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Agnes Mc Carthy Lawson, writes from Seattle:

Just finished reading your "Law of Miracles" in September UNITY and I drop the book and take up my pen to thank you for it. This grasp of the inner reality and its power, its absolute power, over externals is something that I am working upon as never before.

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In your book of lessons I find a very sympathetic feeling for the churches. I have taken up work in the churches. gave several talks in the Presbyterian church in Bellingham, Washington, and have given four lectures in the Queen Anne Congregational church, Seattle. The Pastor, Rev. Sydney Strong has said that he feels that I have a spiritual message to the churches.

I find the Seattle Center prosperous. Mrs. Galer is very much loved here and Mrs. Van Marter's practical spiritual lessons have been a blessing to many hungry souls.

Enclose the report in the Post-Intelligencer of my first talk in the Congregational church here. I commence lessons there next Monday. I hope many of our workers elsewhere will do what I wish to do, bring the message to the churches. The following is the extract from the "Post-Intelligencer" mentioned above.

Mrs. Anges McCarthy Lawson, the founder and former pastor of the Church of Divine Science in Seattle, spoke in the Queen Anne Congregational church last night. She is working in an attempt to bring within the fold of the church the movement for health and healing which has hitherto been in religious bodies largely outside the orthodox church. Such movements have been started elsewhere, as in the Emmanuel movement in Boston and in the work of Bishop Samuel Fallows in Chicago, but never, so far, has a former representative of a sect hitherto outside the church come into the church bringing the message.

"The healing power belongs to the church," said Mrs. Lawson. The power of God, on which the church is founded, is a healing power. I mean by this far more than physical healing. I mean we restoration of the soul. The quickening of the mentai life, the ordering of the moral life, the health of the physical life-all of these I mean by healing. It covers all the needs of man.

"The churches are beginning to realize that they must resume the power which they have always had, but which lately has gone too far afield from the churches. The Emmanuel movement is a step in this direction. So is the work of Bishop

Samuel Fallows in Chicago. Dr. M. A. Matthews, of this city, recently said that the churches would be compelled to preach to the whole man. He has already started classes in his church, which he teaches himself. At the last International Conference on Tuberculosis a gold medal was given the Emmanuel church of Boston for its services in the cause of curing the disease.

"The Emmanuel movement limits its work to functional diseases. I place no limit save that of faith. The trouble with many of us is that we have lost connection with God. That connection we obtain only through prayer. And so this movement means a renewed belief in the power of prayer. All things are possible when we learn to work with God. As we come to walk with him we build into our lives usefulness, peace, happiness and power."

In a Sunday School class of young ladies not long ago 1 heard the teacher, a young business man, explain the difference between Jesus and ourselves in this way.

He said, "We are human, Christ was Divine.”

I did not answer or contradict for I did not know just how to answer, but I felt within myself that that statement wat not true, for I know our origin is of God and therefore Divine just as much as Jesus.

That thought has been much on my mind since then and today the answer has come very clearly to me.

"One is your Master, even Christ and all ye are brethren." "One is your Father which is in heaven," Matt. 23:8-9. Jesus said, "Ye are my brethren."

Paul said, "We are the children of God; and if children then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ." Rom. 8:16-17.

The Bible tells us Christ is our elder brother.

Would a little child deny his father to be his father because he had an elder brother who knew more than he? Would he deny his father to be his father because he did not understand all his father's desires and hopes and plans for him? And shall we deny our divinity because we have not attained unto the "fulness of the glory of God" our Father?

Did not Christ come in human form to teach us clearly our source and to make our Divine origin plain to us?

How can we claim God as "Our Father" and Christ as our "Elder Brother" if we deny our own divinity?

-Lucile A. James.

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CHARLES FILLMORE, Editor.

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The called meeting of the Unity Guild last Tuesday evening was full of spirit and enthusiasm which did not wane even though the session lasted for more than two hours.

The Unity Guild is a band of young people working together for the good of the cause of Truth. The Society has, in the two years and nine months of its existence, raised more than Four Hundred Dollars for Unity Building Fund. It has helped at the Christmas and other entertainments and given many enjoyable evenings to the members of Unity.

Now, as only members of the Unity Guild attend the business meetings, we will here give an outline of the work done at the recent meeting, so that all may know how the business is conducted.

After the president had taken her chair two good rousing songs were sung; this was followed by a thought held in the Silence. The secretary then read the minutes of the previous meeting, after which the treasurer reported on receipts and disbursements, her report showing a balance in the treasury of $34.60. The Building Seed was next collected, which swelled the balance to $38.70. (The Building Seed are blessed dimes which are given to the members at each meeting, to be returned with increase at the next month's meeting.) The treasurer then announced that only $1.30 was needed to make the amount $40, and a shower of small change fell at her feet, which when counted proved to be several dollars more than enough to make $40. Upon vote $40 was turned over to the Building Fund, and amid hearty applause it was announced that this would bring the sum total of donations to the Building Fund for the year up to $100 even.

A motion was next passed providing for two "Sunshine Barrels" to receive toys, dolls and books for distribution at Xmas. Last year's barrel was such a success and seemed to bring so much happiness to the little folks at the Children's home that it was thought best to have two this year, and start them early.

A motion was then made subscribing $500 to the New Building Fund to be raised by March 1st, 1910. The motion received a hearty welcome and was passed unanimously. It was decided to start to work raising the money immediately, so the following thought was held in the Silence as the first step in the undertaking: “All that the Father hath is mine;

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