SPIRTUAL.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4514, 23 June 1883, Page 4

SPIRTUAL.

(To the Editor of the k verting Star.)

Sib,—'The truly spiritual minded man is the one who in reality has possession of everything in the universe. This earth,, with the sun, moon, and stare, belong to him. The Apostle says, "All things are yourß," and so they are if we can only take possession of them- The more spiritual we are, the better are we able t> take hold of that which be 100 us to us; and the nearer we are to.animals the less able* we are to.grasp the realities from our surroundings. The:farmer who only can make-his farm produce that which the body needs is very little when compared to the man who has a soul capable of seeing and extracting the spiritual from it. .-Animals cannot see beauty in flowers, or in a landscape. ' Some people measure the value of everything according to its capabilities to satisfy the animal wants, and they do not appear to know that the soul has any wants at all. When we look upon all nature as one large laboratory, and God, the Great Chemist, always at work producing everlasting changes ; and it is all done in so still and quiet a manner, without either noise or bustle. When the vegetable kingdom is in full farce, what a mighty power is at work in every way—a power that not only shows force, but in-telligence,-but it requires spiritual eyes to see it. A man lived all his life near a beautiful waterfall, and never went to nee it; the reason he assigned for not doing so being that it would not fill his stomach nor clothe his'back, so that if ho could have eaten it, and thus have destroyed the spiritual food for thousands, he would have gone to see it. If our spirited eyes were opened, many things that are all. in mist and darkness now would appear more i clearly. I suppose there is not one man at the Thames but would have been glad to have been able to save that fine youth from being drowned^ the other, day at Turua. .The qfiesfion natutally arises, is there no intelligent power over us that is as kind atjj4 gbod as we are ? Certainly there is, ana more so. The next question is then, why was not that promising youth saved f The answer is plain—it was for a> wiser and nobler purpose; or else it would have been done; and by and by we shall see it. Nothing of this sort could or. would take place if it were not so. If God be all wise, all-good, and almighty, it cannot be otherwise. What is called death gives us a power to take possession of a rich inheritance that we ape heirs to; if this were known, death could not be such a bugbear to be dreaded above all things through life as it is now. What a miserable poor wretch the miser is with his gold compared to the man who really possess6th all things—he having a soul capable of drawing spiritual food from ■ every object.—-1 am, Ac, J. Hobk.