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Art 7. 96.
Beauty 96.
Blasphemy 21.
Brevets & Missions 5. 8. 11. 18. 22. 88. 105. 116. 130. 142. 207. 257.
Celestial Administration 12. 19. 60. 69. 79. 91. 92. 137. 138. 165. 198. 209.
Change 41. 45.
Children 37. 63. 196.
Circumspection 212.
Communion 1. 62. 178. 199. 200. 201. 206.
Comportment 40. 44. 97. 129. 134. 142. 241. 244. 249. 251.
Divine Instruction 23. 25. 35. 78. 95. 97. 122. 140. 194.
Dogma 25. 91. 163.
Etheric Vacuum 66.
Evil & Ignorance 5. 11. 23. 36. 47. 89. 97. 98. 144. 159. 215. 222. 236. 237. 238. 249.
Experience 8. 9. 27. 86. 152. 186. 193. 253.
Faith 78. 210. 211.
Fear 27. 31. 111. 241.
Force : Physical 128, 169. Cosmic 151. Moral 80.
Giving 70.
Growth 148.
Humility 155.
Impatience 226.
Justice 231.
Knowledge & Wisdom 37. 86. 122. 163. 189. 232. 256.
Leadership 81. 133. 215.
Light 25. 30. 109.
Love 43. 46. 50. 57. 58. 147. 148. 217. 218.
Matter 109. 152.
Mediums 75. 76.
Numerology 85.
Omens, Symbols & Miracles 35. 55. 73. 74. 96. 126. 146. 168. 195. 203.
Pact, Plan & Program 14. 17. 78. 142. 178. 180. 215. 233. 257.
Parables: Figs 104, Five Sons 156, Gardener 163, Mustard Seed 156, Ravens 160, Roses 101, Small Mishiefs 175, Two Bounties 182.
Pattern 149.
Patience 9. 22. 84.
Patriotism 15.
Peace 230. 234. 246.
Personal Choice 14. 16. 29. 93. 153. 157. 168. 246. 253.
Prayer 32. 131. 241.
Promise 10. 16. 24. 28. 42. 117. 166. 192. 205. 248.
Prophets & Prophecy 65. 66. 67. 83. 172.
Reincarnation 6. 12. 25. 31. 72. 76. 81. 152.
Rewards, Recompense & Money 39. 40. 82. 87. 143. 144. 201. 247. 250.
Sacrifice 34.
Self Command 93. 147.
Science & Inovation 14. 166.
Second Coming 25. 26. 29. 36. 72. 81. 106. 114. 120. 146. 181. 219.
Service 2. 33. 69. 107. 114. 156. 177.
Space 65.
Spirit 20.
Suffering 13. 176.
Thought 57. 66. 148.
Time 41. 45.
Tolerence 27.
Tranquility 38.
Vibration 67.
Victory 223.
War 18. 47. 230.
Others 3. 4. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 56. 59. 61. 64. 68. 71. 77. 90. 92. 94. 99. 100. 102. 103. 108. 110. 112. 113. 115. 118. 119. 121. 123. 124. 125. 127. 132. 135. 136. 139. 141. 145. 150. 154. 158. 161. 162. 164. 167. 170. 171. 172. 173. 174. 179. 183. 184. 185. 187. 188. 190. 191. 197. 198. 202. 204. 208. 209. 213. 214. 216. 220. 221. 224. 225. 227. 228. 229. 235. 239. 240. 242. 243. 245. 252. 254. 255.

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Chapter 250:

My Purse Is My Lord's

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1. I SAY unto you, Be patient; I say unto you, Be contrite; I say unto you, The enemy falleth, loaded with the sacks of the pence that are his armor.

2. Oft hath it come to you that if ye had but pence, then would the battle for righteousness be victorious; I say unto you, the pence cometh indeed, and yet I say more; I say that it cometh within the Father's time.

3. Not all who cry, Here am I, Lord, use me for Thy kingdom's sake! mean that which they cry in the silence of their hearts; verily they mean, Here am I, Lord, use me as it pleaseth Thee, but ask me not that I give recompense, verily would I have it that Thou didst give recompense unto me for offering my talents.

4. These are the small chaff and the little bushel of the garnerings at the Father's harvest; verily they cry with a loud voice when the enemy pursueth, but when the enemy vanisheth, lo, they declare: We are those who have known a deliverance; let us therefore make merry in that a time for it hath come to us.

5. I say, the time hath not come for their deliverance, yea even for the shoutings of the victory, until the enemy be delivered into the hands of the Father.

6. But much cometh first, beloved. Those who are as lead in the sack of the Infinite must sink to the bottom of the seas of iniquity;

7. Those who plead a righteous cause, and cry a righteous cry, must have raised unto them a pennant about which they gather that the Lord of Glory may come in and the shoutings have a joyousness that persisteth down far ages.

8. So was it Written, even in the beginning; so shall it be unto the sons of Benefaction, though the long night pursueth and the righteous now walk naked.

9. I say there are those who wait without the banquet halls of wisdom's feastings, knowing the door but refusing to come in. They shall be shown, and the door swing open unto them by the hand upon the latch.

10. I say there are those who shall pursue a righteous man's repast upon a banquet of true fruits; but lo, they are hungry as Mammon's host advanceth, and they know not their manna which falleth in the byways, supporting and sustaining them as a righteous army groweth.

11. I say there are those who must see by the sign upon their foreheads that it behooveth them to be up and about their Father's business, giving of their silver that the battle may go forward.

12. Is it meet that we should say unto these: Ye are the Chosen, or, Ye are the Fallen, in that their times have not yet come to manifest their service?

13. Truly, I tell you, he who is called perceiveth the calling; he doth the righteous thing, he advanceth with the minions, he breaketh a crust and giveth a loaf, he openeth his purse and the coinage runneth out, yea to everlasting, until the purse be emptied.

14. He saith unto himself, My purse is my Lord's and the richness thereof, hereby do I give it that the righteous may come into that which they aspire to. My coinage is my Lord's and I cast it to the minions, that they sweep a clean track and blow a clean breath on that which is iniquitous. So I have said it.

15. Is it meet, therefore, that some should be chosen because the times are calling, and some left behind because of their blindness in presenting the servants with that which enlighteneth those who are yet blinded?

16. I say, all things in their season, even the gift that proceedeth from the conscience.

17. There are those among you who have received little gifts accruing unto you; ye have received them with a gratitude; ye have taken the small talent and buried it not in the bosom of the earth.

18. Think ye, beloved, that these things pass unnoted? . . . have ye been lecherous in that ye have bethought yourselves: The work hath a pausing in that gifts of pence are little?

19. I say, it hath not been the size of the gift which discloseth unto you the beauty of the spirit of him who did give it; it hath not been the mountain of gold that hath halted the enemy in his advancings to the moment.

20. Always hath it been that those who have sustained you have behaved from a conscience. Behold the Father seeth the conscience, and even as the widow who presented her mite, so cometh unto those who have borne the battle bravely the tears of the contrite wetting proffered purses.

21. So hath it ever been, beloved, with those who have gone forth to conquer for the truth's sake.

22. The enemy saith truly: We have small fear of those who come assailing us, for have we not captured that which giveth them a sinew for the conflict?

23. Behold he lieth! . . . .he feareth you greatly! . . . .he saith unto himself: Behold they attack us without an armor, behold they advance without an ordnance; how therefore can we stand against them? for verily the attack doth carry a benevolence that hath not Caesar's countenance, verily the battle achieveth a victory for those who came warring with breads for the righteous.

24. All things in due season, my dearly beloved, even the gift that maketh the conflict victorious unto your arms, victorious unto your hearts, verily victorious to your encompassing benevolence.

25. Hear my words and be wise. I say I touch the hearts of those who sustain you; behold they sustain you further, verily from a storehouse that hath endlessness of resource.

26. Wouldst ye spend a little coin that the heart may be great? . . . think ye that hearts are made great by the pence? give honor to my wisdom, that I know the fond sacrifice that maketh great the spirit.

27. Mammon hath coinage to squander in victories, but the pence runneth out and the victories are carrion.

28. The Lord's work meriteth the fond embrace of a commerce coming swiftly, but out of the heart the fat purse poureth, whether it give pence or whether it pour victories made of Caesar's bullion.

29. I say the increase is the Father's and in that He giveth it, the battle progresseth; all else is lechery and the feather-flight of tokens. . . .

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