25 Were these men vile? and were they slain as punishment for some great crime? 26 And Jesus said, We cannot look upon a single span of life and judge of anything. 27 There is a law that men must recognize: Result depends on cause. 28 Men are not motes to float about within the air of one short life, and then be lost in nothingness. 29 They are undying parts of the eternal whole that come and go, lo, many times into the air of earth and of the great beyond, just to unfold the God-like self. 30 A cause may be a part of one brief life; results may not be noted till another life. 31 The cause of your results cannot be found within my life, nor can the cause of my results be found in yours. 32 I cannot reap except I sow and I must reap what e’er I sow, 33 The law of all eternities is known to master minds: 34 Whatever men do unto other men the judge and executioner will do to them. 35 We do not note the execution of this law among the sons of men. 36 We note the weak dishonored, trampled on and slain by those men call the strong. 37 We note that men with wood-like heads are seated in the chairs of state; 38 Are kings and judges, senators and priests, while men with giant intellects are scavengers about the streets. 39 We note that women with a moiety of common sense, and not a whit of any other kind, are painted up and dressed as queens, 40 Becoming ladies of the courts of puppet kings, because they have the form of something beautiful; while God’s own daughters are their slaves, or serve as common laborers in the field. 41 The sense of justice cries aloud: This is a travesty on right. 42 So when men see no further than one little span of life it is no wonder that they say, There is no God, or if there is a God he is a tyrant and should die. 43 If you would judge aright of human life, you must arise and stand upon the crest of time and note the thoughts and deeds of men as they have come up through the ages past; 44 For we must know that man is not a creature made of clay to turn again to clay and disappear. 45 He is a part of the eternal whole. There never was a time when he was not; a time will never come when he will not exist. 46 And now we look; the men who now are slaves were tyrants once; the men who now are tyrants have been slaves. 47 The men who suffer now, once stood aloft and shouted with a fiend’s delight while others suffered at their hands. 48 And men are sick, and halt, and lame, and blind because they once transgressed the laws of perfect life, and every law of God must be fulfilled. 49 Man may escape the punishment that seems but due for his misdoings in this life; but every deed and word and thought has its own metes and bounds, 50 Is cause, and has its own results, and if a wrong be done, the doer of the wrong must make it right. 51 And when the wrongs have all been righted then will man arise and be at one with God. CHAPTER 115.