unfortunates

• mercy towards weak and needy is divine trait

26:11.5The mor­tal crea­ture must find God. The Cre­ator Son never stops un­til he finds man—the low­est will crea­ture. Be­yond doubt, the Cre­ator Sons and their mor­tal chil­dren are prepar­ing for some fu­ture and un­known uni­verse ser­vice. Both tra­verse the gamut of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­verse and so are ed­u­cated and trained for their eter­nal mis­sion. Through­out the uni­verses there is oc­cur­ring this unique blend­ing of the hu­man and the di­vine, the com­min­gling of crea­ture and Cre­ator. Un­think­ing mor­tals have re­ferred to the man­i­fes­ta­tion of di­vine mercy and ten­der­ness, es­pe­cially to­wards the weak and in be­half of the needy, as in­dica­tive of an an­thro­po­mor­phic God. What a mis­take! Rather should such man­i­fes­ta­tions of mercy and for­bear­ance by hu­man be­ings be taken as ev­i­dence that mor­tal man is in­dwelt by the spirit of the liv­ing God; that the crea­ture is, af­ter all, di­vin­ity mo­ti­vated.

• always suffer that majority might advance

83:6.5Al­ways have the un­for­tu­nate few had to suf­fer that the ma­jor­ity might ad­vance un­der the de­vel­op­ing mores of evolv­ing civ­i­liza­tion; but al­ways should the fa­vored ma­jor­ity look with kind­ness and con­sid­er­a­tion on their less for­tu­nate fel­lows who must pay the price of fail­ure to at­tain mem­ber­ship in the ranks of those ideal sex part­ner­ships which af­ford the sat­is­fac­tion of all bi­o­logic urges un­der the sanc­tion of the high­est mores of ad­vanc­ing so­cial evo­lu­tion.

• weaker makes disproportionate gains in evolution

84:5.9The re­ac­tion of en­light­ened peo­ples from the in­equitable mores gov­ern­ing woman’s place in so­ci­ety has in­deed been pen­du­lum­like in its ex­treme­ness. Among in­dus­tri­al­ized races she has re­ceived al­most all rights and en­joys ex­emp­tion from many obli­ga­tions, such as mil­i­tary ser­vice. Ev­ery ease­ment of the strug­gle for ex­is­tence has re­dounded to the lib­er­a­tion of woman, and she has di­rectly ben­e­fited from ev­ery ad­vance to­ward mo­nog­amy. The weaker al­ways makes dis­pro­por­tion­ate gains in ev­ery ad­just­ment of the mores in the pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion of so­ci­ety.

• church, from overmuch false sentiment, has long ministered to

99:3.5The church, be­cause of over­much false sen­ti­ment, has long min­is­tered to the un­der­priv­i­leged and the un­for­tu­nate, and this has all been well, but this same sen­ti­ment has led to the un­wise per­pet­u­a­tion of racially de­gen­er­ate stocks which have tremen­dously re­tarded the prog­ress of civ­i­liza­tion.