The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-16

Brandon, whom she feared quite as
much as he held her in awe. The for
tune Wendeck gave him was not en-
tirely to his liking.
The Fortune.
ITO be solemnly impressed with
the fact that no joy comes to
a creature except as a reward for
some good act or noble intention, that
there was no peace only as pure. ele-
waited conscience justihes the course Of
life That advancement in moral and
intellectual improvements was the only
possible course by which the days of
his life could become pleasant, and this
course can only be found in denying
the cruel and selfish demands of an
unrefined and animal nature, that nm
ally poliutes and debaSeS all, and makes
life Wretched just to the extent 1t has
been misguided; that a simple change
OF belief after a life of sin has no effect
beyond the imagination of the believer.
That the life of perfection, the Nervana
OF Buddha, the paradise of the Galillean,
the idealism of theosophy, is only at
tanned by careful, persistent, tireleSs,
patient effort, urged on by a ceaseless
love Of the good and pure and holy;
by an insatiate and unquenchable de-
sire to make every creature happy to
the fullest extent of its capabilities OF
enjoyment, and anything and every
thing that in the least would wrong
or injure another throws the creature
from the path of progress that he only
regains by righting the wrongs. That
so-called forgiveness, as it is usually
understood, with the various rights of
the benighted that generally accom-
pany 1t, is but the deluSion of mis-
guided conscience, or the cunning trick
of priest-craft, used as a means of find
ing the gold Of the pocket through the
silt Of the heart. This road of per
lection is not narrow and thorny as we
might think. 1t is so broad all the
world could, with clasped hands, walk
side by side i'm it, and there would be
room for all the rest in the worlds.
To follow this road is to go upward and
onward to the Divine Center. to the inn
mortality and realization of Divine
Idealsm.
LAS each fruit and vegetable can only
be produced in perfection in certain
atmosphere and certain soil, under other
circumstances being less perfect, so 1t
is with the blossoms of human love and
the fruit of human kindness. They only
grow full. luxuriant and perfect when
in the proper soil and atmosphere. 1t
often requires much care and attention
them, but the reward is a harvest of
sheaves for the gamers of God. Our
misery, our anguish and our suffering
all comes as a reward for our labor for
lneiH Every crime Is just dS dl d
result of the outgrowth of the moral
surroundings of life as an ear Of corn
is from the grain and cultivation. The
evils of a parent may appear so
strongly in the child that his power to
resist may be less than the faint Of his
blood"
Finishing this exhortation in the form
of a fortune to Carl Brandon, the for
tune-teller arose. lowered above him as
he sat before her, and said
Cursed, twice cursed, thrice cursed,
and damned is he whose life is so evil
that his offspring is corrupt from birth.
or he who would blot the spOtless page
Of another life where a souls history is
to be written"
Finishing, she pocketed the small fee
and returned to the cave leaving Call
Brandon in a state of mind that was
but little short of evaporation. He
had been accused, condemned and exc
cuted without a hearing, and yet felt
in his soul ii was not unjust. Though
he wished to be better, his coarser ma
ture had been fed and tempered with
so long like a powerful vulture or by
ena, it would kill and devour every little
dove Matched in the struggling attempt
Of a heart to regain its purity.
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