Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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science of being, will drink his cup, and be able to give
science of being, will drink his cup, and be able to give
the demonstration of healing the sick, casting out error,
raising the dead, and triumphing over the grave, that
our blessed Master gave for our example. But earth
hath no recompense for such a life; personal sense can
neither give nor receive this reward; the understanding
of God is its only recompense that lifts being above
mortal discord and gives it immortal harmony.
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A person may reward unjustly, but Principle cannot.
A person may reward unjustly, but Principle cannot.
That we receive all deserved punishment on earth, is
quite as false as that all our rewards are mundane; and
who that toils and sacrifices unceasingly bearing the
cross only to see their existence mocked, will say this is
sufficient from the hand of Love? Or again, that those
have suffered all they have to experience, who still gloat-
ing in sensuality and hypocrisy, or murder and rapine,
succeeding in all villainies up to the time they pass sud-
denly from sight in this loathsomeness, are pardoned,
and pushed straight into glory? Their punishment
here was certainly insufficient to reform them, which is
the design of Wisdom, and the good man's heaven
would be to them a hell. How can they find bliss in
purity and Truth, to whom these are the very opposites
of themselves. There is nothing in mercy or Love, that
can pardon the necessity in science for sinners to suffer
after death. To destroy the penalty due to sin, would
be for Truth to pardon error; in which case, the sinner
is no wiser for what he has experienced; for if he
escapes the punishment he deserves, it is not according
to God's government, in which justice is the handmaid
of mercy. For sin to produce suffering is the only way
to destroy it to him who believes in the pleasures of sin.
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When man admits there is no pleasure in sin, he has
When man admits there is no pleasure in sin, he has
begun to save himself.
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Contemplating history from every moral data, down
Contemplating history from every moral data, down
to the present, we learn the faith in Christ, Truth, that
caused our martyrs to be burned, and the rights of
man to be christened on a gallows, repeats itself in the
just suffering for the unjust; then how has God par-
doned sin? We all suffer because of sin, and must
until science destroys sin and its sufferings. Did the
martyrdom of John Brown make one of the crimes of
Jefferson Davis less, or less deserving its reward? What
awaits the God-inspired martyr is the crown of thorns
here, and the victor's palm hereafter; but what awaits
the pampered hypocrite, is the laurel here, and the
thorns there.
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The demonstration Jesus gave of God, did for the
The demonstration Jesus gave of God, did for the
world more than a problem wrought and explained in
mathematics does for the learner; it taught the human
race how to demonstrate aright the Principle, that is
God; and if this demonstration had been understood,
man would have reached the example of Jesus, and
solved his being harmoniously ere this. The martyr-
spirit is the stepping-stone from the human to the divine;
martyrs are the luminaries of Soul that go down to per-
sonal sense, like the sun to appear again in the ampli-
tude of their being, when sensuality shall give place to
spirituality, and the leaders' stand-point is reached.
Truth is self-conscious right that brings its own re-
ward, but not amid the smoke of battle is it seen, or
appreciated.
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The personal belief of God that holds Spirit person
The personal belief of God that holds Spirit person
instead of Principle, making Soul intelligent matter,