Show CHRISTMAS GREETING rt BY A MEMBER 01 THE LOGAN SOCIETY SAT alono alone and one came to me and said 1 write and this is his hie message that 7 lie he gave at taha merry christmas dins amas tide it has be been allotted t to lo me ins to re y t turn n to earth a did dd the holy angels when they ing L a their otheir anthems of glad acclaim above 00 ve the manger where lay the in ant jesus so many centimes cen times RODS gone and though my mission is not to enounce the birth of a worlds alvior still I 1 may sing with them trace reace on earth good will to zen en joyful and hnry elioud abou d IQ i the hearts of all sons of god airs to immortal life and glory abat power should chase the emile om any face or carry foreboding for boding any honest heart look up brother dis heartened in the I ruggle gle your efforts have not 9 icen een in in vain surrounding rounding kur dg you r visible if gialis lend support and accor an and before you lie the easeful bowers of summer land once worked this poor old earth nd ind felt alj the pricks and stings beings of intact with the hard realities of ife but now I 1 have advanced om my earthly condition and am i s 3 all must become sooner or later spiritual essence clothed with all I 1 he attributes of entity but freed brever froni the house of el clay Y e n inch on earth claimed me bound as ae essential me fo 0 o lower concep ons and attainments I 1 come with a message of love nd cheer I 1 seethe see the sons of men ailing wearily under tile the load faich weighs them down hin ered with their creeds and beliefs ir tr rounded by temptations and ins only now and then catching a dimpse of gods sunshine Bun shine of truth it bathes the lands landscape capo all about hem ali ah my friend ty my brother ft up your heart throw open the windows of your soul and drink in tie sweet fruit mans spirit is ja nm mortal ortal accept it as a living uth leilh and vital principle of your eing that a system of rewards ant and unish punishments ments exists by which each liberated spirit shall pronounce upon himself viewing itself in the light of eternal rity know then my brother i aliat liat no vicarious atonement cures i our infirmity to the extol t of re eving you from all responsibility i 1 or every act of unkindness unkind for very evil you may do you will tron pronounce ounce a judgment on yourself tail nd from that deci decision bion you will isk no appeal fixed and alethe ule the sentence will ill stand re corded ard and you shall pay the i penalty but what a penalty not ot inear incarceration within apirion walls vails not death not hell firel fire 0 o but acts of restitution deeds if f love to erring human kind picking licking up the threads of lost opportunity port unity undoing the wron wrongs i ou oil have committed against your neighbor rounding out to the full hat character as ah it was intended to be ba aben god in his infinite wisdom placed you a portion of himself here on earth for a little season personal responsibility le manding personal endeavor r leaves no apace between for substituted burden bearing make yours lives excellent blotting out here the record of evil deeds and unkind thoughts by acts of charity ind brotherly love knowing their influence on your own character md ind the effect on the 1 lives ves of others can an I 1 make my meaning clearer jan can I 1 carry to man a grander or more beautiful lesbon than that the infant jesus jeoug came into this world with a grander mission with i more devine mesi message sage than has yet vet been declared by any other men and yet I 1 know that ouch euch is indeed the abo fact I 1 know it because in my life as a mortal I 1 believed and preached all that the churches all that the creeds and all that chris akan doctrine could unfold to me OY of living truth I 1 sought bought long 0 and earnestly prayerfully and tearfully for a full knowledge and a free baptism of gods spirit and I 1 received many tokens of his favor I 1 lived as men count conn I 1 a godly and a god fearing life but when I 1 came over to spirit life oil oh tile the change OL the bliss not by the most gifted bard or sweetest bt bilker had been foretold the joy that I 1 experienced but it was not the atie christians hean fieten II eten en nor was the existence upon which I 1 at once entered that life which my belief had portrayed brayed for in many any things which I 1 had long for forgotten atteo I 1 WEIS was compelled to tn jud judge jude e myself and when f con dimner mv my act the HIP duty was im immediately presen presented teil which might relieve the sorro sorrow w which the knowledge dge of a law transgressed had bad caused me christ proclaimed pio claimed the law of love and by that law are we bound could not brook the arbitrary deni demands ands rf f jewish law and it has moul dered back to dust but ever mans spirit is terrified hindered and hampered by tile the proclamation of an hell bell gods love ib s infinite and his mercy en dureth forever brever by love should mans I 1 ifo be actuated and not by any fear ear of eternal punishment in the measure that man sins in tb that at measure also shall he be blamed but take courage 0 brother in this glad christmas hour I 1 proclaim to you and I 1 would that 1 I might raise my voice so that every errin erring 0 son of god should hear and casting asme aside his load of fear faar and his burden of sin stand erect as god made him in the full stature of a man mail ring king on ye joy bells belle of christmas ch cheer eer your news of glad ac acclaim clann carty carry the tidings the death of fear ver each mounta mountain inand and wood and plain for ever to me ine on sorrows eor rows wing diug Is 19 borne the mourning cry and I 1 come codie ni ith joy the news to sing I 1 bat to man mail is not net given to die that the happy change that some call death Is iq not cause for bitter tears but th the t pace goes as ae a waited breath TO 0 tle the home of its 3 cina |