FAITH

Faith

True Faith is a souls perception, and comes with the experience of receiving the Divine Love of God through the Holy Spirit.  It is different than a mental belief or faith.

Faith

March 26th, 1915

I am here, Jesus.

    It is that degree of belief that enables you to know as a Reality, that, which presents itself to your consciousness as a Truth, is in fact a Truth, and an existing condition.  It is not a mere intellectual belief, but a belief of the soul which makes the belief a Reality.

    I know that this Faith is the only one that can make you realize that I am who and what I declare myself to be.  Let this Faith take possession of your soul.  You will be a very happy and progressive human.  I am not here tonight to discuss Spiritual subjects, but merely to help you in your troubles over material things.  When you get in proper condition to write my messages, then I will finish my last subject, which we left unfinished.

    So my dear brother, friend, and worker, try to let these things leave your mind.  Believe what I tell you, for I say again, that they will come True.

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    Well, the devil is with you all the time.  He is not a person, as many think.  Merely the evil suggestions, that results from the operations of the thoughts of the unregenerate human.  Every human has their devils, who cling close to them, and can only be gotten rid of by the operations of the Holy Spirit.  So do not think that the devil is something that has form, or independent personality, for he is not.  You are the creator and nourisher of your own devil.  Until you get into a state, which leaves no room for his presence, he will abide with you.

    Well, the influences and suggestions that come from evil spirits would not have any effect, if human were not in that condition of sympathy with such spirits, as enables them to become, as it were, a part of them.  I know that many humans are possessed, or obsessed, by these evil spirits, but if they, the humans, would only seek the Higher Spiritual Conditions, these spirits would not harm them.

    Well, that is one of the subjects of my messages.  I will delay to answer until I write that message.  Yes, the time will soon come when you will Know these things.

    I must stop now, as you are not in condition to write much more.  Your wife wants to say a word.

So with my True and Brotherly Love, I am, Jesus.

Faith

April 4th, 1915

I am here, Jesus.

    I was with you today.  I heard you declare your belief in me, and my being the Jesus of the Bible.  While it did not have much impression on the hearers, yet it will cause them to think, and possibly lead them to a realization that I am the True Jesus, and that my teachings, which you will receive, are the Teachings of Divine Truth.  I was much pleased that you declared yourself so emphatically and earnestly, and that your faith in me is so fixed and certain.

    You have advanced yourself in the way of your Spiritual Development by such positive assertion of your belief.  You will find that your Faith will increase and you will progress in your development very rapidly.

    I will now be able to communicate with you more satisfactorily than before, for the mere fact of declaring your belief in such a way, and the knowledge that those to whom you spoke do not believe that I am other than God, a part of God, will help you beyond what you may conceive.

    You are now much more in rapport with me than ever.  You will soon realize that you are very near the Kingdom of the Father.

    The discourse on Forgiveness made a deep impression on the father.  He will commence to think that his belief in the church dogmas and creeds does not satisfy the longings of his soul, as they have heretofore.

    Be my True Disciple under all circumstances, and your reward will be great, both here, and hereafter.

    I will come to you soon and finish my last discourse.  When completed, you will see that the Truths, which I shall declare, are Divine Truths that will show humans that the Divine Love of the Father is the One All-Sufficient means to His Kingdom and Favor.  Be True to me and to yourself.  You will be one of the over comers who will inherit the Eternal Kingdom of the Holy Home of Redeemed Spirits (Celestial Kingdom or Heavens).  You will not only feel the great benefit yourself, of this Great Truth of the New Birth, but you will lead many others to embrace the Truth and receive the benefits of the Father, which He has prepared for all who may Love Him and receive His Divine Love.

    So my dear brother and disciple, let your efforts continue to learn these Divine Truths, and teach others The Way of my Truths, and their own Redemption.

    I will be with you very often, for on you I depend to receive and spread my Gospel of Truth.  When you have done this, humankind will turn from their condition of formal religion and embrace the True and Only Way to their Salvation.  A new church will arise, and the Divine Love of the Father, waiting to be bestowed on all humans, will be the Foundation Stone of its establishment.

    I know that you will have disappointments and trials in doing this work.  Only be Faithful and steadfast.  The Great Object of my teachings will be accomplished on Earth, as in Heaven.

    I must not write more now.  I want to assure you that your action today is of more significance than you realize.  You will soon see the importance of what you declared, in the presence of those who doubt the Truth of your declarations.

    So with my Love and assurance of tender care, and the Blessings of the Father, I am, your own Loving and True Brother, Jesus.

Faith

August 30th, 1915

I am here, Jesus.

    I come tonight because I see that you are again praying to The Father for the inflowing of His Divine Love, and for Faith.  For a nearness to Him that will make you happy.  I am glad of this new aspiration, and know that the Divine Love will come to you.  That your Faith will be increased.  Your trust in me will be established firmly, so that we can proceed with our work.  So, I will soon come now and write you another of my formal messages.  I hope that thence we can go rapidly onward.

    I have been with you today, and know what your feelings have been.  How, in a way, you have had Faith that certain things would come to pass without knowing just why.  You have not troubled yourself very much, and expected to secure them at the time needed.  Well, I want to tell you that that is the kind of Faith that you should have, in reference to all the things that affect you both materially and Spiritually.  Such Faith brings results.  You will not be disappointed in your present Faith, for what you need will come to you this week.  I am here predicting a thing with certainty, as I see it.  I do not think you will be disappointed.

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    I know what you mean.  We will help you.  Only exercise your willpower.  When you feel the temptation come to you very strong, utter a prayer to the Father for help.  You will receive it.

    I am glad that you are in such condition of Harmony with the Father tonight, and that your Love for Him is so strong.  With that Love, will come Faith that you will be able to accomplish most anything that you may desire, and that the Father sees what is best for you.

    Yes, you can ask those things with the assurance that they will be pleasing to the Father, and will not be refused you.  I would like to write longer but I must stop now.

   I will tell you, the next time that I write about these two spirits, who say they are the First Parents of the human race.  I have not the time now.  What I may say may be interesting to you and to the World.

    So, my dear brother, I will say goodnight, your brother, Jesus.

Faith

August 31st, 1915

I am here, Jesus.

    I heard what Paul wrote.  I corroborate everything that he said.  And add; that these people are pursuing the True Way to the Inheritance which I promised them while I was on Earth.  Their Faith is wonderful.  The Fruits of its Exercise are shown in the condition of their souls and in their lives.  Theirs is the Soul Conception of Religion, and of my Divine Truths.  While they may not, with their intellects, understand the philosophy of my teachings, yet with their soul perceptions they have grasped the Great Foundation Truth of Salvation through the Divine Love of the Father.  Of course, they sing and proclaim that my blood saves them from sin, but this is merely the exercise of their mental conceptions, learned from the teachings and creeds of the churches.  Yet they have grasped the Great and Only Truth of Salvation, with the far more and certain Knowledge, that The Awakening and filling of their souls by the Divine Love gives them.

    How much to be wished for that all these churches of form and mental worship could realize that the only True Worship of God is with the soul perceptions, and only with these perceptions, that are developed by obtaining the Divine Love, can we see God.  Only by such development can we become Pure, Holy, and At-One with the Father, partakers of His Divine Nature.

    I am glad that you attended this church.  I advise you to go there often, for I tell you that the Spirit of Truth and Divine Love is with these people to a very extended degree, and that because their souls are open to its inflowing and to its Ministration.

    I was with you again tonight, and so was the Spirit of Truth (the Holy Spirit), trying to open up your soul to its Influence, and to that which will cause your Faith to increase, and your trust in me to grow.  No church will do you as much good as that.  I advise you to attend.  Of course you will not have to believe in its creed, but only in the fact that the Holy Spirit is there in all its Quickening Power, as they sometimes sing.

    So with all my Love I say, goodnight, your brother and friend, Jesus.

Faith

September 26th, 1915

I am here, John.

    I only want to say that the Faith that the preacher spoke of tonight as being possessed by Elijah, is the Faith that you must try to obtain.  Then you will realize that you will be superior to all the worries and troubles that may come to you.  This is the kind of Faith that overcomes every obstacle and makes you a True Child of the Father.  One whom He will never forsake, or let go unprovided for.

    I was with you at the services.  I tell you that the minister made a forcible application of the Truths taught by that instance in Elijah's Life as related in the Old Testament.

    If humans would only learn the efficacy of that kind of Faith in God, they would become so much happier and possessed of that Great Peace of which the Master spoke.  I am telling you this not as a speculation, or a theory, but as the result of Knowledge and actual experience.  The same Faith that existed in Elijah was the same Faith that existed in the martyred disciples of Jesus.  The same Faith that you, and all other humans may now have.  God never changes, although human's conceptions of Him do, yet no matter what these conceptions may be, the same God Rules and Lives.  As the preacher said, is Present with you.  Faith in Him is always accompanied by a Power that never fails in working out His Truths.

    I, John, tell you this, because I want you to obtain that Faith, as you will need it in the great work which you have before you, and which can only be done by one whose soul is developed by such Faith.

    I was present tonight at church, because I had been with you a large portion of the day, trying to influence and encourage you with my Love and influence.

    Very soon you will again commence to receive the messages of the Master, and continue to do so until they are completed.  What Messages of Truth they will be.  As the minister said tonight, there will be troublers, but their mission will be similar to that of Elijah.  That is; will show to mortals the True God.  That Genuine Faith and steadfastness of purpose will bring to humankind the Salvation of the Lord.

    I will not write more tonight, but will say before I stop, try to get this Faith.  You may get it, even as Elijah had it, by earnest persistent prayer, accompanied by belief.  The Lord gives Faith to those who seek for it in earnestness and longing desire.

    I will say further, that you are progressing very much in your Soul Development.  If you will only trust in the Master's promises, very soon the worries that you have will pass away, and you will be free to do the work without being distracted by anything that militates against the exercise of the soul perceptions, which are so necessary in your work.

    So my dear brother, I will say goodnight and God Bless you, your brother in Christ, John.

Faith

October 10th, 1915

I am here, Jesus.

    I came tonight to tell you that you are nearer the Kingdom than you have been for a long time.  That if you pray to the Father in more earnestness, you will soon realize the inflowing of the Divine Love that will make you free indeed, and fit you to enjoy that close communion with the Father that will enable you to forget all your worries and disappointments, and see, with your soul perceptions, the Great Truths, which I and my followers may endeavor to teach you.

    I know that at times, it seems difficult to grasp the full meaning of Faith in The Father and His Divine Love.  If you will earnestly seek for His Divine Love, you will find that there will come to you such a belief in His Wonderful Love and in the Nearness of His Presence, that you will be free from all doubt.

    You have asked me, "what is Faith"?  I will answer:  Faith is that, which when possessed in its Real and True Meaning, makes the aspirations and longings of the soul a Real, Living Existence.  One so certain and palpable, that no doubt will arise as to its Reality.

    This Faith is not the belief that arises from the mere operation of the mind.  But that which comes from the opening of the perceptions of the soul, which enables its possessor to see God in all His Beauty and Love.  I do not mean that the possessor of this Faith will actually see God in form, or feature, for He has none such.  But their souls perceptions will be in such condition that all the Attributes of the Father will appear so plainly to them that they will be as Real as anything that they can see with the eyes of the spirit form.  Such Faith comes only with constant earnest prayer and the reception into the soul of the Divine Love.

    No human can be said to have Faith, who has not this Divine Love.  Of course, Faith is a progressive quality, or essence of the soul.  Increases, as possession of this Divine Love increases, and is not dependent on anything else.  Your prayers call from the Father, a Response, that brings with it Faith.  With this Faith, comes Knowledge of the Existence of this Divine Love in your own soul.

    Many persons, I know, understand this Faith to be a mere belief.  It is greater than belief!  It exists, in its True Sense, only in the soul.  Belief may arise from a conviction of the mind, but Faith never can.  Its place of being is in the soul.  No one can possess it unless their soul is Awakened by the inflowing of this Divine Love.  So that, when we pray to the Father to increase our Faith, it is a prayer for the increase of Divine Love.  Faith is based on the possession of this Divine Love.  Without It, there can be no Faith.  Because it is impossible for the soul to exercise its (Faith) function when Divine Love is absent from it.

    Sometime, as you progress in these writings, you will be in soul condition to understand just what Faith is.  Until that time, your Faith will be limited by your possession of this Divine Love.

    Well, in my healing of the sick, the blind, and the others of Earth, who needed a cure, when I said:  "as your Faith, so be it unto you", I meant that they must believe that the Father had Power to bring about the cure.  I did not mean that if their minds merely had the belief that I might cure them, that then they would be cured.  Belief was not sufficient of itself.  Faith was required.

    Faith is not a thing that can be obtained by a mere exercise of the mind.  But has to be sought for with the soul perceptions.  When obtained will be enjoyed only by the soul perceptions.

    I am with you in all my Love and power, for I Love you as I told you, and desire that you shall become free and happy, so that you can do my work.

    With all my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight, your brother and friend, Jesus.

Faith

January 2nd, 1917

I am here, Jesus.

    I have been present as you read the article on Christian Science, and was interested in your comments.  I am pleased to assure you that your annotations were correct, that in the particulars that you criticized the statements of the writer, the same were erroneous and not in accord with the Spiritual Laws of Truth, and the understanding thereof.  Sometime I will come and write you a message at some length on the doctrines of Christian Science, for the reason that I think a correction of the claims of this cult is very important.

    The doctrines that it proclaims to the World contain many Truths and are beneficial to humankind, and are doing much good, both spiritually and physically.  But some of the claims are so much in violation of the Truth that they must not be permitted to pass as Truths, uncontradicted.

    The founder of this science, or discovery, as her writings and followers claim, is here now, and deplores the fact that she left to the World so many false and misconceived concepts of the Truth, that so many persons believe and teach.  She is a spirit of much Soul Development, and is in possession of much of the Divine Love, which she did not conceive the meaning of, by her carnal mind as she called it.  Was not therefore able to teach what this Divine Love is, and its operations upon the souls of humans, and the effect of its Presence in such souls.  She never conceived any higher ideal for human than the Perfect Human.  One who should become wholly delivered from the sins and errors, which all humans have, to a more or less extent.  Her teachings that sin, error, and disease are not things of reality, because God did not create them, are all wrong.  For they have a Reality, that not only makes humans unhappy and causes them suffering in the Mortal Life, but also prevents their progress towards her ideal of the Perfect Human in the Spirit World.

    God only is Good.  Everything that He Created is necessarily Good, and cannot contain that which is evil, or in conflict with His Creations.  But, as we have explained to you, while He Created human Perfect, knowing only Good, yet He Bestowed upon them that Great Power of Free Will.  After their (first) disobedience, they exercised it in such a way, that they violated the Laws of their Being.  Sin and error resulted.  This made humans the creator of evil.

    Mrs. Eddy will write you very soon on the subject of her science, as she is very anxious to remedy the errors that she taught.  We have determined that it is advisable that she do so, on account both of her followers and her own account.  For her work here (in the Spirit World), and so far as possible in the Mortal World, is to unteach, as it were, the errors that she taught.

    I expected to write my message, or rather finish the message which I partly wrote a few nights ago, but you are not just in condition to receive it.  I prefer waiting until you feel better in this respect.

    I am glad that you are so much interested in that message.  When you receive it, I don't think that you will be disappointed.  For as you say, the subject is the One Fundamental Truth to be made known to mortals.  I will deal with it in all its phases.  You must try to get in the best possible condition to receive it.

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    Well, I do not think that that will be necessary, for there will be such powers present, that the presence of any mortal, and the favorable influences that they may attract, will not afford any assistance to you.  You must know that I have greater power than all the other spirits have.  When I come to you, the assistance of the powers of any other spirit is not needed.  If you will only get your soul in the best condition possible, so that I can make the proper rapport, nothing else will be needed.

    I will not write more tonight.  I Love you very much.  I am with you quite frequently, throwing around you my Love and influence, and trying to help you develop your soul condition and become in greater At-Onement with the Father.

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    Yes, I have kept my promises.  When you call for me to come with you and pray, I come, and send up my earnest supplications in your behalf.  I know that the Father answers my prayers, not only because of the Faith that I have, but because I can see the effect in your soul's condition.

    Well, you must not think that I am God, or one of the godhead.  For as I have told you, I am only His son, and the possessor of so much of His Divine Love that I get very close to Him, and have communion.  I have my home in the Highest Heaven, that the spirit of human has not yet so far reached.  Notwithstanding, I am not of so exalted a condition, or in such position, that I do not come to you in Love and sympathy, and as your elder brother.  In my exaltation, I am most humble.  I must tell you that humility is a certain and eternal accompaniment of Great Spiritual and Soul Development (that comes with the inflowing of the Father’s Divine Love).

    Because I am the highest of the Father's sons, you must not doubt that I come to you, and deliver my messages, and pray for you, and throw around you my Love and influence.

    I have explained to you the great reason why I am doing this.  This reason is one that involves the Salvation and Good of All Humankind, and you.  I will tell you now that you are engaged, and made a co-worker with me, and the spirits who write you, in the greatest work that any spirit or human, can engage in.  I want further to say, that you will accomplish the work, and successfully.  When the time comes for you to lay down this work and come to the Spirit World, your reward will be beyond all conception, and your happiness will be complete.

    I see that you have in your mind the thought as to what will be the future of your two friends.  Well, they will perform their work.  It will be a great and important work that will bring them a reward similar to the one that is in store for you.  This reward is not the result of any special dispensation of the Father, but is the result of the work, the associations, and experience, that you all will have in doing and completing the tasks that are before you.

    You, and they too, are now doing a work which is laying up rewards in the Spirit World for you when you come over, and not only there, but you are now experiencing some of the benefits that flow from your work.  Continue in the efforts that you are making to show spirits and mortals The Way to the Father's Divine Love and my Kingdom.  You will find a wonderful reflex happiness come to you while you are yet mortals.

    If you men could realize the Love and Spiritual Influences, and the number of highly developed spirits that are with you so often, and the efforts the latter make to help you and bring happiness to you, you would feel that you are the Truly Blessed of the Father.

    Well, I must stop now.  Remember what I have said, and believe that I am your brother and friend, Jesus.

Faith

January 20th, 1915

I am here, your old friend G. R.

    Yes it is I.  I am glad to be able to write to you again.  I told your wife that I desired to write and tell you of my progress in Spiritual matters.  As you are kind enough to give me the opportunity, I will try to tell you how my eyes were opened to the things of the Spirit, and my heart to the Divine Love of God.

    Well, as you know, when I first commenced to write to you, I did not exactly believe in a god, or Jesus, or his teachings, except as they related to the moral condition of humans.  When you first commenced to talk to me about these Spiritual Things, I thought that you were merely telling me the things that you had learned in your church, or Sunday school.  That they were only intended for men and women of no capacity to think for themselves and suited only to receive what the preachers might tell them.  So, you see, I was not in a very receptive condition of mind to enable me to believe that what you told me had any foundation in fact, or in Truth.

    Jesus, to me, was just the same as any other human who had received large conceptions of the Truth, but he was only a mere human.  In the sense that what he attempted to teach, he had learned by study and meditation.  Or through some worldly source that I did not know of.  At any rate, I believed that his teachings were not the result of inspiration, or derived from a source any different from what humankind received other information as to things of nature, or of spirit.

    Well, as you continued to tell me that I was mistaken, and that there is a Source from which All Good flows, other than the mere mind, or conscience, of human, I began to think about the matter.  When I looked around me and saw that your mother and wife, who claimed that they had received this Divine Love of God, which you insisted was waiting for me to obtain, were so beautiful and happy, while I, and my folks, were not very beautiful, and not at all happy, I began to inquire the cause.  When you told me that their, I mean your mother's and wife's, condition was due to this Divine Love of God, I asked them to tell me about the Nature of this Divine Love, and The Way in which they obtained It.  Your mother, bless her soul, took great pains to instruct me in these things.

    When I learned that prayer was the only Way to this Divine Love, and saw you praying for me with all your heart, and in great earnestness, I commenced to pray also.  I must confess that my prayers were not accompanied with much Faith.  But I continued to pray.  Every night, when you prayed for me and for the many others who were with you praying, I tried to exercise all the Faith possible and prayed for more Faith.  This continued for some time.  One day your grandmother, who is a most wonderful spirit in goodness and beauty, came to me and said that she was your grandmother and was very much interested in me, on your account as well as on my own, and commenced to unfold to me the great efficacy of prayer.  She assured me that if I would only try to believe, and pray to God to help me believe, He would answer my prayers.  I would soon find that with my earnest efforts, Faith would come to me.  With Faith would come this Divine Love into my heart.  With this Divine Love would come happiness and joy.  So I listened to her.  Tried to believe that what she told me must be True, and that she was interested in me and desired only my happiness.  I continued to pray, as I said.

    One day, after I had received some considerable Faith, I met Jesus.  He told me of the Wonderful Things that his Father had prepared for me, if I would only believe and ask Him to give them to me.  Jesus was so very beautiful and Loving that I could not resist the influence which came over me.  Then my Faith increased.  I prayed with all my heart and soul.

    At last, Light came to me.  With it, such an inflowing of Divine Love as I never dreamed could exist, either in the Earth, or in the Spirit World.  But it came to me.  I felt as if I were a new spirit.  Such happiness came as I never experienced before.  Then that dear mother of yours came and rejoiced with me.  Also your beautiful wife, who had tried so hard to induce me to seek for this Divine Love.

    Oh, Padgett, I tell you that in all the Wide Universe of God there is nothing to compare to this Divine Love of the Father.  Let me say, that in all my Life, when only my intellect ruled me, there was nothing to compare with that which came to me with this inflowing of the Divine Love.

    I am now in the Third Sphere, with many beautiful and happy spirits.  Your mother and wife are higher up, and are so beautiful and good, that when I am in their company I feel that I will become a much happier man if I will try to follow them.  Your father has progressed too.  So has Professor Salyards.

    Well, my soul is one now that is filled with this Divine  Love.  My mind is elevated in its thoughts, and not inclined to think of those things that are merely intellectual.  For I tell you that while Knowledge of all God's Laws and Nature's apparent mysteries is desirable, yet a Knowledge of this Divine Love of God is far and above compare, and not only more necessary, but more desirable.   I would not give the feelings that come to me from the possession of this Divine Love, for all the sensations of delight that might arise from the discovery of the most stupendous and important Law of the workings of Nature.

    Let this Divine Love come first.  Then the other acquirements will only help to show the Spirit that God is a God of Wisdom and Power, as well as of Love.  But as you have read, "Love is the fulfilling of the law", nothing else is.  The human who has all the knowledge and wisdom without this Divine Love is poor indeed.

    Jesus is the most wonderful of all the spirits in both Divine Love and the Knowledge of the Father's Attributes.  He is the greatest.  Knows that the Father's Plans to Save and Redeem Humankind, are as he teaches.  So you must listen to him and believe.

    I am going to try to learn more of his teachings.  When I do, you shall know what I learn.  Jesus appears to me the one altogether lovely.  He has no competitor.  No one who sees him, if he has any of this Divine Love in their soul, can fail to know that he is the True Jesus of the Bible.  The most perfect son of his Father.  I realized this only after this Divine Love came to me.  It seems that spirits who have not this Divine Love, do not realize who Jesus is.  Or, how wonderful and glorious he is.  This may seem strange to you, but it is a fact.  Only when the spirit has an Awakening of their soul's Love for God, does Jesus appear as their great brother and teacher of this Great Love of the Father.

    You must not let the things of the material Life lead you to think that you must wait until you come to the Spirit World to get this Great Love.  For I tell you that the human whose soul is opened to the inflowing of this Divine Love while on Earth, is a much more fortunate human than they who waits until their Earthly Life ends.  If I had only become conscious of this Divine Love when on Earth, I would have been saved many hours of suffering and unhappiness after I became a spirit.  My own experience is so True to what so many undergo, and will undergo, that if I could proclaim to every human on Earth, the necessity of becoming possessed of this Divine Love while on Earth, I would do so with all my might and strength.

    I can tell you of my experience in passing over.  I do not think it best to do so tonight, as it would take too long and require more strength than you have tonight.  Sometime soon I will do so in detail.  I am so glad that I have been Redeemed by this Great Love, the teachings of Jesus, and the help of your spirit relatives.  Also, by the help of your prayers, that I cannot express the extent of my gladness.  Nothing in all Heaven, or Earth, can compare with the feelings of Joy that come to a soul when it realizes that it is At-One with the Father in Divine Love and Power.

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    Yes, they know, and are with you every night as you pray.  They don't seem to quite understand though that you can help them in any way, but still they, in a manner, feel some peculiar sensation as you pray, and the others pray with you.  Do not stop praying for them.

    I tell you that you are a wonderfully blessed human, in having such a Loving Christian mother and grandmother to pray with and watch over you all your Life.  If all humans had Christian parents to teach and show them The Way to this Divine Love of God, as they grow from childhood to humanhood, many a time of suffering and unhappiness would be avoided.  Many a spirit would come into this Life with many less sins to atone for.  Your old friend, G. R.

Faith