Parisian Society of Spiritist Studies, January 17th, 1864
Medium Mrs. Costel
My friends, I come to you the experienced and tested workers in suffering. I come to salute you, brave and worthy workers, in the name of charity and love.
You are my friend Jesus’ beloved ones. Rest assured with the Spiritist belief as I did at the heart of the Divine Messenger. Workers, you are the elected ones in the painful path of trial where you walk with your bleeding feet and discouraged hearts. Wait, brothers! Every suffering carries its own compensation; every laborious day has its night of rest. Believe in the future that will be your reward and do not seek forgetfulness that is sinful. Forgetfulness, my friends, is a selfish and brutal intoxication; it is hunger to your children and tears to your wives. Forgetfulness is cowardice.
What would you think of a worker that pretending fatigue would leave the shop floor and cowardly stopped the initiated task? My friends, life is the journey in eternity. Be brave in accomplishing your task; do not dream about an impossible rest; do not turn the clock forward; everything has its own time: the reward for your courage and the blessings to a touched heart that trusts the eternal justice.
Be Spiritists and you shall become strong and patients for you will learn that that trials are your guarantee of progress and that they will open up the horizons of a happy rest where you shall praise the sufferings that granted you access.
To all of you workers and friends, my blessings. I attend your sessions because you are the loved ones of the one that was.
John, the Evangelist
