife-for the Heavens con-
tinually strive. 1t will bring to the
world many great new truths, among
them that God is Law just as he is Love; that
by means of the wisdom faculties of men,
which through all the past have remained un-
used, they may recognize the Divine govern
ment and live under it: that men have inherited
from the Infinite Father happiness and
plenty, no human want is to 90 an instant I'M
supplied; where that inheritance is, and by
what means men are to come into its posses
sion; that wrong, sin, misery and death are
the offspring of human laws the source of
which | have described-they have placed,
and are the means of keeping. the world in
the control of those immortals who can not live
the spiritual life and require it to enable them
to live the only life they know and can live;
that the deaths of the young are a monstrous
evil that will cease under the Divine
government.
, People will ask of the last mentioned great
and momentous truth what would heaven be
without children! They thus commit injury
by violating the obvious law that all who are
born are designed to live to age, and &C in
suit by questioning the Divine Ability 10 deal
with its consequences. We can only conceive
or understand what earth would be without
children, we cannot conceive or understand
anything about heaven.
The History will show bow these forces are