Arrival of winter.

My good friends, when the cold has come and everything is lacking in the home of these brave folk, why would I not come, I, your former fellow disciple, to recall to you our watchword, the word charity? Give, give all that your heart can give, in words, in consolation, in benevolent care. The love of God is in you, if you know how, as fervent Spiritists, to fulfill the mandate that He has delegated to you.

In your free moments, when work leaves you repose, seek out the one who suffers, morally or bodily; to one give this strength that consoles and fortifies the Spirit, to another give that which sustains and silences, whether it be the anxiety of the mother whose arms are idle, or the lament of the child who asks for bread.

The frosts have come, a cold breeze raises the dust: soon the snow. It is the hour in which you must march and seek. How many ashamed poor conceal themselves and groan in secret, above all the poor in mourning, who have all the aspirations and who lack the necessary. For those, my friends, act with prudence; let your hand relieve and heal, but, also, let the voice of the heart present delicately the alms that may painfully wound the self-love of the well-bred man. One must give, I repeat, but know how to give. God, the dispenser of all, hides his treasures, his ears of grain, his flowers, and his fruits; yet his gifts, which secretly and laboriously germinated in the sap of the trunk and of the stem, reach us without our feeling the hand that scattered them. Do as God does, imitate him, and you will be blessed. Oh! how beautiful and good it is to be useful and charitable, to know how to rise by lifting others up, to forget the petty egoistic needs of life in order to practice the noblest attribution of Humanity, that which makes us true children of the Creator!

And what a teaching for your own! Your children imitate you; your example bears fruit, for every well-grafted branch is abundance. The spiritual future of the family always depends on the form you give to all your actions.

I tell you, and it would never be too much to repeat, that you will gain spiritually if you give and console, for God will give to you and console you in his kingdom, which is not of this world. In this one, the family that honors and blesses its intelligent head in this parcel of royalty that God left to him is an attenuation of all the sorrows that accompany life.

Farewell, my friends, be all love, all charity.

Sanson.