MARY'S MESSAGE
"We are here and anxious to write."
'Why anxious?'
"Because we wish to send the truth of
this life to earthborn friends, that their influence may go out to
others and win many souls to heavenly life. Do you see that unbelief is
increasing on earth, that multitudes are following after the gods of
riches, pleasures, and power? We here are asked to use our influence to
help stem the tide of
atheism, of wickedness, of worship of wealth,
power and position. These things are
in the way of pure spiritual life and truth. They are bearing down upon
the earth with malicious force, and the wicked ones here are glad, glad that this is
"Well, we have just had a lesson from
one of the great souls here, that we must bend our energies to help the
cause of truth, purity and righteousness on earth; and we turn to you to help."
'It is so difficult. What can we do?'
"Wait, and the knowledge will come to
you. Make the world believe in this life as a continuation of that. Do not
preach the old gospel of golden harps and pearly gates for the few, while
uncounted multitudes are bathed in the fires of hell. We must
influence! We must bring wiser thought
to earth.
"We have preached a sermon, but we were
full of the subject, and felt that it was a good time to pass it on. You
little realize the need for work to make the people understand. We see the
effects of this wave of materialism in the souls who come to us. We have
no trouble with those who have some spiritual thought. But how few these
are! It is sad to see the multitudes who linger near the earth, drawn by
no forces except the material ones that ruled their lives while there. We
cannot reach these multitudes easily, and many we cannot reach at all. And
we grow sad at the thought of the long years of darkness and misery that
so many must endure. You must
try to put the truth before the world, if not personally, by
means of books and papers."
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