It is found that when many people hold the same thought there is unity, though they may be separated by thousands of miles, and that all who are connected with that unity are in touch with higher spiritual states, even Jesus Christ.

So there has gradually grown up this Society of Silent Unity, in which thousands in all parts of the world join every night at 9:00 o'clock, in thinking for a few moments one thought, which is given each month in the magazine UNITY. This we call the "Class Thought," and every member is expected to hold it at least five minutes at the beginning of the silence, in order to make the unity connection; after which, "Ask what ye will in my name, and it shall be done unto you."

Certificates of membership are issued without charge to those who make personal written application for them. To meet expenses, we ask members to send us free-will offerings, as no charge is made for any service we render.

This society has been in existence about fifteen years, and has over 15,000 registered members. Through its ministry thousands have been healed mentally and physically, and its power grows stronger day by day. The silent hour is 9:00 P. M., your local time. Geographical difference in time is not a factor in spiritual unity.

Beginners usually have a great many questions to ask, and they require a course of lessons and reading. To such we recommend the "Lessons in Truth," by H. Emilie Cady; paper, 50c.

UNITY is published monthly, and contains a large amount of instruction. The price of it is $1.00 per year. Where members take UNITY and the "Cady Lessons" together, we make a rate of $1.35 for both.

The simple written request to be enrolled a member of the Silent Unity Society is all that is required to join with us.

Address, Society of Silent UNITY,

Unity Bldg., 913 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.

[Held daily at 9 p. m.]

AUGUST 20TH TO SEPTEMBER 20TH

"The Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus

quickens my body."

PROSPERITY THOUGHT

[Held daily at 12 m.]

The equality of the Law of Demand and Supply is now established unto me.

HELPFUL THOUGHTS FROM LETTERS WRITTEN TO SILENT UNITY

Below we give some helpful thoughts gleaned from letters written to the Society of Silent Unity. We are passing these good thoughts on for the benefit of the many who will read them, and are thus giving these growing souls who express words of light, an opportunity to let their light shine farther than our desk.

We wish to repeat that while we are glad to receive reports of healing, and demonstrations of the prospering power of the Spirit, our real work lies deeper than that. It is our purpose to so quicken with the living word of Truth every soul that comes to us that a new life will begin, and such steady growth be made in that life that error and its fruits can have no place in mind or body. Therefore for all these evidences of awakening to spiritual understanding which these letters show, we are thankful.

All who come receive our faithful attention, but we have a most special, earnest, loving and vital interest n those of our correspondents who are faithfully lay

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ing hold of Truth, and are making spiritual things their aim and object in life. Postmark and handwriting are known, and such letters are eagerly opened. Often everybody stops to listen while reports are read aloud from these who are putting on "the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him;" and we thank God, being confident of this very thing that he which hath begun a good work will finish it.-E. L. C.

Yes, "I am the Word," so I must be careful what I say. 'Speak and it shall be done unto you;" so I must be careful what I speak. I realize that not even to myself must I tell the story of my discords. Mrs. E. W. H.

I thought I was listening to the voice of my Lord, and looking to him for results. It seems I was all unconsciously looking at the evil and striving to overcome it myself, instead of realizing that Christ has already overcome it.-H. M. O.

I know our support is from God, and if it does not come through one channel, it will another.- Mrs. C. H. B.

I realize more clearly now that there is no end of avenues through which abundance comes.-T. C. W.

My husband and I want one little room in our house for a Silence Room, with nothing in it but New Thought literature, pretty mottoes, Madonna pictures, etc. We shall never allow ourselves to go into the room unless our minds are in a perfect state, so that whosoever enters the room will feel its peace and blessing. I am saving some of the Red Leaves to passe partout. Mrs. G. W. B.

It is said that when a student of Truth finds undesirable conditions manifesting in body or affairs which will not leave at the speaking of the Word, it means that they have sometime set their mind determinedly to error! That is my case, for that is what I did, at the same time when speaking and believing high statements of Truth, and the fact that I built these conditions from these mental misfits explains the present situation exactly.

I AM the Knower, because this True Self is all there is of me, and I have never known anything but perfect Being. hence could not know anything but health. This is the Self I have at last consented to know, and this only.

And I have the perfect

assurance of the Spirit that when I have overcome the present

manifestation by constant and absolute right thinking and speaking, it can never recur, for my habit of conscious thinking will have become so fixed in Truth that I will no longer recognize seeming evil as having any reality.

So if this seemingly tenacious appearance must be put out step by step, and so teach me continuity of right thinking, it will have brought me great good. Your treatments have opened my mind to perceive this; of that I am sure. I realize every day the great good that is coming to me daily, and the good beyond good that awaits expression.-E. M. J.

EXTRACTS AND

COMMENTS

BY SILENT

UNITY CORRESPONDENTS

There are several ladies of great wealth in this city, and they know of me. Oh, if they would only think of me, and be willing to help me some; but I do not hear from them, and I fear they do not think of me.

The above extract from a letter written to the Society of Silent Unity gives expression to the error common amongst men of mistaking the channel through which their supply has come, or may come, for the source of supply. There will be doubts and fears and lack until the faith-hold on everything else than God is loosed, and understanding of the everywhere present Spirit substance as the unfailing Source of All-Good is made the ground of faith.

Idolatry is defined as "the worship of idols, images, or anything else which is not God." Reliance upon one's employer or employer's business; trust in wages, salary or income of any kind is all idolatry.

The forms of false gods change as man changes, but so long as the idol idea remains in the mind it will take some form, and man will be subject to it.

Idol worship of every kind leads man into the worst kind of slavery. He fears and trembles and cringes before his gods in the most abject manner. And this is true whether the idols be graven images or mental images. It is the mental image that is the real idol anyway; and so the work of destroying false gods

is a mental work.

The efforts of the Israelites to

stamp out idol worship by destroying the idols was always a failure. The idol idea remained, and again worked itself out in the lives of the people.

This idea is still working, and day after day men are giving willing or unwilling service, each to his own particular god, offering as sacrifices time and talents and energies which should be given wholly to the true worship of the one God.

Few realize that their trust is in idols until the seeming springs of supply begin to fail. Then there is a revelation.

The mental and physical strain produced by the mental attitude of bowing down to false gods can be relieved only by the Truth, which frees man and enables him to rise and walk uprightly in the consciousness of his spiritual dominion. Only in this consciousness can the one God be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth.-E. L. C.

A SAMPLE CASE

We are often asked how we handle cases that are still under the care of a physician. Here is the history of such a case. One of our correspondents who has an active faith in God sent us a telegram asking treatment for a friend. The telegram was followed by a letter the same day, briefly explaining the situation, and stating that two physicians had pronounced the case a hopeless one of Bright's disease.

The second day brought another letter reporting:

I sat by her bed an hour and held the word, "Peace, Peace, Peace," until she became quite easy. Since then she has asked for a little chicken soup, and now she is craving ice cream.

Two days later came another report:

I think the physician in charge is astonished at the turn in her condition. When I asked him last night if he did not think