The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-08-16

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Divine or devilish spirits register their viz
tuous or vicious character on the soul itself.
There are innumerable marks of identifl-
cation on each of us, in soul and body both,
that are known by the Author of Our being
We discover some of these peculiar, dis
tinctive marks ourselves, in spite of our ig-
norance.
The Bertillon system of recognizing GRIM
inals reveals the fact that each person physi-
cally differs from all others, and there are
no two men in the world whose particular
proportions can be fitted to the same meas
urementS.
God is very resourceful, and seems never
to exactly duplicate Himself in anything.
Scientists who have made very careful
investigation, say that though all are ele
mentally the same, yet no two blades of
grass in the field, nor two leaves in the
forests of the earth, are entirely alike,
ultimately.
You may have seen the snow in the noun
tains of the West where it was fifty feet
deep. Science gives us to understand that
though all snow fakes are six pointed, yet
there are, in all that vast bed, no two fakes
that are exactly alike.
The Creator seems to make new molds in
which to manufacture every new creature.
Many criminal has been identified by
the particulars of the finger prints left in
connection with crime.
The calling attention to a few of these
grosser marks of identification may be in
teresting and instructive to the thoughtful
and reflective student so that he may be
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Our thoughts and emotions are even less
alike than our bodies are.
Surely the true study of man is man; but
man. at his best, is Divine and God-like
therefore his true study includes his ulti-
mate possibility and embraces the study and
knowledge of God
By instruction, development and choice,
most creatures. are capable of marked
changes in ultimate results; and this is es-
pecially true of man in his possession of a
rational and responsible soul. that makes
his body the register of the character of
that souls choices.
In every influence and agency emitted
from any life is discoverable the particular,
identifying characteristics of that whole
life. Our closest friends know us by the
sound of our step or voice. Others, less
familiar, know us by our physical appear
ance. Some may know us by our particular
dress, or our place of work or residence
Some know us by our force of character,
Our particular lines of thought or style of
expression,-o or even by the emphasis of
our heel tracks i'll the ground.
Some folks know us if they can see only
our writing. A dog knows different men by
the smell of their tracks or clothing. Some
know us by our general work, or by the
particular workmanship of Our work
There is always a self-registering, self
revealing, and self-rewarding or Furnishing
element in all our activities for character
is somewhat of voluntary possession and
may be largely transformed by purpose and
habit.
The accountable. ever-acting, sub-con-
scious soul seems to be responsible for these
results and the vicious or virtuous char
acter of that soul, and through the soul,
the spirit-infuence back of the soul that
made it vicious or virtuous, is revealed in
every act of the actor.
This law of cause and effect holds good
clear out to the farthest astronomical region.
By scientific manipulations we can unbraid
a ray of light from any distant star; and,
by further scientific application to each
strand of the unbranded ray, we can tell
what particular chemical influence is domo-
nant in that burning body, or what particu-
larly colored ray of light is created thereby.
Thus, if science were carried out to per-
lection (Which, of course, it is not), or, in
other words, if we had infinite minds, we
could tell exactly what particular heavenly
bodies help to provide the color in the blue
of the violet, the crimson of the rose, the
yellow of the buttercup, or the white of the
lily, and so forth.
Thus, also, an infinite mind in applying
this knowledge to the people of the universe,
could tell at any time in the worlds history
just how much character development in
each case was induced by the writings of
great inhdels, or by men like Homer, Plato,
Shakespeare, and also by the writings and
lives of Moses, David, Daniel the four
Evangelists, and Peter, Paul, and others
Each of these responsible men have had
very distinct and pronounced characters,
and the influences started by them have a
tendency to re-create the same distinctive
characteristics in the lives of their follow
erS.
The soul is ever responsible for its in
fuences, because it is voluntary characteri-
zed in morals. This fact makes each soul
the writer of his own autobiography, and
allows the Almighty to do as He declares
He will do and some day reward every man
according to his works.
Thus as in the case of Abel, mems blood