W. Mind is a work of God. It is a good work; but mind is weak; wisdom
is strength; and, therefore, mind needs wisdom, without which it can
not avoid the inharmonies of conflicting conditions. In its weakness,
it may contradict the means which are essential to its development.
The weakness of the mind, may receive false doctrines--doctrines
disagreeing with its nature, and destructive of its enjoyment. The
mind is good, but is abused with the errors and wrongs of ignorance.
It is often abused by its own weakness. The mind is abused by wrongs
of others. When minds propagate the incongenial sentiments of cruelty,
thereby disturbing the natural sympathy of the soul, it overcomes the
sympathy, and makes it wretched. There can be no moral evil without
a disturbance of natural law, without a violation of the natural
sympathy of the soul. Wrongs are wrongs, because of the evil which this
disturbance occasions. The disturbance is occasioned by ignorance, and
ignorance is germinated in the mind by reason of its weakness. Thus,
when a mind is weak, it is unprepared to resist the teachings of those
on whom it feels a dependence. These teachings being wrong, because
inharmonious with the natural sympathy of the soul, induce evil to the
mind.
The origin of evil is in the weakness of mind. Strength will be
afforded by wisdom. Wisdom will be afforded by nature; and, when her
voice is heard and obeyed, the antidote will make wrong right. It
will work out the evil with good. It will elevate and rectify the
evils to which mind is prone. The origin of all evil is where evil
is. It can not be elsewhere. It will be found where wisdom is not.
It will be found where the natural sympathy of the mind is robbed of
encouragement. It will be found where cruelty is taught; and the voice
of kindness is not heard in the murderous shrieks of agony which brutal
violence enforces upon the ignorant and misguided criminal. It is not
heard in the wild roar of damnation, as it rings from minds, educated
in the mythology of pagan and taught in the place where the merciful
spirit of Jesus is professedly adored. Adored! Heaven forbid. Where
his religion of peace is mocked with peals of cruelty, and his voice
of compassion is scorned to vent the outpourings of judgment upon the
credulous and unsuspecting. These wrongs nature will not justify. They
are wrongs which no religion will make right, without the wisdom of
heaven to aid. They are wrongs which will meet with no approval in
this circle. They are cruelties which make minds cruel, and therefore
disobedient to God. They are miseries which induce miseries, and
cultivate evils among minds in the rudimental world. They are evils
which, when you go on a mission to overcome them, will be sustained
with minds in harmony with them. Soon thou must go, and when thou
goest, let thy words be peace.
M. Know we not that your wisdom will be discarded?
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