San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-17
Divinity in Nature.
item for the LIGHT. I

Written for the LIGHT
! Last Sunday night had the pleas
IRE of hearing DR. York for the first
time since his arrival in our city, I've
neen desirious of hearing him. but
reing essen TALLY 'home body" and
disliking to be abroad after dark, L
neglected my opportunities. The
Doctor presents fine appearance as
speaker, he has studied the effects of
voice and gesture, and uses all the
magnetic power OF strong will TO
oear upon his aud ence aud convince
| hem that he is right in his views, L
| must say that agree with the Doc
| tor i'm nearly everything lie said
IN his lecture on the Divinity of
nature he don't deny there is God,
which is only q contraction of an
anglo saxon word, meaning good. We
don't deny an infinite power that
holds the universe and thai this power
is shown forth i'm nature. no sane man
can deny, after all the churches have
said and done, no one can tell what
this power is, only that it is infinitely
good, nature is the showing forth of
this good, and the closer one lives to
natures heart, the better and truer is
that being. The doctor speaks
as If he were materialist
clear through which 1 am
not. AS know and feel that sinner
voice." that tells me if am right or
wrong. What is this vice that d wells
in the spirit of every human being?
but this Influence of the great "over
sOul' of the universe whose power
and goodness are limitiess, that voice
is the Divine Spirit working in us.
so far as the Bible Is concerned T
have five in my housel all the differ
ent religions of earth are built or sus-
tanned by il. So far as Christ Is be-
lieved In He WAS Divine. He was the
impersonation of the Divine spirit, the
typical perfect man, if all men would |
follow Christ, the millennium would be |
most here. His character has stood the |
attack of hundreds of years and yet
It's pureness and beauty is as bright |
as ever. If men do evil aud use His |
name as cloak for rascality, HIS /
purity Is not stained The doctor ut.
tered the truth, when he said that |
every mans God was cast after tn 9 |
ideal OF his own mind. M two peopl e
conceive Of God alike Years ago, In
I've sat meath the mag
n"lis's shade and wondered who or
what was God. OF course I knew my
but that did not satisfy
me. Ii L asked my good parents, they
told me was naughty or wicked in
asking such qestions. but years have
opened my eyes to the fact that God is
within us aud in so far as we hear His
voice we know all we will ever knIw
Of Him, on this plane of existence.
1 love nature, the forest glade, the
whispering winds, all have voice
for me; all is good, it is only man that
turns light into darkness, and makes
every one of US enjoy the only hell
we'll ever know, right here on this
earth, and that is why L believe in
for some men follow
evil SD much that one earth life is not
sufficient to atone for their misdeeds,
and ond only the doctrine OF Karma
can cover their, hope my Christian
friends will not DUDE me au infidel. or
think I've gone to the camp of Philis-
tines, not so, but have my own be-
lief. that Is not primed to the sleeve
Of any denomination, and but exer-
else my right as q free American cit.
izen to express 1t. If others do not be-
lieve as do, they are free to differ,
but shall always avoid bigotry and
prejudice and be ever open
70 the voice of truth. MAGNOLIA,
Ran An tonic, Texas.
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