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"Saviour Christ into Thy hands I commend the spirit
of this Thy child...
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"The months may pass, the skies may be darkened, the
enemies may approach, but always and forever there
comes Christmas. This is to remind everyone that God
Rules and that the Love of God is over all His creation.
Christmas is a time for spiritual rejoicing. The season
does not wipe away your troubles, your sickness or
your loss, but it comes as a direct reminder that although
earthly things may fail and pass away, the things of
God remain for evermore as a symbol and sign of the
permanent character of your life, your destiny and
your wonderful future.
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"Although I speak in cheerful tones, I do not forget
the many troubles against which you are having to battle.
I know from long experience that in the Spirit World
we regard these things from which the flesh shrinks
not only as stepping stones, but also as a definite
sign of growing strength within the individual. If
you think of things in this way, you realise that behind
all forms of life is the desire for the building up
of the strength within.
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"After the birth of a baby there is weakness. But the
mother does not despair, she takes it all in her stride
as a part of the course of the Law of Nature. So as
you rejoice daily over the growing strength of the
baby, I ask you to rejoice over the growing strength
of the spirit within you that will assist you to dominate
material life and all that it may hold.
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"I would speak with you about 'Builders of this World's
Destiny'. As you look back over the past, with discerning
minds, you see, to your joy, that the builders of destiny,
allied to the plan of God, were not necessarily the
highly cultured or the materially wealthy. For the
most part they were souls who had gained sufficient
strength to continue the warfare so that light within
them might spread its warmth upon those around.
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"History is full of incidents of the drastic training
of the pioneers. It tells of the almost insurmountable
tests, of the scorn of others and of betrayal by so-called
friends. At the time it must have seemed to the sufferers
that their lives had produced nothing constructive
and that somehow or other they had made rather a muddle
of things. Hoping to throw out a lifeline to others
all they could see was the tangle, a danger to themselves
and perchance a danger also to others.
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"There are many pioneers today in exactly the same
position. Following their ideals, they are willing
to pay the price in pain in order to bring to birth
in material conditions the light that should lighten
the darkness for others. But they think that everything
they are striving to accomplish seems to be under the
domination of those out to wreck.
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"A message of comfort and reassurance is sent out today
for all the pioneers, to all men and women, willing
to lay aside the things of the earth, who want to do
something for God. Although they may not have put it
in these words, they are Builders of the World's Destiny.
In their way and according to their strength they do
what they can.
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"As you look upon the world with its various forms
of persecution and the ferocity of certain sections
over certain nationalities, you see the utter hopelessness
of the position of the victims. There are many who
cannot bear the thought that to these oppressed people
it must seem that God is silent, that God has forgotten
them. Yet I would remind you that always under such
suffering there are the few who have the consciousness
that God is with them. A realisation has been born
in them that the wickedness of man is something separated
for a span from Divine Law. They have the faith to
believe that the time will surely come when they will
understand why it was and how it was that protection
did not come in answer to their fervent prayers.
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"Did the saints and martyrs of other ages pass out
of the physical life feeling that God had failed them?
No! The vast majority, through their sufferings, because
the veil between the two worlds became so thin, were
able to feel in an amazing way the power of the Spirit
and the Spirit Presences all around them. For this
reason they were able to say 'Not my Will be done,
but Thine, Oh God'.
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"Once again I remind you of Bethlehem. There came to
mankind the sudden release from despair, from pain
and the fear of being entrapped, there was rejoicing
even for a short period of time, because a miracle
had happened - that miracle was expressed by Love.
The tiny Babe, so helpless, so utterly at the mercy
of those in the body, brought such a sense of reassurance
by the mere fact that life was there. The young mother
and the foster-father had found room in their hearts
for thankfulness. Yesterday, with all its anxieties
and weariness and pain was closed in by the glory of
today.
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"I ask you to think about those humble hearted pioneers,
those men and women, who had no explanation to offer
for the reason that they had been chosen. Yet they
were chosen to play such an important part, a part
they but dimly understood in those early days. But
they agreed that it was an important part for they
had seen the Bright Ones and heard the Angel Voices.
Did there not appear among them strangers come from
afar to underline the importance of the happenings?
It is good to visualise those scenes and wonder, if
it had been you, what would you have felt like?
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"I have always told you that these great times of joy
and exultation are but a preparation for the next stage
of the road. This road of experience that attracts
many enemies, that leads perhaps to the Garden of Gethsemane
and Calvary, before the resurrection morning can become
an accomplished fact.
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"Think of your own lives, of the stage that you have
now reached and your influence upon others. How willing
are you to be a good builder of the world's destiny?
Some would say that they are not builders, only followers,
carrying the bricks that another may place into position.
They may believe that they have no opportunity either
to design or to see that design become an accomplishment.
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"But remember, that a designer and builder cannot put
together any erection without their helpers. Willing
helpers are needed to fetch and carry, bringing those
tools they possess, so that the work might be completed.
Those of you who are in a position of a carrier should
feel that exhilaration as a partaker in the work. Until
you are free of the physical body, you cannot see how
far your part has contributed to the glorious whole.
But God knows, for God alone has the power to read
your heart and mind.
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"We think of those who will shape tomorrow, the young
lives and the preparations being made to protect the
young lives. There is much talk about education, of
planning and of securing a future for those who hold
positions in the caring fields.
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"Those who have the care of the body are seeking to
overcome the tendency of disease. They seek to rectify
that which has gone wrong through the selfishness of
others, that the eye may be true and the limbs straightened
and the blood pure. All this is good and entirely according
to the Will of God. Those who plan and dream of a higher
cultivation of the human mind, inspired by the desire
to make this world a better place to live in will have
their share of tribute, their share of honour.
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"Yet there are misgivings and doubts about all this
that need to be rooted out. Why are they there? Because
those who are trying to frame the young minds lack
the moral courage to declare that which is the most
important of all - the moulding of the soul.
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"The tendency of today is the desire not to offend,
the longing to hold office and the fear of becoming
unpopular. These are factors in great or little measure
that sway such as these to the detriment not only of
those today, but of the generations which are yet to
be born.
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"You cannot beat any individual into religion. You
cannot force the mind of the child towards a sense
of holiness by the reading of the word or by the dictation
of the teacher. Youth today, is, for the most part
intelligent. The youth today have a discerning which
is mixed with bitterness and sarcasm. Tragically, these
are so often the characteristics of the young.
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"This is a wide subject and one that we dare not turn
away from. Why is it that so many of the young sneer
at religion? Why is it that those principles once safeguarded
on the road of life seem to be hammered into the ground?
The milestones of progression are missing. No longer
were they pleasing to the eye. They were reminders
of the things man had not done which he should have
done, and the things which he had done that betrayed
his better self.
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"The world today, with all the horrors of war, is conspicuous
as a sign of the straying of the young into the paths
away from Christ. This illustrates the cultivation
of the human mind and the starving soul. There is concentration
upon the earthly future and the ignoring of that future
which has to be faced when earthly things have passed
away.
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"Today, for millions of the young, how soon the earthly
things have passed away. Maturity is far from them,
young in impulse, young in experience, young in understanding,
they have had to go to places they did not know. They
had no one to guide them spiritually so far as earthly
education was concerned, no one to bid them look out
for certain landmarks or to reassure them. There was
no one to part the veil between the darkness of the
earthly life so that the glint of the glory of the
Spirit Realms might comfort their broken hearts.
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"There have been millions of the young who have passed
to the higher life in utter despair, betrayed by man,
betrayed by their education, strangers to God and to
His law of Divine Mercy.
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"After the transition, it takes time to close these
wounds. It takes a far longer time to grapple with
the thoughts and actions so deeply indented into the
nature that only by drastic training, sometimes by
the breaking of the vessel in the one mould, could
it be remoulded nearer to the Spirit's desire. You
are constantly being shown through the media the awful
illustration of the moulding of the young without God,
the crushing of the tender attributes and the stimulating
of the passions of the body. Yet too soon, these things
- for which they bartered so much - are gone, never
to return in the same guise, gone beyond material desire.
The boy passes into that other side of life a solitary
soul, an ignorant soul, and has to go back to the Baby
Christ and relearn with anguish the lessons that should
have been put before him, and forget those put before
him by his enemies, the false custodians of the young
life upon the earth plane.
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"The question of religion must be faced. For the young,
the methods of today cannot be the same as yesterday.
The life of the young has changed. Many parents and
public opinion have made it hard for youth to come
back to the Cross of Light. It is difficult for the
young to hold up their little torches so that the light
from the Christ may enkindle something of light within
them. It is hard for the young because the older ones
have often lost their way themselves. Certainly they
have not guided the young feet into the pathway they
should go.
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"Sadness fills my being when I think of the wasted
opportunities. For the young - if taken young enough
- turn instinctively to beauty, to holiness, to kindness
and sympathy and the sharing of that which the possess.
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"The problem of training the lives of the young must
be faced. There are many who realise it, but few have
the courage to face and to hammer those facts into
the consciousness of the parents, the guardians and
the teachers of those in the nurseries of human life.
There is one way and one way alone and this is by example.
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"Speaking and reading have their part, but all the
talk and all the books fail to achieve their object
when personal example is missing. Yet, you are witnessing
the wonderful response made by so many to the acts
of sacrifice that are taking place so freely today.
Daily you learn of the sudden transformation of ordinary
people into heroes and heroines, into saints and martyrs
for the love of their fellow man, if not for the love
of God.
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"You have, silhouetted against the darkness of these
times, the only way to win the youth and to hold the
youth. The child of today is not so sentimental as
the child of yesterday. Their mentality has changed.
The children of today are practical. They are harder
in one sense and they are certainly more discriminating.
There has been development in character and it can
be used for a wonderful purpose if rightly understood,
rightly handled in the Name of God.
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"So I ask you, you who are the Builders of the World's
Destiny, what are you going to do? How far forward
are you in your thinking? What is more important still,
how far are you prepared to go into your actions? You
cannot escape your responsibility, either Here and
Now or in the Hereafter. That responsibility must be
grappled with and accepted. Is it not worth the suffering
that may be involved? Is it not a wonderful privilege
that it has been placed within your province to mould
the lives of the young?
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"There are some who say: 'I have no children'. I answer:
'You know not what you say'. There are no childless!
There are many, many children in the Unseen, longing
for the real type of parent and longing with an aching
heart to be recognised as the children of that parent.
For those who feel like orphans, then the great blame
rests on those who are older who should have known,
who should have guided, who should have moulded the
young and saved them the untold anguish of taking the
wrong road, for there was no one there to give them
the right direction.
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"Remember, freewill cannot be interfered with. The
only way to teach is by example. Give the young something
that represents a picture that becomes impressed upon
their sensitive minds; something they cannot forget.
That something is you, your life, your firmness, and
your staunchness to the ideals that have been born
within and are growing in strength as you feed them
and as you seek to pass on that knowledge to others.
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"At Christmas time, when holy influences come much
closer to man than perhaps at any other season, surely
there are those who will take up their responsibilities
in regard to the young. In the olden days, the sternness
and discipline were hard to bear, so unlike the image
of the gentle Jesus and the kind understanding young
Mother. But the swing of the pendulum came and the
child life was allowed to mould itself. What do these
days express? That which was fundamental is the true
example of the custodians of the young life.
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"As we think of Christmas and the tiny child brought
into the world for such marvellous work - when we think
of the innocent Babe and we know the hard life that
lay before Him - something of realisation is born within
the pioneer that they must take the steep road, for
the valley paths do not lead to the things which are
of God, but only to the things which are of self.
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"When you hear of pioneers and how badly they are treated
by some, how much jealousy seems to line their way
and how vindictiveness surpasses that which you regard
as sanity, remember my words. Think of the path of
the boy Jesus and how the Truth was caught up in the
toils of falsehood, how the Witness of the Light was
condemned to physical death by the witnesses of the
darkness that was within them. As you think thus, as
you review your own life with its lesser troubles,
surely, the reassurance will come. No longer will your
life seem a failure, no longer will it seem a muddle
because of the things that have gone wrong. There is
something shaping from the chaos of the troubles and
obstacles, the worry and the anxiety. Never forget
the early pages of the Holy Book: God took chaos and
weaved a world and turned the darkness into light and
so-called death into the eternal glory.
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"All these parables are for your learning. They represent
in miniature something of the history of your wonderful
existence long, long before the earth plane came into
use for the furtherance of the Plan. They represent
too your task and when you think thus the sense of
waste of the futility of the earth life passes. Something
springs up within, exaltation and a new energy. In
measure the real self has taken command and you are
ready for the next test, ready for the next challenge
and you have made your vows that whatever happens it
shall be the Road of Action for you.
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"Although you may not accept it, you are among the
Builders of this World's Destiny. The thought of tomorrow
- in spite of today with all its war and horror - cannot
be ignored by you. You are playing an immediate part
in the creation of the future world.
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"Your part then is to be an interpreter of the Christmas
message in the way that God intended. To play your
part by example, to train the young, to have the courage
to risk their disapproval for the sake of releasing
the chains, which are seeking to bind the soul of the
individual concerned. Your part is to be strong in
courage for them, for surely they must become the Builders
of the World's Destiny for good or ill.
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"I want you to try to realise the wonderful love that
is built up around your own lives. You may say: 'I
have had to give up love in so many forms that now
I scarcely can make contact with Divine Love'. I understand!
It is all a part of the road. The spiritual loneliness,
the feeling that those in the Unseen are standing back
or occupied with other things, and that even Christ
is deaf to your complaints. All this is part of the
road. But you are climbing. If there comes the temptation
to rest, to gather together your physical resources,
then remember that sometimes the physical resources
are built up at the expense of spiritual power. There
are many very concerned over their bodies that pay
but little attention to the health of the soul.
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"I want you to remember that God does not fail, not
even you fail Him. When your mind is full of reproaches
with regard to the lack of appreciation, when sometimes
you feel almost a sense of enmity for the Lord God
of all, never forget that these thoughts of the physical
mind make no impression at all upon Perfect Love. When
your little child turns from you because pain holds
her body, then your arms go out around her and you
pray that your love may be strong enough to take the
pain away, and soon the little estrangement passes
and the understanding between child and mother, son
and father, is deeper still.
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"Sometimes you forget these things. The mind is so
wearied; there are so many distractions. So I have
been sent into your presence to remind you that there
are no obstacles upon the earth plane of mind or body
that can kill happiness like the sense of separation
from God. Consequently, there are men and women carrying
heavy crosses who are happy and who pass on that emblem
of faith to others. They are Right with God. They know
that God has not sent their troubles, for they remember
the Burden-Bearer, the One so well acquainted with
grief. Although they may not have educated minds, their
souls are educated and no one in the body will deceive
them in this respect. In spirit they are saying: 'I
know Whom I believe'.
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"In your dark hours, in your hours of pain, hold fast
to the thought of the Love of God and to His wonderful
protecting care. He understands when you feel that
you have come to the end of your physical resources.
He is waiting for you to utilise the resources of the
spirit, when the clouds will break and the sunshine
of Divine Love will illumine the dark patches, and
refreshed you will arise and go, if needs be, towards
Jerusalem. For you will arise and remember the great
Example - the One who went to Calvary and brought through
Calvary the knowledge of the Resurrection, the annihilation
of death in every form, and the arising of Immortal
Life and imperishable Love - the Creator of all things.
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"So, I bless you with all the joy in my heart. For
I know there are many who desire to learn. Now and
again, this voice and that may deceive them, but in
their hearts they are true to Christ; and the Christ
way is action, and the Christ way is example, and the
Christ Love is the saving Grace of God.
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"I bless you in the name of the Baby Christ, the One
Who went to Calvary so that we should have life evermore.
Peace be with you all."
