Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-29

ALL
OF us are living in the world of cause and
effect We see the law operating every day
in the world of nature and we can see it
operating in the world OF men. Everything
IS the effect OF a cause. We are living
today the causes we have set UP In the
past and we are setting into motion today
causes whose effects we shall reap in the
future Our lives and our characters. our
capacities our surroundings, our deeds, and
our destines each and all determined
BY what we do and what we are, and not
BY any chance or caprice of fate or for
tune or any arbitrary ordination OF God
Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he
also reap"
1t is for us TO choose the effects that We
would feel.
whether or not we understand the law,
stin II operates ruthlessly and relentiessly.
But II we understand ii and guide our
thoughts and deeds in accordance there
with We can mold our lives as we will.
Tne invariabiIty of law is our good friend
and our great dependence and hope and
surety It is because of the invariability
oil law. that the chemist and the physicist,
the engineer and the mechanist can buiid
and work and invent And it is when we
appreciate that Inc same Id b" anu piNNA
and invariability pervade the world or our
inner life and of our outer life that we
can build our careers as We would nave
them and they should be, and become the
true architects of our fates.
Every cause produces its natural and IN
eyftable and legitimate effect. Every SEED
of kindness sown brings us harvest OF
Kindness every seed of charity sown brings
us a harvest of charity and good VIII,
every seed of wisdom sown brings forth
ITS fruit ten and a hundred fold In greater
wisdom every effort to learn, ana DO, ahq
love Is reaped in enlarged capacities' every
thought brings forth it's fruit In renewed
tendencies, and its final vintage Is our char-
acter. 49,
IL we are wise we shall begin today by the
simpIest and most natural of all processes
to build our futures as we would nave
them We have only to wait. to be pfatlenI
"a work to renew every day our IDEAS 10
remember that our thought and our DEEDS
have life, regenerative life, and naturai
law of growth
The Instinct
or the true little woman with hneries Is 10
give of her abundance to the needy never
never to scorn the poverty and tatters' put
the more tatters there are the more yearn-
tnplv and freely to give OF her abundance
HOW much more is this the instinct OF
those who have spiritual riches?
They recognize that virtue is not mine nor
ii IS simply lHS lls III Va tAAS cAAN 49,
sriousness and all that any or us can 90
6 10 come into the light. And when we
really come into the light we see tlat II is
one light outraying over all just as the
light that shines into my window Is not my
sunbeam nor exclusive property. As look
ont OF the window | descry the same hsLft
radiating In a.. directions. but one hght;
belonging to all. pervading everything. ana
the moment we try to make the hght ex-
elusive bringing it into our rooms and cut
ting IL of It dims and diminishes or De
comes an altered reflection OF the original
a gaslight or an electric spark instead Oh
the full flame OF the sun.
We may make the application to any viz
tue TO any spiritual grace whereunto we
aspire They are not TO be cornered 'Ihey
are not to be monopolized. If we have cor
uered something for our own aggrandize-
rnent and exclusive possession. whatever
else it may be, it assuredly is at least
none OF these.
We
Invite what we expect We attract what
we are like. Let one understand shis,
saws Horatio Dresser, and one need never
fear The law is perfect and the protection
sure. Our safety lies in wisdom; and were
we wise enough we should probably have no
fears at all
il is the explanation OF our actual situa
tIou In this well-ordered world dwelling
near the heart OF an omnipotent Father
that sets US free, and makes US masters OF
our own conduct. II should not, therefore.
be a new source of terror to learn that
we are beset by all sorts of subtle infiu-
ences and hypnotic forces or 10 be told that
our own thought directions are largely In
strumental In causing misery, disease and
trouble OF all sorts These wrong infiu-
ences cannot touch US Our own mental
atmosphere, our whole being Is protec-
tlon against them If we have reached
higher plane. There must be a point of
contact IN order for one mind to affect an
other some channel left open, some SYM
patty. just as there must be a certain af-
fu!ty IN order for two persons to form
mutual friendship. Our safety, our strength
lies In knowing our weakness and in dis
covering that the law Of direction OF mind
is fundamental in every moment OF life.
Our Deepest
And real selves are not physical, nor emo
tloraI. nor intellectual, but spiritual We
are spirits now. crlbbed. cabined and CON
fined il may be in our bodies OF flesh and