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OUR BELIEF. 
 
 To which we Subscribe that we may become the Happy Sons of the Father. 
 
 1. That Adam and Eve were created in the garden of Eden. 
 
 2. That they did violate the first edict in reference to man 
 — it being a prohibition edict. 
 
 3. That the Father turned them out of the garden into a 
 cursed world that brought briars, brambles, thistles and thorns. 
 
 4. That Adam was tried by the Father and found guilty of 
 violating the law. 
 
 5. And received the sentence "go into the world and by the 
 sweat of the brow eat your bread all the days of your life." 
 
 6. That Eve was tried by the same faithful judge and found 
 guilty and received her sentence as follows: "You shall go; 
 be subject to your husband; travail in childbirth all the days of 
 your life." 
 
 7. We believe we are the same flesh and blood of Adam, 
 perpetuated by his germ, and will be so perpetuated until the 
 last moment, in which the great fire comes, in which all flesh 
 shall be made pure and be prepared for birth by and through 
 Christ, who is the son of the Creator and commissioned to 
 redeem us from the sin of Adam and Eve. 
 
 8. We do acknowledge Christ as the true lamb, slain for our 
 redemption. 
 
EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 9. That He does possess the germ power to reinstate us from 
 the water and spirit which is the decomposed body of ourselves, 
 thereby producing the same person we are now (save the germ). 
 
 10. We do acknowledge that he has been in the sin-cursed 
 earth and trod down the briars, brambles, thistles and thorns to 
 make the way clear for us. 
 
 11. We do believe that we will be born as little babes and 
 will soon grow up to mind and strength, after which Enoch, 
 Elijah and Eastland will come forth and out of their mouths 
 will tell us all things. 
 
 12. That we will be clothed in a white robe and take up the 
 line of march along the straight and narrow road that leads to 
 life eternal, where we will pass in review before the Father and 
 hear the good and welcome applaudit given to the son for his 
 faithful work in bringing back the lost children. The welcome 
 news will ring out: "Pass to the tree of life which you have 
 been debarred from for thousands of years, there put forth the 
 hands, partake of the fruit of that tree and live forever." Then 
 we will receive a gentle bow from the Father as a token of His 
 recognition. Then the glorious shout will go up for the Lamb. 
 Yes, it will make the heavenly arches ring as they never rang 
 before. 
 
 To the above we subscribe. 
 
LESSON NO. 1. 
 
 This lecture will contain the true version of Adam and Eve, 
 who were the parents of the present generation. 
 
 The}' possessed within themselves the germ of perpetuation, 
 without which the race would have passed out of existence. 
 
 God created these two persons self-willed and self-acting, and 
 they obtained the germ of life,-f- and through them all nations 
 of the earth have sprung. They violated the first edict given 
 in this world, which was a prohibition edict.* This edict is 
 given in Moses' History of the Beginning: " You may eat of 
 all the fruit of the garden, except one tree." This tree stood 
 in the middle of the garden, and was so described that it could 
 not be mistaken. Eve, however, did eat of it when alone, after 
 which she brought some to Adam, and he knowing the fruit, 
 but being over-persuaded, did eat thereof. JN r ow the curse fol- 
 lows the edict. The penalty was, « The day you eat thereof you 
 shall surely die." Xow, did they die? 
 
 The day here spoken of is the day of their perpetuation and 
 that day has not yet ended, but will surely end when the great 
 fire comes, but no man knoweth the hour of its coming, but it 
 will come like a thief in the night. (We will speak more fully 
 of the fire in the future.) 
 
 Now, we will return to the garden and learn what God did 
 with them (Adam and Eve). He said to them that the earth 
 shall be accursed on your account. It shall bring forth briars, 
 
 * No wonder we have so many antis. |By eating the forbidden fruit. 
 
EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 brambles, thistles and thorns. Does it bring forth those things? 
 The answer is from all, " Yes." He then led them to the east 
 gate of the garden and pronounced his sentence upon them as 
 does the judge upon the condemned criminals. He said to 
 Adam, " You shall go into the world and by the sweat of your 
 brow eat your bread all the days of your life." Here behold 
 the convict standing in the presence of the judge, trembling in 
 sorrow for what he had done. 
 
 He then addressed Eve: "You shall go; be subject to your 
 husband, and travail in childbirth, all the days of your life." 
 
 We see them now start, amid the briars, brambles, thistles 
 and thorns. They clear a small patch and plant some seeds and 
 commence the work of husbandry which continues to this day. 
 
 Then God turned his back on them and said, " Here stands 
 the tree of life. Lest Adam returns and partakes of the fruit of 
 this tree, I will place a naming sword around it, whose edge 
 shall turn in all directions." I ask a question. Does man eat 
 his bread by the sweat of his brow? Does woman live subject 
 toher husband and does she travail in childbirth? Did God 
 place the flaming sword? If so, what was it composed of, and 
 has it been sufficient to protect the tree of life up to this day? 
 I boldly say that He did place it, and it is a perfect barrier to 
 sinful man, and there is not one free from sin — yea, none. 
 Now, the sword was made of water, (congealed), upon one side 
 of the garden; upon the other side it was made of heat. Man 
 has never been able to define either further than to say that cold 
 is the absence of heat and heat is the absence of cold. So they 
 stand opposite to each other and cold and heat produce a flame, 
 hence the flaming sword, for it stays the approach of man at all 
 times. Man, in his blindness, has made many attempts to pass 
 this sword, but it is hoped when this goes to the world he will 
 
LESSON No. 1. 
 
 no further attempt to pass into the Garden of Eden but by the 
 way the Creator has laid down for his return, which will come 
 soon after the day of Adam's death, which no man knoweth — 
 not even the angels in heaven — which is the Garden of Eden. 
 No man has been permitted to enter there except Enoch and 
 Elijah. Christ was, of course, carried over and is there this 
 hour upon the throne with the Father, dwelling in the presence 
 of Enoch and Elijah. 
 
 "We are taught by the scriptures, " Out of the mouth of two 
 or three witnesses all things shall be substantiated." Then, 
 when are those witnesses to speak? The time has not yet come. 
 Before this lecture closes I will tell you when and where, also 
 repeating what they will substantiate. 
 
 After God had sent Adam and Eve out from his presence He 
 was clothed in sorrow, and set to work that they might be re- 
 deemed, that is, brought back to the Garden of Eden again. 
 But to accomplish this requires .a long time, although it is but 
 one day with the Creator. The Bible says a day with the 
 Creator is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day. 
 The Creator set about the work and sent His only begotten son, 
 that He might open the gateway and bring them back; or, in other 
 words, make the earth all a garden and have man living therein. 
 In order to do this, He had to take on humanity, walk in the 
 wilderness as we do, though not blind, but seeing all things and 
 knowing all things that the three witnesses might relate to man 
 when redeemed. We are taught in the Holy Writ unless we are 
 again born of Christ, we can in no wise enter the Kingdom of 
 Heaven. I say unto you, man, this is true, but you have not 
 been taught when and how you are to be born. Christ told His 
 disciples, " you must be born of the spirit and of water." They 
 did not comprehend the full meaning of these words, so He 
 
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 said, " I go and will send yon the Comforter. This Comforter 
 is to tell yon all about it." Those words are words of comfort 
 to as many as believe. Those who will not believe will be classed 
 with the blind spoken of by Christ, and will be led by the blind, 
 and they will all fall in the ditch. 
 
 I will now take the subject of Creation, and ask a simple 
 question that I have propounded to more than one hundred 
 persons and not one has been able to answer it correctly. This 
 question is: " Upon what principle did the Creator separate the 
 water from the land, when he said let there be dry land and 
 there was dry land?" Answer: He simply evaporated one 
 portion and left the remainder subject to evaporation. He then 
 placed His condenser, and as it is evaporated from the earth, 
 the rivers, lakes and ocean, it is condensed and returned to the 
 earth, rivers, lakes and oceans. Thus' evolution is produced as 
 is the water; so is all that was created by the Father. Hence 
 we assert that it takes in all animal, vegetable and mineral mat- 
 ter, and all flavors that exist, and each possesses its own specific 
 germ and one has no affinity for the other. Where family rela- 
 tion does exist families will amalgamate, but no farther. 
 
 The earth is not subject to any of these changes further than 
 to exist in all the substances spoken of. Hence it is found to 
 be a component part of all animal, vegetable and mineral mat- 
 ter. Hence we may speak of it as omnipresent (existing in all 
 things and all things in it). All created matter exists in two 
 forms, the bodily form or form of solidity, and the spiritual 
 form or form without weight, floating in the firmaments until 
 taken up by the germ and reproduced in the body again, and so 
 Adam and Eve live at this hour, and the day will only end 
 when the great renovating fire takes place, which no man knows the 
 day thereof, but it will surely come like unto a thief in the night. 
 
LESSON No. 1. 
 
 We will take up the subject of Christ free from the sins which 
 hang upon the seed of Adam, whose people He dwelt among. 
 He was born of Mary, a woman of the race of Adam, but as 
 Adam possessed the germ power, therefore there was none of the 
 Adam germ, but it came from the Father who had no sin, al- 
 though Christ's father was the father of Adam. Adam took 
 upon himself the sin which rests upon all his posterity. Christ 
 sinned not, but marked out the way his sinful brother might be 
 returned to the first estate, or the garden of Eden, which the 
 Father had debarred him from coming into by erecting the 
 flaming sword, which was composed of cold and heat. 
 
 As there were people on earth who denied Christ being the 
 Christ spoken of in the Bible, before and after His coming, He 
 left an abundance of proof of those things, if it were not for 
 blindness, hence He spoke forcibly of that class. "How can 
 the blind see unless their eyes are opened by such as can see?" 
 Christ said: " I am the vine and life of all creation." Life is 
 more clearly understood by saying germ, as all life is given 
 through the power of the germ, and without the germ there is no 
 life given. Hence Christ having the germ of all things has 
 full power to bring all things into the body. To prove this He 
 and his disciples went out unto the mountain where there could 
 be no bread or fish to be found, save the small amount they 
 carried with them, reported to be live loaves of bread and seven 
 fishes. There followed him about five thousand people. "When 
 far off in the mountain they were hungry and called for some- 
 thing to eat. Here Christ fed the multitude with the small 
 amount of food that was in sight and had thirteen baskets of 
 fragments left. Here our teachers say, " this was a miracle " 
 and stop. Well, it was a miracle to the blind, for they could 
 not see how he did it. They did not know that the flour existed 
 
10 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 in the firmament, nor did they know that the fish existed there 
 in the spiritual form, and that Christ, through the power of his 
 germ, collected the flour into the loaf, as likewise he collected 
 the fish, to the full satisfaction of all present. 
 
 This teaches us the evolution of flour and the flesh of fish and 
 the germ of the wheat gathers after the same order that Christ 
 did. The germ of wheat has no power to gather anything save 
 the flour of wheat. The germ of the fish has no power over any 
 other flesh save that of the fish. Christ, being the vine and 
 life of all things that were made by the Creator, has the power 
 to gather into the body all the great variety of matter and make 
 it fit for the use of man. He was therefore fully prepared to 
 feed the multitude in the mountain. He could have fed them 
 on all the fruits and berries that grow and are gathered by the 
 powers of the vine and germ. 
 
 So these things teach us evolution and that Christ was the 
 true son of God, and that He did descend from the garden of 
 Eden and, after being crucified, did ascend above the flaming 
 sword and thus passed over into the garden of Eden, and is 
 to-day awaiting for the end of Adam's day so that he (Adam) 
 may die as the Creator said he should, the day he eat the for- 
 bidden fruit. What is he waiting to do? He is waiting to send 
 forth his germs into the firmaments, where dwells all flesh and 
 all the waters of the earth, for it is said when the great reno- 
 vating fire comes, the rivers, lakes and the mighty deep shall be 
 dried up. The flesh, animal and mineral matter, will take their 
 place, in the spirit form, above the earth, all mingling in one 
 vast reservoir, where the germ is again planted and will call or 
 draw into the body again. Then Christ will send out His germ 
 and it will draw from this vast mass of spirits the flesh and 
 bone of man, and it will form like unto little babes from the 
 
LESSON No. 1. II 
 
 dry water and the spirit, though free from the sin the germ of 
 Adam possessed. 
 
 We will state here that, at the coming of the fire, the 
 word is that " none shall be left; yea, not one." With this, 
 Adam dies and his day has ended. This, we say, is altogether 
 feasible with the greatest skeptic that may exist in that, the last 
 hour of the first day. When the Creator destroyed the inhabi- 
 tants of the earth by water, He saved Noah and his immediate 
 family so the Adam germ was thereby continued. When the 
 earth is cooled off, the little babes of Christ will appear like 
 young grasshoppers of the spring. They will be cared for by 
 Christ, who will feed them upon the sweet manna, gathered 
 from the firmaments, and when they all become stout He will 
 clap his hands and sing, " Hosannah! the lost is found." Then 
 the flocks will unfurl their wings and cry, "Redemption! Re- 
 demption," and mount upon their wings and fly off for the 
 Fatherland, where the Son will receive great praises and the 
 multitude will shout, " Hallelujah! Hallelujah to the Lamb." 
 At this time Enoch, Elijah and the third person will step to the 
 front and from their mouths all things will be substantiated. 
 They will be told of their exit from the garden of Eden ; of 
 their travel in the wilderness; of their trials and temptations; of 
 Christ's advent upon the earth, His sufferings and crucifixion, His 
 rising from the dead upon the third day, His exit to the garden, 
 His reception by the Father, His patience until the coming hour 
 and His flock was again born and escorted into His presence. 
 
 Here will be joy that tongue cannot express; yea, the joy will 
 be such that the angels cannot stand still: 
 
 Their joy will be complete, 
 Their song and praise loud and sweet. 
 As the rustling of their wings and feet ; 
 They will hie to the tree of life, 
 There its life-preserving fruit to eat. 
 
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 Now redemption is complete, and man, the pilgrim, has re- 
 turned to his first estate, where he will bask in the sunshine of 
 the Father and of the Son who gave up his life that this might 
 be done. 
 
 The earth, cleared of its briars, brambles, thistles and thorns, 
 will become one great level plane filled with all the beauties the 
 mind can imagine. Who could not live lowly and meekly to 
 behold this grandeur, doing unto others as you would have them 
 do unto you? 
 
 We cast away none, but say your sins stick to you in this life 
 and you are made to suffer for all the sins you commit here in 
 this life. So, I say, buckle on your armor to do Christ's will 
 until He comes to claim you through His germ. The day will 
 surely come, and that will be the beginning of the second day 
 of the creation, and the morning of that day will be the time of 
 much joy and great rejoicing. Man, give praise to the Creator. 
 Praise ye the Lord! Praise him all tongues here below. 
 
 This is the comforter Christ promised when He was about to 
 leave us. " If I go, I will send you the comforter.'" Is it not 
 great comfort to learn that all are to be saved, none lost? What 
 a happy theme! Happy, happy, thrice happy to know that 
 father, mother, brother and sister, are all housed in glory with 
 Father and Son. 
 
 Tins embraces the doctrine that before the closing of the clay 
 of Adam and Eve, all nations, tongues, and kindreds shall have 
 and hold to one faith, one belief and one doctrine. In this the 
 comforter exists. To feel, to know, without one doubt, we are 
 all to be saved in the house of the Father. What greater com- 
 fort could we ask for? What greater comfort could we obtain? 
 This unlocks the secret of the birth. This draws aside the 
 
LESSON No. 1. 13 
 
 misty veil and shows to the pilgrim the land to which he is 
 
 rapidly traveling. 
 
 There are secrets yet to be told, 
 But none like the above to unfold ; 
 So cherish this little book, 
 It is written by one who foretold. 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 Question. Where was Adam created? 
 
 Answer. In the Garden of Eden. 
 
 Q. How was he looked upon by his Creator? 
 
 A. As being lonely. 
 
 Q. What did the Creator then do? 4 
 
 A. He took a rib from his side. 
 
 Q. What did he do with the rib? 
 
 A. He formed woman. 
 
 Q. What next did he do? 
 
 A. He carried her to Adam. Adam said: "This is bone of 
 my bone, flesh of my flesh. I will call her woman." Then she 
 was given to Adam to be a helpmate. 
 
 Q. What did this mean? 
 
 A. That she was to be with him in all his labors; to con- 
 sult with him; to assist him; nourish him, and to be a thorn 
 in his side. 
 
 Q. What did the Creator then do? 
 
 A. He issued the first law that was ever given to man. 
 
 (,). What was that law? 
 
 A. It was a prohibition edict. 
 
 Q. What did it pertain to? 
 
 A. Eating. 
 
 Q. Eating what? 
 
 A. An apple. 
 
 
CATECHISM. 15 
 
 Q. What was to be the result of disobedience? 
 
 A. Death. 
 
 Q. At what time? 
 
 A. "In the day you eat thereof you shall surely die." 
 
 Q. Was this imperative? 
 
 A. It was. 
 
 Q. What was the character of the death? 
 
 A. Die to live no more. 
 
 Q. Did Adam die? 
 
 A. No, he lives. 
 
 Q. How does he live? 
 
 A. In the power of the germ. Adam begot children and 
 they begot children, and so on to the present time; and the day 
 of Adam lias not yet ended; nor will it end until the day of the 
 great lire, when the words spoken, saying " There shall not one 
 be left; yea, not one." Then Adam dies with his germ and his 
 first day ends. Then the words of the Creator will be verified, 
 saying, " The day you eat thereof you shall surely die." Be- 
 tween this and the new birth will be a period of time. That 
 time will stand still with man, for he will be mingling w r ith the 
 water in the spirit. 
 
 Q. What did the Creator then do? 
 
 A. He said the earth should be cursed on their account. 
 
 Q. What then was done? 
 
 A. He took Adam and Eve to the east gate of the garden 
 and said the earth should bring forth briars, brambles, thistles, 
 and thorns. 
 
 Q. Is this the case at this time? 
 
 A. It is, beyond a doubt. 
 
 Q. What then did He say to Adam? 
 
16 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 A. That he should go into the world and by the sweat of his 
 brow eat his bread all the days of his life. 
 
 Q. Does man have to labor for his bread at this time? 
 
 A. He does, most assuredly. 
 
 Q. What did He say to Eve? 
 
 A. That she should go; be subject to her husband; travail 
 in childbirth all the days of her life. 
 
 Q. Is this true? 
 
 A. It is. 
 
 Q. Where did Adam and Eve go? 
 
 A. They went out into the wilderness amidst the briars, 
 brambles, thistles, and thorns. 
 
 Q. What then did the Creator do? 
 
 A. He looked around and said, " Here stands the Tree of 
 Life; lest man puts forth his hand and partake of the fruit, I 
 will place a naming sword around it, whose edge shall turn in 
 all directions." 
 
 Q. Did He do so? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q. Of what was the sword made? 
 
 A. It was made of water and gas. The gas was fired and 
 the water congealed ; hence the flames. 
 
 Q. Where was it placed? 
 
 A. Around the Garden of Eden, where the Tree of Life 
 stands. 
 
 Q. What, then, surrounds the Garden of Eden? 
 
 A. Ice on the north and east; a fiery flame on the south 
 and west. 
 
 Q. Can man, by any means, reach the Garden of Eden? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q. How? 
 
CATECHISM. 17 
 
 A. By being born again of Christ and the Spirit. 
 
 Q. By what means is this to take place? 
 
 A. Through the life-giving property of Christ, who pos- 
 sesses the germ that will call all the flesh unto the body again. 
 
 Q. How is this accomplished? 
 
 A. Through evolution, passing from the body to the spirit 
 and from the spirit to the body, as is the case at this time, 
 though by the germ of Adam, which is wicked, having violated 
 the prohibition law. 
 
 Q. What do we pass through that we may be saved? 
 
 A. Through a fiery furnace. 
 
 Q. When does that take place < 
 
 A. No man knoweth— not even the angels in heaven. It 
 cometh like a thief at night, and that in the twinkling of an 
 eye. 
 
 Q. Will man know when he is born again? 
 
 A. No. You will become as little children, for, of such is 
 the kingdom of heaven. 
 
 Q. Will he be taught to know? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q. How? 
 
 A. From the mouth of two or three witnesses, who shall 
 make all things known. 
 
 Q. Who are those witnesses? 
 
 A. Enoch, Elijah, and Eastland.* 
 
 Q. Why particularize these men? 
 
 A. Because they were taken up and carried to heaven in 
 the flesh for that purpose. 
 
 ♦Eastland is a name given by the author to the third person spoken of for 
 convenience sake. 
 
18 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LICiliT. 
 
 Q. What is meant by the term " all things? " 
 
 A. All events which transpired from the creation of Adam 
 and Eve to the birth of man, through the germ of Christ. 
 They will teach them where they were, what they were, and 
 what they are at that time. 
 
 ( c ). What is a comforter? 
 
 A. A comforter is knowledge gained or obtained from or 
 through others. 2d. Light given upon any subject in which 
 man is vitally concerned. 3d; Such as pertains to his future 
 existence. 4th. To receive a revelation that shows him when 
 and how the second birth takes place. These, and many other 
 accounts of a similar character, will be a comfort to man on his 
 journey through the wilderness of briars, brambles, thistles and 
 thorns. Be of good faith, buckling on the armor of patience, 
 love and charity — these combined — good will toward all man- 
 kind, for the time will come when the second day will appear 
 and its morning will be tilled with scenes of glory, when bright- 
 ness of the Son and the smiles of the Father will till the im- 
 mensity of space, and the prodigal son (man) shall bask serenely 
 beneath those scenes with all the fullness of man's glory. Thus 
 the wearied shall find rest and the disconsolate comfort. 
 
 Q. What did Christ mean when he said, " If the blind 
 lead the blind they shall all fall in the ditch? " 
 
 A. A ditch is a way and was known at that time as a way 
 through which water passed from its confined position to some 
 other. The leaders being blind and the led also blind (being 
 true of man), they would all fall into the ditch which would 
 lead them into the clear waters of life. 
 
 (<). How did the Creator separate the waters from the land, 
 when the mighty dee]) covered the entire earth? 
 
CATECHISM. \\) 
 
 A. He did it by evaporating one portion of the water, 
 thereby making it dry, and caused it to take space in the firma- 
 ments. 
 
 Q. Then what was the result? 
 
 A. There was dry land and dry water, and when the land 
 became thirsty He caused a condenser to come among the dry 
 water, thereby causing it to return to its first state (a liquid 
 form); then it fell to the earth and quenched its thirst, and 
 thus the germ of the vegetable kingdom was made to germinate, 
 send forth its petals, and gather from the firmaments its own 
 peculiar substance, combined with its flavor, upon which all the 
 animals were to subsist, thereby producing decomposition and 
 evaporation and returning to its place in the great store-house 
 of the Creator to be again gathered into the native body and 
 again to pass to the store-house, and so on during Adam's day. 
 Thus we declare evolution in the vegetable kingdom as well as 
 the liquid. From this we pass to the mineral. In this we 
 class all things except vegetable and animal, the two first being- 
 inanimate and the latter animate. 
 
 Q. What is mineral? 
 
 A. It is a substance that lies dormant in the earth until 
 brought into use by man, but created by the Creator for man's 
 benefit, to be used by him in his labors for his bread. When 
 brought into use it meets with its decomposer and again returns 
 to the earth, its store-house, or the store-house of the Creator. 
 It is thus used over and over, like the water, and lives and 
 moves in evolution and will continue so to do during the day of 
 Adam.* Considering animal, or animate matter, which we 
 
 *Note. — Further explanation could be given by entering into separate de- 
 tails, but we deem this sufficient in this place and leave it for searching minds 
 to look after. 
 
20 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 classify as being more closely allied to the Creator, especially 
 man. This being the case does not acqnit him of his vicious 
 temperament and desire to do wrong, and should teach him to 
 hold a greater curb upon his actions while in the body. When 
 in the dormant state and before decomposition, he is in Para- 
 dise, where Christ said the thief should be on crucifixion day. 
 This was to teach that Christ has the power and would forgive 
 all sins. There was not a bone broken in His body, as much as 
 to say that all shall be gathered into the Garden of Eden, with- 
 out a missing link, for His body was given as a ransom for all 
 men. Returning to the animal portion of creation: all animals 
 are composed of flesh and bone, drawn together through the 
 powers of its own separate germs (here Darwin is set at naught). 
 All animals, except those of the same family, have their sepa- 
 rate and distinct property as well as flavor. The saccharine can- 
 not gather the acid nor the acid the saccharine. They are sep- 
 arate though they may grow upon the same stock. For example, 
 the apple. Take a branch from a tree bearing a sweet apple; 
 graft it into a tree bearing a sour apple and your limb will 
 bring forth the sweet apple. This teaches that it is through 
 the germs and that the germ is fed from the firmament and can 
 draw nothing except its own specific flavor. That which is 
 true of the vegetable kingdom is also true of the animal. 
 Hence there is a particular line of animals that partake of the 
 food of man and that is the only kind that he should eat. This 
 teaches that the animal and vegetable kingdoms live one upon 
 the other, hence evolution to separate them and bring them 
 hack to their perfect state, as inaugurated by the Creator. Mere 
 we will state that all animals, both large and small, have a 
 Language peculiar to themselves, by which they communicate 
 with others of the same family. 
 
CATECHISM. 21 
 
 Q. Which way has the empire of nations moved? 
 
 A. They have moved from the east to the west. Man is 
 seeking to find his way back to the Garden by the west gate — 
 just opposite to where he went out — and there, we predict, lie 
 will find the gate through which he may enter, it first having 
 been opened by Christ. Will it not be a great comfort to man 
 when he arrives at the gate and sees it thrown operand hears 
 the glad bidding: tk Enter into the kingdom which was prepared 
 for. you when the foundations were first laid.'' 
 
 Q. How were the Children of Israel, led to the Land of 
 Canaan, typical of our travels, amidst the briars, brambles, 
 thistles, and thorns? 
 
 A. They were led from darkness into light. We are to be 
 led from death even unto life eternal. The weak, the weary, 
 are all to be brought up — not. one to be left — yea, not one. All 
 shall go in and be redeemed through the powers of the Lamb, 
 that gave himself for a ransom. 
 
 Q. Do you know the seven pointers? 
 
 A. I do. 
 
 Q. Give a description of them. 
 
 A. They are composed of a group of seven stars, all of the 
 same magnitude, with one very small star added, arranged in 
 form so as to mark out the lines of a dipper. Running the eye 
 from one star to the other, it forms the handle and bowl of the 
 dipper. 
 
 Q. Do you know the north star? If not, I will teach you. 
 Commence at the two stars in the end of the bowl from the 
 handle; look to the right, when the dipper is in the west, about 
 one hundred yards, and you will find a star of the same magni- 
 tude as those of the dipper. This is the north star. It is said 
 to be a fixed star, with a direct north bearing from where we 
 
22 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 stand — let that be where it may upon the earth. Add this, and 
 it makes a group of eight stars, representing as follows: The 
 Creator, Christ, the Holy Spirit — three in one line. The next 
 two represent Enoch and Elijah, the two persons taken up and 
 carried over the icebergs to the G-arden of Eden. The first 
 from the bowl of the dipper represents Eastland (so-called), or 
 the third person. Kastland is yet outside of the circle of the 
 garden. Then conies Eve, with a small star by her side. Then 
 comes Adam, the last star in the handle of the dipper. The 
 last three are yet outside of the garden, as are Eastland, Eve 
 and Adam, and are wheeling around the garden once every 
 twenty- four hours, looking for the gate to enter. Thus we are 
 led to think that the seven pointers evolute around the Creator 
 and circumscribe the garden, which is protected by the naming 
 sword of ice on the north and east and the great evaporating 
 tire on the south and west. By the fire the sword is complete, 
 by which water is caused to evolute, gas is caused to evolute, 
 vegetable and mineral matter caused to evolute, and so does man. 
 Prom the spirit to the body, from the body to the spirit. 
 
 Q. What does the north star represent? 
 
 A. The Creator. 
 
 (}. Why do you say Creator? 
 
 A . Because you cannot form an oath upon that name. 
 
 (»). What does the first star to the right of the north star 
 represent? 
 
 A. Christ, seated on the throne with the Father. 
 
 Q. What does the next one represent? 
 
 A. The Holy Spirit the Trinity, three in one line — or 
 Godhead. 
 
 <<). What do the other two in the bow] of the dipper, rep* 
 resent \ 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 A. Enoch and Elijah, who were taken to the garden many 
 years before this. 
 
 Q. What is the next one? 
 
 A. It is supposed to be Eastland, who is to betaken as were 
 Enoch and Elijah, and for the same purpose. 
 
 Q. What were they taken for? 
 
 A. To fulfill the Scriptures when it said, " Out of the mouth 
 of two or three witnesses all things shall be substantiated." 
 
 Q. Why does it say two positively, and the third implied? 
 
 A. Because the third one had not been born at that time. 
 
 Q. Why were the three taken from earth? 
 
 A. So that they could speak of all things, of their own 
 knowledge, pertaining to man and the creation, as w T ell as the 
 new birth. 
 
 Q. When is this testimony to be taken? 
 
 A. After the new birth takes place. 
 
 Q. When is the new birth to take place? 
 
 A. After the great fire in which Adam dies. 
 
 Q. Who is to produce the new birth? 
 
 A. Christ. 
 
 Q. From what does he draw the body? 
 
 A. From the spirit. 
 
 Q. In what is the spirit to exist? 
 
 A. In the water (dry form). 
 
 Q. What part of man is lost in the renovating lire? 
 
 A. The germ. 
 
 Q. From whom will be the germ of the new birth? 
 
 A. Christ, whose germ is not contaminated by disobedience, 
 
 Q. Is all mankind to be saved? 
 
24 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 A. Yes. As all flesh passes into the spirit, all flesh will be 
 redeemed through Christ, thereby being made holy, and will be 
 presented to the Father for acceptance. 
 
 Q. What of our sins here on earth? 
 
 A. We suffer the penalty here on earth. 
 
 Q. Did the Creator require anything further of Adam ex- 
 cept to go and by the sweat of his brow eat his bread all the 
 days of his life? 
 
 A He did not. 
 
 Q. Does Adam fulfill that injunction? 
 
 A- He does, for he cannot get it in any other way. 
 
 Q. Do you think man would go to the garden, if it were 
 not for the sword? 
 
 A. He has made attempts to do so. 
 
 Q. By whom was Christ crucified? 
 
 A. By the Jews. 
 
 Q. How long did darkness pervade at the time of the cru- 
 cifixion ? 
 
 A. From 6 until 9 (three hours). 
 
 Q. What happened to the temple at that time? 
 
 A. It was rent from top to bottom. 
 
 Q. Who was crucified with Christ? 
 
 A. Two thieves. 
 
 Q. Did either of them speak to Christ at that time? 
 
 A. Yes. One of them asked him for remembrance. 
 
 Q. What was the answer? 
 
 i 
 
 A. This day shalt thou be with me in paradise. 
 
 Q. According to this answer, where is paradise? 
 A. Paradise is the state in which man exists after death and 
 before decomposition. In this state he is free from sin and 
 
CATECHISM. 25 
 
 sorrow, of this or any other world. Thus he lays for a time 
 dormant. 
 
 Q. Then what follows? 
 
 A. Decomposition. In this act we are transferred to the 
 spirit and pass to the firmaments, or storehouse of the Creator. 
 
 Q. How long do we remain in the spirit? 
 
 A. I T ntii a germ is planted. Then the spirit passes to this 
 germ and thereby gives flesh, blood, bone and mind, which 
 make up the new body, and thus we will continue to evolute 
 until the death of Adam's germ, which is the day of his death — 
 so spoken by the Creator. 
 
 Q. Can man's body be kept in the tomb? 
 
 A. Xo. Decomposition reaches the liesh, thereby changing 
 its form. 
 
 Q. From whence does the vegetable receive its substance? 
 
 A. In the beginning, the Creator created all the matter that 
 compasses the different kinds of vegetables and placed it in the 
 firmaments, in the spirit form. Then he created trees, shrubs 
 and bushes, and gave them their germ with affinity to gather 
 this matter, with their own specific flavor, into the body and 
 thus made it to suit the taste of man, so that when he sent man 
 into the world to labor for his food, through this method, he 
 could obtain the necessaries of life, and, as it was drawn from 
 the storehouse it was made to return again, just as we gather 
 our corn, fill our cribs, draw it out to feed ourselves and our 
 animals. By our labors, we return it to the crib the next sea- 
 son, and by this method of evolution the cribs 'can continue to 
 be filled nntil the death of Adam. Then a new order of things 
 will be inaugurated, and man w T ill then cease to labor and will 
 continue to be fed from the storehouse of the Creator. 
 
 Q. Is there any analogy between this answer and the waters? 
 
26 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 A. Yes. The waters are changed in the same manner and 
 return to earth for the purpose of watering its dry surface, as 
 well as the animal kingdom. 
 
 Q. Why do you call it the animal kingdom? 
 
 A. We class all in four kingdoms. 
 
 Q. Name them. 
 
 A. Water, vegetable, mineral and animal — these are classed 
 in two orders — the body form of solidity, and the spirit form, 
 without solidity. 
 
 Q. Which form is best adapted to man? 
 
 A. Both forms, as they both serve his wants. 
 
 Q. Is man sufficiently thankful for this blessing? 
 
 A. He cannot be, from our standpoint, but he should give 
 all the thanks in his power so to give. 
 
 Q. What does the Creator require of him? 
 
 A. He requires obedience to the law. 
 
 Q. Can you give the law as laid down? 
 
 A. It requires almost a life-time to give the law, but it can 
 be summed up in these words: " Do unto others as you would 
 have them do unto you." If you do this well, you will fill the 
 measure until redemption comes. 
 
 Q. Who was the strongest man? 
 
 A. Samson. 
 
 Q. How did he obtain his great strength? 
 
 A. Through his hair. 
 
 Q. What passed through his hair to give him his great 
 strength? 
 
 A. Electric fluid. It entered through the hair to the body 
 giving great power to the sinews and muscles. 
 
 Q. Do all men and animals obtain their strength in this 
 way? 
 
CATECHISM. 27 
 
 A. They do. We take the cat and horse to illustrate. A 
 cat's hair contains more electricity than any domestic animal, as 
 it will >how by stroking the hand over its back in the dark. 
 The electric sparks show themselves in great profusion, hence 
 we are constrained to say the cat is the quickest of all animals, 
 possessing great strength, according to its size. 
 
 Now for the horse. His hair is tilled with electricity which, 
 as the rat's, view his strength and agility and see the tire of the 
 eye when excited. I will state much electricity is passed in the 
 body. Thus the body becomes the reservoir of electricity; the 
 more it contains the greater the power. 80 I say electricity is, 
 like the waters, never still unless confined, and that cannot be 
 of long duration. It will come forth and return to the store- 
 house of its Creator, as do all other things pertaining thereto. 
 This teaches evolution. Here I will make a statement to show 
 how easy it is for such as do not have the true light to be mis- 
 lead or deceived. In 1852 I was selling goods at Tazewell 
 C. H., \ a. One Sunday two men of color (black) called and 
 asked me to sell them some goods. T agreed to do so. as they 
 were slaves and had no time of their own to come during the 
 week. The store was closed up and, of course, was Aery dark 
 inside, I entered, the two men following. Having a box of 
 matches and a candle placed on the counter, I closed the door so 
 that the pedestrians outside could not see what was going on in- 
 side. The matches were in a round wooden box, which T picked 
 up, removed the top, taking out a match, striking it on the bot- 
 tom of the box, thus igniting the match to light the tallow 
 candle which we used in that day. One man said to the other, 
 " Did you see that? " •' See what? " " That man knock the 
 fire out of that box." •' Yes, I saw it, and am much amazed 
 at it. It was wonderful." Now, I had it in my power 
 
28 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 to deceive those men had I wished to have done so. They 
 inquired about it. I showed them the true light. They 
 bought a box each and the other goods as far as they had 
 money to buy, and went their way rejoicing. They were 
 servants of one Westly Bowling. I mention this merely to 
 show how easy it is for the blind to be misled, and well did 
 Christ know this when on earth, and knowledge is to be their 
 comforter. 
 
 I have said the Creator does not create us, as Adam and Eve 
 obtained the power by violating the law of the Holy Spirit. 
 Thus we are left to our own action in this wilderness, but Christ, 
 our brother, having great sympathy for us, marked out a plan 
 of redemption to which w T e are constantly moving, too. Oh, 
 what a comfort to look forward to that day when the lire is to 
 free us from the sin of Adam and Eve, and pass our bodies to 
 Christ to be born in the New Jerusalem, to dwell therein for- 
 ever, free from sin, free from thorns, free from briars, free from 
 brambles, free from thistles, free from toil, free from wars, free 
 from strife, free from wearied limbs, free from sin that brought 
 us out, free, then, with words of praise for our brother who 
 brought us in. 
 
THE END OF TIME. 
 
 A Vision of Wonders. 
 
 In my vision, I started from a level plain and passed through 
 all the verdure of life. I walked in a straight and narrow path 
 and saw and beheld all the loveliness of creation as it appeared 
 from the space in which I walked, for beneath my feet was the 
 earth and above me was all nature's work — one vast river of all 
 the material necessary to form the world, floating along in a 
 calm and quiet manner. I saw the seed as they fell upon the 
 ground, they possessing a small germ which seemed to take life 
 and come forth in the most delicate form. Had I set my foot 
 out of the path, it would have crushed its most fragile beauty. 
 I passed them by and moved on. 
 
 Just in front of me I spied a growing hill. Its base was 
 round, its surface was flat and about twenty-seven feet in cir- 
 cumference. It was divided into four quarters by distinct lines, 
 the lines running from the centre pole, which was one foot in 
 diameter and agreed in color with the four lines, which were 
 white, red, yellow and black. These lines were slightly raised 
 above the surface upon which I walked. When I reached the 
 top of the hill — which seemed to be rising very rapidly — the 
 twelve-inch centre, when I approached it, raised up twenty 
 inches above the surface of the hill, upon which I seated myself 
 and commenced my observations. I looked out along the white 
 line, which then, or at that moment, pointed due north. My 
 
30 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT 
 
 eyes passed over an immense plain or field of perfectly level 
 land. I saw gardens of trees loaded with fruit of all sizes and 
 of gorgeous hues, very inviting to the appetite. Amid those 
 trees I saw all kinds of roses perched upon delicate stems — 
 shoots from the parent stock. There was the Avhite rose, fully 
 twelve inches in circumference; the red rose, the pink, the violet 
 color; also a sky-blue, the crimson, which had all the different 
 colors in it. From these went out a stream of fragrance that 
 was odoriferous beyond description. Then there appeared the 
 lilies of the valley, and leaning over them was Solomon, the 
 wise, saying: " Ye toil not, labor not, yet ye are gorgeous." 
 
 The dial made one move; the white pointed to the east and 
 the red to the north, and as my eyes continued looking to the 
 north a new scene was presented. As I cast my eyes down, 1 
 readily saw that the mound had grown to a height of five miles 
 and was slowly rising in the scale of altitude which stood before 
 my eyes. Then I looked north again to behold the scene that 
 was to be presented. It was rapturous to the mind. The gor- 
 geous flowers had passed away, the trees with their fruit were 
 out of sight and the eyes had to rest upon the scene as it was. 
 I saw the waters of the mighty deep boiling and tumbling, 
 rushing to the right and then to the left. Then they seemed to 
 dive down as if to hide their presence from the sight. Then 
 they surged again, and seemed to rise up on a level with me 
 and disappear in the firmaments. This motion opened a vacuum 
 and the eye penetrated far below and beheld a flaming fire that 
 was sending the water high in the firmament. T looked at the 
 indicator and it marked a height of one thousand five hundred 
 and fifty miles. 
 
 Again looking, there stood one clothed in scarlet and having 
 Jn his hand a rod upon which there were figures which I could 
 
THE END OF TIME. 31 
 
 not read, owing to the extended enumeration. He raised the 
 rod above his head and smote the firmaments, and the water 
 gathered together and spread out and went in all directions. I 
 said to the man dressed in scarlet. "What does this mean?" He 
 was so busy figuring upon his staff, he made me no reply for 
 the space of ten minutes. Then he rested his rod upon the 
 substance he stood upon, looked up at me with a smile and said: 
 " How came you here?" Quickly I said: " I cannot tell you. 
 I am passing this way. and that is all I can say." His rod 
 moved above his head and I cast my eye upon the indicator. 
 It showed an altitude of six thousand miles. 
 
 I cast my eye around, for I was still seated upon my tube, 
 twelve inches in diameter, and I had not yet learned upon what 
 principle I was being carried up. though my tower stood as firm 
 and steady as when I first ascended to its summit. So I looked 
 down along the line of red marks and beheld the face of a 
 mighty fire whose flames reached higher than my seat, its base 
 being water. It made no smoke, looked bright like the sun, 
 but was shrouded with a silver appearance. 
 
 I again spoke to the man clad in scarlet, with his rod resting 
 at his feet. He looked at me and spoke, saying: "I now have 
 time to explain to you, and will take much pleasure in doing so. 
 I have been here over six thousand years, and you are the first 
 person that has come this Way that dared to speak to me. 
 When you first spoke the time was not out, so I could not 
 answer you. My motion is now equal to yours, and we will 
 travel a long distance together, and can speak of many things 
 of great interest to man, of whom you are. I could not talk to 
 you until you were six thousand miles from the garden you saw 
 when you first started out — your indicator teaches you that, 
 
32 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 which is correct — and as we are out of hearing of all below, 
 we can speak of what has been done and what is to be done." 
 
 Here I looked at the indicator. It marked eight thousand. 
 All was steady and firm. It now seemed to stand still and J 
 cast my eyes around and, behold, the man dressed in scarlet was 
 many miles below me, so far that we could not speak to each 
 other. He raised his rod, then moved it over his head, and he 
 was immediately upon a level with me. He again spoke to me 
 and said, " one diurnal evolution had passed and he had stopped 
 to register it and arrange for the change." He said, "three 
 thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years had passed and 
 the four thousandth year had commenced, in which there would 
 be great changes made.'" 
 
 My dial had now changed. The white line pointed south, the 
 red one east, the black one north, which indicated that darkness 
 hung over the universe. As we now had a full year to talk, we 
 conversed freely upon all subjects. I was very anxious to un- 
 derstand my indicator, so I asked many questions about it. 
 The white was pointing south, the red east, the black north. I 
 learned that the dial had to make two more turns before he 
 could explain to me the true purpose of the instrument, and for 
 this I would have to wait two epochs more. I was resting easy 
 and soliloquizing upon the future, and did not know which way 
 I was going, when my eye dropped upon the indicator and it 
 marked thus : 150732108765432106543210543210432103210- 
 2101010506030208010789. 
 
 I cast a wistful eye for the man clad in scarlet. He was not 
 to be seen. In looking up and down, I saw the sun, moon and 
 innumerable stars, all shining in gorgeous array, thousands of 
 miles beneath my seat. I wondered over the beauty of that 
 galaxy, or group, of amazing lustre. I thought I had been 
 
THE END OF TIME. « 33 
 
 carried to the seventh heaven, for it was a glorious scene, and if 
 a man had his pen dipped in the etherial skies he could not 
 paint its glory to the eyes, nor tell by language the beauties 
 there displayed. He would have to drop his pen in utter de- 
 spair beneath the weakness of surprise. 
 
 We then viewed the pedestal upon which we sat. It was 
 just twelve inches in diameter and stood without a tremor. The 
 dial I saw nothing more of. I turned myself around and looked 
 beneath my feet for it, but it could not be found. My twelve- 
 inch seat had assumed a height of ten thousand miles above 
 what was shown at the last indication. This was shown by a 
 new indicator to be ten thousand miles above the old one, and 
 if I was to go any higher the indicator said not. I was satis- 
 fied I was at the end of my journey, and began to look after 
 the shaft upon which I had ascended so high. I found it was 
 hollow and formed exactly like a bee's cell, only it was perpen- 
 dicular. 
 
 I moved myself a fraction to one side and peered into the 
 cavity, and to my great surprise saw a four-legged animal coming 
 up the inside. It pushed its head against me, raising me four 
 feet from my seat. I then became rixed upon the back of the 
 four-footed beast. It then stretched forth four wings, leav- 
 ing a space of two feet in the center. I sat in this space. The 
 wings moved and so did we. Its head was set north and it 
 moved directly toward the north star, it being thousands of miles 
 above all other stars. My carrier made but a short tour when 
 it began a circuit, and around it went, making four revolutions, 
 when it returned to the main stand, immediately entered and 
 sank down, leaving me sitting in my old position. 
 
 On my tour round the stand I saw the icebergs piled many 
 miles high. The beast spoke and said: "This is a part of the 
 
34 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 flaming sword, which acts as a fence, preventing Adam from 
 doing like the naughty boys at the neighbor's orchards — climb 
 in and steal the fruit." This fence, he said, was so high and so 
 chilly that man could not climb over it. Adam and all his 
 boys had to stay out and work for their bread. On the other 
 side, I saw a great lire whose flames reached half way up to 
 where we were, and sending its light far above us. 
 
 Upon the second circuit I saw the Creator sitting upon His 
 throne. Upon the third, I saw Christ sitting at the right of 
 the Father, and upon the fourth, I saw the Holy Spirit at the 
 right hand of Christ. I saw Enoch and Elijah and an empty 
 chair. This chair was for Eastland, but he had not yet arrived. 
 I saw the tree of life. The beauties of the garden, tongue can- 
 not describe. 
 
 I now sat h'rmly upon my honey-comb tube, and felt that it 
 had begun to descend. A cold and chilly sensation came over 
 me and I fell into a sleep, and when I awoke to my dream I 
 was at the dial first mention nd. Looking at it, I found it just 
 as I left it — the white stripe pointing south. While I was 
 soliloquizing, it made another turn and stopped with the white 
 pointing north, and soon it made another move and left the 
 white stripe south. It had now made one revolution. 
 
 I then I cast my eyes upon the earth and, lo, I saw a fire that 
 burned all over the earth, as well as the waters. The flames 
 were terrific and ascended many miles above the earth. Soon 
 I saw the waters were all dried up; the mighty deep had disap- 
 peared. I saw the mountains crumbling down; the rocks had 
 disappeared; the hills had sunk into the ocean beds. The base 
 of my tower was crumbling down and I feared that it would 
 tilt over. 
 
THE END OF TIME. 
 
 At this juncture the man clad in scarlet with the rod in his 
 hand, stepped forward and placed his rod against it and said, 
 M Fear not, it is now safe/' I asked, " What does this mean? ni 
 He answered, ''It is the end of time. Adam died to-day and 
 there is not a living creature upon the earth, in or out of the 
 waters.'' I said, " There is the earth ; I see nothing upon it; it 
 is barren, though all level; the ocean beds are tilled up and I 
 see not a hole or a sink; it looks like a garden just spaded up." 
 He further said, " It means the rebuilding of the new Jerusa- 
 lem, which would take place ere many weeks." I said, " Where 
 are the men to build it?" He answered not; I looked again 
 and saw six men clad in lilly white, walking upon the earth, 
 and he said, "Behold?" and I again saw them. They walked 
 steadfast, viewing the earth. They passed from the north to 
 the south, and then turned to the west and said, " This was the 
 broad road that lead to death." "Yes," said Christ, "this is 
 the ditch the blind that led the blind fell in all together. This 
 they had to do to pass through the gate, after death, to life 
 eternal. There is not a vestige to be found, the work is com- 
 plete," said Christ to the Father. He said this without a sor- 
 row, for he knew redemption was close at hand. 
 
 1 now viewed the scene with sorrow and spoke to the man 
 clad in scarlet. "Be of good cheer,' he said, "fear not, our 
 time will come; there is one cavity of gas not yet ignited." 
 
 Then 1 looked at my tower and saw that it was built of as- 
 bestos and could not take fire. Then I saw the scarlet dress 
 covered the body of Eastland, and he assured me I would be 
 cared for, and then he said, " Remember, it is said the last shall 
 be first," and then I understood and felt happy. 
 
 Then I looked for the garden which I had seen in the begin- 
 ning and there were the trees laden with fruit, I cannot say of 
 
36 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 what flavor. The trees were tall, like unto a cocoanut tree, the 
 fruit was larger than a cocoanut and looked as if mixed with 
 pure honey. All was quiet. I viewed the landscape over and 
 feasted my eyes as 1 had never done before. 
 
 I now felt the change was nigh at hand and I looked for the 
 man clad in scarlet. He approached my tower slowly and sadly. 
 By this, I saw the time had come for the last to pass, for well 
 did I know I was of the Adam race and there was to be not one 
 left. I closed my eyes and darkness surrounded me. The man 
 said, " The last shall be first," lifted up his rod, the gas ignited 
 in the asbestos tube and I dropped in. All was silent. One 
 dreadful hour passed, and I was in the spirit and the water. 
 Christ appeared at this moment, and I was again born of the 
 spirit and the water and Christ, free from the germ of Adam. 
 
 So I was the last and the first. Enoch, Elijah and Eastland 
 cared for me for a few brief days until I had my understanding. 
 They told me I was the last and the first. I waxed strong and 
 walked through the garden looking for my brethren. 1 looked 
 west, and behold, T saw a multitude coming that no man could 
 number. They soon landed and there was a mighty concourse. 
 All had been born again and were now in the New Jerusalem 
 and were brothers, every one to another. 
 
 And T beheld the tower go up again, and upon its four 
 branches stood Enoch, Elijah, Eastland and the First and the 
 Last, and the three spoke and told all things. Then the First 
 and the Last clapped his hands and the multitude did likewise, 
 and the motion of the feet was like unto a great rush of the 
 waters. The multitude turned around and the tube lowered and 
 again we were amid the happy throng and all spake and said we 
 are all here. Then there went up a mighty shout from the host 
 
THE END OF TIME. 37 
 
 and they clapped their hands four times. Christ smiled, and 
 so did the substantiators. 
 
 The First and Last looked upon his dial. The black had dis- 
 appeared and the colors were all of a golden hue trimmed with 
 lily white. It spun around with great rapidity and each point, 
 as it passed the north star hung a gorgeous dress upon smooth 
 rods which ran out in all directions, and all the brothers clad 
 themselves and walked about the garden gathering and eating 
 the fruits, and each one bore in his hand a boquet of flowers 
 more beautiful than language can express. These were heaped 
 at the feet of the Savior, each saying, " This is our gift." The 
 Savior bowed and smiled and reached out His hand as a token of 
 welcome. 
 
 This was the first garden, in which our childhood was spent. 
 Then we passed on to the second garden, which is called heaven, 
 where boyhood is spent. It is far more gorgeous than the first. 
 The trees were of a far more transcendant hue, the fruits of a 
 much higher flavor and richer — suited to the strength of the 
 youth. The flowers were much more brilliant, yielding a per- 
 fume beyond description. Again appeared the indicator that 
 gives the beauty and strength in figures. It required ten figures 
 to give an idea here. 
 
 In this garden we spent a space of time and we were given a 
 much more gorgeous dress than the one we wore before, and all 
 were happy as the indicator showed. 
 
 The dial again moved and passed us to another gate. This is 
 youth's garden. The eye was amazed at the canopy of this 
 garden. It was festooned with all the beauties of the Father- 
 land — gorgeous does not convey any idea of the decorations. 
 The indicator here marked one hundred and whirled majestically 
 upon its axis. We basked here beneath a bower of roses and 
 
38 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 feasted upon fruit of a silver hue. We drank nectarine from 
 the tubes of the honeysuckle and walked in the groves of pinks, 
 the fragrance of which the reader can have no conception, there- 
 fore the idea conveyed is very weak. 
 
 We have now made the third step and the indicator moved 
 up and pointed to the fourth gate. We moved on in greater 
 strength than before. Here we readied maturity and when 
 arrayed for this garden we will be fitted to wander to the fifth, 
 sixth and seventh. 
 
 This garden I cannot do justice to, so I will leave all to the 
 indicator. It registers one hundred thousand. From this you 
 may gather some idea of what it is. The indicator in the fifth 
 marked one million; in the sixth, it marked one hundred quad- 
 rillions; in the seventh it marked the same scale as it did on 
 my height, of which the following are the figures: 150732- 
 1087654321()f)54B21()54321054321082102105060eS02()80107Sl). 
 Ye mathematicians numerate it and tell how much and at what 
 height I was, for it may be you will never rise so high as the 
 P'irst and the Last did, but you will pass through the gardens, 
 not cultivated by hands, from the first to the seventh, and that 
 should be sufficient to make you happy and cause you to walk 
 in the straight road that your sorrow may be less amid the 
 briars, brambles, thistles and thorns, for you are now in the 
 wilderness, groping your way to the broad gate that leads to 
 death. This has reference to the death of Adam and Eve, which 
 must take place as they committed the unpardonable sin which 
 cannot be forgiven. 
 
WHAT IS TAUGHT AND ACKNOWLEDGED. 
 
 1. Honesty and purity of mind. 
 
 2. Live free from all stains of character. 
 
 3. We acknowledge Christ as the true source of power to 
 bring the body of man into the presence of the Father. 
 
 4. We acknowledge that without His aid we cannot reach 
 the Father again. 
 
 5. We further acknowledge that it is in Christ's power so 
 to do. 
 
 6. We do agree that the germ of Adam, from which we are 
 produced or derive our being, must die. 
 
 7. We acknowledge evolution in all things that were created 
 for sinful man, and that the same was created for righteous man, 
 but as man fell from his first estate it brought about evolution, 
 and thus Christ was sent to reinstate all things, as well as to 
 bring man to his first estate, thereby carrying out the original 
 plan of the Creator — the same being styled redemption. The 
 law for so doing is a fixed law, and it is given to Christ to exe- 
 cute. These eighteen hundred years He has been pointing us to 
 the way. We have been groping our way through darkness and 
 must continue so to do until the blistering fire renews our 
 
 spirits. 
 
 Then let us rejoice as we march along, 
 And sing the Savior's happy song. 
 
 Much comfort is to be gained by keeping his precepts. 
 
 8. We do agree that the rules laid down by Christ should 
 be followed by all mankind, 
 
40 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 <>. They ask nothing hut obedience to the law, and that was 
 all the father asked or wanted. 
 
 10. But man, Oh, man, he did not give it. ]N T ow He asks 
 you to look upon Him as the Kedeemer. 
 
 What is the greatest comfort to man that could be given? 
 
 It is to know that all mankind is to be saved in the New 
 Jerusalem by being born of Christ; born of the Spirit, which is 
 of the body of man after decomposition, dwelling in the firma- 
 ment amid the water and all other matter in the spirit condi- 
 tion or form. What greater comfort could come to man than 
 to know that all his family will be housed in that house not 
 made by hands, where the tree of life forever stands. Of man. 
 He exacted nothing but obedience, and that was what Adam and 
 Eve did not give, hence the journey through the cursed land 
 amidst the briars, brambles, thistles and thorns. Children, be- 
 Avare of false prophets, for there be many in the broad road that 
 leads to death. There will be many of you who will pass the 
 wide gate. Then you will be guided by that just and true 
 Spirit Who knows no sin. Having no evil to fear, He will lead 
 His ransomed multitude to the Father and the tree of life. Here 
 we will see and know that every atom of man's dust has been 
 redeemed, save the germ that died with Adam in the tire. Well 
 may it be called the renovating tire when it brings its legions 
 into the house of the Father to dwell in unison. What a 'word 
 is Unison. In a world where strife, sin and sorrow is not felt 
 or known, comfort, comfort beyond the conception of mortal 
 man who toils day after day for his bread, who has pains, who 
 has sorrows, who has fears within and without — he that dwells 
 amidst the briars, brambles, thistles and thorns. There could 
 not be greater comfort in this vale of sorrow. Here we 
 haw separations; here we follow our fathers, mothers, sis- 
 
WHAT IS TAUGHT AND ACKNOWLEDGED. 41 
 
 ters and brothers to the grave and see their bodies laid 
 in the silent tomb, not to remain there you can with com- 
 fort say, but they will soon rise in the spirit, from which 
 they will return to earth to till another body, to operate another 
 mind, to dwell among their kindred earning their bread. They 
 are not like unto the lilies, for they toil not, spin not, yet they 
 are clothed with the most beauteous hues of nature, although 
 they stand upon the accursed earth and smile in man's faee. 
 
 Shall we venture a description of the "New Jerusalem? It 
 will be perfect, without a fault, from east to west, from north to 
 south. There will be no tempestuous ocean to lash and beat its 
 shores, no rocky mountains to ascend, no dark and lonely val- 
 leys to pass, no gorges into whose depths the eye may fall, no 
 tornadoes passing with their howling devastations, no heated and 
 scorching siroccos to fear, no sandy deserts to cross, no howling 
 winds or whistling trees to cast a shadow athwart the mind, 
 no roaring of cannons nor sharp cracking of muskets to be 
 heard, nor to feel the war-horse's hoof. The rolling drum, the 
 shrill tife and the loud blast of the bugle will be heard no more. 
 All will be still and tranquil. 
 
Showing How isaiah*s Vision of the 
 New Jerusalem Can Be 
 accomplished. 
 
 The body and spirit and all things else are kept in motion by 
 evolution, alternating from one to the other, constantly, like 
 unto the water. 
 
 When the renovating fire takes place, which will be the end 
 of Adam's day, for then the germ of Adam ceases to live; then 
 the rocks, all metal, mineral, vegetable and animal matter will 
 be decomposed, evaporated, and enter the spirit land, or the 
 firmaments, in the spirit form, and unless the Creator here in- 
 terposed it would so remain, for all the germs of creation — cre- 
 ated for man's benefit —would be lost, or cease to act, which 
 will be at the death of Adam. 
 
 Then the mighty deep will be dried up and the earth become 
 the New Jerusalem. The earth will be new because it will be 
 renovated. All the sinful stains of Adam and Eve will be re- 
 moved. 
 
 Here I will give a short explanation that the blind may see 
 as well as comprehend: 
 
 When the fire dries up all the waters, consumes all the gases, 
 oils, etc., it will cease to burn, the same as it does in our fire- 
 places and stoves, and will die out for want of matter to subsist 
 upon. Then its opposite (cold) will cease to exist; the earth 
 will produce nothing, for a space of time, but will be like unto 
 
ISAIAH'S VISION. 43 
 
 a smouldering ash-bed; the sun will cease to shine, the stars 
 
 will cluster closely around the Father and Son, waiting for the 
 
 hour for the work to begin. 
 
 Silence will reign victorious, 
 O'er all that will be glorious. 
 
 Waiting, waiting, waiting. The dry waters now stand still, 
 tlif spheres move not; all are waiting, waiting, waiting. 
 
 for what ? 
 
 For the new creation — the new birth. The Son now arises 
 and goes forth, letting his germs now out amidst the dry waters 
 and the spirit, the new birth is immediately effected and the 
 children begin to grow. Then the stars radiate from the Father 
 and stand over the new births, and will give great welcome to 
 the new estate. There will be no blind to seek their destruction 
 by the stars; they will be led to the Father to receive the wel- 
 come with great applause. Then Enoch, Elijah, and the third 
 person spoken of in Holy Writ, will explain all things and lead 
 them to the tree of life. 
 
 During all this time, there has been no condensation of the 
 other spiritual matter. The Father, well pleased with the work 
 of forming the New Jerusalem, will now begin and carry it on 
 through evolution. The gold and other metals will be formed 
 in the sidewalks, the line stone will be converted into castles or 
 mansions, in which there will be many rooms for the accoinmo 
 dation of the inmates. There happiness will reign supreme, 
 with the entire family complete. All will be fed upon the 
 manna of heaven, not needing gold nor silver for exchange. 
 
 We now speak to the man in the wilderness, amid the briars, 
 brambles, thistles and thorns; u Be of good cheer, doino- unto 
 others as you would that they should do unto you; commit no 
 offense against the law. A greater offense cannot be committed 
 
44 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 than to refuse to earn your bread by honest labor." I here say 
 to all, " Take up the cross and bear it with patience until re- 
 demption comes." The fire we pass through is the representa- 
 tive of hell, though its time of coming is only as the twinkling 
 of an eye. We should rejoice at its approach and wait with 
 patience its coming as we do for the true light. 
 
 The devil is but the decomposing power, that goes up and 
 down like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. 
 
LESSON NO. 2, 
 
 Man's Duty to Christ During His Travel in the Wilderness, Compared with Those 
 of the Children of Israel on Their Exodus Through the Red Sea. 
 
 Man was loved by the Father, who had formed him after His 
 own image,, and looked upon him as an earthly father looks 
 upon his son. The latter has a yearning for his son's welfare 
 and future happiness; he toils under heavy labors for his good; 
 he lies awake at night planning and pondering over the things 
 of earth, in order to bring about a combination of circumstances 
 that some ease or comfort may accrue to his sons. He will rise 
 early in the morning and toil all the day that his son may have 
 bread to eat. This is only a command given that he is obeying. 
 Having violated the command, he willingly takes up the yoke 
 and bears his burden to the end. 
 
 For this we cannot give him praise, for it has become his 
 bounden duty, having violated the first command. When he 
 violates this command, misery and woe settled upon him and his 
 misery is two-fold greater; hunger stares him in the face; the 
 flaming sword cuts his liesh in the winter months and pierces it 
 in the summer months with its burning effects. Thus he is 
 harrassed, year in and year out, until his fire burns out and he 
 falls an easy prey to the devil, who is traveling up and down, 
 seeking whom he may devour, and he soon takes his place in 
 the firmament, or spirit region, where he is wafted by the 
 gentle breezes, or occasionally thrown into the whirlpool of a 
 
46 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 cyclone and hurried through space with all the fury of its ac- 
 tion. Again, he calmly awaits the planting of the germ to 
 which he is gently gathered and helps produce another creature, 
 we hope not like unto the one spoken of. 
 
 Have we told you what the devil is? It is the property which 
 enters all created things, save the earth itself, and destroys the 
 body of flesh, minerals, and vegetables. We will describe it as 
 living in fire and rust, which decomposes all things and sends 
 them to the spirit land. This shows evolution in all its forms, 
 and also teaches that the body and mind is in transit to the 
 New Jerusalem, which will be on this earth after it is purified 
 by the fire and the spirit is born (of the flesh) in the spirit and 
 water, which will be the result of the closing of Adam's day, 
 and must take place before all things can be fulfilled, spoken of 
 by the Creator — "And not one jot or tittle of his word shall 
 pass away until all things are fulfilled." 
 
 Then, man should look forward to this day as being fraught 
 with more comfort and happiness than any of all other days 
 allotted to him. This will be the crowning day of his glory, 
 and well might he shout "Hallelujah! hallelujah to the Lamb," 
 who brought him from chaos or outer darkness to the light of 
 creation again. 
 
 Yes, he should keep an eye at all times upon the second star 
 in the great dipper which has its mouth turned in the garden 
 as though it were in the act of dipping the last from amidst 
 the briars, brambles, thistles and thorns and returning him to 
 paradise. So let us murmur not as we tread the thistle down. 
 Let us w T atch the dipper and ever long for the promised crown. 
 
 Compare our journey with that of the children of Israel 
 through the Red Sea, whose waters divided, permitting them to 
 pass through to the opposite bank. There they sang, played 
 
 
LESSON No. 2. . 47 
 
 the timbrel, danced and were happy, thrice happy. When they 
 had crossed they were upon the same earth. They were sepa- 
 rated from Egypt only by the waters which were in the liquid 
 form. When we shall have passed through the liquid fire and 
 shall have been reproduced by Christ, no tongue nor pen can 
 but feebly one portion of the glories express. 
 
 The children of Israel were happy on their way, though they 
 had forty years in the wilderness to stay, and not a man save 
 two, the land of Canaan to possess. At the termination of oui 
 journey, all are to come in for an equal share of rest. Then 
 let us with tenacity hang on to the handle of that dipper until 
 the Xew Jerusalem be gained, for there the weary will find much 
 rest amid the bowery shades of paradise, where the golden 
 streets are made for our feet and the jasper walls for man's 
 retreat. 
 
 Gentle reader, could not we endure for ten thousand years 
 more to reach that blissful, happy, shore and there dwell with 
 Christ in unison forever more. Well might we cry aloud to 
 the lamb for us given. The Creator fed the children of Israel 
 upon manna, as he will feed us in the New Jerusalem. This 
 manna was the flour existing in the firmament and was con- 
 densed by his law and germ and was mixed with honey con- 
 densed by the same power. Hence it was said to be sweet. 
 It was made from pure flour which had been decomposed from 
 the wheat which grew upon the land cultivated by Adam, reaped 
 threshed and ground into flour from the grain, then decom- 
 posed and returned to the Creator's store house. 
 
 Thus we can clearly see how Adam had to earn his bread by 
 the sweat of his brow. The Creator, though being the germ 
 of the flour, could draw it into the lump form, mixed with pure 
 honey, and it was, of course, a very nutritious dish, and well 
 
48 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT 
 
 might the Israelite long for it all the days of his life. But it 
 was not to be so, for they were to enter the land of Canaan and 
 there cultivate as other Adamites did, and as they had done in 
 Egypt, where corn was cribbed in houses made with hands and 
 handed out for the gold and silver that it brought. 
 
 So we are plodding along at this day — the blind leading the 
 blind and they will all fall into the ditch, as Christ said when 
 in our midst. 
 
 Doubting creatures, have we not the Jews with us to-day— 
 a wandering part of the world, without a home as a nation, liv- 
 ing among the scattered nations, saying Christ has not yet 
 come — doubting, doubting, doubting. 
 
 The flood came and drowned all the antedelnvians, except 
 Noah and his family, after which was given the promise that 
 we shall be destroyed no more by water, but shall be by lire, at 
 which time " There shall not be one left; yea, not one." This 
 should be a welcome day to us for it is the last day of sorrow; 
 it will be the last day of our toiling for bread; it will wind up 
 the day of weeping; it will be the closing day of tribulation; 
 the last day of our waiting, when all will be hushed in silence 
 and man will rest from his labors. 
 
ITEMS OF IMPORTANCE IN BRIEF. 
 
 Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. 
 
 Forget not your promises to others. 
 
 Do your mental reservations where they are just. 
 
 Woman was not commanded to labor in the field. 
 
 Man was commanded to tramp down the briars, brambles, 
 thistles and thorns. 
 
 Work while it is day; sleep at night. 
 
 " Man, know thyself. 1 ' Blindness prevents him from so 
 doing. 
 
 Take up evolution and study it closely in all its movements. 
 The principle will teach you what you are. 
 
 Listen to the admonitions of the good. 
 
 " There are none righteous." All mankind bears the sin of 
 Adam. 
 
 All pass through the fiery furnace. 
 
 Think of the Hebrew Children. 
 
 Eve was the first to violate the law. 
 
 Christ was born of Mary; not of Adam's germ, but from the 
 germ of the Creator. 
 
 Bees do not make honey, they only gather it. Honey is con- 
 densed after the order of water; is taken up by the flowers and 
 shrubs belonging to the vegetable kingdom. 
 
 Sugar forms honey when evaporated. Honey forms sugar 
 when condensed and taken up by the vegetable. 
 
50 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 Iron is decomposed by rust, condensed near the surface of the 
 earth. 
 
 We burn gas and oil at night for light. The bowl of the 
 lamp is emptied. We say the oil was burned up. It was only 
 evaporated and went to the firmament, from which it is again 
 reproduced into the oil which is ready for lighting us another 
 night. 
 
 All animals and insects communicate each with the other of 
 the same family. 
 
 Bees are provided with scissors with which to cut and trim 
 up their work. 
 
 Working bees are dwarfed in the ovary. 
 
 The queen bee deposits the egg from which the worker bee is 
 raised. 
 
 A worker bee lives about sixty days after she goes to work. 
 
 The worker bee sits over the eggs and thus they are hatched. 
 
 They are sealed up in the cell to dwarf them in the dvary. 
 
 Bees are faithful servants to man and should be provided 
 with a house for which too much rent should not be claimed. 
 
 Some seasons honey is scarce, then rent should not be de- 
 manded. 
 
 Water is a blessing to man, though it sometimes destroys 
 life. Think, if there was none given, all lives would be lost. 
 
 (toM is a fine metal given to man for exchange whilst in the 
 wilderness. 
 
 Fine rock is cut out by the cutter in such shape as may be 
 wanted. In paradise it will be condensed in shape to suit man. 
 
 Man in paradise will be without sin, Enoch and Elijah were 
 born from the germ of the Creator which was without sin; 
 thereby they were tit subjects for the New Jerusalem. 
 
 The tree of life is protected by ice and fire. 
 
ITEMS OF IMPORTANCE IN BRIEF. 51 
 
 The earth is watered by the combined effects emanating from 
 ice and water. 
 
 Man is fearfully and wonderfully made. He bears upon his 
 surface a wonderful condenser; internally a great evaporator. 
 Thus he mores with force and precision. 
 
 Man is like the wind — tempestuous at times. 
 
 Dry water and the spirit move together, with great force, at 
 times. We call the action " cyclone " — terrific it is. 
 
 The children of Israel were fed on manna while in the wil- 
 derness. Forty years thus they traveled, a distance of eighty 
 miles; they toiled not. In Canaan they became the tillers of 
 the soil, and thus they eat their bread as other Adamites. 
 
 Without the true light you are blind. A ditch is the pas- 
 sage way, in or out. The blind leading the blind, all fall in the 
 ditch and pass in. 
 
 Good thoughts beget good actions. Vice versa, bad. 
 
 Eat when hungered. 
 
 Drink when dry. 
 
 Abstain from strong drink at all times. 
 
 Children, never quarrel .and fight with each other. Your 
 fingers were not made to tear the flesh of your brother. 
 
 Rise early in the morning; work rather than play ; be cheerful 
 and merry all the day, and thus pass your life away. Dance, 
 whistle and sing songs while you stay. 
 
 A sober and industrious man is a blessing to his family. 
 
 A full storehouse of grain gives comfort. 
 
 Plenty of corn makes fat horses. A fat hcrse plows the 
 D-round with ease. 
 
 A fat cow will give more and better milk than a poor cow. 
 
 A well-fried chicken is a wholesome dish. 
 
£2 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 Eggs are called the fruit of the fowl. When fertilized, they 
 produce young fowls. 
 
 Wild, bad and dissipated boys are but little comfort to their 
 mothers. 
 
 Always let your good acts predominate; it will be a comfort 
 to your mother. Mothers are very hopeful, and want to see 
 their boys make good men. 
 
 Life is short, at best. 
 
 Hope is a great lever that will lift you up from the mire and 
 clay. 
 
 Feed the decrepid and sick; let the strong feed themselves. 
 
 Gather wisdom from every flower. See their germs and 
 petals, how they work. From their labors you eat the peach, 
 the apple, pear and plum. 
 
 A slothful man never enjoys a bountiful hand. 
 
 Sow in time, reap in season, and you will not go hungry. 
 
 Be guilty of no bad acts, and when you come to die you can 
 die without remorse. 
 
 Be not wicked and the wicked will not be with you. 
 
 Contrast this world, with its briers, brambles, thistles and 
 thorns, with the New Jerusalem with its golden streets, its 
 walls of precious stones glittering like the sun at noonday, 
 
 And see if on this briery bed of thorns you wish to stay, 
 And wrestle with the devil a never ending, everlasting day. 
 
 Why is man like a fleeting day? Soon he passes and is not 
 
 here to stay. 
 
 Go be a farmer, was a command to me given. 
 
 Choice fruits grow in well-cultivated gardens. 
 
 Garden vegetables are much relished at the table. 
 
 Happy is the child that obeys its father and mother. 
 
 FiRb is a favorite food of man. 
 
ITEMS OF IMPORTANCE IN BRIEF. 53 
 
 Honey was much relished by Christ. 
 
 Christ had not where to lay His head, yet the kingdom was 
 His. 
 
 The devil is deceitful and attacks yon when you least expect 
 it. and at the weakest point. 
 
 Look out for yourself; others will not look out for you. 
 
 We do the will of our Father by obeying His laws. 
 
 To be happy we must have contented minds. 
 
 Look to others' comfort as well as to your own. 
 
 Rejoice not at the downfall of anyone; give such a consoling 
 word. 
 
 Keep your shop or field, and your shop or field will keep you. 
 
 Be not slothful in saving small things. 
 
 Small streams make large rivers. 
 
 A little dust gathered to the germ makes a large tree. 
 
 Take care of all you have and all you have will take care of 
 yon. 
 
 Fancy feathers make fancy birds. 
 
 (to to the spring without a murmur when the spring will not 
 come to you. 
 
 Flies are annoying as well as a great pest. They light on 
 your nose and disturb your rest. 
 
 Liars are not believed when they speak the truth. Cultivate 
 truthful habits. 
 
 Truth is mighty and wins the admiration of all good mothers, 
 daughters, and youth. Think of this and declare in its favor. 
 
OF TREES AND THEIR FORMATION. 
 
 I will first speak of the sugar tree — a tree so named on ac- 
 count of the sugar made from the water drawn from the tree. 
 
 All trees feed through their leaves, therefore the leaf is the 
 mouth of the tree and receives the nourishment necessary to the 
 growth of the tree. All branches or limbs of trees grow in 
 length from the extremity of the limb. The small branches, or 
 shoots, upon the limbs feed the body of the limb and the limb 
 feeds the trunk of the tree, and even the roots in the ground. 
 
 The fork of a tree never grows any higher from the ground 
 than it was when the fork was formed, except the expansion of 
 the limb. This teaches us that the tree grows from the extrem- 
 ity of the limb and feeds through the leaf. 
 
 I will return to the sugar tree. The sugar tree is known by 
 many as the maple tree. Of these there are two kinds, the 
 black maple, which affords the best sugar made, and the white 
 maple, so called from the bark being white with a smooth sur- 
 face. It is not much sought after for its sugar qualities. The 
 sugar made from this tree is fairer than that made from the 
 black maple; at the same time, it turns coffee or tea black. In 
 an early day, when the farmers had to make their own ink, they 
 gathered the bark from this tree, boiled it in water for about 
 fifteen minutes; then taking the bark out, some copperas was 
 added and the fluid boiled to a consistency proper for ink, a 
 
OF TREES AND THEIR FORMATION. 55 
 
 little sugar being added to give it a gloss. With this ink the 
 farmer kept his accounts, the daughters wrote to their lovers, 
 and the more it was like a crow's feather in color the better 
 it was liked. 
 
 The shoemaker also sought it to make shoe pegs. It is val- 
 uable for that purpose. 
 
 The black maple from which the best sugar is made, is rep- 
 resented in the picture of the sugar orchard. 
 
 Little boys and girls think themselves well treated when they 
 get a cake of tree sugar — then children should be really thank- 
 ful and do good to all. 
 
 I will now describe the method of producing sugar or sweet 
 water. In the summer, while the leaves are young and tender, 
 they are gathering from the firmaments the substance created 
 and placed in the storehouse of the Creator (the firmaments) 
 the matter which forms wood and thus produces a tree which 
 is of great benefit to man. 
 
 During this period honey is condensed, and, gathering upon 
 the leaf, is taken in through the mouth or mouths of the leaf, 
 passing into the wood substance of the tree that was designed 
 by the Creator for this purpose. As its germs have no affinity 
 for acid, the honey remains in the tree as saccharine, and is so 
 brought forth early in the spring, before the new growth begins 
 to form. 
 
 The body of the tree is formed with very small orifices or 
 vacuums running from the ground to the end of the limbs, 
 which act as receivers of the honey, like unto the bee cell formed 
 for that purpose in the hive. The wood substance or ligament, 
 is six or eight times as large as the cell in the tree. It contains 
 the fluid, or water, that is essential to get the saccharine from 
 the tree. In the spring of the year it requires the action of one 
 
EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 part of the flaming sword to accomplish this. Hence we must 
 have a freeze. Freezing the water in the tree causes the wood 
 furnace to expand. When the thaw comes contraction takes 
 place, leaving the water in the cell with the saccharine (or 
 honey). Then Ave cut through the cells near the ground, and 
 the water flows out, bringing the honey out with it. 
 
 Then the farmer causes the water to be carried to the sugar 
 camp (so called by the farmer). Here we find .cast-iron pots in 
 which the water is placed. A fire of wood is kindled, the water 
 commences to boil, tumbling and rolling over. By this heated 
 process, the water is evaporated from the pot, leaving the sac- 
 charine matter. The farmer dips this out, sets it aside in pails 
 and pans until it cools and settles, leaving the sediment or 
 earthy part at the bottom of the pan. He then drains it off 
 into a sack, made for that purpose. This is suspended over a 
 receptacle for the purpose of catching the syrup, for it is now 
 called syrup. When it passes through the sack, it is - called 
 straining. This process takes out all small particles of other 
 substances, not wanted in the sugar — for we are now going to 
 commence the process of making grained sugar. This is done 
 by returning the syrup to the iron pot, beneath which the 
 farmer's son kindles a Are and the process of boiling again 
 commences. Skimming now becomes necessary to further 
 purify the sugar. This being accomplished, the cooking pro- 
 cess is continued until it is pronounced "done" by the judge, 
 who is most frequently the farmer's wife. Then it is poured 
 into a pan greased slightly with butter to cause the sugar to 
 leave the sides and bottom of the pan when it is cool and hard. 
 
 It is now ready for use and is often sold to merchants, thus 
 becoming an article of merchandise as well as a great favorite 
 
OF TREES AND THEIR FORMATION. 
 
 among the consumers. It is often made in small cakes that re- 
 tail for tive cents a cake, of which children are very fond. 
 
 Thus I complete the process of sugar-making from the tree. 
 There are many other stalks and roots which gather honey and 
 yield the same to man, after a certain process. All given for 
 man, and yet he will not understand and moves on blindly. 
 Fear not, children; the blind lead the blind and they will all 
 fall in the ditch and be saved. After being born of Christ 
 they will all have the same power that Christ has to condense 
 the necessary food, or reach forth the hand and partake of the 
 nectarine, drawing it from the store-house tilled by the Creator 
 and kept for His children. 
 
 How mean a father it is who does not keep his store- house 
 full for his children. He loves his children and will labor with 
 a prof used face to store bread for his offspring. 
 
FRAGMENTARY THOUGHTS. 
 
 Let us look to the broad gate that passes to death, for many 
 there be that walk therein. 
 
 The gateway herein mentioned is as wide as the universe that 
 will rush its millions in through the fiery furnace of death, to 
 take place at the closing day of Adam. Adam by this act loses 
 his identity as well as his life in the germ. 
 
 The narrow gate and the straight way that leads to life with 
 few there be that find it, clearly has reference to Christ, Enoch, 
 Elijah and Eastland. The latter one has not yet found the 
 gate but will before the close of Adam's day. The word spoken 
 will be ready to be fulfilled. Out of the mouths of two or 
 three witnesses, all things shall be substantiated. These wit- 
 nesses will testify to the children of Christ, born of the dry wa- 
 ter and the spirit of man drawn from the firmaments through 
 the power of the germ of Christ, by this act making it possible 
 for the flesh and bone of man to return to the garden of Eden. 
 
 This act shows that the germ of Adam is left behind and for- 
 ever lost amidst the fiery furnace as Adam had committed the 
 unpardonable sin for which he could not be permitted to re- 
 turn to the presence of his Father. Christ redeems the flesh 
 and carries it back with all the chattels given to man for his 
 coin fort as he passes through the wilderness. It is a long and 
 tedious journey amidst the briers, brambles, thistles and thorns. 
 
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 Added to this are his labors in sowing, cultivating, reaping, 
 threshing and mixing his bread. ISTor was this all. He had 
 to hew, chop, and saw in order to make houses in all directions. 
 Then he had to spin and weave to protect his body from the 
 cold wave as well as the scalding heat, The Creator gave him 
 water to cool the dry and parched earth. He gave him seed to 
 plant, that would gather the flour of bread from the firmaments 
 in such a way that man could get that which was necessary to his 
 life and comfort. 
 
 Let us observe the motions of the earth. It revolves once 
 every twenty- four hours, which gives day and night. Its an- 
 nual motion is up and down, rising to its highest point in mid- 
 winter and falling to its lowest point in mid-summer, varying 
 from east to west, on a calm motion in order to pass the pro- 
 pelling power at the center points. Thus the sun inclines from 
 east to west. At the highest point the firmament is most com- 
 pressed; at the lowest point it is most expanded by the heat 
 which emanates greatly from the fire at the antipodes; vice 
 versa, with the icebergs of the north and east. 
 
 This I claim, shows evolution in every act and motion, and 
 only by evolution can man be redeemed. 
 
 TVe will again speak of the seven pointers, or the great dip- 
 per. By its position, we see that it has been dipped into the 
 outer world to bring man back to the garden. It revolves 
 around the garden once every twenty-four hours, and thereby 
 marks out the circumference of the garden. This is represent- 
 ative of the Creator, Christ, the Holy Spirit, Enoch, Elijah and 
 the third person spoken of, who stands yet outside of the 
 circle. There stands woman next, with her small progeny by 
 her side, and Adam last, thus completing the great dipper which 
 is to land us in the glory land once more, safely housed from 
 
BO EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 the sorrow of this long travel in the wilderness where we have, 
 through faith, worked out our pilgrimage amid the briers, 
 brambles, thistles and thorns. 
 
 Christ laid down the law so plainly that none can feign blind- 
 ness when the word is made clear through knowledge gathered 
 from evolution. 
 
 So let us draw the veil from over' our eyes and see clearly 
 our home in the New Jerusalem, eating bread, not made by our 
 hands, living in houses not made by hands, walking on streets 
 paved with gold, riding in chariots not moved by steam or rest- 
 ing on iron rails, but which will glide swiftly through space at 
 lightning speed from city to city. 
 
BEE CULTURE. 
 
 To be able to care for bees, it is far better to know something 
 of their habits. To know their habits, you will do better to 
 commence with the germ and thence grow up in your knowl- 
 edge of the bee. 
 
 We will commence with the fertilized bee — the only bee of 
 the kind in the colony. A good, strong colony of bees should 
 contain thirty thousand worker bees. One of that number 
 must be raised differently from the others. She is known 
 among bee men as the queen bee. She is hatched from the 
 same kind of egg that the worker bee is hatched from, but is 
 raised in a different cell. The worker bee builds all the cells in 
 the hive. Hence they have to build a cell in which to raise a 
 queen, or fertilized bee, or more strictly speaking, a bee to be 
 fertilized. In order to do this, the worker bee builds a cell 
 apart, at some convenient place in the hive, and attached to the 
 honeycomb. The cell is built perpendicular, with the mouth of 
 the cell hanging down. The upper part is built about half an 
 inch long, tapering to a point from half way of the entire 
 length of the cell. The lower half is made the same size of all 
 the horizontal cells and is round. In this cell the worker bee 
 takes a fresh laid egg and places it in the upper portion. The 
 worker bees cluster over the cell, so as to keep it at what is 
 known as " bee heat," which is said to be eighty degrees. In 
 live days the egg hatches and sends forth the germ of a bee, 
 
62 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 covered with bee mucilage. In this condition the germ com- 
 mences to gather the bee flesh. In five more days, it about 
 half fills the cell. The worker bee seals the cell with a very 
 tough paper. The young bee continues to grow until the cell 
 is full. The time required for the purpose is about eight days. 
 The bee has now so matured that it has strength enough to use 
 its scissors, and, cutting away the paper, conies forth a full- 
 grown bee. In from three to five more days, the queen bee is 
 ready for the necessary fertilization, which comes from the male 
 bee, known as the drone. When this act is performed, the 
 drone deposits in the ovary of the mother bee two spermathea 
 sacks tied together by a small ligament, The male dies imme- 
 diately. The mother bee returns to the hive, enters and is cared 
 for and shielded from her deadly enemy — the other mother bee. 
 If, perchance, they come together, the death of both bees will 
 often be the result. They will not fight or sting anything else 
 than a mother bee. Should it happen that they meet in a deadly 
 fight and both are killed, the colonies will both die out in sixty 
 days, as that is the lifetime of a bee. 
 
 If all goes right the mother bee goes out, followed by a cer- 
 tain portion of the bees in the hive. I once knew the old bees 
 to go out and leave the young bees in possession of the hive. I 
 will not say, for certain, that this is a general rule, as I have 
 known the young mother bee to come out with the colony and 
 go to the new home. I have known my bees to come out 
 settle, and soon go back to the hive. When this is the case, 
 you may be assured the mother bee could not fly, would fall 
 near the mouth of the hive and crawl back, to wait for another 
 day. They most frequently wait two days before trying it the 
 second time, 
 
BEE CULTURE. 63 
 
 This failure sometimes happens from a crumpled wing, which 
 is caused in the cell in the hatching process. When this is the 
 case you can, by going to the parent hive, find the mother bee 
 on the ground. Be careful you do not set your foot upon her. 
 If you find her, pick her up with care, for she is very easily 
 hurt, and if hurt you will lose your colony. If you manage all 
 right,, carry her to the hive and put her in, setting the hive 
 close to the new colony. The worker bees will go in without 
 any further attention. 
 
 The worker bee is raised in a horizontal cell and is thereby 
 dwarfed in the ovary. Thus they are enabled to carry a sack 
 of honey from the field to the hive. The egg that produces 
 the worker bee is the same as the egg from which the mother 
 bee is produced. The mother bee can deposit from eighteen 
 hundred to two thousand eggs per day, and has it at her will 
 to deposit from either side of the ovary. The egg is not fer- 
 tilized until it is deposited, or in the act of depositing it in the 
 cell. So we can readily see that while the fertilizing matter 
 conies from the male, the mother bee has it in her power to 
 deposit from either side of the ovary, one side producing the 
 worker and the other the male, or drone, who does not go to the 
 field to work. His work is done by him as well as by any bee 
 in the hive. He has no sting. (Here is where the female got 
 in her work in the garden and stung the human family and 
 caused the thousands to groan upon the earth.) The female bee 
 has a powerful sting. 
 
 The male bee always sounds the slogan, or march, for a new 
 colony. He only lives about forty days, and this is the life 
 allotted to him. The worker bee lives about sixty days. The 
 mother bee lives from three to seven years. These calculations 
 
64 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 are based from the period of maturity, as the actual birth of the 
 bee dates from the time when it cuts itself out from its cell. 
 
 The moth does not kill bees. The mother bee dies, and the 
 colony, having no means of perpetuation, dies out and then the 
 miller deposits its eggs. They hatch in a few days and go to 
 work in the hive, and when the owner sees no bees at work he 
 looks in the hive, and with a great exclamation says, " These 
 worms have killed my bees." So he goes blindly to work to 
 build a hive that the moths cannot get into. Here we will give 
 an illustration: If all the males of our race were dead, yea, 
 not one living, what would become of the race? All would die 
 out in less than sixty years. Then let a new race come into 
 existence, knowing no more of us than to see our bones lying 
 about our houses, and entering them should see spiders, bats 
 and bugs all around, they would say, "Look! those insects have 
 destroyed these people or this nation." If that were to take 
 place, then Adam's day would end. It will take place when the 
 great fire comes. 
 
 When you go to hive your bees, smoke your hands and face 
 with rags, then smoke your bees and they will rarely ever sting 
 you. Bees will work in various kinds of houses. You must 
 learn the best hive from experience. The house must stand up- 
 right; a horizontal hive is not suitable for bees, nor is any house 
 that is too large for thirty thousand. This is from the fact that 
 they have to keep the house warm enough to hatch the eggs, 
 and they will keep all the bees in the house in order to keep up 
 the requisite heat. Then, there being no hands at work in the 
 fields, the crop is lost, starvation comes and death follows. 
 
 Do not charge your bees too much rent, late in the season, 
 as they have no method of making honey and only gather it, as 
 
BEE CULTURE. 65 
 
 you gather your crops, from the field. If you went to the field 
 and there was no corn there, you would have to return empty- 
 handed. 
 
 Negligence to plow and plant begets this state of affairs. 
 Honey is condensed from the firmaments. It is saccharine 
 matter evaporated ; condensed in the flowers and on the leaves of 
 the trees. Many trees yield no honey from the fact that their 
 leaves drink the honey as soon as it reaches them. This is like 
 many boys and girls who swallow down the honey as soon as it 
 reaches their hands, and some eat until it makes them sick. The 
 leaf that has a rough surface drinks in the honey. The leaf 
 with a smooth surface on top retains the honey until the sun 
 comes out and causes the honey to enter the leaf. So the bee 
 has to be there very early in the morning to get any honey. 
 Flowers retain it much longer than a leaf, from the fact that 
 the sun does not penetrate the flower. 
 
 Bees lying out in front of the hive are no indication of their 
 wanting to swarm. They are bees that are nursing the young, 
 and when they come out it shows that the bee heat is too great, 
 and they leave the hive until wanted in the night, as it becomes 
 cooler. They are like the blanket at the foot of the bed — to be 
 drawn up when it becomes cooler. 
 
 There are droughty years in honey. This is to the bees as a 
 drought is to us. Our crib is empty on account of the drought 
 — the bee hive is empty on account of the same thing — the bee 
 having no power to make honey. So when a drought in honey 
 comes, do not forget and demand more rent than your bees can 
 stand to pay, and if they have none to spare, take none. With- 
 out the bee to gather the honey, we would have none. Honey 
 is the purest saccharine we can get. Christ was fond of honey 
 and referred to it when speaking of his food. Christ was the 
 
66 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 purest of man, free from the sting of woman. Having taken 
 on mortality, he had to die in order to save the flesh of man. 
 Now that is accomplished, we must wait with patience the 
 return of Christ when we will born us of his germ, thereby 
 making us fit subjects for the New Jerusalem, where we will 
 not need bees to gather the honey, for it will be gathered by the 
 Father and given to the sons of Christ. 
 
 Oh, where will that sting be? It will be there as docile and 
 meek as it was before it was removed from the side of Adam. 
 It will be lovely and smiling in its place, seeking not to tempt 
 man, but aiding to give him strong will power to live according 
 to the law and obeying all prohibition edicts. This is all that 
 man could ask; it is all that he could wish for; to be freed from 
 the stino- of the briars, brambles, thistles and thorns. Then he 
 will have the beautiful New Jerusalem to walk in and not a 
 of i ig to fear from the briars, brambl :s, thistles and thorns. 
 
DEDICATION. 
 
 It is common to write a preface to a book, small or large. I 
 choose to do differently and dedicate this book to those into 
 whose hands it may, by chance, fall. It is common to dedicate 
 churches and other buildings for State purposes. It is also 
 common to lay a corner stone and deposit coins, papers, etc., in 
 a trough cut in the stone for that purpose. All this I leave 
 undone and simply say, Reader, this book is written for you and 
 its wonderful truths are for your comfort, as well as yonr bene- 
 fit. Its errors are not for either. If you find any such, pass 
 them by. I have no argument upon the subject. The book is 
 dedicated to you and I leave it entirely with you as well as to 
 all mankind. W. W. DUNN. 
 
THE MIND. 
 
 This subject is the hardest of all subjects to write upon, as it 
 is of such varied hue. In speaking of the mind, it must be 
 done by comparison. We can conceive of no other method, 
 hence there has been but little said upon the subject, only in 
 the way of education ; that is, to cultivate the mind by imi- 
 tating the acts of others. Students will .spend weeks, yes 
 months, rehearsing what others have said or done. This is 
 imitating our predecessors and is not working out our own 
 problem. The work cut out by our problem is to take up our 
 saw, hammer and square, and saw, square, and hammer together 
 a box, or house, as our mind dictates to us, making it to please 
 the mind of others. To do this necessitates the waste of much 
 material and time, etc. Writing is after the same order, and if 
 we commence to spin a thread as fine as the spider's web, and fail 
 to bring the two ends together, man, seeing this, should take 
 up the thread, tie on the weaver's knot, and continue the work 
 until something is accomplished. It only required our Creator 
 six days to create the world and the fullness thereof. It requires 
 man thousands of days to gather the flour and other ingredients 
 to make a cake which a few hungry children can eat in twenty 
 minutes. 
 
 Man's head is tilled with innumerable cells, some large and 
 some small, hi these cells the light of man is gathered, and, 
 as the cell is tilled, thus shines the light; and where a ray of 
 
THE MIND. 
 
 light goes out from those cells it must rest upon something, 
 and then, like the little bee, when it has tilled its honey sack, 
 returns to the hive and deposits its load in the cell. So 
 should the ray of light return to the head and with great care 
 deposit its gathering. Thus, year by year, the cells of the head 
 should be filled, and it is very clearly illustrated in the case of 
 the giving of the talents to man. Thus we show by this that 
 the mind evolutes. It goes out and returns again, like unto 
 Noah's dove when it left the ark. At- first it found no resting 
 place for its feet and returned, a* much as to say the waters 
 were not yet evaporated. The second time it went ont, it re- 
 turned with an olive branch, as much as to say it had found the 
 top of a tree. Noah knew it would not do to yet open the ark 
 and turn the beasts out into the water. 
 
 It must have been a very sad scene to Noah when he came 
 out of the ark and saw that all the inhabitants of the world 
 were gone — not one to be found. Then, I imagine, he turned 
 himself to his family and sent out a ray of light which cen- 
 tered upon his family, returning with this consolation to him: 
 " Through you we will people the earth once more by bringing 
 back that vast amount of human matter to the earth, once more 
 to walk and talk, to think and see, and thus dwell until the great 
 renovating fire comes, when there shall not be one left." Shall 
 the scene be more sad then than it was with Noah? No; it 
 cannot be as sad, for there are none left to witness it all. All 
 have passed away. The mind has ceased to act and has become 
 the spirit in the firmament. There it will calmly rest until the 
 coming of Christ, when it will return again in childlike form. 
 In this case there will be no sad scene to be commemorated — 
 nothing known until the three witnesses come forth and tell us 
 all things. 
 
70 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 Mind is a matter we all possess in one degree or another. It 
 was created by the Creator, as was the corn, grass, rocks, silver 
 and gold, and was placed in the storehouse, with all other mat- 
 ter, in the spirit form. Then He created the stalk, in which He 
 placed the germ, which becomes the condenser, or collector of 
 the spirit, bringing it into the body. Xext, the devil was 
 created, which was to be the decomposer of the body, or rather, 
 of all bodies. I will say the mind was created a spirit, which 
 is not visible to the eye, until condensed in the stalk — which is 
 man. Man, then, being the stalk possessing the germ, gathers 
 the matter (mind) into the chambers destined for that purpose, 
 from which man's knowledge must flow. It goes out like the 
 waters from the spring, but often becomes like the waters of the 
 river — -muddy. 
 
 I will now return to the head of man, who carries this mind, 
 and see if we can bring forth a ray of light. We have dark- 
 ness, as well as light, and, as darkness predominates, we must 
 bring light from darkness. So we must begin at the outside 
 and work into the light — if the light we find. Follow me 
 closely, that you may learn the facts of the mind. It is like 
 evolution, or a ring. Round and round it goes to the begin- 
 ning. As I have said that I would begin at the outside, then I 
 will begin like the miner who digs for gold, passing through the 
 outer case to the inner case, where the gold is found. 
 
 Let us examine the head in which the gold we are looking for 
 is to be found. The head is covered with countless hairs, which 
 I will call conductors, through which the mind matter passes 
 to the skull of the head. There it is deposited by the conductor 
 upon the bone of the head. By the bone it is taken into the 
 inner cells, which are as numerous as the ideas of man, There 
 
THE MIND. 71 
 
 each cell receives its proportion of matter, fertilizing the germ 
 therein, causing it to bring forth light to man. In this way 
 the brain is the weighty portion, each cell being timed in unison 
 with another, like the piano. The brain becomes the performer, 
 and strikes with a gentle stroke each key communicating with 
 a cell, thereby producing the thought which communicates with 
 the tongue. The tongue sends forth the sound to others, and 
 by this method we communicate our thoughts, or otherwise let 
 them pass silent, when they are only known to ourselves. We 
 mark them on paper with pen or pencil in characters which 
 others, skilled in the mechanical art, can comprehend and thus 
 learn the sound given. 
 
 I will now return to the hair and speak more of it. I have 
 laid it down as performing the grandest function of man, and 
 yet it adorns man with more beauty than anything else he has 
 except the eye. Man is a melancholy subject without the eye, 
 and here I will venture the assertion that the eye is fed, as well 
 as protected, by the hair. Through the hair which surrounds 
 it, its light giving power is continued, and if man wishes to 
 strengthen the eye, he must do it through those agents. Hairs 
 die upon the head, as do the limbs upon the tree, and when 
 dead they give no more food to the mind, nor eye, nor does 
 another grow in its place, and, in proportion, those organs suffer 
 loss, thereby becoming impaired. Thus we are taught how r 
 carefully we should treat the hair. If one is plucked out while, 
 alive, it leaves the germ of the root in its place and another 
 hair comes to supply the loss and perform the functions of the 
 first hair. A dead hair can be known by its root being black, 
 and when plucked out draws the gerrn with it. 
 
72 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 Thus we are taught how careful we should be with our hair. 
 Never mat it up with any kind of grease, for it throws off oil from 
 the head. It should be carefully washed every day and never 
 subjected to the curling tongs, as ladies often do to make them- 
 selves look more handsome, not knowing that they are laying, 
 or bringing about the cause of idiocy. The hair of idiots fails 
 to conduct the mind matter to the inner part of the head, the 
 cells are empty, and when the brain strikes the key the sound 
 is communicated only in a conglomerated form. In other cases 
 idiots heads fail to have the cells complete, and when the mind 
 matter is conducted to them it mingles together in one large 
 cell, and when the brain strikes the key, it gives one conglome- 
 rated sound in which there is no intelligence, either to them- 
 selves or others. If the head is perfect, the mind might be 
 restored by raising the scalp and removing the futile matter 
 from the skull, leaving it in such a condition that the perfect 
 matter could pass to the cell. This, I would say, could not be 
 done with an old person, but might be in childhood, while the 
 germ of the cell is still alive, which, I imagine, lives for some 
 years. 
 
 With sorrow, I speak of a young lady who stopped at my 
 hotel for the purpose of treatment. Her mother accompanied 
 her, and had come, with some hope, from quite a distance. The 
 honest doctor said no relief could be given and the mother had 
 to return without future hope. The girl was sadly demented. 
 She had been, in early life, a girl of wonderful mind, excelling 
 all her schoolmates in learning. But, alas, the fatal blow came 
 and the mind was deranged. I will say this girl might have 
 been partially restored — by this, 1 mean, not to the fullness of 
 mind. 
 
 As I have before said, the mind is fed through the hair of 
 
THE MIND. 73 
 
 the head and acted upon by the brain. The brain, being the 
 motive power, strikes the key that connects with the silver cord 
 that gives action to the tongue, or, rather, the sound passes out 
 through action of the tongue. The tongue being charged with 
 electricity, like unto, the telephone wire, the sound goes forth to 
 the ears of others. To help sustain this theory, I will speak of 
 the youth of our race. A boy's voice is sharp and shrill up to 
 about the time his beard begins to grow, and then it becomes 
 hoarser and much stronger than it was in his youth. We say that 
 the beard was given to the male that his voice might be made 
 stronger than the female, and so in this I aim to show to the 
 mind that a double cell is formed, or, rather, one formed over 
 the other so, at the age of beard, a double sound is given 
 which adds much to the strength of the voice, as well as 
 to the intellect. The beard becomes a feeder to the under 
 cell. Without beard the voice is not apt to change, and, in 
 case the voice does not change, the defect is the same as in 
 the idiot child. Here I will say that typhoid fever stops the 
 flow of matter to the cells proper, and they become empty — 
 hence, partial insanity for a short season until the patient 
 regains vitality, then the flow of matter resumes. As a matter 
 of proof of this, I will state that the voice of the female, who 
 has no beard, never changes only in tits of hysterical passion, 
 then it is more shrill than usual. 
 
 We deem this sufficient to call forth investigation from others, 
 and if we have erred, we will say, u young ladies, curl your hair 
 with the hot crimping iron, or rather tongs.' 1 I think the hair 
 around the outer part of the scalp is the greatest feeder to the 
 mind, as those cells lie mostly in the lower part of the head, 
 hence a bald man does not lose so much by his baldness. Keep 
 your hair clean by washing it daily with Peet's toilet soap. I 
 
74 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 mean Peet, of Kansas City, and his best toilet soap. It is not 
 expensive, and is used in many hotels. 
 
 I will now speak of the canine tribe and their knowledge. I 
 claim they have reasoning powers, and I cite this instance to 
 show it: On the 1st day of December, 1858, in company with 
 twelve other men and four dogs, I set sail in a prairie schooner, 
 the sail power being two mules. We steered for the Horse-shoe 
 Bend of the Brazos, in which we spent some days in hunting 
 deer and turkeys. One of the party was named Pain, a Tennes- 
 seean by birth. I will have occasion to speak of him again, 
 further on in this article. It was winter time when we crossed 
 the Brazos, very early in the morning; the snow was coming 
 down from above so heavily that we could scarcely see fifty feet 
 ahead of us. Pain, Hazlerig, and the writer were detailed to 
 hunt, as our supply of meat was well-nigh exhausted, and, as we 
 were considered the best hunters, we were sent out that the mess 
 might have venison and turkey to eat that night. The heavy 
 snow-storm did not last long, and we soon marked out our route 
 of march. Hazlerig was to go to the left, Pain in the center, 
 and the writer to the right. We moved off, as arranged. Soon 
 the writer found he was lost, and he steered his ship into Pain's 
 beat and said to Pain, " I cannot navigate my craft in this snow 
 alone, so I will hitch on to your rudder and see what luck we 
 will have." On we moved, side by side. All of a sudden 
 Pain's eye caught sight of a four-spiked buck. With the sight 
 the gun came down, and with the coming down of the gun came 
 its report and the deer fell to the ground. We started up to 
 see how he laid and found him on his side, batting his eye like 
 fury. I said, " Pain, hold on; there's danger in that fellow. 
 Let me give him a ball in the head.'" No sooner said than the 
 ball was on its way, entered the head, quieted the eye, and 
 
THE MIND. 75 
 
 stilled the nerves of that buck for that day. The work of pre- 
 paring him for hanging upon a tree was soon accomplished, 
 and, as soon as we had marked the surroundings on the mind, 
 so as to find the deer, we moved on. " What is that we hear? 
 It is Hazlerig's gun; he has a deer! " was ejaculated. We 
 moved in the direction of the sound. Bang! went the gun, 
 and bang! again, iive or six times, in rapid succession. We 
 then answered by a shot, and on we moved, when we spied 
 Hazlerig. Pie was seated on a maiden doe and completely lost. 
 We soon cleared his head of the kinks, prepared his deer, hung 
 it up, and started for camp. When we arrived at the camp, we 
 found the boys in a stew, mixed in a deep ravine, two hundred 
 yards from wood. tk Why did you get in this ravine? " " We 
 thought the Indians would not be so apt to find us here." Pain 
 and Hazlerig took a mule and went after the deer and I moved 
 the boys out of the ravine into the woods, arranged a camp, and 
 set the boys to chopping down some dead post-oak trees, when 
 I heard one of the boys, who was a limb of the law, swear he 
 had not come out to clear up the forest. Nevertheless, he 
 tugged away at the dead tree until it was on the ground. The 
 fire was kindled, the deer soon came in, and all hands were busy 
 until venison was in the pot. Then they sat down and told 
 hunting narratives until the cook said, " Come, boys! " 
 
 Then, with one grand rush, we circled the pot, 
 To fill our stomachs with venison hot ; 
 For weary were our limbs from whence we strolled, 
 And the works of the night we have not yet told. 
 
 Now, reader, we will pass from this hunting ground further 
 down the Brazos. We passed through an oid Indian town 
 where the camp-poles yet stood to mark the place of their 
 abode, We passed on to the new hunting ground. At this 
 
76 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 place we found no game, so we soon set out for the fort again. 
 Late one evening we spied two deer out upon the prairie, a few 
 hundred yards distant. At this point we were going to turn to 
 the left and down some three or four hundred yards to 
 some timber, to camp. Pain was ordered to take his gun and 
 try for a shot at the two deer. His shot-pouch was lying in the 
 feed trough, so that all the balls had run out in the trough. He 
 gathered up his gun and pouch and started after the deer. 
 When in range, he fired, but only broke the deer's leg. It 
 hopped off a short distance and laid down. Pain poured in 
 some powder and felt for a ball, but found none, so he had to 
 return to camp without any further shooting. At camp, he 
 said he had broken the deer's fore leg, and, if any one would 
 go with him, he would take the dogs and soon catch it. So I 
 volunteered and off we went, saying: "Boys, have us some 
 supper when we return," which we thought would be very soon. 
 A mistake it was, for it was four o'clock in the morning wiien 
 we got back. 
 
 Now prepare for the dog sense. When I crossed' the road, I 
 stuck up a large dead weed, to mark where to turn for camp as 
 we returned. On we went, and soon the dogs jumped the deer 
 and away they ran, we following at the top of our speed to keep 
 in hearing of the musical notes of the dogs. Miles and miles 
 we made before the dogs caught the deer. When caught, they 
 soon dispatched him, though they did not cease to bark, for they 
 knew we were behind. So they continued to bark and w r e con- 
 tinued to run in that direction. I sung out to Pain, who had 
 his tongue hanging six inches out of his mouth, " Here is our 
 road we will travel on in the morning." Pain said, kk Ya," and 
 on we went at full speed. In a very rocky branch, in which 
 there was no water, we found the dogs and the deer, the deer 
 
THE MIND. 
 
 cold and stiff. The dogs ceased barking as we arrived. They 
 reasoned that it was not necessary to bark any longer, for they 
 had the deer and we were there, so they laid themselves down 
 to rest. We prepared the deer, fed the dogs upon the offal, 
 and hung the carcass upon the same kind of a tree as Zacheus 
 climbed to see the Savior as He passed by. Then, with the dogs 
 in advance, we started for camp. Arriving at the road spoken 
 of. I pulled up some liax weeds and laid them cross-ways in the 
 road to mark the place, or point, to turn off for the deer. Here 
 I noticed the dogs standing on the hill-side above us, and look- 
 ing a> if they wanted us to come that way. We thought we 
 knew all about it and went our way along the road. For miles 
 we walked, only to learn that we were lost and could not lind 
 our way to camp. Eventually we turned back, the dogs going 
 ahead of us. About a mile back, we came to a place where the 
 road forked we were upon. The dogs scampered down the new 
 road, as much as if to say, " This is right, come on;'' but we did 
 
 not think so, and would not go. but continued on the same road. 
 
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 The sky was clear and the stars were bright. I said " Pain, do 
 you know the seven pointers?" " Xo," was the reply, "Do you?" 
 " No,' 3 was the answer. If we had known them, we could have 
 found the north star and then we would have known which way 
 to go. But we did not know them and continued lost. So it 
 is in all cases, gentle reader. The night was much robed in that 
 part of the naming sword which rested on the north and east of 
 the garden, and we, being on the outside, had to stand it that 
 night and continued to walk to keep from freezing. And we 
 did walk, and our faithful dogs would not forsake us, but went 
 with us on every turn. So we wandered over our lirst ground 
 again. In returning to the fork on our right, one old dog ran 
 
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 down that road iifty yards, stopped, turned his head in the di- 
 
78 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 rection of camp, and stood looking at ns and whining, as much as 
 to say, " You are lost; come this way." I said, " Pain, let us go 
 this road a piece and see what it looks like." "Agreed," said 
 Pain, and we moved off. As soon as we started the dog started 
 off in front of us, seemingly in great glee. We stopped and the 
 dog stopped and stood as at first. Then we moved and the dog 
 moved as before. Soon we found we were on the right road to 
 camp. Then we wished to learn for certain if the dog was try- 
 ing to lead us to camp. We continued to test the matter by stop- 
 ping. The result was the same each time, so I said, "Pain, 
 this shall be the final test. You know I stuck up a weed at the 
 turning off place. If the dog goes to that weed and stands 
 there until we come up, and starts in the direction of camp, it 
 will be positive evidence." This he did, and at four o'clock 
 we arrived at camp. Many are lost for the want of knowing the 
 seven pointers and will wander out of the Garden of Eden until 
 four o'clock in the morning. 
 
 I have said more upon the subject of the mind than I set out 
 to say, but if any good comes to my fellow-man from it, I will 
 be well paid for the labor, and, if no good comes from it, it will 
 be like seed sown upon hard ground, or the rocks, but I think 
 it will teach young ladies to stop curling the hair of their head 
 with hot iron tongs, and cause young men to stop putting oil 
 upon their hair, and cause them to clean the hair daily, that it 
 may be open and ready to perform its functions. Look at the 
 African — how he strives to straighten his hair — and view his 
 intellect at the same time. Here I will venture a prediction 
 which I made at the close of the late war, and it will be on 
 account of the white man not complying with the law of the 
 Creator, at the time spoken of, or at some future time. That 
 was by not sending the African to his native land, which the 
 
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 Creator made for him, and where He made him to be. My 
 prediction is that a more bloody war than the war of 1861 to 
 1865 was, will grow out of the disobedience of this act. This 
 beino- true, our nation should strive to send him home, that he 
 may improve his fatherland. I am friendly to the African, and 
 would give him this little book to be a guide. 
 
 T will return to the mind in a mechanical point of view. 
 The application of steam was imitation; so are electrical 
 works in all their parts. The mechanical part was to control 
 and thereby cause it to give a benefit to man. This required 
 skill and judgment of man, such as few possess. The mind had 
 to radiate and return with its cargo and store the same in the 
 mechanical cell. I will not attempt to name those various cells, 
 but they are numerous, and I may say that in many heads there 
 are cells that never receive a ray of light and are returned to 
 him that gave them, empty, with the saying, " I learned you 
 were a hard master and exacted much of man." Those cells 
 shall be given to others who will make an effort to store in them 
 as the little dwarfed bee does, making its cell and carrying upon 
 its back the form thereof. 
 
 We class the mind as a substance which is very hard to con- 
 trol. It is like the waters of the mighty deep; it is like the 
 sun that gives us light; it is like the stars of a dark night; it 
 is like the silvery moon. In the evening of life it sends forth 
 not a ray but appears tranquil and silvery-like. 
 
 Thus we end this thread, and hope some better head will take 
 
 it up and add thereto, and not do as the poet said: 
 
 Man's inhumanity to man 
 
 Makes countless thousands mourn ! 
 
 By this thread, lift him above, 
 
 Man for man, let him love. 
 Let us raise him by our birth ; 
 Man, created here on earth. 
 
MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN 
 
 A DIRGE — BY ROBERT BURNS. 
 
 When chill November's surly blast 
 
 Made fields and forests bare, 
 One evening, as I wandered forth 
 
 Along the banks of Ayr, 
 I spied a man, whose aged step 
 
 Seemed weary, worn with care ; 
 His face was furrowed o'er with years 
 
 And hoary was his hair- 
 Young stranger, whither wanderest thou ? 
 
 Began the reverend sage ; 
 Does thirst of wealth thy steps constrain, 
 
 Or youthful pleasure rage ? 
 Or haply, pressed with cares and woes, 
 
 Too soon thou hast began 
 To wander forth, with me, to mourn 
 
 The miseries of man ! 
 
 The sun that overhangs yon moors, 
 
 Out-spreading far and wide, 
 Where hundreds labor to support 
 
 A haughty lordling's pride ; 
 I've seen yon weary wintry sun 
 
 Twice forty times return ; 
 And every time has added proof 
 
 That man was made to mourn. 
 
MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN. 81 
 
 " O, man, while in thy early years, 
 
 How prodigal of time ! 
 Misspending all thy precious hours, 
 
 Thy glorious youthful prime ! 
 Alternate follies take the sway, 
 
 Licentious passions burn ; 
 Which tenfold force gives Nature's law, 
 
 That man was born to mourn. 
 
 " Look not on youthful prime, 
 
 Or manhood's active might ; 
 Man then is useful to his kind, 
 
 Supported in his right ; 
 But see him on his edge of life, 
 
 With cares and sorrows worn, 
 Then age and want — O, ill-matched pair ! 
 
 Show man was made to mourn. 
 
 " A few seem favorites of fate, 
 
 In Pleasure's lap caressed ; 
 Yet think not all the rich and great 
 
 Are likewise truly blest. 
 But, Oh ! what crowds in every land, 
 
 Are wretched and forlorn ! 
 Through weary life this lesson learn, 
 
 That man was made to mourn. 
 
 " Many and sharp the num'rous ills 
 
 Inwoven with our frame ; 
 More pointed still we make ourselves, 
 
 Regret, remorse, and shame. 
 And man, whose heaven-erected face 
 
 The smiles of love adorn, 
 Man's inhumanity to man 
 
 Makes countless thousands mourn. 
 
 " See yonder poor, o'erlabored wight, 
 So abject, mean, and vile, 
 Who begs a brother of the earth 
 To give him leave to toil; 
 
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 And see his lordly fellow worm 
 
 The poor petition spurn, 
 Unmindful, though a weeping wife 
 
 And helpless offspring mourn. 
 
 " If I've designed yon lordling's slave 
 
 By Nature's law designed, 
 Why was an independent wish 
 
 E'er planted in my mind ? 
 If not, why am I subject to 
 
 His cruelty and scorn ? 
 Or why has man the will and power 
 
 To make his fellow mourn ? 
 
 " Yet let not this too much, my son, 
 
 Disturb thy youthful breast ? 
 This partial view of humankind 
 
 Is surely not the best. 
 The poor, oppressed, honest man 
 
 Had never, sure, been born, 
 Had there not been some recompense 
 
 To comfort those that mourn. 
 
 " O, Death ! — the poor man's dearest friend- 
 
 The kindest and the best ! 
 Welcome the hour my aged limbs 
 
 Are laid with thee at rest ! 
 The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, 
 
 From pomp and pleasure torn ; 
 But, Oh, a blest relief to those 
 
 That, weary-laden, mourn ! " 
 
 I 
 
W. W. DUNN. 
 
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
 
 The writer of this little book thinks it not out of place to 
 make a short biographical sketch of his travels through life. 
 He knows that it is not a common thing for a man, yet living, 
 to write his own history. He will endeavor to give nothing but 
 what is true, and will rarely speak of his own faults, for no man 
 likes to have his faults paraded before his eyes, and the good- 
 ness of the Creator will not cause your errors and faults brought 
 before your face. So, look not for my faults, but merely what 
 I have said and done during my sojourn in the wilderness, and 
 as I, with a clear conscience, do believe I am nearing the end 
 of my pilgrimage, when this mind and body shall cease to act 
 in the flesh, but will be perpetuated in the spirit land until some 
 germ of the human family shall claim it for a season, and so on 
 until the closing scene of Adam's day. Then I shall go in with 
 the flesh and be born of the germ that knows no guile. Then 
 the mortal shall put on the immortal and be clothed in all its 
 beauty. 
 
 My first birth was May 6, 1822. I came to the light of the 
 world in Washington county, Virginia. I was born of woman — 
 one that was said to have been lovely, lowly, and meek, doing 
 the will of the Father as nearly as she knew how. Death 
 claimed her on February 4, 1825, leaving myself and four 
 brothers and sisters. Father then was the shield and 
 
86 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 garden. On February 3, 1836, he was also taken. Then I 
 was in the world without parental care. 
 
 With boyish instinct I breasted the storm, wielding the hoe, 
 the axe, the scythe, the cradle, holding the plow, and not for- 
 getting the rifle, which was my boon companion when the 
 squirrel hunt came on. I was a number one shot at a squirrel. 
 I made the wonderful shot, so much talked about among the 
 hunters, to kill a squirrel by shooting its eye out without break- 
 ing the skull. This I did. The next great shot I made was to kill 
 a blue- winged humming bird, on the wing, with the rifle. That 
 I also did, leaving nothing to be gathered up, save one wing. 
 
 I was quite an expert when it came to fishing, and here 1 
 will give you an account of one night's fishing in what was 
 called the " Sinking Spring." About the spring of 1843, two 
 Methodist preachers came to tarry for the night with us. I 
 asked them if they would like to have a fish-fry for breakfast. 
 " Yes," was the quick response. I said to my brother, whose 
 name was Jacob, " Let us catch up our horses and go to the 
 Sinking Spring and see if we can catch some fish for the preach- 
 ers." I have forgotten their names, though I think one of them 
 was named Pane. It was about three miles to the Spring. We 
 arrived there after dark and found four boys fishing there. 
 Their names were Powers, and they were neighbors to us. I 
 said to them, " How are the fish biting?" " Fine$" said one. 
 u Well, I come to fish for the preachers," said I. One of the 
 party ejaculated, " I think you will have good luck." I baited 
 my hook, cast it into the spring with a good sinker. It was 
 soon deep down in the blue waters, for the spring was very 
 deep- -two hundred feet or more. Just as it became steady I 
 felt a quick jerk that told me I had a fish. Out it came, and 
 into my rock fort it went. The fort was a small barricade I 
 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 87 
 
 had hastily made of rock to contain my fish. In went the hook 
 again and out came another fish, and so on, in rapid succession, 
 until my fort, or pen, was full of floundering fish. From the 
 time my hook went in the Powers boys never had another bite 
 nor caught another fish. After my pen was filled I said to one 
 of the Powers boys, " Here, take my hook and pole and fish for 
 the preachers and see what luck you will have, and I will string 
 my fish." So he fished with my rod and hook, and threw out 
 the fish as fast as I had done. After I had finished stringing 
 my fish I said, " I will take my rod and line." He handed 
 them over, and again I was pulling them out as fast as my hook 
 sank in the water. Powers then said he could catch fish with 
 his own hook, and, taking line and hook from his pocket, made 
 it fast to the pole, baited the hook, and dropped it into the 
 water. He waited for half an hour and didn't as much as get 
 a nibble, while I was throwing out fish as fast as I could bait 
 my hook and throw it in. Jacob caught fish all the time. The 
 Powers left in disgust. We caught about three hundred and 
 left for home. The preachers enjoyed the account of the trip 
 and demolished the fried fish for breakfast. I must say they 
 were fried by old Eve, a colored woman, and a good cook she 
 was. The boys often said she could make good soup of hickory 
 chips. 
 
 I went to Scott county in the summer of 1838. In Sep- 
 tember, 1839, I attended a revival meeting, conducted by Izara 
 Drake, a Methodist preacher. It was held about one mile from 
 Osborn's ford, on Clinch river. The meeting lasted for* nine 
 days and the Scottites flocked in from all parts of the county. 
 Over four hundred joined the church. I was among the first and 
 continued a church member for quite a number of years, always 
 expressing doubts in regard to religion, but was too weak in my 
 
88 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 mind to look for myself. So I had others look for me. Drake 
 often met me and would talk to me about preparing for the 
 ministry, and I thought much upon the subject, and did com- 
 mence studying for that purpose, but I gave it up in the spring 
 of 1845 and went to work, in good faith, to provide myself the 
 necessary goods of this wilderness to make life a happy one. I 
 found the way very hilly — some days up and some days down. 
 I managed to keep my head above the water and continued to 
 pull for the shore. So I did not become a preacher, or a beggar, 
 but by the sweat of my brow, up to this hour in the day, and, 
 through my exertions, will, until the last hour of the day. 
 So I say, friends, be of good cheer and weed out your own 
 
 patch and study your own case as you pass along, and Christ 
 will bring you into the fold, though you will have to pass 
 through the rire. Fear not; have not a doubt, and you will 
 pass the scene and enter in at the west gate of the garden. Re- 
 member, Adam and Eve went out at the east gate. This is 
 evolution of itself, and through evolution you can behold all 
 things to come. 
 
 Evolution is my theme and evolution is my song, 
 And by evolution we join the happy throng ; 
 Beyond the fiery gate we pass to our estate, 
 Never doubting, always holding fast, by faith. 
 
 Time had now brought me to about my seventeenth year. 
 I was living with a widow woman, by the name of Cowden. I 
 had engaged to work with her husband, Hiram, prior to his 
 death, until I was twenty-one years of age, for which I was to 
 have one year's schooling, a horse, saddle, and bridle, a suit of 
 clothes, and fifty dollars in money, all of which was a great 
 comfort to look forward to, for when my labors were heavy and 
 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 89 
 
 the sweat was profuse upon the brow, I would look forward 
 for the things with joy, and, with much glee, think of a rider 
 upon my tine horse, with my ow T n saddle and bridle. Yes, I 
 would think how my line suit would glisten in the summer's 
 sun and how the fifty dollars would jingle in my pocket. I 
 thought how I would make some country maid's heart ache to 
 be riding by my side. So I toiled through with this pride, 
 doing my duty whatever it might be, except breaking flax. 
 That was a holy terror to me, but I had a good excuse. I had 
 then hired an old man by the name of Sins, who had lost one 
 leg. So I always told the widow I could not take his work from 
 him, as he followed breaking flax for a living. By this means 
 I escaped working the flax break. 
 
 Those happy, happy days were spent upon the banks of the 
 Clinch river, Scott county, until the fall of 1844. Then I went 
 to Castlewoods, Russell county. There I boarded with one 
 Nathaniel Dickenson, and went to school. The last days of my 
 schooling were in the spring of 1845. I worked mornings and 
 evenings and on Saturdays to pay my board while attending 
 school. Then my graduating day came and I hired to George 
 and Bone Gray to drive a wagon and work a small farm about 
 a mile from Lebanon, Russell county. The Grays were mer- 
 chants. In the fall of 1845 I bought a few goods from them, 
 procured a wagon, and off to the mountains of Kentucky I 
 drove. I sold goods for three months, after which I returned 
 to Scott county. There I peddled for seven or eight months. 
 I fell in with a brother peddler, who was working for a man 
 named Adam Hickman, of Abingdon, Virginia. We put our 
 wagons together and made a little store-house on Moccasin 
 creek, Russell county. Here I sold goods, read medicine, drove 
 hogs, etc., until about Christmas, in 1846, at which time I 
 
90 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 closed out my business and volunteered to go and fight the 
 Mexicans for the United States. 
 
 On March 10, 1847, I left Abingdon on the stage for Lynch- 
 burg, a distance of 205 miles. We pushed our way through 
 snow and mud to Lynchburg. There we took a canal-boat for 
 Richmond. There were three of us in company, A. McCorkel, 
 M. Hooser, and myself. We volunteered in Company H, First 
 Virginia Regiment. On the 22d day of February, we sailed 
 from Fortress Monroe, destined for Mexico. On the 9th 
 of March, we landed at Brazos de Santiago, Texas. Thence 
 went six miles to the Rio Grande, and thence to Matamoras by 
 steam- boat. Here we tarried for three days and then started 
 for Camargo, a distance of five hundred miles by river. Ar- 
 riving at Camargo, we rested about one week and then started 
 on foot, up the San Juan river, for Monterey, nothing of much 
 importance transpiring. We spent some time at Walnut 
 Springs on the way. 
 
 We remained in Monterey until June, when we left for Sal- 
 tillo and Buena Vista, arriving there on June 13th. The regi- 
 ment camped at these points until the thirteenth of the next 
 June, (1848), when we left for home. Retracing my steps 
 over the same grounds and waters, I landed in Abingdon the 
 10th of August, 1848. After three days rest, I went in and 
 took charge of a dry goods store, with a half interest. We had 
 a good trade and made money. Noble I. McGinn is was the 
 kind friend that gave me the start and trusted his means in my 
 hands. In a few T months I had given such satisfaction, that he 
 proposed to sell out the stock to me on my own terms. T thought 
 it important to have a partner, and called upon a young man of 
 <mo<l business qualities and offered to take him in. He had no 
 money, but he had good sense and could work. He accepted 
 
AUTOBIOGRAPH. 91 
 
 my proposition, and the firm of Dunn <k Henritze was estab- 
 lished. We had a fine trade from the jump, but I being of a 
 restless turn of mind, could not stand what I thought a con- 
 fined place like a store, and I imagined that I could see heaps of 
 shining gold for me in California. The feeling grow stronger, 
 day by day, until I could stand it no longer. I said, " I must 
 sell out and go and see the gold diggings. " So Mr. McGiiinis 
 bought me out, and 1 was soon ready to be off. This time, I 
 was overpersuaded by my uncle to change my destination and 
 go to Tazewell Courthouse, Virginia, in search of gold. 1 
 yielded and went to Tazewell to sell goods there. I made some 
 money. While there [ did many things to unearth the hid- 
 den gold. At first, I sold goods, after which 1 sold clocks for 
 about three years, and a good salesman I was. I cleared about 
 fifty dollars per day. Here I had struck gold, sure, and worked 
 like a hero. Many was the Yankee trick I did. I will relate 
 but one. One day I was driving along a ridge in Russell 
 county, soliloquizing where and how I could sell a clock. I 
 hove in sight of a neat little log-cabin and drove up to the gate. 
 I jumped out of my wagon and walked in with the salutations 
 of the day. I said, - I have a few clocks in my wagon for sale, 
 and seeing you have none, would be glad to exchange one with 
 you." •• What do you want to exchange for! " said the gentle- 
 man, for such he was. ;; Oh! for gold, gold; for gold," said I. 
 The terms were soon agreed upon and the clock, brass as it was, 
 commenced ticking. Tick, tick, was the sound. The sweet 
 wife and gentle hostess looked happy, yea, thrice happy, for they 
 had been one but for a short period. 
 
 " I believe I will buy my father a clock. He lives some dis- 
 tance from the road and doesn't often meet with a chance of 
 getting a clock," said the gentleman. In a few moments by 
 
92 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 the first clock, the second was sold for the father. The good 
 wife had dinner ready by this time, and I ate a hearty one of 
 snap beans, corn bread and buttermilk, and then, with a pleasant 
 smile, I bid them adieu, drove around about six miles to the 
 father's, found a well-to-do man, sold him a clock for himself 
 and one for the son, on the ridge, and went on my way rejoicing. 
 A few days after the son said, " Wife, I will take father's clock 
 over to him." The same morning the old man said, "Mother, 
 I will go over to John's to-day, and carry his clock along." 
 Accordingly, the two bundled up their clocks and away they hied 
 for each other's homes, meeting about the halfway tree. They 
 said, <• Good morning! " " Good morning! " " What's that you 
 have under your arm?" "A clock I bought for you the other 
 day, when one of those peddlers came along." " What's that you 
 have wrapped up in a sheet? " " Is's a clock I bought for you." 
 The twain burst into such a fit of laughter that a hunter ran 
 up to learn what it meant. " Nothing," they said, " only a 
 Yankee trick. A clock pedler sold me and my son four 
 clocks." They exchanged clocks and went home to bear the 
 news to their wives. 
 
 After this I drove horses, played sheriff, and so on, and 
 returned to the counter. I was postmaster for Uncle Sam, at 
 Tazewell Courthouse, for three years, and taught Sunday school 
 during the time, went fishing and had rheumatism well nigh 
 unto death. 
 
 In 1851, while at Tazewell, I was engaged to be married. 
 From various causes my intended was induced to return 
 the betrothal ring, thereby breaking the engagement, which 
 remained so for some months. I traveled with a sad and heavy 
 heart, refusing all offers by friends to attempt a reconciliation. 
 The hours passed slowly, many of them being spent in reading 
 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 93 
 
 and hunting. The matter was slowly passing from my mind. 
 My appetite was better, my sleep was soothing and the feeling 
 of former days was returning. I laid upon my cot to rest. 
 Soon the .world was shut from the mind and I slumbered in a 
 quiet and peaceful way. Suddenly I awoke, and opening my 
 eyes, about one foot away, there sat my loved one, plain, clear 
 and distinct. She was dressed in a green calico dress, a black 
 apron, with strings one and a half inches broad, one end of a 
 string in the left hand. She was picking and frazzling the 
 string with the other. I lay for some time watching her, until 
 every form of her dress was stamped upon my mind. Know- 
 ing that I was upon my cot, I could not think she was there, so 
 I determined to put forth my hand and see if it was a vision or 
 not. So I reached forth my hand. She did not grasp it, but 
 disappeared. 
 
 The next morning I told my partner I should get a letter 
 from my Emily that day. Sure enough, when the mail came 
 the letter came. The seal was broken and its contents soon 
 learned. It was after this order: 
 
 " Excuse me, I fear to write but my conscience forces me so 
 to do, and I cannot appease it by doing otherwise. Will you 
 see me? If so name the time and place." 
 
 THE ANSWER. 
 
 Emily: Yours of the has been received — a welcome 
 
 message. I will see you at your father's house on — day. 
 
 W. W. D. 
 
 When the meeting took place the renewal of the vision already 
 related was most perfect, save that when I put forth my hand 
 she grasped it with a joyful smile which was reciprocated by 
 W. W. D. In a few months we were made one. Happy was 
 
94 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 our union, though short. Eleven years I trod the wine press 
 alone, through many scenes of a varied nature. 
 
 In the spring of 1858, I went, in company with others, 
 eighty-five miles to the Guyandotte river, for the purpose of 
 hshing. I labored excessively and caught some line fish. After 
 spending live days fishing we set out for home. We took a 
 trail across a mountain, the way being so steep we had to dis- 
 mount and walk, in order that our horses could ascend. De- 
 scending, we found the same trouble, and we were compelled to 
 make about four miles on foot. This was too much foot exer- 
 cise for me, and it caused an attack of rheumatism that came 
 near carrying me to the other stage of existence. One day, dur- 
 ing its time, my friends had no hope of my staying. I came 
 through, and about the middle of August was able to be about 
 among the pilgrims in a business capacity, and in the last of 
 September, in company with my father-in-law, Robert Gillespie, 
 and his family, set out for Texas. 
 
 The trip was made in wagons, and it required two months to 
 make it, the distance traveled being eleven hundred and twenty- 
 seven miles to Fort Worth. Gillespie settled seven miles south 
 of this place. I remained here until the ninth day of Feb- 
 ruary, when upon the hurricane deck of a very fine mule, I 
 hoisted sail and turned the bow south — the rudder stood toward 
 the naming sword. Calmly and quietly, I sailed through Hills- 
 boro, Waco, Bel ton, Round Rock, San Gabriel, New Bran nf els, 
 and came to anchor in San Antonio for a few days. Thence I 
 sailed west for Castro ville, where I furled sails for the night. 
 Next day I made a short run, passing through a German town, 
 and anchored on the banks of the Saco, where I tarried for the 
 night. I laid on the prairie with two schooners bound for El 
 Raso. In the morning, before the sun appeared in the east, sail 
 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 95 
 
 was unfurled to the gentle breeze and I was soon in Uvalde, 
 where I spent one day, tacked ship, set the rudder west and 
 started for the east, stopping on the waters of the Hondo, in 
 Medina county. Here I bought a quarter section of land, sold 
 my ship and took passage in a small schooner in the service of 
 the United States, via San Antonio, Seguin and Victoria to 
 Powder Horn. There I took a steamer for Galveston and New 
 Orleans. From the latter place I set sail for that port in Taze- 
 well county known as Tazewell Courthouse. 
 
 Here I spent the summer and in the fall was ready for another 
 overland trip to Texas, which I made in company with one hun- 
 dred and lifty emigrants. 
 
 During the time of preparation for this second trip, I vaci- 
 lated, thinking it hard to leave the fieshpots of Tazewell, where 
 I had a great many friends. In a restless mood, one day, I laid 
 myself clown to rest. My mind was wandering. I knew not 
 what to do. A voice, which 1 did not know, spoke and said: 
 " (to, and be a farmer, and I will he with you." I came and 
 located upon a farm. The year 1860 was the dryest year I 
 have ever known in Texas. I plowed deep, sub-soiled,, and I 
 planted and a finer crop never grew upon the face of the earth 
 than it was, while my neighbors raised not a nubbin. 
 
 I could not be content upon the farm, so I sold out and 
 embarked in mercantile pursuits again, which proved a complete 
 failure, and I lost all I had. I again combined farming with a 
 tannery and did well, closing up the business with about eight 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 The memorable times of 1861 cut a great gash in my finances 
 and left me on the outside of an old mule with a slow gait. 
 This was a sad dilemma, but, however, there was something good 
 in store for me yet, as evolution brings back the same fruits, 
 
96 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT 
 
 year after year. So I said the waters that are in the ocean 
 to-day may be going into the firmaments to-morrow, the next 
 day be condensed and return to water the dry earth, thereby 
 bringing manna to feed our thirsting minds. So it was. I was 
 made a tanner by the law and was furnished with means by one 
 Charles Turner, in Smith county. I located, sunk a tan yard, 
 and commenced making leather that the barefooted might be 
 clothed. In this I did well, and came out, after the big fight 
 was ended, with fourteen thousand dollars to divide between 
 Turner and myself. My tanner and myself were Union men, 
 that was we were opposed to slavery from principle, and happy 
 were we when the war closed. 
 
 I had married, during the war, one N. J. Center, who was 
 known to be a Union woman, and it came well-nigh costing me 
 my neck, or life. She died after the close of the war, leaving 
 me two boy children — Bascom and William. William died in 
 a few years, but before this, I had taken to myself a third wife. 
 We have no offspring. She yet lives. Her maiden name was 
 Parker, but was named Gant by her first marriage. She had 
 two daughters — Josie and Ada, now both married and doing 
 well. Bascom is twenty-four years old and is yet single. We 
 are, at this writing, keeping the Mansion Hotel, which covers 
 five-eighths of a block of ground and is worth about $125,000. 
 I now write on the third floor, at the east window, where I can 
 look out on many green trees and houses of many colors, and 
 see, in the distance, the banks of the lovely Trinity river, with 
 its beautiful fringe of trees. 
 
 The name k < Trinity " signifies something great. Trinity — 
 three in one. The words, with us, we think, have only barely 
 begun. Trinity — look the land over and you will scarcely find 
 such another name. The world, the nations, the rocks, the hills, 
 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
 
 were begun by the Trinity. Man, with woman, violated the 
 edict given by the Trinity, and thus caused the close of man in 
 the first estate. 
 
 He is to perish in the Holy Trinity's renovating, purifying fire, 
 
 And thus bring erring woman and man a step or so higher } 
 
 Now, by the powers of the Trinity, they are nearing the holy land, 
 
 In which they are by the Trinity destined united to stand, 
 
 Although they have long been aliens from the throne. 
 
 Yes, they are now swiftly gliding on to their last home. 
 
 Long, long in the wilderness did they sadly roam. 
 
 Thirsting and panting for the Trinity's fair and happy home. 
 
 What a happy time it will be, 
 
 When by a glowing fire we will be set free ! 
 
 Its glowing heat we should gladly meet, 
 
 Thus to be borne away to walk the golden streets. 
 
 Through the Trinity, we will hail the fire with delight, 
 
 And pass the word with all our might, 
 
 And thus we will hail the Trinity's happy light. 
 
 AVhen the fires take place and you and I are again born of 
 Christ, it will be a glowing theme to know that it was His 
 scheme. 
 
THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. 
 
 Reader, if you are the son of a man that has all the comforts 
 that money can give to the sojourner, and you have free access 
 to it, and your father should issue a prohibition edict to you, 
 forbidding that you should drink of the intoxicating liquors of 
 this land, and saying, " If you violate this injunction, I will 
 turn you out among the sorrows of the land, where you will 
 have to earn your bread and raiment by labor performed by 
 your own hands, and you no more shall enter my house," and 
 hearing this, you violate the law, and then hear the sentence, 
 " Go from my house and live for yourself," and you say, 
 " Father, forgive me," then the mind of the father has sym- 
 pathy for the son, but he cannot forgive him for the law is im- 
 perative and cannot be changed or reversed. Hence he must 
 go, as he has committed the unpardonable sin. He has sinned 
 against the spirit and must go. The father was grieved, and 
 regretted the act of the son, after which he laid a plan of re- 
 demption, though the son was not apprised of it. The son 
 goes forth into the accursed Avorld and soon finds hunger gnaw- 
 ing at the vital parts. Now he begins to feel the sorrow rest- 
 ing upon the brow; the gnawing becomes keener and keener 
 until he would gnaw the bark from the trees, or even chew the 
 thorns that prick the flesh. Now he begins to feel the sting 
 of his act and fain he would cry to the father for mercy. But 
 
THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. 99 
 
 no mercy can be given — more than was given — that was to go 
 to labor and gather his bread, as commanded. When weeping 
 and sorrow will accomplish no more, he takes up the plow, lays 
 down sorrow, and straight to work he goes. 
 
 The weeds and briers he manfully slew, 
 Until the corn and wheat were brought through. 
 Thus man lives under the yoke of sin, 
 Until the fire and Christ shall usher him in. 
 
 Reader, you can begin to see how sorrow crowns the brow of 
 the wayward. See them as they journey along the broad road 
 that leads to death, for thousands there be that walk therein on 
 account of this woful sin. Thus things have been passing for 
 this six thousand years, and how much longer I cannot say, for 
 the Creator has said the plan of redemption is laid and evolu- 
 tion cannot, nor will not, be stayed until the time arrives. All 
 this time the Creator, with the tree of life, has been shielded by 
 the naming sword. 
 
 We will dwell for a time upon the wonders of the weapon. 
 We have said it was composed of ice, fed by water upon one- 
 half of the circle, the other half by fire, fed by gas; both kept 
 in motion by evolution, existing in two forms — one, the body, 
 the other, the spirit. So has man, the tiller of the soil, evoluted, 
 and will continue so to do until renovated by the great fire, 
 which is to wind up his labors. 
 
 The Creator said the flaming sword should be the name of the 
 barrier, or obstruction, to keep man from approaching the tree 
 of life. Adam and Eve were turned out at the east gate. There 
 he set up the icebergs, turning, as it were, the cold shoulder to 
 them, for it made their jaws chatter as they passed south to get 
 out of reach of the cold blast. Then the light of the icebergs 
 went out, reaching far into the south. This light is known to 
 LofC. 
 
100 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 us as the milkyway, and is reflected from the icebergs; hence 
 its soft, silvery nature. It was a guide, for a time, to Adam 
 and Eve and their children by night. When they cast their 
 eyes back, the thrilling aurora borealis rolled up behind them, 
 as if to say, " Go on, for I am here producing My wonderful 
 light to help the lost on their way." 
 
 To this day they are moving south and west, where they are to 
 meet a warm welcome in the crowning flame made of gas and fire, 
 which we must pass through in order to be prepared to go to the 
 Father and the tree of life. I have given a description of this in 
 a former article, and therefore leave off at this point and return 
 to the wilderness, where man is working out his salvation, and 
 is carrying out the word given to the children of man. We were 
 commanded to multiply and replenish the earth. For disobey- 
 ing this command we receive our reward on the earth and while 
 in the wilderness. By this act we become the sons of our 
 earthly parents, whose law we are in duty bound to obey. So, 
 children, I repeat and say, obey your father and mother, for 
 they have labored hard to give you the necessaries of life and 
 to bestow something upon you. When you move for yourself, 
 your offspring will become a charge of yours, and it does sorely 
 grieve the parents to see their offspring going astray by diso- 
 bedience to the law. Then, children, do not fill the heads of 
 your father and mother with sorrow by being wayward, but ad- 
 here to the law, let it come from State, county, father or 
 mother. If you do this, your days will be mingled with pleas- 
 ure as you journey through the wilderness, and your offspring 
 will follow in your footsteps, until they return to the ground 
 and from thence to the spirit. 
 
 When we enter the spirit for the last time, it will be through 
 the lire. So you see we go out from the icebergs and go in 
 
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THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. 101 
 
 through the tires. Then we will receive the germ of Christ and 
 begin a new life in the New Jerusalem, 
 
 Where all is rilled with joy, 
 Relieved from earthly alloy. 
 
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APPENDIX. 
 
 I now give thanks to all who may chance to read this book, 
 and hope, from the truths herein given, you may become good 
 women and men and cause your children and servants to read 
 and turn to the true light and the facts here set forth. I now 
 ask for sixty sound-minded men to write me upon the subject 
 of forming an Evolution Circle to further the cause and bring 
 the theme from darkness to the light. I want none but true 
 converts, such as will adhere strictly to all rules that may be 
 adopted. 
 
 Such as write, will please send good reference, with the appli- 
 cation. When this number is obtained, I will set a time and 
 place for the meeting and notify each one of the chosen. 
 
 Give your address plainly. 
 
 
PRAIRIES AND PRAIRIE GRASS. 
 
 A prairie is a broad expanse of land upon which trees do not 
 grow. 
 
 There is a cause for this, for we iind, after many years culti- 
 vation, trees will grow. I have seen trees transplanted for ten 
 or iifteen years which had not grown a limb six inches long. 
 How are we to account for this? At the same time, the grass 
 and weeds greAv luxuriantly right at the hase of the tree. I 
 will state that the matter which formed the trees was not there, 
 but that which formed the grass was there, and it will appear 
 that the earth did its part in keeping the tree alive. The earth 
 was rich and produced wheat, corn and oats. Man and beast 
 lived upon the same; that is to say, native animals. Cows 
 brought from the more Northern States would not live more 
 than one or two seasons, and then they would dwindle away in 
 flesh and die. If healthy cattle are driven from here and let 
 feed upon the grasses of Missouri, and the native cattle follow 
 them over the same pastures, they will sicken and die. This is 
 the case the first year, after which they can graze together with- 
 out any detriment to the natives. 
 
 This teaches that the detrimental matter is in the grass 
 here. The flesh imbibes the same, and as soon as it passed from 
 the Texas cow all w r as genial between the different sections. 
 The same thing was brought to bear when cows were brought 
 here from the more Northern States. The cow had to become 
 
104 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 filled with this matter. For the sake of a name, I will call it 
 arsenic, or, perhaps, morphine would be a better name. A man 
 or a woman can imbibe a considerable amount of morphine and 
 live, but, if they stick to it, they dwindle away and die. Then 
 we might call it alkali, which kills trees, vines and cotton, and 
 is much dreaded in California, as it is destructive to orchards 
 and almost all kinds of vegetable life. An antidote for this 
 alkali is yet to be found. I think we have waves of it passing 
 over our prairies. The grass imbibes it and thus becomes detri- 
 mental to all stock that is not accustomed to it. 
 
 Look how sick tobacco makes a boy, for as such they imbibe 
 the effects of its poison, and, in fact, it becomes genial to some. 
 I now have spent thirty years in studying this matter and am 
 not able to give a better solution, and have merely thrown out 
 these hints that others may investigate further and more closely. 
 
 Upon the high prairies there is no honey for the bees to 
 gather, and the result is, bees cannot live upon the prairies. I 
 kept bees here, in Fort Worth, for a number of years. I looked 
 after them soon in the morning and found they went to the 
 river bottoms for the honey, and many years they failed to find 
 much there. This being the case, they were poor. 
 
 Wheat, oats, corn, rye, barley, and the cultivated grasses grow 
 well, and, of course, the native grasses do likewise. 
 
 Peaches, apples, pears, and plums, as well as grapes, did poorly 
 here thirty years ago. I find quite a marked difference now, as 
 they all flourish well here at this time. Melons, of all kinds, 
 grow to perfection, and, as land is cheap, this is a good place 
 for the man with the plow and hoe. 
 
 The year 1860 was the worst year I have experienced in this 
 country for a crop. I planted thirty acres of corn, and sold out 
 in the spring to my brother. Me finished cultivating and 
 
PRAIRIES AND PRAIRIE GRASS. 105 
 
 gathered and sold nine hundred dollars worth of corn and Lad 
 plenty left for his own use. He sold the corn at two dollars a 
 bushel. There was not a bushel of bread corn to be had for 
 many miles from this place, and the people said, " I am going 
 down into Egypt for corn, 1 ' but when they untied their sacks, 
 they found their money in the sacks in the shape of corn, which 
 was better than gold or silver. Here we have use for gold and 
 silver, but in the New Jerusalem we will have no need for it as 
 an exchange, but there inse it for side-walks and like purposes. 
 
BAD COLDS. 
 
 The origin seems to be very imperfectly known, as is ex- 
 pressed by almost all persons that are thus affected. It is a 
 fact that all persons have colds, more or less, from childhood to 
 old age, and as Ave have a very imperfect idea of the mind and 
 its prodntion, so it is as to bad colds, and as I have said, mind 
 is matter composed partly of electricity, which gives action to 
 both body and mind; then a bad cold is that part of the mind 
 called matter after having expended its electricity, and has to 
 be passed off as all other refuse or futile matter. 
 
 This matter has to be removed from the head through its 
 proper channel, the nose. Should the nose become swollen so 
 as to obstruct the passage, then it turns back into the mouth 
 and has to pass off that way. This action produces the cold 
 which man so often says, " I have, but don't know how it came." 
 I hold it essential for man's comfort that all actions in regard 
 to ourselves should be known to us, hence the instruction — 
 " Man, know thyself." 
 
 Could better advice be given than to say to us, " Man, know 
 yourself/' To know ourselves we must set up a rigid search of 
 ourselves; then we must class ourselves with other machines, 
 and set up the different parts of the machine and learn the first 
 wheel aud its hearing on the second, third, and so on, until all 
 arc closed; then the action of the combination, separately and 
 collectively. Then if one wheel meets with a defect, we can. 
 
BAD COLDS. 107 
 
 soon learn what is necessary to be done to put the machine in 
 motion again, and if it cannot be replaced the machine is ren- 
 dered useless. Xow, if the useless matter could not be re- 
 moved, the man would become powerless, in many cases. 
 IJence the importance of knowing ourselves, and to know how 
 this matter is to be passed off, is to know how it come in the 
 head. I have said it is conducted in through the hair of the 
 head and face, and out through the nose to the earth, where it 
 evaporated, returning to the firmaments and again to the head, 
 as does the water when evaporated, returns to the earth and then 
 to the ocean evolution. 
 
SLEEP. 
 
 Sleep is an action all are well acquainted with and know the 
 necessity of the same. We call it rest, to cease from labor 
 (bodily ) ; then we say that the mind needs rest. Why does it 
 need rest? This is not a correct part of speech, or rather a 
 wrong idea conveyed to the mind if Ave would say the labor of 
 the day has greatly exhausted the electricity from the reservoir 
 of the head and non-action is necessary to replenish it again, as 
 I will demonstrate by speaking of the mill dam. It is fed from 
 the stream above the mill, consumes the water faster than it 
 comes in from the stream running into it. The water is 
 exhausted, the mill must close down until the dam is replen- 
 ished When this is done the mill can grind again. 
 
 So it is with man, when the mind lays at rest for the night? 
 the next day the mill is prepared to grind again, provided the 
 stream is not cut off from above by drought or other causes. 
 
 According to this, it is very essential to health of the body 
 and mind. 
 
 As I am now most particularly speaking of the mind, in all 
 cases the mill will not grind when the dam is exhausted. I low 
 important is it then, the miller or owner of the dam should 
 keep every leak in the dam well chinked and all the avenues 
 clear and clean of all obstructions. 
 
 Mothers, keep your children's heads clean, hair straight, as 
 the fluid will pass much more rapid in a straight hair than in 
 one of many crooks. Although you may fancy the curls, they are 
 
SLEEP. 109 
 
 not best, and it is the duty of all to do the best thing for our 
 offspring, the same as it is for the miller to keep his race and 
 clam tight, that the mill may grind. 
 
 Then great care should be exercised that good and clean grain 
 be brought to the mill so as to give a good return. 
 
 Health by these actions is obtained and maintained. Have 
 nothing to do with alcoholic liquors, for they poison the mind, 
 and thereby redden the nose and eyes, clog up the inlets to the 
 reservoir of the head and thus spring a leak in the dam and 
 retard the work of the mill. 
 
 
A Few Hints to Farmer's Wives How 
 to Make Good Jelly, Sweet or Sour. 
 
 Prepare the ingredients to be used in making the jelly, then 
 have a quart sauce pan, pour not more than two or three gills 
 of the liquid in the pan, add sugar to your wish, place it on the 
 stove, stir until it commences to boil, then cease stirring, keep 
 up a brisk heat, and in from two to four minutes your jelly 
 will be done — this you must be the judge of, but never attempt 
 to make over a pint at a time and you will succeed in making a 
 tine jelly. 
 
 In making sorghum molasses never add cold water to the 
 boiling syrup. The best plan is to fill the pot, complete it 
 ready for use before making any change, and so on until the 
 work is done. 
 
 Teach your children to obey all laws made by man. If they 
 obey they will be good citizens through life, pass from the stalk 
 to the spirit and from the spirit to the stalk and so on to the 
 end of Adam's time, after which they will pass through the 
 fiery furnace and be born into the new life growing up in the 
 pure land of Canaan, dwelling with Christ, the pure and una- 
 dulterated son of the Father, who gave Himself as a ransom for 
 us. 
 
 Then I say, Christ is the just and great scheam of the Creator, 
 and question not his works for they are all good and equitable 
 to man. 
 
A FEW HINTS TO FARMER'S WIVES. Ill 
 
 Man having become the aggressor by violating the law, so I 
 say again, do not violate the laws of this or any other country 
 and peace will abide with you, otherwise it will not, and sorrow 
 will crown the brow and waft you through the great renovating 
 tire, through which all have to pass, on account of the unpar- 
 donable sin committed by Adam and Eve. But far better it 
 will be to enter that tire with a smile than with a frown. So 
 let us journey on in good faith doing all things for the best. 
 
GOVERNMENT OF MAN 
 
 Some of our citizens claim that the government of the Cre- 
 ator and that of man should not be mingled together. Here I 
 claim to differ, for man was made to imitate his Creator, there- 
 fore should imitate Him in all His acts, as well as laws; and, as 
 the acts of the Creator are just, our acts should be likewise, 
 just one to another. So this article I dedicate to the President, 
 Cabinet, Senate, and Congress of the United States of America. 
 So I will state you are delegated to do work for the people of 
 the Republic, and, as such, the people have the right to speak 
 to you, and you are in duty bound to listen to them the same as 
 the created should do to the Creator. His laws should be 
 obeyed and so should yours. So it is that erring man cannot 
 make laws as perfect as the Creator, though he should approach 
 as near as the wisdom of the people can give. Then, Mr. Pres- 
 ident and co-workers, you should view things, not only from 
 your narrow standpoint, but take in the broad extent of your 
 land. These remarks are brief, and can be seen from all stand- 
 points, so now comes what I wish to write about. It is finance 
 and its base or security, and from this, my standpoint: 
 
 I see the realty of our land is the main base of security, and 
 well it should be, for all things rest upon the land. Now, then, 
 1 look out from the windows of the head and see the millionaire 
 lending his money, being secured by a mortgage upon the land 
 in the country. He is exacting an interest the land will not 
 
GOVERNMENT OF MAN. 113 
 
 justify the holder to give. In this case what is to be the re- 
 sult? The millionaire will soon own the land, then what will 
 be the result? Thousands of our brothers will become serfs, 
 in spite of any efforts they may make to the contrary. Once 
 serfs, it will require a bloody war to free them. Here, I say, 
 remember the words of Henry Clay in 1844. He said: "I 
 had rather lose my election than to plunge my government into 
 a war." So now it is in your hands to legislate so as to prevent 
 much misery by leaving the land free. It behooves us to look 
 back into the past, and deep into the future, that we may see. 
 Here, I contend, the banking law will control the entire affair. 
 So let all mankind drop a grain of sand on the shore and it will 
 effectually hold the tide, as does the sand hold the seas in their 
 bounds. Now, then, I have said the realty is the sure base, let 
 us establish our banking on that base. To do so it requires 
 action from the head; then the tail will follow on, as it does in 
 the great dipper shown in this work, revolving around the Gar- 
 den of Eden. 
 
 Then I ask that the government organize a banking system 
 to be based as follows: Say twenty men owning realty given 
 in to the tax assessor at one hundred thousand dollars clear of 
 all incumbrance, the government, holding a lien on same, issue 
 to the said twenty persons a bank charter, so long as conducted 
 according to law, and issue them on the same say ninety thou- 
 sand dollars of government notes. Allow the bank to loan this 
 money to and upon individual security at four per cent, per an- 
 num, paying one per cent, of said interest to the government, 
 to be used in conducting the banking svstem, the other three 
 per cent, to be held by the said bank as their perquisites. This 
 system to be made for the entire country. The land, as a gen- 
 eral thing, can be made to yield six per cent, and feed the 
 
114 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 husbandman; thus he may save two per cent, per annum to pay 
 off his debt with. In five or six years he will have his land 
 free from debt, upon which his family can live in ease, and the 
 millionare will have an abundance, too, for his family to live 
 in ease, all obeying the law given at the wedding of Adam and 
 Eve at the east gate of the garden. The wedding was the law, 
 and I find man does obey that law this day. United States of 
 America, I ask for a low, uniform rate of interest, that all may 
 have an equal show of a good living in this land, owning his 
 home and leaving the millionaire with the mortgages on his 
 lands, and if perchance they fall into the hands of the govern- 
 ment it will soon transfer them to the individual again, as it 
 was done of yore. 
 
 With this rate of interest it will be rare to hear of a mercan- 
 tile firm failing, for all will be able to pay; then we will have 
 less occasion to act dishonestly. I lived in Tazewell county, 
 Virginia, for ten years, interest was six per cent. There was 
 not a mercantile failure in the county during the time; had but 
 two in jail during the time. In 1850 the population was 9999, 
 one-tenth of this population could neither read nor write. 
 
 Don't understand I give this in favor of not educating; I am 
 in favor of good public schools, that we may not have our 
 virgins waiting for the bridegroom without oil in their head 
 cells but possessing an abundance to light them into the wed- 
 ding chamber where the oil flows as free as life. 
 
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TO YOUNG MEN 
 
 Young man, I will here caution you against self-abuse, as it 
 is the duty of all men and boys to make the best possible appear- 
 ance in life, and there is nothing more detrimental to man than 
 the act spoken of. So I will say to all boys, do not be led into 
 an act of that nature, for it is destructive to the mind, as well 
 as to the hair of the head, which feeds the mind and sound. 
 Retrain from everything that is detrimental to this, the crown- 
 ing gift of the Creator, and always move as the law directs, for 
 punishment, here, on earth, is certain, and if you wish to escape 
 that punishment, violate not the law. For violating the law. 
 Adam caused us to be cast into the wilderness, as well as forcing 
 us into the fiery furnace, like unto the three Hebrew children, 
 and we must come out likewise, as did Daniel from the den of 
 lions. So we will cross the river into Canaan, carrying but 
 three of our kind with us. These we lay down as Enoch, Elijah 
 and Eastland, who will tell the children of Christ all things 
 pertaining to this life, as well as showing our journey through 
 the wilderness amidst the lions and lire. Young man, listen to 
 these admonitions, as your lives are seen by other eyes and sure 
 punishment will be felt by you. 
 
 Many are subject to night emissions. This, too, you can pre- 
 vent, as did the writer in 1855, after suffering from that cause 
 for some years. All you have to do is to abstain from any ex- 
 citing stimulants, as I did, to accomplish the end. Avoid 
 tobacco — the worst; coffee, next; whisky, very bad, and should 
 
116 ' EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 be left off the supply list altogether; milk is harmless, animal 
 food is good and gives much strength, especially that of those 
 which feed upon grasses, nuts and corn, or such as feed upon 
 the flesh of animals which do feed upon the above mentioned 
 vegetables. Why is this? Because the vegetable partakes, by 
 condensation, largely of the matter that feeds the germ of man. 
 Hence such food as does not possess the composite matter of 
 man is superfluous, and only takes up space for no benefit, and, 
 in many instances, is detrimental. 
 
 " Man, know thyself," shows that he has the talents and must 
 learn of himself. 
 
 To parents, I can say with a clear conscience, give this book 
 to your children to read, that they may learn of the truths 
 herein given. It is written to be a benefit to man — not for ag- 
 grandizement — not to go like the whirlwind, but to enter into 
 every family of the land, and there to plant its small germ and 
 bring forth much good. 
 
 <* 
 
Statement Corroborating the Connection 
 with Electricity and the Hair. 
 
 I here give a statement for which I have a witness in this 
 city that substantiates what I here say, and it substantiates what 
 I have said in regard to the mind and its sense of reception 
 and continuance. The case in point is as follows: 
 
 A man thirty- two years old, without a hair on his face or head, 
 was carried to the Oil Springs for treatment. He was without 
 any mind — so much so, he would not feed himself. All that 
 he swallowed had to be put in his mouth, then he would swal- 
 low. He would sit for hours without moving hand or foot; he 
 spoke not a word; paid no attention to anything; the report of 
 a gun at the side of his head would cause no emotion or move. 
 Hence he was a living walking nonentity. Four months at 
 the springs caused the hair to start out on the head and face, 
 after which he was observed to rub the back of his head with 
 his hand. This action was anxiously watched, until one day 
 when his meal was brought to him, having been placed on a 
 small table and moved up to him to be fed, as usual, he put 
 forth his hand and took up a biscuit and did eat. Thus he con- 
 tinued to gain knowledge, and in about nine months — the usual 
 time for children to speak — he lisped and spoke to his mother; 
 after which, he gained in strength until he was able to transact 
 business as other men. This I bring forward in support of my 
 mind theory, with its manner of being fed. I have one other 
 proof of this thing to bring in. My inserting it depends upon 
 
118 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 others, but the case bears me out in my theory. It happened 
 in the late war, when a man was shot through the head and life 
 survived the wound, minus a portion of the mind. I hope to 
 be able to give it as it was, in full detail. If not, the above 
 will have so go for the detail. 
 
 It is good to rub the scalp of the head each day, as it will 
 cause all the refuse matter to pass off as well as serve to keep 
 the hair in good condition to receive the fluid that passes into 
 the cells of the head. I teach that a constant flow is essential 
 to all minds as well as strength, and I will say, don't mistake 
 the action and let deceivers come in with artificial work and 
 claim to relieve you, for they want the fluid. I say it must 
 come as the Creator marked out for it to be received. Then 
 don't spend your money on deception. It is like the spider's 
 web — easy broken, but can deceive. I will say here skilled men 
 may learn to remove obstructions in some cases, for obstruc- 
 tions can and do exist, but the icebergs and fire were placed 
 around the tree of life to prevent the Adamites from reaching 
 the tree. 
 
 And happy, thrice happy for us it was so, 
 
 Then with patience let us endure, 
 And press our journey on to the door. 
 Then happy, thrice happy on Canaan's shore, 
 
 For there we will have no pain to endure. 
 
We go not to the Greeks and Romans for our 
 
 Lesson. 
 
 I will say here I do not stop with the Greeks or ancient Romans 
 for our knowledge of the Creator. I go to the sands of the 
 ocean, the pebbles of the. brook, the grass of the fields, the 
 rocks of the mountains, trees of the forest and shrubs of the 
 plain, and flowers of the valleys, and the gardens of man. I go 
 to the orchard where the fruit tree stands; I go to the evapo- 
 rating waters; I go to the condensing spirit of the waters, the 
 decomposing gold, silver, lead, iron; I go to the condensing 
 gases, the fire that decomposes and then dies out for the want 
 of substance to act upon — I go to the stars of the firmament. 
 They bring electric lights, hung there by the Creator for a pur- 
 pose. Yes, they are to light the garden as well as the New 
 Jerusalem, and through them we can read the acts and designs 
 of the Creator. By such. acts we are enabled to read the minds 
 of men who gathered together the material that produces them, 
 but first and foremost they come from the Creator, and was 
 given for temporary use to man in the wilderness, and through 
 them he must study his lesson and improve the talent given, 
 otherwise the talent is buried until the owner calls for it. The 
 Romans and Greeks had no more opportunity to obtain this 
 knowledge than we have, save the time Christ was with them. 
 In their days the laws of nature were as perfect as they are 
 now, and as perfect now as they were then, but I think man 
 possesses more light now than he did in those days, therefore 
 
120 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 more is exacted of man at this time of the epoch than was in 
 their time. Why should it not be so? Is not man progressive? 
 I feel that he is and should gather knowledge each day. Then 
 we are imitating creatures and should learn to imitate our Crea- 
 tor each day of our journey, for we are journeying to the land 
 of Canaan where all manner of sin is debarred from entering 
 in. Here we are imitating the Creator by our electric lights* 
 They hang in our rooms as they hang in his house. Here we 
 are moving our machinery by electricity as does the Creator. 
 80 I say this world is lighted up and moved by electricity, and 
 man has his life and action by electricity. The eye is composed 
 of electric fluid and through its power causes us to behold the 
 object before us, and I will again reiterate, this fluid is con- 
 densed and conveyed to the organs of the head through the hair 
 of the head and face. Now, my friend, I ask you to lay aside 
 your Greek and Latin books and take up the book of the Crea- 
 tor and learn from every character given in it, for they are 
 many. You can find them in the grass, in the rocks, trees and 
 flowers as well as the waters of the mighty deep and the im- 
 mense spaces above. 
 
 Yes, go to the bee, 
 
 That gathers honey from the tree, 
 
 And she will impart a lesson plain to see. 
 
 I would that T could write you a more perfect lesson, my 
 
 mind fails to portray more. I must close. 
 
 @ 
 
Woman's Inhumanity to Man has Caused 
 Countless Thousands to Mourn." 
 
 That was by iirst partaking of the forbidden fruit, first vio- 
 lating the law, then causing man to do likewise — and thus the 
 unpardonable sin was committed. Why was it thus? Because 
 it was in direct violation of a direct order from the Holy Spirit, 
 so the Holy Spirit was grieved. There was nothing to be lost 
 that was created by the Creator, and as He did not cause this 
 act to be brought about, the act had to be lost; that is to say, 
 the germ of Adam obtained in violation of the law, therefore, 
 it had to be lost. Now I say the fruit contained the life of the 
 germ, or the life-giving power which Adam then possessed, and 
 carries to this day; hence he received the injunction to multi- 
 ply and replenish the earth until the day of your death, which 
 shall be in a great renovating lire, and you shall in no 
 wise enter into my place of abode until you are purified and 
 made holy by the blood of the lamb. Then we must alone 
 look for redemption through Him. He has told us how we are 
 to be saved, and we cannot be saved by any other method. So 
 we must buckle on the armor and travel in the wilderness until 
 the day comes; then we will be forced to lay down the germ of 
 Adam and pass to the new birth, and that must be through 
 Christ. 
 
 Reader, what a comfort it is! Could there be a greater com- 
 fort than to know and feel that our stay is not eternal in the 
 midst of this wilderness, trampling down the briers, brambles, 
 
122 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 thistles and thorns? And such would have been the case had 
 the Creator not placed the flaming sword around the tree of life, 
 to prevent man from entering and eating thereof. Now, as this 
 was the tree of life, the other was the germ and tree of death, and 
 for eating of the fruit, of that tree he has to sojourn in the 
 wilderness for an epoch of time, and without the intervention 
 of Christ, would have had to remain out from the presence of 
 the Father forever. Yes, we will long to see the day come 
 when the icebergs will be melted down, and the ocean dried up, 
 and the earth made ready for the children of the new birth or 
 the children of Christ. Then we will be like unto Christ, pos- 
 sessing the vine and holding in our hands the key of life, that 
 we may unlock and partake of all things that we may want 
 dwelling in a mansion not made with hands. 
 
 Now, to make ourselves happy we must be just, kind to all 
 things, doing unto all persons as we would have them do unto us. 
 
 Now, I have said the mind is fed through the hair of the 
 head, the hair containing a large amount of electricity. Then 
 it is electric fluid that gives lis action of thought and mind. 80 
 we can see that man is learning to control electricity and make 
 it useful in many other ways. Hence it is becoming a comfort 
 to man, but all the comfort that man can possess, the greatest 
 comfort is to know that all the human family is to be redeemed 
 from sin and torment and safely housed in that house not made 
 with hands, but fashioned by the wisdom and love of the 
 Father. So may it be, is my greatest wish and desire. 
 
This is to Doubting Man 
 
 Now, doubter, read this, not with a critic's mind, always look- 
 ing for a sliding off place. Let your mind not act as a man's 
 mind acted once when I put the question to him, " How did the 
 Creator separate the water from the earth," when he said let 
 there be dry land and there was dry land. He said, " the Crea- 
 tor caused an upheaval of the earth thereby making dry land.' , 
 Kind and gentle reader, I will illustrate to you. If you had a 
 cast iron kettle one mile across the mouth, two hundred yards 
 deep, and you had another kettle one half the size of the first 
 one spoken of, and you turn the smaller kettle bottom up in the 
 first kettle making the rim edge of the small kettle air tight, 
 having a gas reservoir off to one side from which you run a 
 tube or pipe passing into the large kettle underneath the small 
 kettle, so as to fill the kettle with a very heavy pressure of gas, 
 then we will pass half way up the side of the small kettle and 
 make four holes in the kettle fitting in four nipples, then we 
 will have a complete ring made hollow, this ring fitted on the 
 four hollow nipples. This done we will drill small holes six 
 inches all round on the ring, then we fill the outer kettle with 
 water liquid form, turn on the gas, it will soon rise to the top 
 of the water. You ignite it with tire, it commences to burn, 
 heating the water to a boiling heat, then the water begins to 
 evaporate and rise up from the kettle passing into the firmament 
 in the dry or spirit form where it remains until it meets a con- 
 denser, after condensation it falls to the earth again, runs in a 
 
124 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 small stream to the kettles — by this time one-half the water had 
 been evaporated — the tire continues to burn and about one-third 
 of the small kettle is out of the kettle, has received a layer 
 of earth in which was deposited by the Creator the seeds pos- 
 sessing a germ, the germ sends forth a stalk which is fed from 
 a like matter that was created by the Creator for that purpose 
 and placed in his store house, so we do likewise when it is ready 
 for gathering into the crib, drawing it out again for our susten- 
 ance, after which it becomes decomposed and passes to the 
 Creator's store-house again, from thence to the stalk from which 
 we gather, and thus it continues year after year as long as we are 
 in the wilderness, amid the briers, brambles, thistles and thorns. 
 1 will return to the kettles and view their work. I find a half- 
 dozen small streams of w 7 ater running into the outer kettle. 
 Evaporation is going on equal to the amount running in, so the 
 water does not rise any higher than it was when it began to 
 pour hi. In order to keep up those streams condensation must 
 take place, which no sceptic can deny. Then, again, can a 
 sceptic say this order of things did come about, and acted 
 in this perfect harmony by chance. The mind will not encour- 
 age any such idea -the brain refuses to strike the chord or note 
 of the head that conveys it to the outer world. Then, sceptic, 
 do not inculcate such ideas, as the sin will be laid at your door, 
 and pain will therefore fill your head when you come to the 
 time of returning to the Creators store-house, where we must 
 all appear before our entrance into the Land of Canaan, through 
 the birth of Christ. Live, then, in purity, work with zeal, doing 
 good to all, having all do good to you. 
 
 Having thus illustrated, I will return to the kind friend to 
 whom I was talking. I answered him no, not that way, as the 
 ( Ireator did nothing by harsh or rough means. I merely said, he 
 
TO DOUBTING MAN. 125 
 
 simply evaporates one portion, causing it by this means to pass 
 into the firmaments, or his store- house. A very large one it is, 
 and does contain many valuables for man, without which he 
 could not live. By living we breathe, by breathing we live; by 
 living we act, by acting we live; by evoluting we live, by living 
 we e vol ute; thus time rolls on and on. Hence how important 
 it is that we should know ourselves; knowing our own selves, 
 how much easier it is to know of the Creator. Now, a friend 
 said you must know the Greek language before you can teach 
 correctly of the Creator's works. I say it is not essential. 
 Though I know not a Greek word, I say this: The Greeks have 
 passed away many years and man has been much enlightened 
 since that time, and if I had presumed upon the Greek or Latin 
 I would not have learned what I have learned. JSTow, I will say 
 of a truth, and all mechanics will bear me out in the assertion, 
 if a man makes a machine, you must take that machine and 
 study it over and over to understand the machine. When 
 understood, you can speak intelligently of it without Greek or 
 Latin, most especially if you speak to a person that does not 
 understand Greek or Latin. Don't understand me to oppose 
 learning Greek or Latin, but I must say if you write in Greek 
 let it be Greek, if in Latin let it be Latin, if in English let it 
 be English, and use such words as the common people are 
 acquainted with, and the more learned will most assuredly under- 
 stand them, unless they are like the woman that was with the 
 Virginia .regiment in Mexico for eighteen months, who said she 
 had been with the Mexicans so long she could not speak her 
 own language, and I am sure she could not speak a word of 
 Spanish. 
 
 Sceptic, I am traveling with you, and I must show you many 
 things more than I have, though what I have said and shown 
 
126 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT.. 
 
 would be sufficient for ninety-nine out of the hundred, but, as 
 we had doubters in the day of Christ's advent, we can say they 
 are still here, as the mind evolutes. We had thieves at the cru- 
 cifixion, and still we have thieves; we had liars in that day, and 
 we still have liars; we had blasphemers in that day, and still 
 we have them; we had betrayers in that day, and still we have 
 them; we had drunkards in that day, and still we have drunk- 
 ards; we had fore-parents that were anties, and still we have 
 anties, and will continue to have at the last hour, as did Noah 
 at the last day, up to the coining of the flood, and so they will be 
 to the coming of the fire. Now, does gas evolute? It does. 
 Then, most assuredly, we will have it on that day, for it does 
 condense and return to the reservoir of the Creator, thence to 
 the fire, as well as the water of the ocean, rivers and springs. 
 The little riplet says, "I am hurrying back to the ocean," as it 
 tumbles over the rocks and pebbles and rushes on down to the 
 ocean, then to the evaporating lire, up again on high it ascends 
 only to fall again upon the dry earth and again tumble over the 
 rocks and pebbles, rushing on to the oc ean to aid in bearing the 
 mighty ship from shore to shore. 
 
 Sceptic, I will take you further. I will go into the gardens 
 and help you read the lillies of the valley. See them in their 
 beauty here. Here darkness has me overtaken and 1 will wait 
 until to morrow to further paint the glories of the scene as 
 Nature gives them to my mind — when the mind wanders out 
 in search of Nature's work. Now, upon this stroll,.it can be- 
 hold legions, for wonderful and mighty are His works, and here 
 Christ comes in for a share to be accomplished after the close 
 of Adam's day. Now, then, we will take the great forests of 
 the valleys and mountains. We will learn how and why the 
 tree shoots its tiny branches upward. In so doing I will com- 
 
TO DOUBTING MAN. 12: 
 
 pare it to the mighty waters. Here I will show you the waters 
 in tiny streams, running down the mountain gorges to the 
 valleys, thence in branches to the rivers, thence in rivers to the 
 ocean, when it is beat by the mighty winds and caused to wave 
 to and fro, giving terror to the man in the ship. Why shall we 
 say like the trees of the forest? Because the tree rises from 
 the germ and sends out its small branches to drink in the sub- 
 stance placed above to build it up to a mighty tree. First it 
 enters through the leaf, which has a small beginning like unto 
 the rippling stream, thence to the small branches, thence to 
 the small limbs, thence to the large limbs, which is like 
 unto the rivers that conduct it to the body, which is like 
 unto the ocean for size and strength. The winds beat 
 against it and cause it to wave to and fro like the ocean. 
 It goes down to the Antipodes, meets with the fire and is 
 returned to the store-house of the Creator, ready to feed a 
 new tree another season. Thus man goes, thus the tree grows, 
 thus the water flows to the ocean's shore. And thus man basks 
 beneath the morning's sun, and waits for Christ his work to be 
 done. Xow, sceptic, these are things plain to the eye; how 
 can you, Oh! how can you, pass them by? 
 
 Sceptic, pass with me to eternity. This you cannot do unless 
 you pass through the fire and are born again anew. With 
 Christ, then, upon our journey we will pursue, and doubting 
 then will be no more. 
 
 A doubter I was long constrained to be, 
 
 But now from all my doubts am free ; 
 
 I cherish Nature and long for Christ to see, 
 
 That I may forever dwell in eternity, 
 
 Beyond this doubting world of sin, 
 
 With courage we will march through brambles thick and thin, 
 
 To the fire which is destined to let us in. 
 
128 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 We will view the scene with rapturous praise, 
 
 And with our voice shout His name always. 
 
 Sceptic, come with us to learn 
 
 That you may not your Creator spurn ; 
 
 But do His bidding here on earth, 
 
 That you may enter through the new birth, 
 
 And forever sing, without a doubt, 
 
 The Savior will always be found about. 
 
LETTER TO MY AUNT. 
 
 Cheeseville. America, Sept. 16, 1616. 
 To 31 y Very Much Beloved Aunt, Scargenville, Eng.: 
 
 This epistle leaves me enjoying the greatest amount of health 
 imaginable, and well might it be so, for we are near the moun- 
 tains, among the most wonderful forest our eyes ever beheld. 
 The trees are thick and tall, their leaves, which have accom- 
 plished the growth of the summer season, are now beginning to 
 turn gray, preparatory for the autumn fall. The nuts are 
 abundant, and have already begun to fall to the ground. The 
 gray squirrel, nimble he is, bounds from limb to limb, and thus 
 he shakes the early nuts off at the same time. It would amuse 
 you to see him curl his extremity over his back and scissor the 
 hull from the nut, and thus he grows fat. John goes out of a 
 morning and soon returns with enough meat for the clay, and a 
 good send off it is for us. as we have only two cows and calves, 
 four chickens, two geese, three ducks, two hogs and seven pigs, 
 one mare and colt and a bee-hive. Our nearest neighbors are 
 one hundred and fifty miles west. They are Cherokee Indians. 
 
 John has raised one acre of corn and twenty bushels of po- 
 tatoes; has a nice patch of turnips growing, and thirty cabbage- 
 heads — they are very fine, large as a half -bushel, also a few 
 parsnips and carrots. This is what we have, by the sweat of 
 John's face, prepared for the winter. The remainder we will 
 go to the forest for, and if John's powder and lead does not give 
 out we will have a plentiful year, and a good Christmas dinner. 
 
130 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 I am like all women obeying the command of the Creator, 
 subject to my husband, travailing in childbirth. I now have 
 two children. One I call Martha, the other, a boy, I callGetup. 
 I named him so because I knew he would have to get up and 
 strive to live in this forest. 
 
 We have the most delicious water your eyes ever beheld. It 
 rushes out of the hill, between two huge lime rocks, and is suf- 
 ficient in volume to run a mill from the jump. That jump is 
 thirty- two feet over a cliff, then it quietly winds its way through 
 the valley of the forest trees, and has within its banks a fish 
 for which I have no name, but in the fall they skim the surface 
 of the water to the top of the fall and winter in a cave, through 
 which the water flows before coming to the surface. Yes, I 
 can sit for hours and watch them as they ascend the current. 
 They are a round fish and are covered with reddish specks, 
 that makes them a very handsome fish. In the winter time we 
 have only to enter the cave with a rude dip net made of hickory 
 bark, peeled off the tree in the summer and plaited into a mat, 
 cupped and fastened to a long pole. Thus equipped, we dip 
 down, raise up and we have plenty of fish for the day. I fry 
 them in bear's grease, which answers well for lard. Martha and 
 Getup are very fond of this, and just as happy as the pigs when 
 they return from a stroll out in the forest, where they crack nuts 
 to their great delight. John will have a larger patch next year 
 if all goes well, and it looks that way now. 
 
 Deer are plentiful- -we don't care to kill them much, only for 
 their hides. John has a full suit of buckskin; the Indians 
 learned him to dress the hides. Bear skins make a very fine 
 cover for winter, as well as being soft to lay on. 
 
 If you could just be here to view our happy home, for a short 
 season, I think you would not long for city life, any more. 
 
LETTER TO MY AUNT. 131 
 
 Cheeseville, so named because the first cheese was made here; 
 it weighed four pounds. Getup is just beginning to talk, and 
 if he does not make a great hunter T will miss my aim, for I 
 am raising him for that purpose. 
 
 Martha, too, will learn the forest well, 
 Though in the cottage we will dwell. 
 
 Well, Aunt, you know the forest always begot romance, so it 
 tills me with romantic feelings. I cannot with the pen tell and 
 I am sure you can remember full well 1 was always lingering 
 behind my classmates and could not repeat the lesson well. We 
 have no preaching here, but John has the old family Bible, from 
 which he reads a chapter occasionally. Yesterday he read where 
 Christ said, I am the vine and the life of all creation. John 
 stopped and said, interpret it if you can. I dropped my head 
 in the forest as we were and repeated life and vine, and vine and 
 life, and thus I quietly lay my pen down and returned to my 
 school days. Some one else of the school class must answer. 
 All was silent. Then he read, Christ came that all mankind 
 mio-ht be saved. I said, saved from what? From sin? Who 
 sinned? Adam and Eve. Then he come to something in regard 
 to their offspring. Then we are their offspring, so we will march 
 along and be saved. A wonderful thing to dwell in the shady 
 groves by the swiftly running streams and be saved through 
 Christ. Well, Sally, what are we to do? Just what I said in 
 another place in my letter. Then we can do our Father's will 
 in the wilderness. There is where he sent us to do it. Do 
 what? His will. What was his will? I cannot repeat it; I 
 told it in another place. You must go back, or remember what 
 you read. Words are sensible, conveying ideas communicated 
 by sound or the pen. Oh, yes, this letter I am to send across 
 
132 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 the ocean. It is words marked out by letters, and will commu- 
 nicate my thoughts to Aunt, on the other side of the waters. 
 That is why we need to be educated — yes, yes. I did not see it 
 so well then as I do now, or I would have applied myself more 
 closely than I did. I will try and instill this in Martha's and 
 Getnp's heads, that they may see more cleariy than I do. I 
 think, John, they will have a better opportunity to study here 
 in the forest than they would in a busy city. Everything seems 
 to come so easy and all show the handiwork of the Creator. 
 
 Aunt, I can see these two children are bright cherubs of the 
 forest, and they will be able to read lessons from Christ, given 
 upon the hills and in the valleys alike. Yes, Christ went away 
 out in the Mount and there he fed the multitude that followed 
 him. They had visible only live small loaves of bread and seven 
 small fishes. I presume the fish were fried, as there was noth- 
 ing said about kindling a fire. Now the work of feeding this 
 multitude began. What did Christ say He was? The vine and 
 the life of all creation. Now, I see, He being the same or pos- 
 sessing the same power of the germ by condensing the flour in 
 the bread, thereby adding to its volume sufficient to feed them, he 
 did likewise with the fish. No miracle here, aunt. Just a plain 
 act of Christ's power to perform. Now, aunt, we children of the 
 forest are becoming wonderful. It must be hewed down and the 
 valley blossom with the rose and the vine caused to bring forth 
 our fruit, moving us forward beneath the milkyway, in the direc- 
 tion of the broad gate through which countless thousands must 
 pass. 
 
 Now, dear aunt, I have run this letter much farther than I first 
 thought to do. My paper gave out, and I had to tear a fly-leaf 
 from the Bible to finish upon, so have it preserved through our 
 generation that Martha and Getup and their children may read 
 
LETTER TO MY AUNT. 133 
 
 it in the wilderness a thousand years from this day. So T must 
 ask you to kiss this page when it is unfolded. 
 
 Your niece, in the forest. 
 
 Sina. 
 
SALLY WRITES TO JANE. 
 
 Jane: 
 
 This morning is more bright than usual. As I arose from my 
 slumbers and cast an eye far out on the meadow land, now ready 
 for the mowing scythe; yes, its beauties were shown by the many 
 rays of the morning sun that had just made their appearance 
 on the grass, which had a dewdrop at each and every point it 
 possessed. They looked like so many pure diamonds as the 
 rays of the sun brightened them. What was more beautiful to 
 behold? Yes, mingled with the dewdrops were meadow flowers 
 that clustered beneath the rays and this, too, made the heart leap 
 with joy as my feet hurried the body and mind along down the 
 flowing brook. Yes, it was the spring branch that wound its 
 way through the grass, dotted here and there with mint, which 
 sends forth its fragrance with the morning dew as it returns to 
 the powers of the sun, to the store-house of the Creator, to 
 appear another morning. By the branch I strolled with hook 
 and bait in hand- some trout for breakfast was the command — 
 for in the branch they darted to and fro for food — as I go the 
 bait is there, the hook to snare, and bring them from the 
 water, for, Jane, you could scarcely imagine how happy I was 
 as 1 returned with ray trout, which weighed full seven pounds— 
 a breakfast for all. Amusements are to be had — every day we 
 find something new. The other day a man came along with a 
 scythe and said, " I am going to mow down the green grass 
 of the meadow." "Oh, sir,'' 1 said, " spare the flowers." - fc I 
 
SALLY WRITES TO JANE. 
 
 135 
 
 cannot, miss; all must fall; not one can I leave; the horses, 
 cows and sheep must be fed, but they will come again next year 
 as beautiful as this, and shall I come, too. Oh, yes, miss; 
 when the scythe cuts you down you will return again time after 
 
 time." Here I close, 
 
 Sally. 
 
NO. 1. 
 
 Fort Worth, Texas, 1889. 
 Mi/ uracil esteemed John: 
 
 Long have I sought an opportunity to write you of my new 
 home, and I do assure vou there is not one greater pleasure, that 
 enters my mind at this time, hut it is of such a character I can- 
 not speak of it at present, hut will at some future occasion. 
 Suffice it to say it would till your head with wondering electric 
 fluid that would carry the mind to this fair land with rapturous 
 speed, and. like the magnet at the north pole, almost draw your 
 hody with it. But stay, John, for awhile till I draw the misty 
 veil from your eyes, then, like the turbulent water, you can 
 rush on to the (sea) scene, there to behold what I see and feel 
 what I feel. Yet, we must steel our hearts against others' ac- 
 tions until we master the depths of their minds and learn cor- 
 rectly what their figures represent, and when this is done we 
 must rend the veil. But, Oh! how it makes me shiver; tongue 
 can not express, pencil cannot paint the picture of our beautiful 
 land. Corn in the field, wheat in the shock, hay in the stack, 
 peaches, apples, pears, plums, and apricots upon the trees, ber- 
 ries in the garden, roses in the yard, strawberries in the dish 
 cream and sugar added. Oh, what more could a man Iwenty- 
 four wish for than the delicate hands. 
 
 Yours, in much faith, T, I>. 
 
ANSWER TO NO. i. 
 
 8 UTTERS YILLE, 
 
 On the Atlantic Heights. 
 T. B.: Yours, from Fort Worth, is now on the Heights of 
 
 the Atlantic, and I do assure you it sent an electric shock 
 through not only the mind, but it pervaded the entire body, and 
 caused an exhilerating motion to both mind and body that the 
 Atlantic could scarcely hold me; and, was it not for the hourly 
 expectation of the great ship, Mastow, and a portion of her cabin 
 freight, I might speed away to your dish of strawberries and 
 cream, for there is only one thing sweeter to my lips, though I 
 have never had a taste thereof, but long — Oh, how I long for 
 the return of that precious one, the ship Mastow. I sit upon 
 the heights and cast an eye over the dark blue sea in which 1 
 can see nothing except the white caps as the wave strikes 
 against the other producing the white cap as they recede; this 
 causes the brain to strike the chord that leads to the cell of 
 despondence. Then T again see the wave arise and come with 
 renewed vigor to remove the wave that drove it back, and, 
 T. B., I pick up a lesson that says, rise up against all obstacles 
 and so continue until you overcome the heaving breast that 
 yearns for comfort in mortal man, and then comfort give with 
 a toiling hand, and bring to the shore the ship whose freight I 
 adore. Now I behold a sail. I see the dark curling smoke as 
 it ascends above the ship that proudly rises upon the dashing 
 waves of the blue sea, and I must hurry to the ocean's edge to 
 
138 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 meet my long pledge. Yes, I long to meet that which is 
 sweeter than a dish of strawberries and more lovely than a field 
 of corn or stack of hay. Fruit is not half so sweet; so I can- 
 not stay. 
 
 Yours > John. 
 
 P. S. — Don't forget old times. 
 
 
TO MY LONG NEGLECTED SISTER 
 
 Forty years have passed since we last met. Then our eyes 
 were bright and our hair was the color of the raven's feathers; 
 our cheeks were rosy and without a furrow; our limbs were 
 nimble, joints supple, and we skipped as does the lamb, in the 
 spring of the year; frolicsome we were then; the violin made us 
 tip the floor with the toe, and as we went or made the j oily 
 round — yes, our eyes meet the eyes of others in the gaiety of 
 the dance. So we thus passed along, not knowing what scenes 
 awaited us in the forty years to come. Now we can revert the 
 mind and see them all, but not a word by us has been spoken 
 that fell on the ear of each other. 
 
 All that has thus passed is imaginary, and imagination is only 
 a vague scene that does not fill the mind with any solid matter. 
 Hence it must pass as the time has passed since we last parted, 
 sister. When was that? It is a lost dream to me. I can't call 
 any remembrance of it. It is gone, gone forever, I imagine. 
 Sister, shall we meet again? Time seems to whisper — No! 
 No! ! for forty years has been a long time passing, and we have 
 not met to greet the passing, nor to behold the fading eye or 
 furred cheek, nor the gray hairs of the head. Sister, if we were 
 to meet it seems to me that time has so completely wiped out 
 the future that the cell of joy could not be complete; the nim- 
 ble joint is stiffened; the quick step has become slow and de- 
 crepid; the raven hair has become thin and white like unto a 
 winter's frost, and I am constrained to say, with a tear in my 
 
140 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 eye— when, oh when, could we renew the day of youth! The 
 tear trickles further down the cheek and stops, seemingly to 
 say— when, oh when, can we renew the days of our youth! 
 The tear trickles further down the cheek and stops, seemingly 
 to say — when, oh when, can we renew our youth! and again it 
 starts and falls to the ground and is lost beneath the dust — that 
 is, to our sight. Then, again, I say, when, oh when, can we re- 
 new our youth! then I stick my finger in the dust and write — 
 when, oh when, can we renew our youth! The winds come and 
 blow the dust away, and I cry and say — when, oh when, can we 
 renew our youth! I go down to the ocean's edge and listen at 
 its moanings and sighings, and again I drop a tear in the 
 water's edge; I look for it, and it is gone; it is mingling with 
 the mighty ocean and lost to sight, and I cry aloud — where, oh 
 where, can we renew our youth! I turn myself around. I 
 cast the eye to the starry sky and behold the meteors as they 
 fly, and in the anguish of a wearied soul say — where, oh 
 where, will Ave go to renew our youth! I now involuntaiily 
 cast my eye to the north, and I say — sister, see, behold! there 
 is the seven pointers — the farthest to the right is the represent- 
 ative of our Creator; the next one in the line, looking south, 
 represents Christ; the third one, the Holy Spirit; then, in the 
 same line, there stand Enoch, Elijah and Eastland, all seem- 
 ingly saying -here is the place to renew your youth! Yes, 
 the three last spoken of will tell you all about it and show you 
 how it is done. They say look away south and west, yon will 
 see a mighty tire; you will have to pass through that, after 
 which you will know, where you will renew your youth. There 
 we will reign. sister, not with forty years of separation, and 
 move not with stiff and wearied limbs; the tear will not come forth 
 from the eye and fall to the dust, nor will we be constrained to 
 
TO MY LONG NEGLECTED SISTER. 141 
 
 cry out — ••Oh. where will we go to renew our youth !" but in 
 the first garden it will be — 
 
 The second garden we will see. 
 
 The third garden is free for you and me : 
 
 The fourth garden's beauty I cannot describe : 
 
 The fifth is by its side — and the sixth and 
 
 Seventh are made wide, and are the Creator's pride. 
 
 Now, sister, the wilderness has been passed, and we are free 
 from sin — the sin of Adam and Eve. TTe can take an imagin- 
 ary stroll in the land of Canaan, and whilst it is on the same 
 earth that we are on at this time, all traces of the curse have 
 been removed, therefore it is a new heaven and new earth. Here 
 we will walk the golden streets of the New Jerusalem, for here 
 we will need no more sold for exchange, hence we will be 
 allowed to use it for sidewalk.-. Yes, we will have our youth 
 renewed with happiness. 
 
 Si-ter. I greet you. W. W. D. 
 
To My Grand Children and Great Grand 
 Children. 
 
 September 16, 1889. 
 In 1989 you are requested to come together, as many of you 
 as can be found, and in assembly read this letter, as coming 
 from your long-departed grandfather, who was of the Adamish 
 family, having traveled in the wilderness from the advent of 
 Adam therein. This travel, my dear children, has been like 
 unto the seasons — they come as usual, and tirst form the spring 
 of the year, which represents childhood tender and -fresh, the 
 bud of all vegetables as they shoot from the parent germ, send- 
 ing forth their pleasant smiles and fragrance to man and beast. 
 They all hail those things with delight which fills them with 
 joy. Then comes the summer, robed in her garment of white, 
 in all imaginable beauty, seated on ten thousand hills, bearing the 
 smiles of ten thousand rays of light from the sun, which adds 
 ten thousand more charms, and as they pass in review of the 
 sun they seem to say our beauty has scarce begun; then the 
 moon, with her silver light, adds new lustre to her silver gar- 
 ments as they are gently rustled by the spirit-like move of its 
 -nothing touch. Then the stars shine out with their semblance 
 of purity, and thus the summer is crowned with a carpet of 
 green that beggars the pencil to describe its scene. Then we 
 behold the cattle on the ten thousand hills, for man's delight 
 given, and thus the summer enters and passes to the fall, which 
 brings about a different scene. The green takes on a golden 
 
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 hue, and man's heart is delighted to gather in the summer's 
 crop before the blightiug winter comes. Then man becomes 
 quite busy in his pursuit of gathering into the store -house, 
 and thus man spends the fall months with much delight- —when 
 the summer months had been spent in mowing down the briars, 
 thistles, brambles and thorns that bread might be had. 
 
 After this golden age, now the earth has raised to or near its 
 upward motion; the pressure is great and the ice and snow ap- 
 pears; the cold blast drives us to our tenements, where one por- 
 tion of the flaming sword fire must be brought to bear in order 
 to counteract the other portion of the flaming sword, whose 
 edge turns in all directions. Thus the winter passes, and the 
 earth has dropped half-way down the pole and spring will soon 
 again appear. Thus the earth e volutes year by year, producing 
 four seasons — one of forming, one of maturing, one of gather- 
 ing, one of consuming or decomposing. 
 
 Thus we pass on and on, almost heedless of ourselves, until 
 the golden curls become like unto the light of the moon ; then 
 we begin to view the furrows of the forehead, and cast our eyes 
 back to the spring time of life and exclaim with the electric 
 flame — where and when and how can we renew our youth! 
 
 Now, I say to you, children, you must cease to move or act; 
 decomposition must take place, and according to our usages 
 your living friends must lay your bodies away in the grave; 
 then the Creator's laws must be fulfilled, and your bodies 
 must pass to his store-house in the spirit form and return to 
 the body again and again, until the great renovating fire comes 
 and destroys the germ of Adam and Eve. Then, then, oh then, 
 you will find where to renew your youth through the germ of 
 Christ; it will come from the spirit and water in true child 
 form, like unto little babes. In the first heaven you will be 
 
i44 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 passing step by step up to the seventh heaven. You will know 
 here is where the Father through the Son, will welcome all to 
 the tree of life which He debarred Adam and Eve from. Thrice, 
 thrice, thrice happy there we shall forever be- 
 Amidst this happiness we will sit ourselves down, 
 And rejoice beneath the diadems of our crown. 
 
 Grandfather, 
 To the Grand Children. 
 
This Letter is Addressed to my Mother, Who 
 Died February 4. 1825. 
 
 Mother — I was born May 6, 1822. This was at a time all 
 nature was smiling beneath the green verdure and a profusion 
 of llowers, filled with fragrance rare and profuse. Yes, in the 
 rich hollows of the mountains was the may apple, rich with 
 profusion of flavor, and a more beautiful flower never grew; 
 with a rich golden hue the apple hung on the stem two and two. 
 Then there was the puccoon, rich in all its colors, then come 
 the daisy or jump- up, with which the boys delighted to snap 
 their heads, then there was the red bud, the dogwood rare and 
 white as a fair maiden'* face. The service tree sent forth beauty 
 from its branches. 
 
 Then we stepped from the forest trees tall, 
 And walked amid the green pastures large and small, 
 Flower^ beneath our feet with profusion sweet. 
 And thus we walk until mothers we chance to meet. 
 
 Now mothers, 1 write these line* to you. You are mothers 
 
 of my mother's flesh and bone, blood and mind, as I have shown 
 
 in this work. Then I look upon all as one common offspring 
 
 bearing the marks of the Creator as given, and those marks can 
 
 not be changed by man. It is useless for him to attempt it. 
 
 The Jew must be the Jew, the redmen the redmen, the black 
 
 man the black, but all can improve their talent and gather oil 
 
 in their lamps so far as to be ready to meet the bridegroom 
 
 when he comes. So mother as my days on earth, for this 
 
 journey was begun amidst beds of flowers and ease, I have 
 
146 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 journeyed along, not in a tempestuous way, have had fair sail- 
 ing all along the journey of life. Why mother has it been so? 
 Mother, it was on account of obedience to the law, I was will- 
 ing to labor, and I have done it. I endeavored to please and by 
 the act have done it. I strove to be honest, which has added 
 much smooth water to my bath. I endeavored to cultivate the 
 talent given me and I have succeeded well. I have gathered oil 
 in my lamps from which emanates a great light, this light gives 
 great comfort to benighted man, and will aid much in smooth- 
 ing the path I walk in as I journey on in the broad road to 
 death. Mother, this doctrine or light is not a thrust at any 
 denomination, but asserts all are journeying on to the same 
 death, which they are forced to pass through before they can 
 enter the first garden of the New Jerusalem, and when all has 
 made the first step, they will go step by step until all reach the 
 seventh degree of the New Jerusalem, which I lay down is 
 matured size and intellect. Then mother we will be fully rein- 
 stated in our last home, as was the prodigal son, the trees will 
 be laden with, all manner of fruits suited to our taste, and the 
 flowers I walked among and hailed as beauties will have dwin- 
 dled to naught compared with those of the New Jerusalem. 
 Yes, mother, it will be a vast plain as broad as the road we 
 walked in to death, but through our travels on this road, we find 
 the gates to enter through into the flowery beds of ease, in Jerusa- 
 lem. Mother, many other things have been told of this blissful 
 land by the prophets of old, to give us a longing wish for the 
 home there. We will travel steadfast until we return to the 
 garden. Mother it is a sweet solace to view the seven pointers 
 and view how Christ, Enoch and Elijah with the spirit are 
 laboring to dip us up and pour us over into the holy land. 
 Yes, how I love to rise from my slumbers at four o'clock and 
 
LETTER TO MY MOTHER. 147 
 
 view them as they come up from the east with all the solemnity 
 of a king in his chariot viewing; his domain. 
 
 Yes. mother. May has passed from me and October has come 
 with his chilly blasts, which is cutting down the gay llowers of 
 May and turning brown the green hue of the forest and causing 
 its fruits to fall to the ground to prepare for rising of another 
 season — and so it is with our bodies. Mother, the hair that 
 o-ives life and strength is fading its raven hue, has gone or 
 mingled with white hairs, which is a sure token of old age. So 
 here I am. mother, full one thousand miles west of where you 
 started me. Sixty-eight yeai^ have almost rolled by, and this 
 14th day of October T sit in a small but cosy room penning 
 these words to you, and I am happy to say there is not one 
 doubt that looms up in the head or "flickers a light to say I am 
 wrong, but they come by the thousands saying right, right. 
 Lift up your head and look — amazing to the sight — it is right. 
 Mother, T close this letter saving all will be right. 
 
 W. W. D. 
 
 * 
 
AS IT IS. 
 
 The Creator does not create us, through the act of Adam and 
 Eve. We are prepared to duplicate ourselves, but not to per- 
 petuate our existence, as is shown by the Creator, by fencing in 
 the tree of life. If man could have passed to that tree he would, 
 by eating the fruit, have perpetuated his life for all time'to come, 
 and that,, too, in the wilderness. Now, is it not a blessed thing 
 for man that it is so? He only dwells here for an epoch of time, 
 then the wilderness will be cleared up and caused to blossom as 
 the rose, and man will be reborn, which will be of Christ, who 
 did not possess his germ by violation of the command of the 
 Holy Spirit nor sinning against the Holy Ghost. The new 
 body will then stand side by side with Christ and walk the new 
 streets of this happy made land, having had the curse removed, 
 the ocean dried up, the mountains leveled down, the rocks de- 
 composed, and all made a beautiful and happy garden in which 
 we, the happy people, will walk and feast the eye and smile at 
 loveliness as we pass along, for there will be no end to beauty. 
 For one walk amidst this scene could we not give all our time, 
 save that portion that is necessary to obtain our bread, which 
 we were commanded to earn. 
 
 I think, with rapturous minds, 
 
 We could combine, 
 And, like the Israelites, move, 
 
 Till Canaan we find. 
 
DEDICATED TO FORT WORTH 
 
 Thirty Years in the West. 
 
 November 3, 1858, I crossed the Trinity on horseback. Then 
 the moccasin tracks were scarce obliterated. The Missouri 
 Pacific Railroad bridge crosses at the same place, over which 
 long trains of cars crosses almost hourly. Two other branch 
 roads cross on the same bridge, one penetrating the north, one 
 west, through the Panhandle of Texas, to Denver, Colorado; 
 the other east to Texarkana, Little Rock, Ark., Memphis, Tenn., 
 and so on. 'When iirst [ landed here the grass was tall, thick, 
 and green, and scarce a corn or wheatlield could be seen. Cows, 
 almost without number, could be seen, and calves, sleek and fat, 
 were all around for man to look at. I entered the Fort about 
 12 m. it then consisted of two stores — mixed goods, one tin 
 shop with stoves, one grocer with whisky and tobacco, a small 
 hotel, a doctor's office, a shoe shop, and two land offices, five or 
 six small residences, a well on the square of brackish water. 
 Streets nor square could be seen for the grass, and, in this case, 
 I said as the boys said, the town could not be seen for the 
 houses, but here the town could not be seen for the grass. But 
 now, how things are changed! The grass, beneath the tread of 
 thousands of busy pedestrians, has given away; houses by the 
 thousand — three, four, and five story — have sprung up, and, to 
 tell it, you would think it a fairy tale. Nevertheless, they are 
 here to be seen. Hotels, in all, about twenty. The Mansion 
 
160 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 Hotel, four stories high, with spacious halls, excellent bed 
 rooms, in suite and single, dining hall, 35x85 feet, with three 
 excellent meals served each day, with a reasonable charge of 
 two dollars per day. We have many wholesale houses — dry 
 goods, grocery houses, very large drug houses, notion houses, 
 hardware houses, agricultural implement houses, wholesale and 
 retail, boot and shoe houses, ready-made clothing houses, whole- 
 sale furniture houses, a large printing house, two daily papers, 
 commercial and weekly papers, reporters combined with small 
 printing houses, four large flouring mills, a jute and moss-collar 
 factory, a tannery, foundries, a stove factory, school houses, 
 with thousands of children therein, many large and well-built 
 churches, with a large attendance on the seventh day, or day of 
 rest, all looking forward to the crowning day in which Adam's 
 life germ shall pass away so that all may enter the spirit with 
 the water, that they may be born of Christ and then walk 
 amidst the beauties of Canaan's happy land and comforts. Oh! 
 comfort, this is to me a comfort; this is to me a comfort I long 
 to see. One day, then, will bring about a greater change than 
 the thirty years has done here. 
 
 Now, all around the site of the Fort, we have broad fields of 
 corn, wheat, oats, barley, and grasses, potatoes, cabbage, berries, 
 and fruits growing, where very little grew thirty years ago. 
 Wells of artesian water flowing, flowers and shrubs of various 
 kinds growing. Eleven railroad outlets. A city of thirty 
 thousand Adamites all marching in that broad road that leads to 
 death. From this you learn of a city situated upon the heights 
 of the Trinity. The south winds have a fair sweep at all miasma 
 that may arise from a city, so if you should elect to locate here 
 you can be assured of finding a healthy place to abide at. We 
 have an abundance of good brick and building stone. 
 
DEDICATED TO FORT WORTH. 151 
 
 Thus I write after thirty years' experience. We have a good 
 sewer system; water-works, the Holly system; a good pressure 
 for lire purposes; otherwise it is not as good as it might be. 
 
 The ideas in this letter have been gathered in this city, upon 
 the banks of the Trinity, and I feel they, like the waters of the 
 river, will culminate in a large ocean and thereby spread knowl- 
 edge broad-cast over the land, producing comfort in every nook 
 and corner of the wilderness, teaching men to live and how to 
 die and how they may live and not die. 
 
 Now, Bob, thirty years passed in building a city will and 
 must crowd many things upon the mind that I cannot make a 
 pen picture of, so they must be left in oblivion until Enoch, 
 Elijah, and Eastland come forth and tell all things, or, rather, 
 substantiate all things. So you must content yourself with this 
 view of our city or come and see for yourself; and, when you 
 come, stop at the Mansion Hotel, where, perchance, you will 
 iind the writer of this epistle. 
 
 ft 
 
THE FORM OF WORSHIP. 
 
 Being satisfied Christ did give himself as a ransom for all 
 mankind, we feel it our duty to honor Him as such, and to do 
 so we must honor Him by demonstrations, or by showing our 
 admiration through actions like the Father did unto the Prod- 
 igal Son — we should kill the fatted calf and rejoice, being 
 exceedingly joyful, with music and dancing and feastiug on the 
 good things of the season; rejoicing and giving thanks, not by 
 word but by act, for well has it been said, "Actions speak louder 
 than words." 
 
 Then we should rejoice with the musical instruments of all 
 kinds. To do this we should have days of feasting, when all 
 the congregation should meet and feast upon the abundance of 
 the land. To do this, I ask that when we meet we locate a 
 place for the feast. I think no more suitable place could be 
 found than upon or near the three forks of the Trinity. It is a 
 genial climate, lovely landscape and trees and flowers flourish 
 well almost all the year. Railroad facilities are good, radiating 
 to all points of the compass. I will here suggest we purchase 
 about sixty acres of land, lay it out in seven divisions, with an 
 outer circle representative of the wilderness in which we dwell; 
 then give the inner circles their grades- -first, second, third, 
 fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh gardens; through the outer 
 circles you must pass before you reach the inner court or seventh 
 garden. Each of those circles shall be adorned with all the 
 
 
THE FORM OF WORSHIP. 153 
 
 beauty of trees and tlowers, fountains and brooks can give in 
 this land. Prepare a feast for the congregation, to last sixty 
 days in each year, so all the people of the State might come 
 and rejoice with us in honor of the Christ that is to save us 
 from this cursed land of briars, brambles, thistles and thorns. 
 The lire will free us from the sin of Adam and Eve and deliver 
 us into the new birth. 
 
 I now say let the sixty come together, and set the ball in 
 motion that will roll until all are safely housed in the land of 
 Canaan, where feasting and joy will perpetually reign. 
 
EVOLUTION GIVES TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 To evolute is to pass from the body of form and evolute into 
 the spirit which ascends, -and this is held in the spirit form, 
 which cannot be seen by the eye of man, and in that condition 
 it floats in the spirit sea. From the germ of the vegetable 
 comes wheat, oats, and grasses, as caused to spring forth by the 
 germ. After which the spirit of all flesh enters in, being- 
 drawn from the ocean of spirit form. By this act our bodies 
 enter all growth that give food to man, as well as all the family 
 of our group. Then, through this process, our bodies enter 
 all living flesh, and from the different animals we subsist upon 
 we draw that portion belonging to man. That part belonging 
 to other animals, though we eat it, does not remain with us, 
 but is passed off and taken to the spirit, to be returned again. 
 Hence Christ said, " Bender unto Ca3sar the things that belong 
 to Osesar." The Creator claims His own, and, as we are His, 
 we must return to Him. The manner in which we are to re- 
 turn has been told in this book, but when we are to return has 
 not been told. We will continue to pass from the body to the 
 spirit and the spirit to the body, until that time come. Then a 
 great change will take place. Evolution will cease and all 
 things will become fixed, like unto the Father, from the fact we 
 evolute. 
 
 The numbers will not be so great as we might imagine. To 
 show this, I will illustrate in this wise: The Creator created 
 enough matter to form one million human beings, placing it in 
 
EVOLUTION GIVES TRUE LIGHT. 155 
 
 the spirit form, like unto Himself. Then He formed a like 
 number of germs and placed them in the earth. He planted a 
 tree that grew up in the midst of the forest, and the tree bore 
 a fruit that drew the germ from the earth, and contained the 
 same in its fruit, and one of His created subjects approached 
 the tree, did pluck the fruit from the tree and eat the same. 
 The flesh being genial to the fruit it received the germ, and 
 thus they became prepared to bear the germ, and when coupled 
 with the life-giving power which the male possesses then there 
 was a condition to beget their kind, but no other. So it was in 
 the garden, and so it was established in the wilderness — -made 
 legal by the Creator, after which man solemnized, and thus the 
 march begun. Now the number of germs was to be filled by 
 drawing from the spirit. Each germ appeared through the 
 regular channel, as was designed by the Creator, then there was 
 no more spirit in the storehouse. In order to keep the work 
 moving one thousand of those stalks must be cut down and 
 decomposed. Through this act they returned to the reservoir 
 of the spirit, from which they, or the spirit in return, through 
 the proper channel, to the stalk, thus forming one thousand new 
 stalks. Deduct from the total the number cut down and you 
 have only your first number; so you continue to cut down until 
 the million is cut down. And again return and you have the 
 number you commenced with — no more, no less. So now you 
 can see how to trace your mother back to Eve, the first mother. 
 We only have to step from mother to mother until we arrive 
 at the first. Now, as we know not our mothers when they 
 arrived back in our midst, so we will not know them when we 
 all arrive in the new Jerusalem until the three substantiators 
 come forward and make all things known to us, the children of 
 • Christ, and not of Adam, for he is dead, as the Creator said he 
 
156 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 should be before he violated the edict. With this view of 
 things, we have light sufficient to guide us in with the bride- 
 groom, where more light will be given. Then I will state, as I 
 have said, mind is matter, and so it is. Without the matter 
 there is no mind. Without the flesh and bone there is no body. 
 Without the head there is no mind. With the head, and with- 
 out the matter, there is no mind. Without the brain and electric 
 cord, there is no mind. The mind is, then, light emanating 
 from the matter, through electricity, or by the power of elec- 
 tricity. Now, as defining the mind further than this, we cannot 
 any more than to stop or curb electricity, or hold it in one place. 
 It comes and it goes with the rapidity of electricity. So if we 
 can't tell what electricity is, we can't tell what the mind is; 
 though we can speak of the action of the mind, also of the 
 action of electricity. 
 
 So we can say electricity emanates from the naming sword 
 that was placed around the tree of life so as to protect it, or 
 rather prevent man from coming to the tree and partaking of 
 the fruit. Thus the Creator has most effectively prevented him 
 from so doing for six thousand years, though man has laid many 
 plans to pass that sword, but has always been completely de- 
 feated in this attempt, by its power (the sword). From 
 the fact such is the case, I am warranted in saying there 
 is none wiser nor more perfect in this respect. There is 
 not one that can say, 1 am more perfect than another; 
 we all stand on the same line as does the Creator, Christ 
 and Holy Spirit. Next. I will bring in the other three — 
 Enoch, P^lisha and Eastland. They are in the same line. 
 Then conic- Adam, Eve and the germ -three in the same 
 line. Thus we have three active powers in the great drama 
 of life, in the constellation. The three last were driven out- 
 
EVOLUTION GIVES TRUE LIGHT. ■ 169 
 
 into utter darkness, through which they have groped their way 
 for a time, and as the others spoken of desired their return into 
 the light again, they set a plan to work in order to bring them 
 back into the fold again. The plan of redemption is made suf- 
 ficiently clear, if man would know himself. " Man, know thy- 
 self," is a command from the first three. To know ourselves 
 we must not presume too much from Greek and Latin, for they 
 lived in a darker age than we do. I say this from the fact Christ's 
 followers could not understand or interpret many of His sayings 
 and works. Then the time is coming when we are to have the 
 comforter. What should we look for as being that comforter? 
 Some might look for a king or a great ruler to give comfort; 
 some will look for one thing and some another. As Christ did 
 not say in what shape it would come, so we can find various 
 things that are a comfort to us. It is a comfort to have 
 an abundance of this world's goods. That is thought to give 
 comfort and ease. That was not Christ's mission. He came to 
 save souls — the lost children of Israel. He worked for that 
 end while on earth, teaching and sending light into the darkened 
 heads of his brothers, so when He had about finished His mis- 
 sion He said: I go; as I go I will send you the comforter. So 
 it was left for us to find out what that comforter was to be. 
 Then it sounds as though it was to come in the form of a per- 
 son teaching or giving out what the comforter is to be. What 
 greater comfort could we have than to have the darkness re- 
 moved and shown clearly what we are and how we are to be 
 saved, and all flesh that man is heir to will be redeemed: 
 
 Saved from the curse of Adam and Eve's sin, 
 Yes, yes it will usher comfort in, 
 To show how we are to be saved from sin, 
 Marching through darkness into light again. 
 
168 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 Electricity and mind are to ns about the same thing as their 
 action on objects at a distance seems to us to be simultaneous — 
 let the distance be what it may, when a shock is given it is 
 felt at the same moment through a circle of fifty or a hundred 
 alike. The mind can select any one of the same circles in like 
 time. 
 
 And I am constrained to say there is a joint property in the 
 spirit. If this is true electricity can be easy and more effectu- 
 ally stored in what I term electric fluid, as in the cells of the 
 heads of animals. This oil is the oil Christ has reference to in 
 the parable of the virgins, and I am constrained to say it passes 
 through the hair into the cells of the head, thereby he, the 
 possessor of the head, attains knowledge of present or distant 
 objects; then I say we gain this knowledge as we grow from 
 our birth. Babes have the cells but not the oil, hence no child 
 knows when it was born into life or brought into space, bnt 
 others substantiate the time and manner, and by this we obtain 
 our knowledge of the act, so we can safely say after we are 
 born of Christ and arrive at a proper age. We can listen to 
 Enoch, Elisha and Eastland while they make known to us all 
 that has passed as well as that which is to come. Then, as the 
 Creator said, I am omnipresent in all things and all things in 
 me. This being the case he must be largely composed of elec- 
 tricity as well as flesh and blood, for we were made in his image, 
 I presume we contain a large amount of electricity. Through 
 its power we are, through its power we think, move, breathe 
 and live, and it is left to us to cultivate this power, thereby 
 raise its standard or grade; hence, I say, cultivate the hair of 
 the head, wash it, rub it, so as to keep it clean and pliant. 
 Here 1 will say when you see a fat and sleek horse on the street 
 you admire him for his beauty of shape and hair. Follow him 
 
EVOLUTION GIVES TRUE LIGHT. 159 
 
 to his stable, see his groom, look at the comb, brush and rub- 
 bing-rag. It is the use of these tools that make the horse look 
 so glossy, and through this glossy appearance lie (the horse) 
 receives a good share of electric fluid that gives life and 
 strength. Strength and life produces action, and thus the 
 horse moves with rapidity; and so man is caused to think and 
 act when a like result is given. 
 
 Then man gather the precious oil while living, 
 
 For when you are dead, you will be to the spirit given. 
 
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FOOD OF THE MIND AND BODY. 
 
 In this I assume the mind is fed in a different manner to the 
 body, each possessing different properties separated from each 
 other, though acting together. The food of the body is obtained 
 from the vegetable. The vegetable obtains it from the firma- 
 ment as well as from the earth, though the earth furnishes the 
 germ, the firmament the pulp and flour. This pulp and 
 flour is made up of all animal matter. When we partake of 
 the matter our germ extracts that which is genial to our germ. 
 The remainder passes off and becomes food for such animals as 
 it was made for by the Creator. This I hold to from the fact 
 man lives without mind, or light. Now, then, I hold that the 
 body is fed through all cereals. Then comes the mind, which 
 is fed on a different base. It is fed through electric liuid. This 
 is composed of electricity and matter collected through the hair 
 of the animal. The mind being supported by the electricity 
 drawn from the oil in which the electricity is contained, the 
 oil passes off from the head when the electricity has been con- 
 sumed in or by the act of thought or speech. Thus the mind 
 and body act together in the same body, and evolution changes 
 it through decomposition, sends the same into the spirit, and 
 from the spirit to the body. Couple mind, body and germ, 
 and yo» have three in one. Traveling to death and renovation 
 through the fire, and a return through the germ and spirit of 
 
FOOD OF THE MIND AND BODY. 161 
 
 Christ. This will be life eternal, where the fire and decomposer 
 and wicked germ cannot come. 
 
 There man will rest beneath the genial sun ; 
 When his work and glory has fully begun. 
 There he will bask in the flowery garden of ease. 
 And sing the songs of love, with grace to please. 
 
CLOSING CHAPTER. 
 
 Reader, this chapter contains my closing remarks. You must 
 from them fill the cells of light, otherwise grope your way, as 
 does the blind, until you fall into the ditch. This will contain 
 a mere summary of what I have previously said, filling up, if 
 possible, the blanks therein, so I can offer no apology for what 
 the empty cells have debarred me from filling. 
 
 This case is clearly illustrated by Christ's parable of the un- 
 wise virgins that slept on the roadside without oil in their 
 lamps. In this case I refer you to the cells of the head, which 
 are lamps when containing electric oil that gives light to the 
 mind. When the electric wire is dipped in the light goes forth 
 and is a guide to the virgin on her way with the bridegroom. 
 How essential it is the oil should be had. 
 
 I now pass to the vision wherein the last and first are men- 
 tioned. He raises himself from the tube of asbestos upon which 
 he sits and peers in and beholds the gas ignited with fire; he 
 drops in the last Adamite on earth; he passes into the spirit, 
 but does not mingle with the outer spirits of man, being in- 
 cased in the asbestos. He is kept separate from them, for the 
 top of the tube is sealed up like the bee cell, and thus he is 
 kept separate from all others until his birth takes place; then, 
 like the young bee, he will come forth and join Enoch and 
 Elijah and be thoroughly taught in all things; being the last 
 and the first, he speaks with them in substantiating all things. 
 The degrees of glory are as they arise in purity; they pass from 
 
CLOSING CHAPTER. 163 
 
 one deoree to the other until they reach the seventh, when they 
 will behold the Creator and the tree of life. The judgment 
 is as you pass through, and all will steadily move forward to 
 the seventh degree. The light here does not give the light there, 
 for there will be no blind there, but all will see their way 
 clearly, being led by the light shown in the great dipper. The 
 namiu o- sword will have passed away. Xo more chilly blast or 
 scorchino- heat to be felt. The catechism is to aid the young 
 to grasp the idea, and this causes the empty cells of the head to 
 be filled with the light-giving oil of the head. 
 
 Children, study this lesson well, it will be a comfort to you 
 as you journey through the wilderness. 
 
 The biographical sketch is merely to give you some idea of 
 the author. It shows the wisdom of the Creator in not filling 
 all of the cells of light contained in the head at the same time. 
 Had it been the case the mind would have been overpowered 
 with light, hence He would not show Himself to Moses, but chose 
 to place a bush between them whilst He spoke. Hence man has 
 no right to question the knowledge of the Creator nor His ac- 
 tions. His wisdom is great and He does all things well; and 
 if, through His Son, He permits our return to the garden of 
 bliss, it is sufficient for us. 
 
 The fiction in this book is intended to draw the mind to the 
 truths herein mentioned. Well do I know the mind of youth 
 can be chained with a spider's web, or a single thread thereof, 
 and led captive to the great slaughter pen. Youth, I say light 
 up your path with true light, and walk thereby unto the great 
 light that shows the handiworks of Him that fills immensity of 
 space. 
 
 The germ of the vegetable comes from the earth. It rises 
 beneath the bark of the tree, and, if all the buds are cut off, 
 
164 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 many trees will force out a sprout through the bark and give 
 new branches to feed the body. Vapor is the spirit and cannot 
 be observed by the eye, but when condensed it becomes an ob- 
 ject visible to the eye, and all, save the earth, passes into vapor, 
 which is the spirit. 
 
 Look to this, reader, that you may pass through your pil- 
 grimage with much light and be well prepared for the bride- 
 groom, for he cometh in the day and time that you are not 
 looking for him. He is preparing hourly for the coming and 
 you should do likewise. In this we do not wish you should 
 give up any of your earthly work, but be of good mind, com- 
 bined with cheerfulness, doing unto others as you would they 
 should do unto you. By this I mean, bear your burden with 
 comfort, drawn from the true light. What a comfort to know 
 that Christ came to redeem all mankind. 
 
 I refer to the falling stars, so called by many of our old folks. 
 They say, U I was born the year the stars fell;" or, "I was 
 married two years before the stars fell and Patsey was born the 
 year the stars fell." 
 
 This, according to my memory, was 1833. I have no written 
 record of the event and I may be one year wrong. I was then 
 a boy, and, for want of light, could not reason upon the event. 
 Now, as I am convinced of condensation of all bodies that form 
 all things pertaining to our universe, I can say it was a con- 
 densed body of electric fluid, such as gives life and light to man. 
 The earth, being a receiver of this fluid, it fell to the ground 
 and entered the earth in order to give life and germ to vegeta- 
 tion, there having been a drouth in the earth for that matter; 
 or, in other words, a greater demand made for electric fluid on 
 earth, and as it had to be drawn from the store house of the 
 Creator it was sent in the night time that the eyes might 
 
CLOSING CHAPTER. 165 
 
 behold it. As it Ml on the ground it rolled about before enter- 
 ing the earth and thus disappearing from sight; and thus were 
 the children of Israel fed in the wilderness by condensing the 
 flour and honey together causing it to fall in the camp that the 
 hungry might be fed. 
 
 Such things become quite a comfort when we apply them in 
 a proper manner. To do this the cells of the head must be 
 tilled that the fuse may burn, thereby giving the light essential 
 to our action, for we act by the light of the mind, and if that 
 mind be corrupted we act wrong, if not corrupted we act and 
 do right. 
 
 Reader, we are allotted three secore and ten years. By virtue 
 of our acts we live out our time. By disobedience we are often 
 cut down and returned to the store- house before the accomplish- 
 ment of our allotted time, and, as we were made free agents by 
 the acts of Adam and Eve, we must work for ourselves, and 
 every one is made responsible for his acts and must meet with 
 his reward according to the amount of punishment on earth. 
 So we see the murderer in prison, and when justice, or the law, 
 is meted out. as laid down, he is hung by the neck until dead. 
 We see the thief in jail, the law-breaker working out the fine 
 on roads and public works, and so we say law-breakers must 
 have their reward, and, on account of Adam and Eve's violation 
 of the law, the Ruler has offered us a reprieve through Christ, 
 our Mediator; at the same time He has provided abundance of 
 the necessities of life on very easy terms;' that is through the 
 sweat of the face. 
 
 He gave us heads and talents and means of improving those 
 talents, and to do so we have to be up and doing, for our time 
 is short and soon will we change actions. Then, to be slothful 
 is to be negligent; to be negligent is to cause want; want 
 
166 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 
 
 causes misery; misery causes you to say and think wrong; wrong 
 thoughts causes bad actions; lpad actions causes the law to be 
 enforced; enforcement of the law causes sorrow, and thus you 
 evolute from one to the other — good or bad. 
 
 JSTow, then, we have a cross to bear; let us bear it, and with 
 much fortitude and patience. Through patience and fortitude 
 we arrive at the gate and enter into a rest prepared for us at 
 the foundations of this wonderful structure — the universe. 
 
 I have said this conveys to the mind the greatest amount of 
 comfort that man is capable of receiving, that is, to know that 
 all mankind is to be saved in the kingdom of our Maker. 
 
 Then tranquil to rest 
 
 With all mankind blest ; 
 
 It fills our minds with peace sublime, 
 
 And makes us happy awaiting the time — 
 
 THE END. 
 
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