God shows no favouritism.
God does not make a separate and personal choice of the conditions in which you begin your existence.
God works only by law.
He ordains a law by which the Spirit-germs exist before they begin their upward course in the human soul.
He makes another law by which they are attracted to the human organisms that become ready to receive them.
You contain within yourself all the essentials necessary to the development—
The conditions by unswerving laws are always waiting for your development—
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 special 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.
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.
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.
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 outpourings of spirit.
