[Held daily at 9 p. m.]

NOVEMBER 20TH TO DECEMBER 20TH

My willingness to do thy will hath made me

whole.

PROSPERITY THOUGHT

[Held daily at 12 m.]

I know that it is my Father's will that I have all sufficiency in all things.

A BENEFICIAL TREATMENT

God created my body and pronounced it good. He inbreathed the breath of Divine Life making me one with the Infinite and giving me dominion over all. Being thus created in his likeness and image, I am perfect. As a perfect child of God I have power to shut out all unkind, selfish, impure, envious, jealous or fear thoughts from my consciousness. They are weakening and degrading and I'll not harbor them. Any vibrations from wrong thoughts or actions can have no effect upon me for I am surrounded by an aura that no inharmony can penetrate.

All inharmony, as sickness or inactivity that may have lodged in my body through ignorance, I have power to eliminate. Every atom of my body is permeated with the Divine Spirit, the soul within me, giving each organ life, health, strength and vitality. No disease can take them, for the power rests with me and I am strong, for God is my strength. My soul is the supreme ruler of my body. I ask and believe, recognize and realize the almighty power of the God above, the God around and the "I am" the God within me; therefore, I have health, strength, happiness and prosperity.

I give thanks for the health, strength, happiness and prosperity that is mine. I thank God for the unfoldment of my power that this day brings me and for my friends, both seen and unseen, that have aided me to my freedom. I praise God for the Truth and that I am used as an instrument to spread the Truth and uplift humanity. - ADA LOUISE BECKWITH.

LONGING

Of all the myriad moods of mind
That through the soul come thronging,
Which one was e'er so dear, so kind,
So beautiful, as Longing?

The things we long for, that we are
For one transcendent moment.
Before the Present poor and bare
Can make its sneering comment.

Still, through our paltry stir and strife,
Glows down the wished Ideal,
And Longing moulds in clay what Life
Carves in the marble Real;

To let the new life in, we know,
Desire must ope the portal:-

Perhaps the longing to be so

Helps make the soul immortal.

Longing is God's fresh heavenward will
With our poor earthward striving.
We quench it that we may be still
Content with merely living;

But, would we learn that heart's full scope
Which we are hourly wronging,

Our lives must climb from hope to hope
And realize our longing.

Ah! let us hope that to our praise
Good God not only reckons

The moments when we tread his ways,
But when the Spirit beckons,—

That some slight good is also wrought

Beyond self-satisfaction,

When we are simply good in thought,
Howe'er we fail in action.

-Lowell.

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FLESH-EATING?

BY H. R. WAMSLEY

Suppose we were sitting as a judge or jury to hear the evidence

and determine this point.

First, we will take up the evidence of

teachings upon this point. We find we have no evidence. Next, we will consider his example. The only evidence is by Luke who says (24:42-43), "And they gave him a piece of broiled fish and honeycomb. And He took and did eat before them." We find that this occurred after the crucifixion when the carnal body would make no demand for sustenance, hence, it was only a "show of eating." But let us examine into Luke's fitness as a witness. We find that he received his information by hearsay and recorded it half a century afterward. So at best Luke is a practically worthless witness in the eyes of the court. We find one witness who was present at this scene and we put him on the stand. He says his name is John. We find he was the favorite disciple of Jesus and he has a record for true testimony (21:24). We request he describe what took place at this scene, and he replies, "Jesus then cometh and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise" (21:13). The testimony of Luke is here completely refuted and must not be considered in forming our judgment. No other passage in any way indicates that Jesus ate flesh. So we have no example. We have here a complete case and the judgment must be that we have no teaching upon the subject and no example.

But let us consider, just to treat the subject fairly, as to his approval and tolerance of this vice. This leads us into a pure field of unending argument. That he tolerated it cannot be argued. But he also tolerated nearly all the crimes in the catalog. He did not condemn. He came not into the world to destroy, but to fulfill. Had he plainly preached against every shortcoming of

the people he probably would not have had a single hearer. He had a mission to perform and that mission was not to tell the people what not to do, but what to do. And he said, All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." Thou shalt not kill." 'Preach the gospel unto every creature." One who truly preaches a doctrine of love could not indulge in a lust that imbrutes humanity and causes endless suffering and torture to the very creatures that Jesus made emblematic of his followers and of his love.

As to his approval we have several passages that might be so construed. The first was the feeding of the multitudes. Here we have a gathering of people who needed to be fed. He gave them the food they desired and which was at hand. But the original fish was not in the possession of Jesus or his companions (John 6:9). And the fact is that the fed fish were never alive but were produced by Jesus out of the Universal. The great draught of fish and the feeding of the disciples (John 21) is the only action of Jesus that makes him appear to approve the eating of fish. But in this instance he simply allowed his disciples to continue their earthly vocations and made them happy by prospering them. It must be very doubtful if Jesus could have approved of a single vocation in the Jewish nation, but if he had attempted to change every mode of life and line of thought his mission would have been fruitless; while now after many years his sown seed has increased until the light of kindness and pure living is filling the earth, and violence, bloodshed, and lustful indulgence of appetite is passing away and the people are coming into the kingdom of Christ as described by his prophet in Isaiah 11, when the cattle and sheep and wild animals will live in peace and plenty, and "they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."

If we attempted to do as did Jesus on the material plane we would have to manufacture wine and give it freely to our friends until we are called "wine bibbers." Jesus tolerated and approved the drinking of intoxicating liquors far more than it can be said that he tolerated and approved of flesh-eating. "Be not among winebibbers: among riotous eaters of flesh" (Proverbs 23:20).

Jesus did not despise human habits, did not condemn them, did not hold himself apart from them.

The early church fathers and several of the apostles did not indulge in this error. This would tend to show that Jesus did not sanction it. That it must be classed as an error is evident, as flesh is not a true food, but a high stimulant and a weakened, filth-adulterated tissue-builder with a power production far less than that of alcohol.

If God planned this world, he did so under exact law, and his laws cannot change. God cannot err and he is not subject to change. Men forget that his mind has no turning and that he makes no mistakes; gives no laws to be repealed and no commands to be withdrawn. No mistakes could or have been made in the creation of this world. And the first chapter of Genesis plans an ideal creation; there we find a first and great command or law: "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree in the which is a fruit of a tree yielding seed; To You it shall be for MEAT."

You will remember perhaps that I wrote you several times about ringing in the ears from which I have suffered probably more or less for the past two years. Well, the thought came to me that it was due to a condition of dryness in the blood, and to take olive oil. I did this for about a week every morning on an empty stomach, and suffered nothing from it since. It seemed as though some part of the brain could not get the nourishment it wanted, that is, more vitality was used from some given nerve than could be restored by the food I took, and the oil seems to be the remedy in my case. I thought I would mention this as it might be the means of helping others through you who had a similar trouble. Of course I continue to take the oil about three times a week. I am sure I ought to express my gratitude for the healing you did for my eyes some thirteen months since. I have had little or no trouble since, also have no bother in my mind about the Stock Exchange matters which were evolving in me about the same time, I am sure you helped me there very much, so can testify to the permanent nature of the healing currents you sent forth.

G. A.