How is God merciful?

GOD is just in that He visits no exceptional punishment upon any soul, which He has created. 

Having fixed, from the beginning, these laws, which are exact, equitable, and all-comprising, covering all the frailties and ignorances and blindness of humanity, He has clearly manifested His impartial justice in forming His laws―so immutable―that there can be no evading, ignoring, or overstepping them by anyone. 

They must be fulfilled―their conditions must be complied with―to the simplest factor.

No suffering, prayer, protestation or regrets—nothing—can exempt the one who has outraged the law from paying the penalty of that law. 

God shows no favoritism. 

To each individual, He has given perfect free-agency both to transgress and suffer if he will―

God does make a separate and personal choice of the conditions in which a particular human soul begins its existence. 

God works only by law. 

You contain within yourself all the essentials necessary to your development―

Spirit-lives differ as much in their possibilities, even in their embryo life, from each other as do the seeds of the vegetable kingdom. 

There are infinite shades of mystery and beauty in their laws of attraction and repulsion, which infinity alone can fully comprehend.

Thus, then, God is manifestly just. 

How is He merciful? 

Not in permitting one individual, or a score of individuals, to evade some law. 

Not in making some especial exceptions by elevating some individual through other than his own efforts―that would not be just. 

Neither does God suffer himself, nor allow the sins of any particular race of humanity to be expiated and atoned for by the sufferings of one particularly beloved and sinless son―even Christ Jesus―that would be unjust.

But God is most lovingly and infinitely merciful in that he never forgets―nor ceases to have compassion upon His undeveloped spirits, struggling through the darkness of ignorance and  weights of the flesh, and other environments, toward the light, which He himself sheds through the universe.

And as most convincing and comforting proof of his continued thoughtfulness and loving mercy, He sends revelations, which shine out like a beacon light to a storm-tossed vessel at sea―like a lantern held before one walking upon a rugged path in a dark night―to show him the way to avoid its stumbling places, and these revelations are through a higher, more mysterious law than are the more common general laws, which govern.

But as the wind is tempered to the shorn lamb, so must the light be tempered in its brightness and volume to the particular development of the race of clay-enveloped spirits whom God would lead through these especial out-pourings of spirit.

Far less was given to Moses to reveal than was to Jesus. 

In Moses' time, the Jewish tribe could not have comprehended the law of Love that Jesus taught―

The law of Moses gradually prepared the people to be able to receive the Messiah's greater spiritual truths. 

But Jesus himself said to his trained twelve that he had yet much to say to them, which they could not bear then.

You cannot find a race in the world that has not had, in one way or another, its revelations. 

The nature and extent of these revelations depend always upon the peculiarities and the development of the race of people to whom they come.

And every revelation has the same tendency to uplift―to develop the spirit toward its natural and divine heirship. 

The ignorant heathen worshiping his wooden gods obeys a perception―however dim―of his dependence upon a power without himself whose mysteries he cannot hope to define. 

And a channel of thought once opened up is like a furrow plowed from the sea to irrigate the soil—

The waters widen and deepen the rut through which they run until, in time, that rut may become the mighty river.