Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-07
SUNDAY READING.
SOME WELL.MEANT ADVICE THERE
is HOPE FOR THE SKEPTIC.
Summer Readinx-Doing Good-Characte or
Items and Refi Elections for
the Sabbath.


The question comes TO the heart of
the thinker: How can we best rise out
of the atmosphere of strife and un-
easiness to one of harmony and of
tranquil peace? BY individually look
ing into our own lives and scanning
that which we find. Are we, as indi-
viduals, doing our best to exercise a
peaceful spirit upon human life? Are
we generating an atmosphere that is
of itself harmonizing, and that will
affect pleasantly those with whom We
come in contact? II SO, then is the
work begun Of tranquilizing human
life to such a degree us will assist to
slough off the elements of strife and
uneasiness, and TO cultivate the prin-
ciples of honor and Of purity that
lead to plane OF peace and serenity.
The work lays with each one indi-
vidually, although it must not stop
there. While we, as persons, are at
tending to the cultivation of our spir-
itual natures, seeking to elevate our
thoughts to high and noble attitudes,
reaching outward for spiritual guild
ance by bright and exalted souls, who
are wise and strong and true, aspiring
for such knowledge and light and
assistance as will help US in our work
of unfolding mentally, morally and
spiritually. we should also send out to
our neighbor, and those with whom
the world brings us in contact, an in
| fuence, a thought, magnetic force.
that is helpful, likewise that desires to
be and to do good, to be of use; that
longs to bring before the mind of some
other, some one who perhaps is afllict-
ed mentally by these disturbing condi-
tions, or physically by the warfare
and strife around him, a consciousness
of his own inherent power to over
come these things, of his spiritual pos
sibility TO Outgrow the material or
purely carnal stages of life, and to
arrive at that which is holier and more
sweet. If one cultivates a prayerful
attitude-we do not mean by this that
one is to employ lip service in exhort-
ing or beseeching some personal hut
unseen power to aid and to uplift, but
we mean that if one brings his mind
into devotional atmosphere so as to
recognize in life, in this physical uni
verse itself. the presence OF spiritual
power, intelligent ana supreme, if he
opens his inner nature to a highe,
light. asking for instruction, seeking
guidance from ON high, invoking the
presence and assistance of the wise
and true to bring to him from the SUI
pernal realms such influences as ever
/. the Great Spirit OF all has to afford te
his children. then will he bring hi:
life into an atmosphere that will b.
elevatipg, strengthening and beautify
ing. Under these conditions will h'
also be able to generate n magnetic
aura, peaceful and encouraging, tina
will affect those who come in contac
!. with his life, and will be of assistance
: to them in overcoming restless ele
, ments. and rising into q condition Q
purity and peace. 1t is the ego, tn
man within, the immortal principle o
, life, that has to overcome these rest
,, less elements; it is the unselfish spiri
that is to rise above the selfish out
ward expression, and to manifest il
, consciousness and activity in usefr
ways unto others. by and throug
which it will elevate its own life =
, Banner Of Light.