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Received by:James Padgett
Washington D.C.
Let me write tonight, for I find you in condition to receive my
message and that you have the Divine Love working actively in your
soul. What a great difference in your condition when the Love is
active and when it lies dormant, or overshadowed by thoughts and
feelings that arise by reason of the many cares and disturbances
of the flesh.
Well, I desire to write tonight on the subject of what will it
profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
I know that this text is often preached from by the preachers,
and that it cannot be, and is not, understood by them, because they
do not comprehend what it means to lose their own souls; and, consequently,
their hearers are not given the benefit of the great truth that
is intended to be conveyed by it.
A man is, in the estimation of the world, very favorably circumstanced
when he has large wealth and plenty, and when this is increased
into the possession of the whole world its importance is beyond
conception, and the man so situated is looked upon as the most fortunate
man in existence, with nothing further to wish for.
He is then the possessor of everything earthly and there is nothing
more to be acquired by him in order to make him happy and contented.
This is the supreme wealth of the earth, but lasts only for the
lifetime of the man on earth, and after that it has for him no existence,
and no power to make him happy, but is as if it had never existed,
and then he becomes poor indeed, if this is all that he possesses.
When he enters into the spirit world, his wealth depends not on
what he possessed in the earth life, but on those possessions that
follow him into the spirit world, and then if he has not that which
can give him happiness and contentment, he is in a condition that
is to be pitied. These things of earthly wealth have only a temporary
existence, and with the life of their possessor, as to him, are
no more, and if they were all that he possessed that man would be
in a condition of undesirable poverty and want.
There are only two things that man can possibly call his own, as
a dweller on earth, and the one is this great wealth, and the other
is a soul dormant or active, and on the first depends a temporary
happiness, and on the other depends the happiness or misery for
a longer or shorter time in the spirit world, and to lose his soul
means that he, man, will be deprived of that happiness which may
be his through all eternity. . .
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