Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

274 So:\u: PRACTICAL Sunm~TJONS. [Dooemher
the beloved wife of the Fath~r. haiah (uv. 5) Ray!4, •• Thy
Maker is thine husba.ncl; Y a.hveh of hosts is his name.'' Tbn~
we offer onrRelves befortl him, as willingly sa!!riticing a11 personal
de11ires that we may conceive hy the Holy Spit·it of the Father,
lll"ing forth (which ex!!ept in the Christ has nevtlt" existecl in
man) the Son of God.
The attitude of mind which Esoteric stnclent-4, in fa~t, which
111l of God'>~ people everywhere t4honld hotel at thi11 time, is, no
donht, the mnst important cnnsideration that can ocmtpy the
thon~ht of the people ; for the W01·lcl's m·isiR ha.m. The gods
of gold a.ull'lilver ancl the work of men's hands are rapidly
failing t.hem. Everything in which they have trusted ReemR
to be Rht·inking out of exi11tenee.
Foreseeing this tim!-!, in 1879 we published the following circular
and di>~trihnwd it widely among those Ol!cttpying prominent
positions, hnping, that. in some iustanceR, it might cause the
people to 11earch the Sm·iptures. and if so, they Mnld not but
discern that full ancl ('.omplete pt·ovisions had been macle hy the
God ai1d Ct·eator of the universe for all the ntoeds of his pe~
pie:-
"0 ISRAELI
Thou hast destroye1l thyself: hut in me iR thy help. I will
he thy king. Where is any other that may save tlu•e in ALI.
thy cities?" -Host>a xiii. 9, 10.
'"Since the days your fathers came forth out of the lancl
of Egypt UNTIL THIS I> A Y, I have even sent unto you all my
se1·vauts, the prophets, daily. Rising up KARLY and sending
them (as early M ii900 years heforo the time oF fulfillment.
teo you might KSOW it wa~ not the word of man). yet you clid
not hearken unto me. nor inclined your eal"8, hut hardened
yom· ncc•ks.
You have done worse than yonr fathers.--.Jer. vii. 25, 26.
'' Therefore,
The land shall be utterly emptied a11d utt.-J·ly spoiled,
!th away.
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