The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-05-05 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE LAWS OF THE SOUL.  The intuition of the moral seutiment i, an insight of the perfection of the laws of Le soul.  These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, cud not subject to circumstance. Thus, in the soul of man thero is a Justice whose retributions are instant and entire. He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled himself. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted. He who puts off impurity thereby puts on purity. If a man is at heart just, then, in so far, he is God-like—the majesty of God, the safety of God, the immortality of God do enter into that man with justice. if a man dissemble, deceive, he deceives himself, and goes out of acquaintance with his own being. A man in the view of absolute 1.4:)J.1. nese adores with total humility. Every step ti so downward is a step upward. The man who renounces himself comes to himsel' by so doing. See how this rapid het csic energy worketh everywhere, righting correcting appearances, and brining lip facts to a harmony with thoughts, Its operation in • life, though slow to the senses, is, at last, as sure as in Cos soul. By it a man is made the Provitici.os to himself, dispensing good to his goocine-a, and evil to his sin. Character is al,v,e known; thefts never enrich; alms neveruupoverish ; murder well speak out of Et.- n 9 walls. The least admixture of a lie—for .v.  ample, the smallest admixture of vanit least attempt to make a good impresc * favourable appearance—will instantly the effect. But speak the truth, and sl Nature and all spirits help you with titex• pected furtherance. Speak the truth, and ail things, alive or brute, are vouchers; and tl-e very roots of the grass underground then d 3 seem to stir and move to bear you witn,isa See, again, the perfection of the Law A it applies itself to the affections, and beAni,es the law of society. As we are, so we associat-e. The good by affinity seek the good; the vile by affinity the vile. Thus, of their owl volition, souls proceed into heaven, into hell. These facts have always suggested to man the sublime creed that the world is not the prod eel of manifold power, but of one will. of mind; and that one mind is e‘erywhere it each ray of the star, in each wavelet of the pool, active; and whatever opposee that will everywhere baulked and battled because th:7l:3 are made so, and not otherwise. Good is in,si• tive. Evil is merely primitive, not .0. It is like,cold, which is the privation of All evil is so much death or nonen,. Benevolence is absolute and real. So n; benevolent* as a man bath, so much life he; for all things proceed out of this ~snid spirit, which is differently named love, .;na• tire, temperance, in its different applicati, ns, just as the ocean receives different intuit s the several shores which it washes. All things proceed out of the same spirit, and all thin,:s conspire with it. Whilst a man seeks ;.00,t ends he is strong by the whole strength of , Nature. In so far as he roves from these endt he bereavee himself of power, of atudliarie his being shrinks out of all remote channels: Ihe becomes less and less—a mote, s poiLL-- until absolute badness is absolute death. - Lkurlsoi.