The germ cannot always remain in darkness.

There is an end to all conditions of existence.

Conditions are changeable—

They end that they may give place to others.

Disease and inharmony are only the conditions of life—subject to change.

When the punishment has been severe enough, the change comes.

When the suffering one has suffered to an extent sufficient to induce him to seek the proper remedy, then there is a time to change.

The spirit has received chastisement sufficient for the time, therefore, salvation steps in in consequence of the exercise of reason.

Now, when the criminal descends lower and still lower in crime—

When his spirit has been deluged again and again with that which follows crime—

That mental suffering—

That unrest—

That dissatisfaction—

When I say it has been deluged again and again, by and by it begins to reason.

The God without says to the God within—

Come now and let us reason together!

The God without says to the God within—

Come now and let us reason together!

The result is the soul begins to feel that there is a better way and that that way is for it, as for others.

It begins to seek to know of that way—

To understand it—

To walk in it—

To pass out of the darkness of the present and enter the light of the future and then begins a newer existence—

Then the fogs and mists and inharmonies that are the result of crime begin to pass away and the soul begins to be resurrected from it.

Is it by direct interposition of the Great All-Father without in the universe?

The spirit rests, progresses and leaves the world by virtue of that glorious germ of progression that the Infinite has implanted within it.

The germ cannot always remain in darkness.

It will eventually find its way to the light and eventually disperse the shadows.

—Spirit William E. Channing