The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-07
Communicated.
RELIGION FOR WEEK DAYS.

Religion should not be kept for Sundays,
nor for use in churches and at prayer meet
inss Those who have any honest use tor
religion want it in their business, and not hid
away to run to in emergencies. Those VINO
habitualIy read the LIGHT will have observed
that it treats the subject on this principle.
1t does not abandon it to the Christian Advo-
Gates Of journalism, nor think it necessary to
cross ourselves with an imaginary piece OF
chalk before we speak OF the Author and
works Of the Creation. Religion is thought.
Thought should be free; to lay an embargo
upon i, is to commit sin. 1t is the atmos-
phere of being and should flow into our con-
seriousness without stint or hindrance. Thought
i, the shoreless sea, filling inhnity on which
the finite lies, speck; the placid ocean OF
pure water by means of which we reach within
the interior immensely OF existence, the
Divine Mind, and rest our weary lives upon
the breast of Inhnity. They who are tired, as
WE believe, by learning to think untrammeled
by driving away from them all OPINION as au-
thori,v and simply sitting down with God, SO
70 sncak will find heaven Of rest and will
rise Nd refreshed with new strength. for their
burdens and higher courage to bear the tr ais
and humiliations OF life. We may all live, II
we will, with God. There are no doors which
NAV be shut against US, no walls to climb or
obstacles Of any kind to overcome ex-
ceptiup those with which we provide our
selves Keep an even mind. keep back
the waves of the turbid sea that flows
through the dominion of appetite and
nassion. live wisely. Human life is duty. not
privilege, .and solemn are the shadows that
close over the errors Of men. 1t IS not jest;
let those who take life to be jest survey the
earth and try to laugh. But 1t is grave ana
previous only because we make 1t SO, because
of the unwisdonl through which we tail TO
comnrehend lite and its relations. When we
learn these all will be Joy and delight, earth
the abode Of mu ic and mlrIh. 1t we nave
desire for Gods comp any. the way Is simple
and only the will al fault If we do not ENJOY II
and become pure and strong.
He has an ap,rmcnt in the human house
not made with h ,nds. But he can not live
anywhere but in Heaven. If he is to dwell
with Us we must heep the place orderly, TIT
ting abode for such guest, a heaven OF res
and quie,ness. where angels may come ane
90. and where dlscord or wrong may never en-
ter. How to do this is what is to be known
The Divine Ability organized the machiner.
of this house of flesh on plan that made ev
erything conceivable to its occupant that Is re
ouired to be known. He is always CUES
there unless expelled, unless shut out by con
d,tions that are intolerable to purit
and truth, unless the door close
AGAINST Him by passion or ignorance
II. must be invited into our home
before he can enter, and his stay must be de
sired. or he will not remain. Because he
governed by his laws as absolutely as HI
children are; because the law by which
wholly and solely, every child is governed
that child's will Hence, when in His apar
m.nt in any house of flesh, he obeys, as con
strained to do, the law there in force, the wi
or wish that there prevails, and is subject
the conditions that exist there. When tn
heart is full of love. and the mind teens wit
benevolent and happy thoughts, and eHistenc
is throughout perfect realm OF peace an
ioy. these de tie the presence OF the rathe
,h..n. if through some sudden cause passio
invade the place, or an evil purpose usur
control lie is driven instantly hence. On
when the needful conditions are restored an
he is iavited to return, can he come agail
Rut no living soul breathes the air of earth
lie Of any race, in any cline. but has, no
and ever, Cod for his guest il he so wills, an
provides the conditions essential to his pre-
ence. Conscience is the monitor that ear
and late advises us of His absence-the C
of regret remorse, pain, that will not
hushed till lie returns.
And men by observing the necessary CO
di,,ons are not only able to receive in thu
earthly mansions angels as guests, but m
and do return their visits, passing to the celt
,ial lin at times when the external consciol
ness is unaware, and there receiving the ba
II m If The skies Thus Heaven is eve
VIII r., in all W rlds alike, the abode of
rive end ,hrust and there God is. and ell