RIGHT LIVING
"We would like to have you write for
a visitor. He is interested in the welfare of those who are continually
arriving to begin their life on this side. We will let him write."
"I am desiring to place before the
world some information that seems to me of much importance. I am a lover
of humanity, and a sort of caretaker of souls who come to this side. I
have studied for many years the various attitudes with which these
newcomers view the change. I find almost as many differences as there
are different personalities. But I feel that I have learned to divide them
roughly into three classes.
"First and fewest are those who have
looked forward with pleasure and understanding to a future life, believing
it but a glorious continuation
of the earthly existence.
"Second are those whose number is very
large, who have led lives of
helpfulness on earth, who may or may not have believed in
a future life, but who were ready to
adopt new ideas whenever they felt that they were good.
"Then there is the third class, to
which it seems to me a very large majority must be assigned. These are
never able to understand the new life until after long and sometimes
painful periods have passed.
"Now why is that so? Why should such a
vast number be condemned to a slow and difficult progress? They are not
all evil, not even a very large number are conspicuously evil. But they
have somehow failed to obtain the proper education that firs one for
entrance into this life. We have to care for them, nurse them and educate
them. It is a blessed work for many of us, but such an unnecessary one. I
wish I could present my ideas more forcibly, for I feel that the earth
people should be made to realize these conditions.
"When Christ came to earth it was for
the express purpose of explaining these very things. But his following
seem to have woefully failed to understand his teachings. I think nothing
would be of more benefit to the world than an understanding of the value
of helpful, loving service. And when one learns that such a life is the
one best fitted to progress here, then the knowledge is doubly valuable.
We are striving in every way to get this knowledge before the world."
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