Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1909-03-10

g: stJE- Of death. we feel, rather than look on
all with pessimsc eyes It would
be philosophical to ake the view that Swedenborg express
ed when he said Providence and Prudence act one,
There is natural law called evolution that moves takes
on and throws off, in short evolves and dss'ves and in
its onward course Of creating and recreane ever
blind to mans conception Of love and justice
The human mind is creation. and par Of the creation
: in substantial accord, according to position assgo=d by
ability to think but as part o. creation,
cepion 10 it, The ancea philosophers understood it,
when say God is NJ respector Of persons The rain
falls on the Just and the uniusG Man hah pre-em-
nence over thd beast as one dietb deh he other"
providence and Prudence act as one.
Man. by reason of his superior natural ability to
from cause 10 effect to cause can avoid the cyclone food
fire and winters fierce asst disease pain and hundred
evils that now overiake him by his ignorance of
the law Life
Hold prayer meeting on the top of building and let
r We worshper step backward of the building and you
.~ o. - with broken neck, Why? Because of the
/" W aviation. that knows one, and { one is
IRE an exception for God is no respecor of persons
Coo and bad 10y and laughter hope and fear, love and
ass and revc4e !.-o. and mercy, al coming
and going the cradle and the grav by leaps and
chimes Of wedding bells and funeral dirge Aesthetic and
pathetic woven in the loom Of by the hanp Of ig
norance and coored by superstition Thus disease power
y and sorrow stalk in our midst, because man fails to
comprehend and apply the creators law of the eternal fit
ness, of cause and effect
About all the evils man complains Of prove to be his
great teacher to bring him harmonious relation the
cosmic forces of whic he is part and just proportion
he
knowledge and wisdom.
There never and is not now. any law in the physi
cal universe called either human or devine in operation
by which man could by the Of mere boie pass from
the night of ignorance into the of wisdom
The fact that fool says that he believes a thing true.
does not make him philosopher. Webster said truly
that knowledge is the material from which wisdom bulds"
Investigation begets knowledge and wisdom consists in
the proper application of the knowledge II should there
fore be plain to an average mind that pound of moral
sense can not be GRAINED into Of ignorance.
Ignorance is the poor house Of the SOUL knowledge
its emancifator wisdom its wings. look across the past
must convince ALL of the wonderful progress of man and
while the march has been Slow still victory won
the few over the combined power of darkness A VIC
tory that saw the walls crumble and fall that heard the
shouts of the redeemed minge with the hum of industry
deep and embrace distant shores and make new era in
the evolution Of mankind
victory demonstrating the benevolent influence of wis
DOM working in harmony with the genius Of the micro
cosmc pan In fact was victory that ran around the
word Against Castle walls and snowy SUBMITS, old in
story and the world heard and moved and you and as
bene6ciares should esteem it great privilege to stand
boldly ard pay tribute Of love and respect the nteectu
heroes Of the past.
Man. by the right Of his reason hanessed the wind
and wave and hiched the lighting and steam to the car Of
prudence and moved onward toward the becoming hand
providence to find palace Of peace for the soul on
ideal heights Of nobler manhood where mneles the
IN on the coming day. When To help one another" II
illuminate reason, art and science: With the only N
~ on worthy Of the Of God or man. |
Sruly Providence and Prudence Are One