Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1920-07-22
FAREWELL FROM
PAULUS FAMILY
Dear Home Folks

DGdI 1lUIuG OlhSs-
In leaving Grand Rapids, my home
for nearly fifty years, 1 want to wish
you one and all an affectionate Good
bye with all the original meaning of
the word, God be with you. There will
always be a warm spot in my heart
for Grand Rapids and her people.
Altho l have not mingled with you
much socially of late years, it has been
a case of mot loving Caesar less, but
Rome more" All of my time outside
of home duties has been spent in the
Silence in communion with the Spirit
Of Truth, | want to commend to you
this seeking first the kingdom of God
and His Righteousness. To all who
are sincere and earnest in the seeking
it will bring health, wealth and happi-
ness. We shall have no health worth
talking about until we learn to know
God as our health or Wilderness or
holiness.
Wealth is not the accumulation of
money or property, but being able to
command what one wants. Faith is
the Substance of things hoped for"
As for happiness, the Spirit of Truth
IS really full of fun. The practical
lesson for US in the story of Abraham
offering up Isaac is this-The name
Isaac means laughter; so Abraham
came to place in his development,
where he thought it his duty to sacri-
flee laughter and become a long fac
ed sanctimonious sort of a person. But
what happened? Spirit showed him a
goat and said sacrifice that instead.
Now the Spirit of Love never com
mands killing so it means simply this,
that we are to keep our beloved laugh
ter and put away that in US that "goes
around buttin' =; in other words
stop kicking ."-Complaining brings
more trouble; but count your bless
ings and they increase"
The Spirit shows us that life as it
has been led by the human family on
this planet is big farce We the
people of this earth running about in
our flesh and blood bodies are really
a great joke; full of aches and pains,
afraid of countless things that have no
reality in Truth; proud, yes our prides
are the biggest joke of all, proud of
blue blood" the worst kind of blood,
proud of a lot of money, ''filthy lucre"
when the promise is"no good thing will
He withhold from them that walk up
rightly" Some are proud of intellect
ual attainments. The truth is that,
the Spirit of Wisdom is omnipresent
waiting to express through any one
who will let him. Believe me, it does
MT have to be a college education
either. 1t is time to lay off the masks
of personality, realizing that we are
playing very funny roles on this world
stage. This play originated in the
consciousness of diSobedient children4
who came through sad experience
the result of disobedience to believe
in a power adverse to God. Evil has
only the power given it by the mind
Of man and it will disappear so soon
as the race learns the Truth of God
0mnipresent. If we cease to think or
talk of evil it will disappear for lack
of sustenance. This is the Wisdom of
Jesus who said, Resist not evil" It
is that of the three Wise Monkeys of
Japan, Hear no evil, see no evil, speak
no evil" The Truth, the knowing of
which will make Us free, from all linn
itations, is that there is but One Pres
ence and One Power in the Universe
love to teach this Oneness of Being,
because it will solve all problems. We