made known on this planet! It recognizes all human beings, good and
bad, as the children of one and the same Father, and that not one can
be lost from the hand of God!

The peculiar people who have developed the strange power of
mediatorship between this material world and the plane of existence
known as the spiritual world have always been helped and sustained in
their great work by their invisible friends and appointed spirit
guardians, or they could never have carried forward their important
mission to the people of this earth.

Regardless of all the efforts of the enemies and traducers of
Spiritualism, the spread of the knowledge of the unfolding spiritual
philosophy has been and is marvelous; and the establishment of the fact
of man's existence, continued after physical death, through varied
phenomena, is in itself the proof of its being the work, not of Satan,
but of a beneficent God. And why not? The Creator of us all must know
his earth-children's needs for their further evolution and growth!

There have been great searchings, at various times, trying to discover
the "origin of evil." Vast stores of uncanny legends, and tales of
wonders have been handed down to us in explanation of this most
baffling mystery.

The destructive force in nature had no "origin." Just as God, the
Constructive Force, had none. It was, as God was. It is and always
will be, while God and nature are.

It rides the whirlwind and the flood, and differentiates itself through
the smallest minutia of the affairs of human life. It is the primeval