MAY

1937

BAPTISM
by Charles Fillmore

THE GREAT ENEMY

by Stella L. Terrill
HEALING A N D PROSPERITY THOUGHTS
TO BE USED FROM

MAY 20 to JUNE 19

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H ea lin g
God lives in me; no more I pine,
For love, and health, and joy are
mine.
AT N IN E P. M. EACH DAY CLOSE YOUR EYES AND
REPEAT FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES SILENTLY, AND TRY
TO REALIZE SPIRITUALLY, THIS HEALING THOUGHT.

P ro sp e rity
Perfect love hath quickened me,
And fears of lack in terror flee.
AT TWELVE NOON EACH DAY REPEAT
FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES, AUDIBLY AND
TH EN SILENTLY, THIS PROSPERITY THOUGHT.

(For an explanation of these thoughts turn to page 68)

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T h e G r e a t Enemy (Part I), by Stella L. Terrill - 2

Baptism, by Charles Fillmore ......................................... 12
T he Silence, by Aline Michaelis ................................. 18
God’s T e n th (L e ss o n 4) by L. E. Meyer - - - 19
My Times A re in God’s Hands, by Eugenia T. Finn 26
M an s G re a te s t Need, by Marjory FI. Stageman - 31
W h a t Is S ubstance, by Vera Eyton Wavell - - - 36
Sunday L e s s o n s ............................................................... 43
O h, Blessed Comforter ( S o n g ) .......................................... 65

C hild o f God, by Irene Stanley - • - -6 6

Silent U n it y ............................................................... 67
H ealth and Pr o s p e r it y ........................................ 68
P ray ers A n s w e r e d ................................................ 71
H elp from Silent U n it y ................................. 79
T he Purpose o f U n i t y ................................................ 82

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THE GREAT ENEMY
There is but one fear . . . It is that God
cannot or will not keep His promises . . .
Even so the promises go right on being
kept.
PART ONE

BY STELLA L. TERRI LL

fea r is the most virulent form of illness known

to man. It claims more victims than all the
other "dread diseases” put together, for it is the
underlying cause of most of them. It saps
strength, takes toll of health, happiness, prosperity, friend­
ship, and even of life. Every good thing of life is likely
to be touched and polluted by fear if we allow it to enter
our thoughts and affairs.
Unless we understand it and know how to rule it out,
we are likely to meet fear at every turn of life’s road. This
need not be so, but for most persons it is truer than they
realize. Such is its present hold upon the human race that
of most people it can be said that the fears that lie behind
them are equaled only by those that confront them today
and threaten them in the doubtful tomorrows.
A ten-minute check-up will convince you that fear is
the most destructive force known to the mind of man, the
most expensive and utterly useless load that civilization
carries. Knowing this, how eager we should be to protect
our children and ourselves from the handicap of fear:
more than eager; righteously indignant that humanity
as a whole permits—worse, even encourages—fears that
flare into race hatred, strikes, riots, wholesale greeds,
world wars, and national depressions. Whole systems of
living, government, and laws are founded on fear.
Consider what a heritage would be ours if this beauti-
ful, wonderful world were fear-free instead of fear-ful.
It would be "simply marvelous,” as one woman admitted
with a sigh when during a recent discussion an attempt
was made to show her the nothingness of fear. "But,” she
added hastily, "I’m afraid it never could be that way.”
Well, it can be. Turning her words around, it is "marvel­
ously simple” too for those who will to live in just that
kind of world, a world free of fear. Every one who truly
desires it can so live, here and now, in a world of his own,
without waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.

★ ★ How s h a l l we begin? First by understanding

what fear is, by realizing the effect it has had upon the
world and is still having upon all who accept it. For once
these two points are fully understood, freedom from fear
becomes permanent, automatic; because when we see
through it we see at once the nothingness of fear and how
it arose in the mind of mankind in the first place.
This series of articles proposes to show that there is
but one fear and that this fear is utterly groundless. Fear,
reduced to its simplest terms, is simply a lack of faith. In
all the minds of the human race there is but one fear. It is
the fear that God will not keep His promises. From that
grows the fear that God cannot keep His promises. When
we overcome that one fear, which we do by simply sup­
planting it with the absolute faith in God and His prom­
ises that He has asked us to have, we have at once over­
come every fear the world has ever known or ever will
know.
Perhaps you are thinking that that last statement is a
broad one. It is, and it is as deep as it is broad, but it will
stand any test you care to give it. There is but one fear. It
bobs up in our life in all sorts of guises, and may register
in our thoughts and affairs under any one of many tags
by which we designate it. W e say, for instance, "I am
afraid I am losing my health,” instead of saying "I am
afraid that God will fail to keep His promise of perfect
health for me.” It is like saying, "Yes, I fully believe in
the law of the sunrise, even when there are clouds and
rain. But I’m afraid God didn’t really mean the laws of
life as manifested in man to work always perfectly.” We
overlook the fact that a law of God, nature, works
whether it is in the sunrise or in the life principle going
on toward perfection.

★ ★ T he better to understand this one and only fear,

let us take it apart and see of what it is made. We shall
discover that it has two parts. The first we shall call the
"self-preservation fear” and the second part the "race-
preservation fear.” We shall forget the second part for
the time being and separate the first part into three divi­
sions, calling them the physical, the mental, and the spir­
itual fears of man in relation to his individual self. Strict­
ly speaking of course, there is no difference among them.
Let us take the physical fears first, because they are
the most numerous. Physical fear began with primitive man
in connection with the search for food, clothing, and
shelter. With modern man it begins in infancy, when the
individual hears, sees, and literally absorbs the fears of
parents and elders, who in his presence show fear of this,
that, and a thousand things. If parents knew this fact
and would realize that their children’s minds are like
sponges that absorb not only the outspoken word but
the subtle undercurrents of thought and attitude and the
atmosphere that permeates his surroundings, how much
they might do to influence the child’s whole life toward
fearlessness.
Under physical fears belong all those pertaining to
food, shelter, health; in other words, all those pertaining
to the well-being and preservation of the body. These
three, food, shelter, and health (shelter includes clothing,
home, and the like), create a fourth fear, one that has
to do with wealth as the guarantee of the perfect mainte­
nance of the other three; wealth thus becoming the power
in which we place our trust, instead of placing it in God.
Now, on these four as a foundation are built all the walls
of physical fear, brick by brick. The bricks are called
by various names, such as money, job, training, ill-health,
diseases of all kinds, every fear connected with the health,
life, and preservation of the body.

★ ★ P h y s i c a l or bodily fears torment us all through

life if we allow them to do so, and they finally chase us
into fearing old age and death. In some acute cases it
goes even further, making the "patient” fear, as one
woman told me sadly, that "there won’t be anything—no
God—just oblivion after all our prayers and waiting and
hoping to get a reward in heaven.” She actually fears that
science will "some day discover beyond any doubt that
there is no God—just nothing.”
That woman has never learned to capture heaven on
earth, to create it in her heart. She fails to realize that
each new marvel of science but proves the existence of
the supreme power of God: that things do not "just hap­
pen” but operate so surely under divine law that those
laws can be discovered and observed in their working,
predicted, and followed.
Almost every money fear known to mankind comes
under the physical fears. Examine it and see if it doesn’t
run something like this: "I am afraid I shall lose my
job. The bank will fail. The depression will last. My in­
vestment will be lost. If that happens, I shall have no
food, no shelter, no health. I shall lose my home. Hunger
and sickness will come and life will go.” W e think all
that, but we can shorten it, think, and feel, and say: "I
fear God will not keep His promise to sustain me.” On
closer examination we see that the entire group of physical
fears are simply fears that we shall be harmed slightly in
body and suffer illness, discomfort, or incapacity, or be
greatly harmed in body and suffer death. As individuals
or as a race, have we grounds for any such fear? Let us
see.
★ ★ W e fear that something will happen to us because
with our whole being we do not want anything to happen
to hurt or endanger us, to end our life, to cripple or
thwart our desire to live. Why? A fear is always the
direct opposite of the thing we want, the thing that we
are so eager to have made manifest in our life that we
grow tense and fearful at die thought that it might not
come to pass. That is fear turned inside out. Of itself it
has no power and must depend upon that which its host
gives it.
Why do we wish so much to live and to live "abun­
dantly” ? It is the strongest urge known to mankind. Sci­
ence agrees to diat. You can prove it for yourself, perhaps
often have proved it. Drowning persons grab at straws.
Half frozen, half starved, the traveler crawls on to
warmth, to food, to shelter that mean a chance to live.
Live, live, you must live. The desire to live is the main­
spring of life. W e want nothing to stop us, we want to
survive, we are obeying that God-given urge that com­
mands us as individuals to live; that sweeps the race along
to higher and higher levels of civilization in die search
for better methods by which to protect and guarantee the
precious flame of life.
This overwhelming urge of self-preservation is the
strongest of all passions in die individual or the race. It is
present at birth. It stays with us as long as our mind
functions. It is the heritage of all living beings, and has
been the heritage of every living being that ever trod the
earth. It is the Christ power within, promising, assuring,
guaranteeing that life shall prevail.★
★ ★ We must accept that truth as self-evident. Even
a so-called atheist will admit the presence of that urge
in the human breast. Where did we get it, why do we
have it, and what use should we make of it ? It came from
God, just as life itself came from God, and with it the
urge to preserve that life. They are two parts of a whole.
No? Did you then create yourself, and your parents them­
selves, your ancestors back to the beginning of time and
life? No, no creature ever created itself. Even the lowest
form of animal life known to man, which multiplies and
hangs on to eternity by simple cell division, does not 'cre­
ate” itself. The spark of life is there and the desire to
maintain it is there. These it can but develop and pass on.
Could it, could you develop those desires alone ? Life and
the desire to live are one.
This spark of eternity, of life, is locked up in all of
us. Life itself and the divine desire to live are as much
a working law as gravity or the sun’s rays, proof of the
existence of the other. Why do we fear, seeing as we do
that life and the guarantee that life shall prevail against
all odds, against all adversity, are one! We have the urge
to live given us to insure our co-operation in God’s great
plan; given us as an assurance that our efforts to help
ourselves would be rewarded with success if we "faint
not.”
But what has humanity done with this all-powerful
urge, this command and guarantee that the purpose of the
life principle shall not know defeat? W hat indeed except
through ignorance and misunderstanding and false teach­
ing to turn it inside out and permit it to register and
work as a fear.★

★ ★ How it first started is not important. Perhaps

somewhere deep in the race mind a thought something
like this lodged and grew: "We have life. Nothing can
stop it. Life is a wonderful possession. W e are to be
sustained, and all we have to do is accept it, learn, love,
and obey. It is too easy. W hat have we done to deserve
such glory. It is too good to be true."
So sin, suffering, and sacrifice were added according
to the individual’s thoughts and his observations of the
world around him, and fear became a part of the human
load, increasing in weight as time went on. Not until this
modern day is humanity as a whole beginning to under­
stand the influence it has had in shaping the life of in­
dividuals and of nations. Only recently has science turned
to study fear as an emotion that could be controlled to
the end that we might not have war.
There never has been a "reasonable” fear. We fear
because we fail to reason. We fear that life will not be
sustained. Yet it is not even in our keeping. No one ever
created life. No one knows certainly what it is. We know
how to protect it, to use it, to pass it on. Some of us
learn gloriously to appreciate it. But the keeping of the
life principle never has been in our hands, yet fear of our
own inability to do so is the sole basis of our fear. We
are afraid of being unable to do something that we are
neither required nor allowed to do. We are assured in a
thousand ways that God has life in His keeping and that
He will sustain us, the channels through which it works.
Still we fear. Let us now look at a few of these assurances.★

★ ★ S i n c e the beginning of life on this earth it has not

vanished, it has not stopped, it never has gone backward,
never stood still. It has continued to go forward and up­
ward. A school child of ten can give you twenty examples
in half as many minutes. Life is. Life goes forward. You
are one unit in the great whole of creation. You could
not stay behind if you tried; could not be discarded, neg­
lected, if you wanted to be. You were not "born to die,”
as an old saying has it. Christ said He came in order that
you "may have life, and may have it abundantly.” Christ
was the Way Shower, the revealer of Truth.
 People were born before we lived; this earth turned
before our eyes saw the light of day; laws then operating
and perfecting life are still operating and still perfecting
life. Each succeeding generation is superior to the last. The
earth and the inhabitants of it were not created to be
failures, and we shall go on to God’s great plan for us.
W hat is the goal; what of life after so-called death? We
need not worry. We need only accept God’s gift of life,
use it, grow by it; for "it is not yet made manifest what
we shall be.” We do not need to ask. God has taken
care of us all along the way. We can safely continue to
trust Him.
"God said, let there be,” and "There was,” and "It
was good” throughout all creation. Along with the spark
of life came laws for its ultimate perfection, for its abso­
lute protection while the process of perfection was going
on. You may read in history, scientific reports, and in hun­
dreds of books the story of the battle of life from the
beginning of life on earth. One thing you will find com­
mon to all of them: the evidence that life has persisted,
insisted, and constantly conqueringly existed through every
difficulty that beset it. Nothing stopped it. Nothing can.
You can arrive at your conclusion by a roundabout method
of scientific proof or cut it short and say, "God’s promises,
spoken by His word, and implied by our innermost desires,
which He gave us, have always been kept.”★

★ * L i f e h a s changed form to suit the climate, the

food, and the other environmental conditions of the place
in which it happened to be, changed constantly. It is still
changing but always for the better! There we have the
crux of all our fears. Every seeming danger, every ob­
stacle encountered by life has been a steppingstone to
greater life. It was put there that we might benefit, might
grow by overcoming. Every difficulty overcome meant
life more abundant, life more secure, life more com-
fortable, fuller, richer. But as we go through these trials,
these great periods of growth, we are like a child cutting
a tooth: we think of the pain. W e cringe and say in
some form or the other, "I am afraid.”
Let us still our fears. Let us realize that God is indeed
good, God is love, and God is all. There are no obstacles
to our highest good, there are but steppingstones, heights
to climb. They become troubles and difficulties only be­
cause of the fears we entertain concerning them. The race
has never been in danger of extinction, no matter how
many "viewers with alarm” spread their doctrines of fear.
All fear is groundless. Yet humanity, motivated large­
ly by fear, struggles, works, worries, fights, steals, kills:
by one fear, remember, only one: that God cannot or will
not keep His promises. Even so the promises go right on
being kept. But as an individual you need not cut off the
living word of God by worry and fear. Those who have
perfect faith cast out all fear. It is the only way fear can
be cast out. No amount of wealth, health, or position
will shield us from fear.★

★ ★ A r e y o u worried today about money, food, health,

shelter? Are you sacrificing now, trying to scrape and save,
living a pinched life so that in future years you may have
food, shelter, life? If you are, you are filled with fear.
Notice that fear is a future condition. The formula is
"I am afraid something will” or, turned around, "won’t”
be this way or that. Fear has to depend upon the future
for even a bare existence. The trouble is that we entertain
it in the present and so color and predict and outline
our future on the basis of fear; which is the direct op­
posite of the thing we want. In looking into our future
and creating it we thus let fear draw the plan, the opposite
of the thing or condition we want; then when circum­
stances begin to develop rapidly that carry us along like a
river toward the very thing that we feared and did not
want, we say, "I am afraid; I knew all the time it would
happen.”
Yes, what Job feared came upon him. Securities do not
secure. Money buys neither health nor life. God alone can
give it to us. There is not enough money in all the world
to buy one hour of life or ten minutes of that "peace
of God which passeth all understanding.” But they are
yours for the taking when you have "faith as a grain of
mustard seed.”
God is your guarantee of every good thing in life,
and your only guarantee. Stop looking to money, friends,
and outside agencies. Turn to the Christ within you. "Be
still, and know.” Still your fears. Let faith permeate your
whole being.
This day declare yourself to be the child of God. Turn
to the Christ power within, know that God’s promises are
kept, take them to heart, believe in Him. Say, "I am free
from fear. Through God I am, I live, and have my being.
My welfare and good fortune were assured from the
beginning. I am successful, radiant, happy, thrilled with
the joy of life.”
( continued in ju n b unity )

HEALING THOUGHT

1 will sing unto the Lord a new song of harmony

and health.

PROSPERITY THOUGHT

1 will sing a new song unto the Lord of unfailing

success and prosperity.
Use from A pril 20 to May 19
BAPTISM
N o real transformation of the mind can
take place without the letting go of the
old state of mind, represented by the
baptism of John, and the laying hold of
the new state of mind, represented by the
baptism of Jesus.
BY CHARLES FILLMORE

BAPTISM OCCUPIES a very large place in the

ordinances of the Christ. The reason is that no
real transformation of the mind can take place
without the letting go of the old state of mind,
represented by the baptism of John, and the laying hold
of tine new state of mind, represented by the baptism of
Jesus. "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
The meaning of the word gospel is "God spell.” It
brought such glorious news of freedom from the ills that
beset humanity that they acted as if they were under a
spell or in enthusiastic ecstasy. They sometimes acted as
if they were intoxicated, as for example, on the day of
Pentecost, when the people thought they had been drink­
ing new wine, they acted so queer. It was a stimulation,
but of the Holy Spirit.
When men think a great deal about spiritual things
and especially about God as an indwelling spiritual pres­
ence, both mind and body are thrilled with joy, a feeling
of satisfaction, and a tendency to break out in songs of
gladness. This is not confined to Christians; persons every­
where, in every age, have told of an inner glory and hap­
piness when they get into the habit of concentrating their
minds on God. The great philosopher Spinoza wrote so
much about God that he was known as the "God-intoxi­
cated man.”
 This attachment of the mind to God also results in
giving the countenance a supernatural glow. John wrote
that when he beheld the Christ in His perfected body,
"his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength."
Paul discerned this transforming power of the imagina­
tion when he wrote of Christ, "But we all, with unveiled
face beholding as in a mirror the glory of tire Lord, are
transformed into the same image from glory to glory.”
We become like that which we picture in our mind
and express in our deeds. For example, there was im­
planted in the Hebrew race mind the idea that they were
a persecuted people, and should expect persecution as
part of their heritage. Today in the orthodox Jewish
church the boy at thirteen, the age of puberty, is taught by
the rabbis that he is now to go forth as a man, but that
he must look forward to persecution as part of his experi­
ence, and I am told no way of escape is suggested.

★ ★ J e h o v a h , according to Jeremiah, said of those

who do not keep His commandments but listen to the
prophets of Babylon (confusion and worldly wisdom),
"I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the
pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot
be eaten, they are so bad. And I will pursue after them
with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence,
and will deliver them to be tossed to and fro among all
the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an
astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the
nations whither I have driven them.” David and Solomon
begged the Lord to deliver them from their persecutors.
Even Jesus, when He promised fathers, mothers, sisters,
brothers, and houses and lands to those who had left all
for His and the gospel’s sake, cautiously adds "perse­
cutions.”
Persecution has been the lot of the Jews the world
over, and it still continues in this enlightened age, when
the great ability of that strikingly endowed people is be­
ing recognized as never before. Even those peoples who
have been signally helped by them from savagery to civi­
lization are most persistent in their persecution of them.
At the time of Jesus the Germans were savages roam­
ing the forests of Germany, and the Jews were civilized,
living in houses, even palaces; having churches and
schools and all the adjuncts of civilization. Christianity,
with Jesus, the great Jew, at the head sent missionaries to
Germany and converted the people, and the Jews ever since
have given that nation great artists, musicians, statesmen,
and financiers. Yet in that land, a land that owes so much
to the Jews, we find them persecuted beyond human en­
durance, even to the extent of arousing world indignation.
For her culture Germany is heavily indebted to the
Jews, and instead of persecution there should be a national
acknowledgment of the obligation.

★ ★ T h e s u d d e n outburst of persecution of the Jews

when Hitler took command—and he himself said to be
part Jew—shocked the spirit of justice in people every­
where. They could not comprehend the situation and have
not yet understood it. To a metaphysician the ages of edu­
cation and a deep-seated belief on the past of the rabbis
that the Jews are under a curse of persecution was and is
the cause of the Jewish persecution in Germany and other
parts of the world, and this persecution will continue so
long as that error is preached. Paul, the great Christian
Jew, gloried in persecution and loved to recount the num­
ber of times he was stoned, beaten with rods, and chained
in dungeons. It may be that there is a lurking love of
persecution in the subconscious race thought that comes
to the surface when least expected.
We cannot escape the outworking of the laws of mind,
whether in the individual or in the race. An idea, whether
true or false, that is cultivated by being often repeated
in thought and word, will in due season make itself mani­
fest in mind, body, or affairs. We sow in thought, we
reap in substance. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall
he also reap."
Stephen is extolled as the first Christian martyr and,
with him as an example, the whole movement was begun
on a persecution basis. This idea has prevailed even down
to the present time. Now we are beginning to see that it
is not necessary to die for a good cause; in fact, that it
is much better to live for it and demonstrate in our own
life that the principles we teach can be proved true.
In our day Stephen would not have received any great
amount of sympathy. The newspapers would have given
him the usual publicity and classed the incident as a fanat­
ical religious brawl, in which one of the combatants was
killed. In the courts it would be shown that Stephen had
berated another religious sect and had brought down upon
himself their wrath. In other words, Stephen was the
aggressor, and he reaped as he had sown. He charged
the elders and the scribes with the murder of Jesus, and
his language would not be considered especially polite
even in this day: "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in
heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as
your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets did not
your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed
before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom
ye have now become betrayers and murderers."★

★ ★ I t is n o t at all strange that such language should

stir up opposition and anger on the part of those Jews
who believed that they were the sacred race chosen by
Jehovah to save the world and that all who differed
from them religiously were barbarians worthy of death.
We admire the zeal and courage of Stephen but do not
commend his wisdom in teaching the principles of Chris­
tianity. Knowing the effect of words of condemnation as
we do, we should expect to stir up anger and get con­
demnation in return if we followed Stephen in his pres­
entation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Book of Acts extolls Stephen’s ability in disputa­
tion and argument. He went to the synagogues of the
Libertines, Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, to those in Cilicia
and Asia, and had disputes and debates; and as the record
says, "they were not able to withstand the wisdom of the
Spirit by which he spake.”
This stirred up the people and the elders and the
scribes, and they seized him and brought him before the
council.
Here again Stephen poured out another tirade upon
them and they condemned him to be stoned. Cause and
effect follow as night the day. A man said that he did not
hunt a fight but he knew that when he called another
man a liar he would find one.

★ ★ T he most important study of man is his mind. As

the Greeks wrote over their temple door, "Know thyself.”
The self of man is his mind, and an analysis of that
mind will determine the source of all conditions in per­
sonality or race that arise in that mind, and establish the
fact that it is responsible for not only personal conditions,
but also for peace or war in the world, for prosperity or
poverty, for good government or bad government.
Few persons take time to use their mind logically. They
accept what the Bible says about religion, what some well-
known leader says about the conditions of the country
without questioning the truth or falsity of it. For exam­
ple, in an article on war in a popular magazine General
Hagood writes, "Christianity lives today because there
were men and women who could stand at the stake and
die. War is one of the cruel things that almighty God
in His wisdom has inflicted upon human beings.” In the
very next sentence he says, "Wars will continue so long
as there are wicked men who disobey the commandments
and righteous men who will fight for their principles.”
Now if almighty God in His wisdom inflicted cruel
war upon humanity, are men responsible? And if cruel
war is an affliction from God, when will it ever cease?
And are not all those people who are praying for peace
actually fighting against God?
However this frightful belief that God is the head of a
fighting army of Christians is not confined to the military
leaders in the world; the majority of Christians so preach
and teach. They claim, with Napoleon, that God is with
the heaviest artillery.
But General Hagood, with his many Christian min­
isters and teachers, relieves God of the charge that He
has inflicted cruel war upon humanity, by putting the
responsibility upon disobedient men. As he says, "Wars
will continue so long as there are wicked men who disobey
the commandments and righteous men who will fight for
their principles.”★

★ ★ H ere is stated the real source of war: the minds

of men who are fighting in their minds first for the selfish
possession of the earth and the products of the earth;
neither of which they produced nor rightfully possess.
"The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.”
All over the world the lovers of peace are asking,
"When will war cease?” The answer is that war will
cease when men begin to use their minds as God intended
them to be used, logically.
God is love, and nothing but love will pervade the
minds and the hearts of the people of the earth when
they quit charging God with hate, destruction, and war,
and acknowledge Him as an indwelling principle of good­
ness and peace. Then the Fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man will become a permanent race stand­
ard of conduct, and peace will be established forever.
 THE SILENCE
By Aline Michaelis
Sometimes suddenly it comes;
Then the world's insistent drums
Cease and all their echoes pass:
N ot a murmur in the grass,
N ot a bird note far and brief,
N ot the whisper of a leaf
Falls to vex with faintest sound
Silence, perfect and profound.

Silence deeper than the sea,

Vast as all infinity,
Lifts its waves around my thought;
And the universe is wrought
O f this silence, till I hear
Ringing through it, crystal clear,
Sounds that Earth does not possess,
Words of truth and tenderness
Kind as God alone is kind:
In the silence this I find!
GOD'S TENTH
Questions about Tithing
LESSON FOUR

BY L. E. M E Y E R

o u r a n sw e rs to questions on tithing are in­

tended to be in the nature of helps and sug­
gestions rather than hard and fast rules. It is
not practical to advise a person what he should
do in a specific case. Each tither must depend finally upon
the leading of his own indwelling Spirit. If he will take
each question to God in prayer fully resolving in his heart
to follow God’s leading he will be directed aright.
It is not wise to insist that another take up tithing.
W e may explain the advantages and the principle un­
derlying it and leave him free to do as he feels led. Every
one must be fully persuaded in his own heart and mind
as to what he should do, then give freely, not grudgingly
or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Let us consider some questions about tithing: "Shall
I tithe while I owe a great deal of money, or shall I wait
until all debts are paid and then tithe?”
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Our ob­
ligation to God is first. W e must first fulfill this; then
our relations with our fellow men will be speedily ad­
justed. If we keep God’s tenth from Him how can we
expect to be blessed and kept free from debt to others?
Tithing establishes order which will not permit us to re­
main long in debt. All conditions that are not of God
will be eliminated. "Every plant which my heavenly Fa­
ther planted not, shall be rooted up.”
One person says: "I feel I should tithe, but my ex­
penses are so heavy that I can hardly live on my present
income. Shall I tithe now or wait until I am earning
more money?’’
If one feels led to tithe one should do it. Those who
wait until they are out of debt or are earning more seldom
begin. Waiting until one can afford to tithe is like trying
to find time for God and for the study of Truth. One
who waits until everything else is done never finds time
left for God. In honest spiritual seeking there comes a
time when one feels one must take time for God. So it is
with tithing. If there is an urge upon one to tithe, then
that is the time to begin. The right way to begin is def­
initely to make up the mind to tithe and then begin to
do it.
"We earn a great deal of money but not enough to
live as we wish and pay our debts besides. Should we
tithe and economize in order to pay our debts or go on
trusting God to straighten out our affairs?”
A living faith in God is necessary. God lives in and
expresses Himself through us. We should always live
within God and within our means, and cease contracting
debts and living outside ourselvesand beyond our in­
come. We should honor God withour tithe and apply
ourselves all we can to the payment of our obligations.
We have no just reason to expect God to straighten out
our affairs unless we are honest with Him and work with
Him. Let us learn to live simplyand practice perfect
honor toward God first and then toward our fellow men.★

★ ★ ” M y h u s b a n d has failed in business, and is ill.

W e have no income, are deeply in debt, and living on bor­
rowed money. Should we tithe?”
To tithe borrowed money would be a misappropria­
tion of funds. Borrowed money should be used for the
purpose for which it was borrowed. W hat we receive as our
own money or gifts should be tithed. If a man borrows
money he should in justice have enough faith and un-
derstanding to bring forth substance to meet his daily
needs. If he does not have enough faith and understand­
ing to bring forth substance to meet his daily needs, then
how does he expect to do it in the future and pay back
that which he has borrowed? Now is the time to trust
God and wait upon Him for guidance and follow it.
Where there is active faith and trust in God there will
be abundant provision. If we would realize greater supply,
let us pray for wisdom, understanding, capacity, and effi­
ciency so that we may be able to render good, honest
service and give value for all we desire to receive, and so
that we may know how to make the best of what we get.
The husband will be healed as he overcomes the sense
of fear and limitation, which are caused by lack of trust
in God indwelling in him, and failure to follow His Truth.
"My mother is a widow and has a small income. I
use my tithe to pay her coal bill. I have given to others
in need, and I do not see why I should not use it for
my mother. Am I using the tithe aright?”
When one is using the tithe aright there is no ques­
tion in his mind. The tenth should go for spiritual work;
for the furtherance of the kingdom of God in the earth.
The tithe is not rightly used for self, relatives, friends,
or charitable purposes unless the tither is definitely led
by tire Spirit of truth. Certainly a person’s duty to his
mother precedes his duty toward others, but it does not
come before his duty toward the Lord. Do not limit
your mother’s channels of good, but affirm that all doors
are open to her. They who wait upon the Lord shall not
lack for guidance and substance.*

* ★ "A y o u n g woman who earns one thousand six

hundred dollars a year spends about a thousand dollars
for her sister’s schooling. Should she tithe also ?”
A great deal of selfishness in family relationships
is mistaken for true love and wisdom. There are ways
through which the seemingly dependent ones can be
made self-supporting or at least in part so. They will
be made stronger for it and will at some time be grateful
that they were placed upon their own resources. Those
who give most, if not all, to the needs of their family
or others have small returns for it, often not even thanks.
Where God has no place the sacrifice is usually a selfish
one. The father, mother, brother, sister, or child is made
the object of devotion and placed first. This hinders the
spiritual progress of the one who is trying to help and
of those he would help. If the young woman were to give
her tithe to the Lord and trust in Him, the way would
open for the education of her sister, or else her income
would be increased to meet the need. Certainly she would
not lack in placing God first. Sometimes an education
different from the one planned is better, although the
latter may seem the only one. If God is truly trusted He
will instruct the faithful in the way to a full and abun­
dant life.
"The man with a salary has no problem in knowing
that his tithe is the tenth of his whole income; but how
about the man in business who consumes quite a large
amount of material in the production of an article?
Should the tithe be paid on gross receipts or on net profits
after the costs of operation have been deducted?”
It is the belief of some that a businessman has no
income or profits until the running expenses are paid;
that before computing the tithe he should deduct the ex­
penses that are necessary for the doing of business. This
of course does not include the personal expenses of the
businessman or of those dependent upon him for sup­
port. One’s tithe in business is one tenth of his net in­
come, or one tenth of his salary if he is employed on
that basis. If one receives a salary in business the tithe
should be deducted from that; also at the time of ac­
counting the tithe should be deducted from the net profits
of the business before dividends are paid. The tithe always
has reference to direct net income.
★ ★ T here are others who pass from this to greater
faith and tithe of gross receipts. One woman who runs
a boarding house tithes of all that comes in before she
meets any expenses. She says that she has been abundantly
prospered. It is according to our faith. If we cannot as
yet pass to the greater faith, then it is well to act upon
such faith as we have, until we grow stronger. There
are those who begin with the tenth and pass from that
to the giving of a fifth, or a fourth, or even a half of
their income.
"Should the man with a large family give as much
in tithes as the single person ? The government makes an
allowance for wife and children in its income tax. The
man and woman who have given their all to raise a
family and consecrated their children to God, have they
not given more than the one who has only himself to
support?”
The size of one’s family has nothing to do with
tithing. He would give in exactly the same proportion
as the single person if he desired to fulfill the law. Con­
secrating oneself or one’s children to God is always
good and should be done, but it does not take the place
of tithing. We do not know whether the widow who
gave her mite had children dependent upon her, but we
know she was made richer by giving. One cannot give
more than one’s all to the Lord whether one is married
or single. If a person is trying really to consecrate his
tithe to the Lord he must do his accounting as an indi­
vidual. The tithe is one tenth of one’s direct income,
whether it is a dollar or a million dollars, whether one is
married or single.★
★ ★ "I should like to tithe, but my husband does not
approve, and I have no income apart from his.”
 As for persons who have no direct income of their
own, let them give of what they have and of such money
as comes into their hands that is theirs to use as they
choose. A wife should not tithe of her husband’s income
if he is unwilling. But the allowance that the husband
gives her for her personal use she is free to use as she
thinks best. Certainly a wife who is industrious in her
daily duties and conscientious in her care of her husband
and home is entitled to decide as to half of the husband’s
income at least whether it shall be tithed or not. However
if pressing the subject tends to cause inharmony, it is better
for the wife to be true to her own convictions as far as
she is able and maintain peace in the home. She can
always be true to the inner tithe, and the outer will come
in due season. Although it is noble to give of one’s in­
come to the Lord, it is also well to give of oneself in
study, prayer, meditation, and spiritual service to others.
If there is opposition to our tithing on the part of mem­
bers of the family or close associates or friends, it is well
to keep our own counsel in secret with the Lord. After
all we are bound to the external only as far as we allow
ourselves to be bound in thought. We may declare and
find our freedom in Truth by obeying its guidance.★

★ * "B oth my husband and I believe in tithing, but we

differ on the question where the tithe should be given.”
In this event the tithe may well be divided in equal
parts between husband and wife. Then let each one be
free to give as he feels directed, leaving the other free
to do likewise.
"Some people ask if they should give their tithe to
Unity School or to their local Unity center.” Give wher­
ever you feel led to give, in whole or in part as you are
directed. But wherever you give it is wise to make in­
vestigations to see if the Lord’s work is being done;
for indiscriminate giving is not tithing. The more surely
our tithe goes to the Lord’s work the more certain and
definite will be the increase resulting to us. If Unity
School, the local Unity center, or any other organization
is doing the Lord’s work, it should and will prosper.
Those who are in the Spirit will see to it. A work that
is not ordained of God should and will pass away. "No
weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.”
"Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not,
shall be rooted up.” "I am the vine, ye are the branches:
He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth
much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.”
"Ten per cent of my husband’s salary is taken out for
charity before he receives it. Is this not his tithe?”
Ten per cent to charity is not necessarily a tithe,
whether it is given by the city or by the husband direct. The
tithe goes to increase the thought of abundance, not to
spread the thought of lack. The tithe is given entirely
to the Lord’s work, which is greater than ordinary charity.
"If I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give
my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.” The tithe is a tenth of the income that
comes directly into our hands for free use. Certainly the
husband has not given his tenth until he has given
freely and of himself and of his own. He will not be
made poorer but richer if he is a faithful steward of that
which is given directly to him.
(th e e n d )

Y et, in the maddening maze o f things,

A n d tossed by storm and flood,
To one fixed trust my spirit clings;
I know that God is good!
— WHITTIER
M Y TIMES
Are in Cod's Hands
My days belong to him , . . Every hour,
every moment, whether I am awake or
asleep, at work or at play, is God’s hour
and God’s moment.
BY EUGENIA T. FINN

tim e used to be such an important element in

H my life. There was always much to do, so many

tasks awaiting my too-busy hands, so many
thoughts crowding against the doors of my
mind. Hurrying through the all-too-short days, even work­
ing far into the night, I seemed to accomplish little. One
thought possessed me until I gave it expression. I remem­
ber the very words.
There was an important piece of writing to be com­
pleted. My desk was piled high with notes—and the dish-
pan was piled high with dishes. There were meals to pre­
pare, beds to make, the routine of household tasks to
claim every moment, and I felt and looked haggard and
worried. I rubbed my forehead wearily.
"I am just working against time,” I said aloud in a
burst of self-pity. "Just working against time, and there
is never enough of it!”
The words remained in my consciousness, pricking me
into the realization of what I had said. "Working against
time.” Suddenly my mind cleared and the funny side of
my predicament rushed over me in a heart-warming wave.
Was there any wonder that I could not claim as my own
something that I was working against? Unconsciously I
had been opposing a great force instead of accepting it
and gaining its help. I had been filled with secret com-
plaining because my course upon the river of life seemed
rough and troubled, while I had been pulling against the
current, struggling against a tide that had been created
to carry and sustain me, if only I would allow it to do so.
★ * Shamefacedly I went into my room and closed
the door. I opened my Bible, and these words stood before
my eyes:
“Commit thy way unto Jehovah;
Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.”
How long I remained in my room I do not know, but
what I gained during that period has been with me ever
since. My way, this way that I walk from day to day, is
the way that an all-wise Father planned for me. He knows
exactly what I have to do. He knows the secret desires of
my heart. He judges them according to their true values.
The gift that is within me is a gift from Him, and He will
give me the time to use it. My life, my strength, my health,
my supply, my loved ones are all blessings from the one
kind hand. They are from God, of God, and a part of
God.
My days belong to Him. Every hour, every moment,
whether I am awake or asleep, at work or at play, is God’s
hour and God’s moment given to me to use under His di­
rect guidance. I only have to yield myself to His care. I am
one drop in the vast waters of infinity. God surrounds me,
upholds me, carries me, and all the things that seem to
worry me are no more than the foolish imaginings of a
headstrong drop of water that would strive against gravity
instead of co-operating with it.
I wonder if I can put upon paper the amazing revela­
tion of that quiet hour?
★ ★ I returned to my household tasks at peace with
myself and in tune with God—and time. Calmly I went to
work at my daily chores, putting out of my mind all
thought of the papers that lay upon my desk, only keep-
ing my mind open to conscious suggestions that could be
woven into the writing when the moment arrived: not
my moment, for which I had been so desperately striving,
but God’s appointed time, chosen by Him for the com­
pletion of each project.
All sense of hurry left me. No longer did my hands
fumble and drop things in anxious haste. My feet carried
me buoyantly from room to room, their pace being set
by the gay little tune that I found myself humming. Soon
the house was in order, the young folk fed and back at
school, the evening meal prepared for final cooking and
I had still more than two hours of freedom. Joyfully I
tidied my appearance and sat down before my desk. I
opened it, uncovered my typewriter—and the doorbell
rang!
For a moment my heart forgot the strength that had
come in the morning. Fear gripped it and selfishness sug­
gested that I pretend not to hear. But the influence of
that blessed hour was too strong. I closed my eyes for one
moment and knew that I could not lose that which was
mine, because of myself I possessed nothing. All that I
had was from God, of God, and was God. My time was
His. His unmeasurable time was mine. Then I opened the
door.★

★ ★ My caller was a neighbor in search of comfort.

Her need was great, and we spent the entire afternoon to­
gether talking of the source of all comfort, and I
found myself strangely prepared to repeat the very
words that she craved. When she left just before dinner­
time, she looked happier and my own inner peace was
deeper than before. I gave thanks that I had been allowed
to open my door and so benefit us both.
I do not remember whether I actually finished the
planned piece of writing that day or the next, because the
actual time is no longer of importance. The outstanding
fact is that my talk with my neighbor strengthened the
thought content of my writing, which was finished in
God’s time, and sold, and the resultant check was but an­
other blessing added to my life.
I have used the assurance gained in that silent hour in
many ways. No longer do I strive to make a demonstra­
tion, whether it be one of health, finances, or time and
leisure. I know that all I need or can ask for has been
prepared for me and will come to me in good time—
God’s time, which can never be too short, nor arrive too
late.
I commit my way unto the Lord: I trust in Him and
He brings it to pass.

★ ★ Is t h i s not truly what is meant by "except ye

turn, and become as little children” ? My own two chil­
dren have never found it necessary to repeat their daily
needs to me, their need of food, of clothing, of shelter.
I see them and I know their needs. Even so the Father
of all sees me.
When they were yet small, I watched over the time in
order that the children should have rest, play, and study in
proper proportion. Their human father worked cheerfully
to provide for them, and I divided among us in equal
portions all that he gave us for our use. When some spe­
cial need arose, we talked it over, and because we have
been a harmonious family in tune with one another there
has been no querulous complaining or bickering. All that
we had was the children’s, and they knew it.
Back of this human love, this human source of supply
that has at times seemed limited, there has always been
and always will be the vast, unlimited, continuous flow
of substance that is God.
Even as I have watched over my children and seen
their needs of a balanced diet, suitable clothing, home
comforts, and the right division of time, so the great
Spirit of truth, the Creator of us all, watches over me and
mine. My own dear ones may go out of my sight and
beyond the touch of my hand, but they can never be out
of the range of my thoughts, my love, and my prayers.
Even if I cannot hear them or see them at times, they are
drops in that same river of love that carries me, borne
along by the same powerful current; and we are blended
together as one with the Father.

★ ★ N o t h i n g that I can do, no misunderstanding on

my part, no mistaken judgment can disturb the even flow
of infinity. Nothing can break the sweeping rhythm of
His great movement. All that can ever be disturbed or
dismayed is my own consciousness, until I have availed
myself of the calmness and peace of His unbroken har­
mony.
In God’s good time I shall be carried on to a perfect
fulfillment, my gift developed and my work accomplished.
There shall be no ending for me, because there can be no
end for God: God and life and I are one. He has placed
me here, and all that I do shall be done for Him and
with Him.
"In a service which Thy love appoints
There are no bonds for me;
For Thy secret heart is taught 'the truth’
That makes Thy children 'free’;
And a life of self-renouncing love
Is a life of liberty.”

T o a p p o in t u n to th e m th a t m o u r n i n Z io n , to g iv e u n to
th e m a g a r la n d f o r a sh e s, th e o il o f jo y f o r m o u r n in g ,
t h e g a r m e n t o f p r a is e f o r t h e s p i r i t o f h e a v i n e s s ; th a t
t h e y m a y b e c a ll e d tr e e s o f r i g h t e o u s n e s s , t h e p l a n t i n g
o f J e h o v a h , t h a t h e m a y b e g l o r i f i e d .— i s a i a h
MAN'S GREATEST NEED
Fear thou not, for 1 am with thee; he
not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will
strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea,
I will uphold thee with the right hand of
my righteousness.— isaiah.
by M arjory h . St a c e m a n

many varied answers are given to the question

"What is man’s greatest need?” One says it is
money, another employment, and so on. But
different though the answers are, most of them
name something of a material nature as man’s greatest
need.
Is this a true answer? Isn’t his greatest need some­
thing of "real” value, of spiritual value, something that
does not change with time and tide? Not that man does
not need money and employment and other "things,” but
the very fact that he lacks these "things” points to a
greater need, the supplying of which will mean that "all
these things shall be added.”
We have only to look about us to see the result of
placing trust in things only. For many who had money
a few years ago find it gone today; and many who had
employment are without work.
Speaking of the foolish man who built his house
upon the sand, Jesus said, "And the rains descended, and
the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that
house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.”★

★ ★ "G reat was the fail.” Most of us know full

well how great was the fall, because we too built upon
the sand. We made the mistake of worshiping things,
repudiating the real values, and today we are reaping the
 harvest. And so will it ever be, for the law is "Whatso­
ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
But since we are provided with free will, we learn
only through experience, and experience teaches a great
and valuable lesson. How many will profit by it time
alone can tell. Not all certainly, but the fact that many are
learning is proved by the increasing numbers who, tired
of the misery and unhappiness they have wrought in
their life, are again reaching out for the real, the spir­
itual values.
From experience we should learn what is impor­
tant and what is not important. If we have not learned
that man’s greatest need is not money or employment—
not any so-called material thing—we have missed the
point of the whole lesson.
Now, what is man’s greatest need? Some metaphysi­
cians have said that it is a sense of security. True, that
is a great need, an important stone in spiritual building,
but under it must lie the foundation, without which spir­
itual building cannot be begun. That foundation upon
which a sense of security rests, is a sense of the divine
presence, the presence of God, Spirit. This, I believe, is
man’s greatest need.★

★ ★ W e sense the divine presence in the measure we

realize that "all the presence there is . . . is the Living
Spirit Almighty.”
In the 1st chapter of Genesis we read, "God created
man in his own image, in the image of God created he
him.”
Thus the Bible tells us that God is the animating
principle back of everything, in and through everything;
that man is an expression, a manifestation of God; or to
put it another way, man is God manifested, God indi­
vidualized.
The meaning of being created "in the image of God”
 should be clear to all. God is Spirit, and man’s likeness
to Him is a spiritual likeness. Understanding this, we can
readily see how each individual is in God; how God is
in each individual. Jesus, well aware of this interrela­
tionship, said, "I am in the Father, and the Father in me.”
"The Father in me!” Then if we would know the
Father we must turn within, to the inner consciousness,
to the real self. And what is this real self but the image
and likeness of God, God individualized in each of us.
Realizing our unity with the Father, with the One,
we are conscious of the presence of God, we sense the
divine presence. Without a sense of His presence, our
words are empty, our prayers devoid of any real meaning;
we are rudderless ships on the sea of life. But sensing
His presence, we have a conscious connection with the
source of all life, and we are free from all doubt and
fear. From this conscious connection with the One there
comes a deep sense of security. We recall Job’s words:
"Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace:
Thereby good shall come unto thee.”★

★ ★ I n t h e 32d chapter of Deuteronomy, Moses re­

fers to God as the Rock. Sensing His presence, we
build upon Him, the Rock, grounding” ourselves se­
curely in Truth. And though rains descend, floods come,
and the winds beat upon our house, it will stand Arm;
for it is founded upon the Rock. In other words, we are
not tempted by negative suggestions, not moved by seem­
ingly adverse conditions, for our trust is in God alone.
A sense of the divine presence! Men and women recog­
nizing themselves as divine beings!
Never was there a time when man needed a sense of
the divine presence more than he does today. Unrest, un­
certainty, and confusion are still manifest on every side.
He whose sense of security is not built upon the Rock but
upon the sand becomes the victim of mental chaos. In his
distress of mind he seeks for a way to get out of it all.
"I want to get out of it all” is the cry of the man whose
hope has been shattered, who believes that the cards have
been stacked against him. He refuses to play the game.
He quits.
Before the Crucifixion Jesus said, "I have overcome
the world.” Compare this statement with that of the
quitter, "I am getting out of it all.” One had overcome
the obstacles in His path; the other had been overcome
by them.

★ ★ Besides, does the quitter "get out of it all”? On

this plane, yes. But this plane is not the end. The spirit
of man is ever pushing onward toward the Source of
all, and we should realize that although we leave all
"things” behind when we make our departure, we take
all that we really have—our consciousness—with us. It
is in our own consciousness that we must overcome, on
this plane or another, for it is in our own consciousness
that doubt, fear, anxiety, uncertainty, and confusion exist.
Where else could they be? Certainly they do not come
from, they are no part of, God, good; for the Bible tells
us that "God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of
power and love and discipline.” Also: "God is not a G o d
of confusion, but of peace.” There too we read, "Let
not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.”
So instead of leaving our problems, our false be­
liefs, behind, we carry diem with us, and they remain
with us until we have overcome them and proved their
nothingness through understanding, through a con­
sciousness of our unity with the whole. The sooner we
realize this, the sooner shall we set about our work of
overcoming all that is unlike good in our consciousness.
Thus we shall express our true nature as the children of
the Most High and be ready to climb to greater heights.
The only way to "get out of it all” is to see the light
behind the cloud, to realize that God is ever present, to
sense His presence. Then we know that we can over­
come all obstacles; for "underneath are the everlasting
arms.” How necessary then to turn constantly to the
Spirit within and with the poet to say:
"Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!”

H a ppy Is t h e H ea rt

Happy is the heart that sings!

Thanking God for little things,
Finding courage where a hill
Lifts its everlasting will,
Saying, when the night is dark,
"Morning cometh, and the lark!"

Happy is the heart that knows

Close communion with the rose,
Taking pleasure in the way
God has clothed a summer day,
Saying, when the clouds complain,
"There's a rainbow in the rain!"
— VIVIAN YEISER LARAMORE
W HAT IS SUBSTANCE?
Substance— which is termed "universal
ether” by physical scientists and by Jesus
Christ "the kingdom of the heavens”— is
the energizing, vital, and all-permeating
life-essence of God.
BY VE R A EYTON WAV ELL

the question that forms the title of this ar­

ticle was recently put to me in a letter received
from a Truth student. This student further
asked, "What is the power that shapes sub­
stance? What is the procedure?”
Later in the letter she voiced a thought that appears
to be not uncommon among seekers after Truth. In effect
it was this: "It always seems to be assumed that I know
all about substance. I do not, and I wish you would ex­
plain it to me.”
There is an enlightening way of realizing the truth
about divine substance. All bewilderment and confusion
of conception in regard to it will vanish if we think of
it as the fundamental, formless, abstract, unspecified life
essence behind, in, through, and animating every seem­
ingly solid and dense form or body, and causing every
condition that man can comprehend, as well as the in­
visible and intangible forms and conditions beyond the
present capacity of the average sense-minded, or partially
sense-minded, person to grasp.
Divine substance is God, the principle of all good.
Since it is God Spirit, physical vision cannot see it, nor
can any of the senses cognize it in its original abstract
condition. They can do so however after it is expressed
and brought into manifestation in tangible form, such
as a human body and the like. In it we—God or divine
 substance individuated, expressed, and manifested—live,
move, and have our being; while it expresses itself in and
through us to the extent that we appropriate it through
our mind or feed upon it for our life-renewing require­
ments: as we feed and renew our physical body by means
of the food we eat.
Here we might interpolate that it would be wise
always to think of such food as being spiritual and not
material, as being the body and life of God that Jesus
Christ at the Last Supper enjoined His disciples—and we
are all disciples—to partake of when He took bread and,
blessing it, said, "Take, eat; this is my body,” meaning
God’s body, or spiritual substance; and when He later
offered them wine, saying, "Drink ye all of it; for this
is my blood [life] of the covenant.” Thus we may realize
that our material food and drink is Spirit substance
"stepped down” to meet the life-renewing needs of our
physical body in such form as it is capable of appro­
priating.

* * In order thus to identify ourselves consciously

with this unlimited life substance we must, in addition to
practicing right meditation, constantly affirm in thought,
word, and being our oneness with it and therefore our
ability to use it to an unlimited extent in our mind and
in our manifest body and circumstances. If we do this,
we shall prevent any such lack of life, health, wisdom,
harmony, or supply as would result from the separative
effect of thinking and believing substance to be purely
fixed material form, real in itself but subject to death.
Otherwise we induce the effect referred to as separative;
that is, separation from the eternal and harmonious life
substance.
Understanding and the resulting right use of God
substance constitutes true life in man, who is made in the
image and likeness of God his Father. If man be con-
scious of being the image and likeness of the Most High,
he will think and live by that consciousness and never
know sickness, death, or discord of any kind. For life
cannot die, nor can God become sick or deranged in
any way.
Because racially man is not at present so God­
conscious, because he has fallen from the original divine
Christ estate in which he knew himself to be a son of God
inheriting his Father’s nature, he is in bondage to sense
consciousness. He has built up a personal ego that falsely
believes in limitation of life, separation from God or
good; and because out of such belief the personal ego
by means of its structure-building thought brings forth
the unreal and not-good, man suffers from sickness,
poverty, and other error. Because he lacks knowledge
of the true life substance and of the understanding use
of it, his material body experiences the unnecessary de­
cay and dissolution called death, usually preceded by a
weakening and distressful aging process.★

★ ★ But this is unnecessary. Let each son of God

steadfastly set to work to resume his Christ conscious­
ness and he will be liberated from such bondage and
enjoy the conditions of peace, health, and general well­
being that the structure-building thinking of such a con­
sciousness is bound to produce throughout his being.
How do we shape substance so that we become the
enlightened expression and manifestation of the perfec­
tion that God is ?
What is the procedure ?
We have already indicated that an understanding of
Truth is the essential factor in all this, and now we add
and would emphasize that its application is similarly es­
sential. There are many who reach an intellectual under­
standing of Truth but do not apply it. This must be so
when the understanding is only of the intellect. To be
 fully awake to Truth it must be realized, known, and
made one’s own by and through spiritual awareness and
consciousness.
Understanding then is the first requisite to realization
of what substance is, what the power is that shapes it, and
what the procedure is; right meditation and harmo­
nious affirmative thinking, speaking, and doing are the
means of its acquisition. Once man concedes that he is
God’s son and of like nature and powers with the
Father he must attain a knowledge of what God actually
is and how He works and creates in His aspect of divine
law.
To this end each seeker after Truth must become as
a little child. He must reject no reasonable enlightenment
concerning the supernal subject merely because his per­
sonal, sense mind is unable to comprehend it. No, he
must meditate in conscious communion with Spirit; he
must analyze, investigate, and prove for himself what is
fact and what illusion.★

★ ★ O ne of the first things he must realize is that he is

a creator, that he creates by his thought-word. It is thought
and its related imaginative activity that makes patterns
in mind substance. It is sustained, definite, and living
thought that nurtures them into fruition and causes them
to come forth in visible and tangible form. Whether that
which comes forth be agreeable or negative depends alto­
gether upon the quality and kind of thought that man has
used.
I have referred to substance as being life, omnipresent
and eternal God life; and I have stated that all forms
ensouled by it through the spiritually constructive think­
ing and building of superconscious man are similarly un-
dying, unchanging, and harmonious in every phase of
being, and I have indicated that everything formed and
caused to become manifest by the sense type of thought
used by material-minded man is subject to decay, being
merely a (for the time) fixed thought form and not life.
I would wish it to be noted that in this connection I
employ the word "decay” and not "death.” Nothing dies,
nothing can die, because in reality (in the "real” con­
sciousness and knowing) there is naught but God life in
the universe. It is only the illusionary specified form made
by the false thinking of sense-minded man that is sus­
ceptible to the dissolution named "death.” But even in
such cases the term "death” is a misnomer, for what
happens is that the thought that served as the pattern
for the material form ceases to be applied to it and so it
dissolves.

★ ★ I f anything written above has caused the reader

to believe that matter is not life substance, that belief
should be corrected. Even solid and dense matter, such
as wood or stone, consists of life atoms of substance.
The form may disintegrate in time, but the life in the
atoms of which the form is made up cannot die: it is
merely resolved back into its original elemental substance
after the form breaks up. There are degrees of life ac­
tivity or movement, and the more dense a form is the
less life activity it manifests visibly; whereas the more
tenuous, refined, and sensitive the form the more of such
activity it displays.
Let us think of the difference between Spirit sub­
stance and matter this way: Matter is a fixed and specified
form or shape of varying degrees of solidity, whereas
Spirit substance—even in form—is not bound by any
such fixation but is tenuous, free, and independent of
space and time limitations. Of this latter type is the per­
fect spiritual body temple of the I am , God individuated
in Christ-conscious man. This body, being created by the
spiritual understanding, knowing, and thinking of super­
consciousness in the Christ-minded son of God is a har-
 monious, tenuous, radiant body of light and life. Being
tenuous, it is not restricted by mortal ideas of space or
time but is able immediately to be in any location of which
it thinks or in which it desires to find itself without re­
sorting to physical means of transportation; it passes
naturally and freely through more dense objects than
itself, such as doors, just as our beloved Master passed
through the closed door of the room where the disciples
were gathered and there communed with them. Densely
material forms, less active in life—or substance—motion,
and vibration, cannot do this, as we know. They must
be transported to such locality as they desire to reach
by vessels of equal or greater denseness with themselves
whose passage is governed by time according to the dis­
tance of space to be traversed.

★ ★ Summarizing the answer to our questions in

order, let us say first that substance—which is termed by
physical scientists "universal ether” and by Jesus Christ
"the kingdom of the heavens”—is the energizing, vital,
and all-permeating life-essence of God, the ultimate
reality from which all things visible and invisible, formed
and formless, dense or tenuous, are made by the creative
thought-word of God and of His individuated phase
and expression in His son, man, who is His agent.
Secondly, the power that shapes substance is thought.
It may be positive and harmoniously constructive, mold­
ing patterns in substance that by sustained and evolu­
tionary thinking on man’s part are caused to come forth
as spiritual and permanent creations. This type of thought
belongs to superconscious man, who knows, understands,
and rightly uses divine law.
On tire other hand, the negative and destructive
thought of personal and sense-thinking man will shape
and bring forth discordant and erroneous things if man’s
thought about them, or about their patterns in substance,
is sufficiently sustained.
Man has free will to select his type of thinking and
is therefore the builder and controller of his destiny and
condition. Divine law operates to produce tangible re­
sults in all cases, and in his expressed and manifest mind,
body, and circumstances man reaps a harvest proportioned
exactly, in quality and kind, to the seed thought that he
plants in the good earth of substance or universal ether.
As regards procedure, the practice of meditation al­
ready cited must be reinforced by steadfast constructive
thinking, speaking, and doing according to Truth. This
involves applying universal love in every thought, word,
and deed. Love is the fulfilling of all law, and until un­
derstanding and the faith that results from its attainment
has been achieved it will indubitably cause the thinker to
pattern his ideas in substance and produce beautifully and
spiritually.

★ ★ F urther , a most important part of the pro­

cedure lies in giving thanks to the Father for all bless­
ings, both general and specific. We can form no better
habit than that of feeling and expressing gratitude to the
Most High; for giving thanks increases our own power
to define the patterns that we make by our thought in
substance, as well as increasing the consciousness of our
oneness with All-Good and therefore our capacity to
express and manifest it. Whatever we desire to bring
forth and pattern in substance is already in the invisible
realms by force of our desire; for we cannot desire any­
thing that we have not the potentiality to produce. There­
fore it is reasonable to give thanks for it as already in
being even, before it becomes manifest. This factor in the
process of bringing forth our good cannot be too much
emphasized. Failure to practice such thanksgiving will
delay manifestation, because it predicates a lack of that
faith which is so vital a prerequisite to fulfillment.
S u n d a y otsi& AonA —
These lessons point out the symbology of the Bible and in­
terpret it according to the Unity teaching. A thorough study
of the Unity Sunday lessons w ill repay any student. Study
with an open mind and Truth w ill convince you. Bible text
is taken from the American Standard Version of the Bible,
copyright, 1929, by the International Council o f Religious
Education; lessons are developed from outlines prepared and
copyrighted by the Council; both are used by permission.

Lesson 5 U nity Subject — Acting on Faith.

M ay 2,1937 I nternational Subject —Abraham a
+ + Man of Faith.—Gen. 12:1-9; 13:14-18.
1. N o w J e h o v a h s a i d u n t o A b r a m , G e t t h e e o u t o f t h y
c o u n tr y , a n d f r o m t h y k i n d r e d , a n d f r o m t h y f a t h e r ’s h o u s e ,
u n to th e la n d th a t I w ill s h o w th e e :
2 . A n d I w i l l m a k e o f t h e e a g r e a t n a t i o n , a n d I w i l l b le s s
th e e , a n d m a k e th y n a m e g r e a t; a n d b e th o u a b le s s in g :
3 . A n d I w i l l b le s s t h e m t h a t b le s s t h e e , a n d h i m t h a t
c u rs e th th e e w ill I c u rse : a n d in th e e s h a ll a ll th e fa m ilie s o f
t h e e a r t h b e b le s s e d .
4 . S o A b ra m w e n t, as J e h o v a h h a d s p o k e n u n to h im ; a n d
L o t w e n t w i t h h i m : a n d A b r a m w a s s e v e n ty a n d fiv e y e a r s o l d
w h e n h e d e p a rte d o u t o f H a ra n .
5 . A n d A b r a m t o o k S a r a i h i s w i f e , a n d L o t h i s b r o t h e r ’s
s o n , a n d a ll t h e i r s u b s ta n c e t h a t t h e y h a d g a t h e r e d , a n d t h e s o u ls
th a t th e y h a d g o tte n in H a r a n ; a n d th e y w e n t f o r th to g o in to
th e la n d o f C a n a a n ; a n d in to th e la n d o f C a n a a n th e y c am e.
6 . A fid A b ra m p a s s e d th r o u g h th e la n d u n to th e p la c e o f
S h e c h e m , u n t o t h e o a k o f M o r e h . A n d t h e C a n a a n i t e w a s t h e n in
th e la n d .
7 . A n d J e h o v a h a p p e a re d u n to A b ra m , a n d s a id , U n to th y
s e e d w ill I g iv e th is la n d : a n d th e r e b u ild e d h e a n a lta r u n to
J e h o v a h , w h o a p p e a r e d u n t o h im .
8 . A n d h e re m o v e d f r o m th e n c e u n to th e m o u n ta in o n th e
e a s t o f B e th - e l , a n d p i t c h e d h i s t e n t , h a v i n g B e th - e l o n t h e w e s t,
a n d A i o n t h e e a s t: a n d t h e r e h e b u i l d e d a n a l t a r u n t o J e h o v a h ,
a n d c a lle d u p o n th e n a m e o f J e h o v a h .
9 . A n d A b r a m j o u r n e y e d , g o i n g o n s t i l l t o w a r d t h e S o u th .
 14. A n d J e h o v a h s a id u n to A b ra m , a f t e r t h a t L o t w as
s e p a ra te d f r o m h im , L if t u p n o w th i n e eyes, a n d lo o k f r o m th e
p la c e w h e re th o u a rt, n o r th w a r d a n d s o u th w a rd a n d e a stw a rd
a n d w e s tw a rd :
1 5 . F o r a ll th e la n d w h ic h th o u se e st, to th e e w ill I g iv e it,
a n d to th y seed f o r ev er.
16. A n d I w ill m a k e th y seed as th e d u s t o f th e e a r th : so
t h a t i f a m a n c a n n u m b e r th e d u s t o f th e e a rth , th e n m a y th y
se e d a ls o b e n u m b e re d .
1 7 . A ris e , w a lk th r o u g h t h e la n d in t h e le n g th o f i t a n d in
t h e b r e a d th o f i t ; f o r u n to th e e w ill I g iv e it.
18. A n d A b ra m m o v e d h is te n t, a n d c a m e a n d d w e lt by
th e o a k s o f M a m re , w h ic h a re in H e b r o n , a n d b u il t th e r e a n
a lta r u n to J e h o v a h .

G o l d e n T e x t —By faith Abraham, when he was

called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to re­
ceive for an inheritance.—Heb. 11:8.
S i l e n t P r a y e r — Through faith in God I am led daily
in the way of peace, joy, and wisdom.
The literal meaning of the name Abram is "father of
exaltation.” Metaphysically it represents the faculty
through which man has faith in the invisible. He gains
God consciousness through concentrating his faith in
God. This exercise increases in him the power of the
mind to use divine ideas. Through faith he substan­
tiates his hopes and desires.
"The land that I will show thee” is the new concept
of substance that the spiritually quickened man discerns
when he is stirred to religious activity. One need not
travel to reach this land, for as the assurance of spiritual
reality it comes to every one who obeys his higher im­
pulses. We travel mentally by abandoning the sense con­
sciousness in which we have hitherto lived (get out of
our country), drop from our thoughts everything related
to us through the senses (our kindred), and become
spiritually active instead of inactive. The name of Terah,
the father of Abram, means "loitering” and represents
 a state of spiritual inactivity. "Thy father’s house” in
this case symbolizes spiritual inaction.
When the light of understanding and intelligence
(Ur of the Chaldees) illumines man, he attains an ex­
alted state of mind in which trust is lifted up in his
consciousness, and he is inspired by a desire to go for­
ward to fuller enlightenment. This state of exaltation
is represented by Haran ("elevated,” "exalted”) where
Terah stopped with Abram and the rest of his family
on his journey to Canaan. The migration from Ur to
Canaan was first conceived by Terah, but inaction over­
took him in Haran, and he died there.
The surest cure for habitual inaction is faith. To go
steadily forward towards the realization of our highest
ideals requires concentration of no mean order. Faith
translates steadfastness into attainment, and in the process
is itself increased. "I will make of thee a great nation,
and I will bless thee, and make thy name great.” Only
those ideas in which man has faith ever reach complete
expression. Every idea prospers into which he puts some­
thing of himself through his faith. "In thee shall all
the families of the earth be blessed.”
To realize the joy of achievement in the realm of
Spirit, man must obey his spiritual leadings. He cannot
exercise the dominion he was intended to have in the
beginning in any other way. Acting on divine guidance
may impress those in sense consciousness as chimerical.
Nevertheless it leads to true satisfaction and peace. "So
Abram went. . . . and they went forth to go into the
land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.”
Faith achieves its objective.
In his religious activity man arrives in time at the
stage where he must deal with the elemental life forces
in the subconsciousness. These forces are represented by
the Canaanite whom Abram found "in the land” that
Jehovah had promised him. To realize dominion over
 every living thing that moves upon the earth, as man
was commanded to do in the beginning, he must domi­
nate his subconsciousness, out of which come the issues
of his life. The sense nature (Canaan, "lowland”) is
given over to materiality, but man reclaims it through
faith in the enabling power of Spirit. In the beginning
the seeming difficulty of the task burdens all his thoughts.
Shechem, the name of the place where Abram came in
his journeying, means "a burden.” In such a conscious­
ness the way to dominion is found in a teachable state
of mind, which Abraham possessed in abundant measure.
"The oak of Moreh” was in Shechem. Moreh means
"teacher,” "prophet,” and symbolizes a state of mind
receptive to Truth.
Constructive methods characterize this state, proving
man s contact with the divine in consciousness. Construc­
tive thinking brings a realization of protection and
strength (oak tree). Abram built an altar unto Jehovah
in Shechem, and lifted up his soul there in aspiration and
prayer. That he freed himself of all consciousness of
burden in the task he had undertaken is clear from the
renewed promise he received there from Jehovah that
the land should belong to Abram and his descendants.
The spiritualizing of the subconscious forces is not
however completed in a day. While man may be out­
wardly at peace and in a measure conscious of God, his
subconsciousness may still be in a confused and dis­
ordered state. The underlying thoughts and motives that
rule us are so deep-seated that we are often unaware of
their existence. Abraham removed from Shechem to a
mountain east of Bethel ("house of God”), with Ai ("a
heap of rubbish”) on the east. The east represents the
within, and the deep inner self may seem but a heap of
rubbish out of which neither order nor benefit of any
kind can be realized by man until he takes the task reso­
lutely in hand. As soon as he is willing to give up the
 lower for the higher, the personal for the impersonal, the
animal for the divine, he brings order out of inner chaos.
Abraham built an altar between Ai and Bethel, "and
called upon the name of Jehovah” there.
In every place where Abram sojourned he pitched a
tent for himself and built an altar unto Jehovah. Faith
has no firm hold on temporal things but changes with
their changing aspect. It finds its permanent abiding place
in God, the changeless, and builds an enduring structure
in life through aspiration and prayer.
Lot ("hidden,” "concealed”) represents the sub­
jective or negative side of faith. To be substantial faith
must become objective. Abram, the expanding of faith
in man’s consciousness, must be separated from Lot before
he can realize the full extent of his powers. Once man
puts all faith in negation away from him, he sees that
whether he looks high or low (northward or southward),
inward or outward (eastward or westward), he can direct
his life and realize his highest hopes through integrating
all his powers.
q u e s t io n s

1. W h a t is th e m e a n in g o f A b ra h a m , a n d w h a t d o e s h e
r e p r e s e n t in m a n ?
2 . W h a t is " t h e la n d th a t I w ill s h o w th e e ” ?
3 . H o w d o e s o n e o v e rc o m e h a b itu a l in a c tio n ?
4 . E x p la in th e sy m b o lo g y o f th e C a n a a n ite " i n t h e la n d .”
5 . W h a t is sy m b o liz e d by th e s ta te m e n t t h a t A b ra h a m
b u il t a n a lt a r u n to J e h o v a h in e a c h p la c e w h e re h e s o jo u rn e d ?

★ ★ ★
Lesson 6 U n ity S u b je c t— The Conditions o f Ef-
M a y 9 ,1937 fectual Prayer.
+ + In te rn a tio n a l S u b je c t— Abraham a
Man of Prayer.— Gen. 18:17-32.
17. A n d J e h o v a h sa id , S h a ll I h id e f r o m A b ra h a m th a t
w h ic h I d o ;
1 8 . S e e in g th a t A b ra h a m s h a ll su re ly b e c o m e a g r e a t a n d
m ig h ty n a tio n , a n d a ll th e n a tio n s o f th e e a rth s h a ll b e b le sse d
in h im ?
19. F o r I h a v e k n o w n h im , to th e e n d th a t h e m a y c o m ­
m a n d h is c h ild re n a n d h is h o u s e h o ld a f te r h im , th a t th e y m a y
k e e p th e w ay o f J e h o v a h , to d o rig h te o u s n e s s a n d ju s tic e ; to th e
e n d th a t J e h o v a h m a y b r i n g u p o n A b ra h a m th a t w h ic h h e
h a th s p o k e n o f h im .
2 0 . A n d J e h o v a h s a id , B ec a u se th e cry o f S o d o m a n d G o ­
m o r r a h is g re a t, a n d b e c a u se th e ir s in is v ery g rie v o u s ;
2 1 . I w ill g o d o w n n o w , a n d se e w h e th e r th e y h a v e d o n e
a lto g e th e r a c c o rd in g to th e cry o f it, w h ic h is co m e u n to m e ; a n d
i f n o t, I w ill k n o w .
2 2 . A n d th e m e n tu r n e d f r o m th e n c e , a n d w e n t to w a rd
S o d o m : b u t A b ra h a m sto o d y e t b e fo r e J e h o v a h .
23 . A n d A b ra h a m d re w n e a r, a n d s a id , W i l t th o u c o n su m e
th e rig h te o u s w ith th e w ic k e d ?
2 4 . P e ra d v e n tu re th e r e a re fifty rig h te o u s w ith in th e c ity :
w ilt th o u c o n s u m e a n d n o t s p a r e th e p la c e f o r th e fifty rig h te o u s
th a t a re th e r e in ?
2 5 . T h a t b e f a r f r o m th e e to d o a f t e r th is m a n n e r , to slay
th e rig h te o u s w ith th e w ic k e d , th a t so th e rig h te o u s sh o u ld b e
as th e w ic k e d ; th a t b e f a r f r o m th e e : s h a ll n o t th e J u d g e o f
a ll th e e a rth d o r ig h t ?
2 6 . A n d J e h o v a h sa id , I f I fin d in S o d o m fifty rig h te o u s
w ith in th e city , th e n I w ill s p a r e a ll th e p la c e fo r th e ir sake.
2 7 . A n d A b ra h a m a n s w e re d a n d sa id , B e h o ld n o w , I h a v e
ta k e n u p o n m e to s p e a k u n to th e L o rd , w h o a m b u t d u s t a n d
a sh e s :
2 8 . P e r a d v e n tu re th e r e s h a ll la c k five o f th e fifty r ig h te o u s :
w ilt th o u d e s tro y a ll th e c ity f o r lack o f fiv e ? A n d h e s a id , I
w ill n o t d e stro y it, if I fin d th e r e fo rty a n d five.
29 . A n d h e s p a k e u n to h im y e t a g a in , a n d sa id , P e r a d ­
v e n tu r e th e r e s h a ll b e fo rty f o u n d th e re . A n d h e sa id , I w ill n o t
d o i t f o r th e f o r ty ’s sak e.
3 0 . A n d h e s a id , O h le t n o t th e L o rd b e a n g ry , a n d I w ill
s p e a k : p e ra d v e n tu re th e r e s h a ll th irty b e f o u n d th e r e . A n d h e
sa id , I w ill n o t d o it, i f I fin d th irty th e re .
3 1 . A n d h e sa id , B e h o ld n o w , I h a v e ta k e n u p o n m e to
s p e a k u n to th e L o rd : p e ra d v e n tu re th e r e s h a ll b e tw e n ty fo u n d
th e r e . A n d h e sa id , I w ill n o t d e stro y it f o r th e tw e n ty 's sake.
32. A n d h e sa id , O h le t n o t th e L o rd b e a n g ry , a n d I w ill
s p e a k y e t b u t th is o n c e : p e ra d v e n tu re te n s h a ll b e fo u n d th e re .
A n d h e s a id , I w ill n o t d e stro y i t f o r th e t e n ’s sak e.
 G o l d e n T e x t — The supplication of a righteous man
availeth much in its working.—James 5:16.
S i l e n t P r a y e r — I renew my faith by practicing the
presence of God daily in prayer.
The first condition of effectual prayer is faith in the
heart. The conviction that help is to be had from one’s
spiritual source, that it not only is available but is pre­
pared to take instant effect as soon as the proper channel
opens, makes the answer to prayer easy to realize. Faith
reads the purposes of Divine Mind, and sees there the
disappearance of evil from man’s consciousness.
Because faith is closely related to love in man, it
causes^ him to "see the best that glimmers through the
worst, so that he does not always discern the necessity
of complete separation in thought from the realm of
sense. We are prone to feel that there must be some
good in the senses and their manifestation, since both
are universally in evidence. We overlook the truth that
what is universal in a human sense is not always one
with universal Truth.
Good and evil may grow together in the mind and
soul of man "until the harvest,” but the harvest is not
the end of earthly life manifestation, as has been sup­
posed. The field of life is "white already unto harvest,”
and now is the time to gather in the good through con­
centrated effort to realize the good only and to burn up
the chaff or sense consciousness with the unquenchable
fire of spiritual zeal for Truth. Therefore while man may
feel that he has in him enough good to redeem the evil
even though good occupies but a small part of his
thoughts, he is not justified in continuing in a mixed
consciousness.
The picture of Abraham pleading with God to do the
right thing would be a childish conception if taken
literally. As a symbol of the efficacy of persistent, per-
 severing prayer, it expresses the same thought as that
voiced by Jesus in the parable of the unjust judge. Man
does not strike a bargain with God, but faith strikes a
bargain with Divine Mind. The parable of the unjust
judge ends with the question "When the Son of man com-
eth, shall he find faith on the earth?” Faith is necessary
to perseverance, and perseverance is necessary to realiza­
tion. As a universal quality faith touches Divine Mind
and opens the channel for demonstration.
To affirm that all is good and on the heels of this
statement admit that error must be wiped out uncondi­
tionally requires understanding of the truth of good and
the untruth of error. In the 11th chapter of Matthew we
find Jesus comparing the reaction of Capernaum to His
mighty works with the reaction that would have taken
place in Sodom if equally mighty works had been done
there. "But I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable
for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for
thee.”
Capernaum ("covering of compassion”) here repre­
sents Christian sympathy, which has been exalted to
heaven but shall be brought down to hell or Hades, the
abode of the dead. Sympathy has been polluted by identi­
fying it with error. Instead of recognizing only the truth
in regard to man, it confirms the sick in their delusions
by leading them to accept their negative condition as
their real state. It makes him weep with those who weep,
adding meaningless sorrow to that already felt. False
sympathy is highly esteemed, but when the sick are
raised up through faithful affirmation and realization ot
Truth only, false sympathy is brought down to Hades
or nothingness.
Mighty works of healing and mighty demonstrations
of Truth through answered prayer cannot be done in the
sense consciousness. Therefore the sooner the error that
finds its expression through sense consciousness is wiped
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out, and we accept the divine law as the law of our daily
living and being, the sooner we shall enter the kingdom
of heaven through the door of the Christ or redeemed
I AM.
To turn our back resolutely on all sense thought re­
quires a high degree of faith and the habit of constant
prayer. The race thought lays firm hold on man’s mind,
but spiritual thought has power to displace it. To do so
however spiritual thought must be faithfully held, and not
indulged in intermittently.
Unselfishness is one of the conditions of answered
prayer. The prophet Ezekiel, in addressing Jerusalem,
defined the sins of Sodom: "Behold, this was the iniquity
of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and pros­
perous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did
she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And
they were haughty, and committed abomination before
me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.”
Other cities besides Sodom, and nations as well as in­
dividuals have been guilty of the selfishness of sense. No
one can realize the full measure of answered prayer until
he becomes unselfish, for unselfishness is man’s expression
of the universal Spirit, through which fulfillment comes.
"In the mount of Jehovah it shall be provided.”
The highest prayer that man makes in his own behalf
is the prayer for understanding, which enables him to
know himself and what he should pray for.
"I prayed, and understanding was given me:
I called upon God, and there came to me a spirit of
wisdom.”
As we learn to pray as we ought our one-way prayers are
left behind among the forgotten efforts of past experi­
ence as part of our training in patience. God speaks to us
in the answer to believing prayer.
QUESTIONS
1. N a m e th e first c o n d itio n o f e ffe c tu a l p ra y e r.
 2 . E x p la in w h y A b ra h a m , w h o re p re s e n ts f a i th in m a n ,
p ra y e d to J e h o v a h to sa v e S o d o m a n d G o m o rr a h .
3 . W h e n is th e " h a r v e s t” m e n tio n e d by Je s u s as th e p r o p e r
tim e f o r s e p a r a tin g th e ta re s fr o m th e w h e a t?
4 . W h a t d o w e le a r n in th is le s so n o f th e v a lu e o f p e rs e ­
v e ra n c e as a c o n d itio n o f e ffe c tu a l p ra y e r ?
5 . T h r o u g h w h a t c o n sc io u sn e ss is p ra y e r a n s w e re d ?
★ ★ ★
Lesson 7 U n ity S u b j e c t — Nonresistance.
May 16,1937 I n t e r n a t i o n a l Subject — The Forbear-
+ + ance of Isaac.—Gen. 26:12-25.
1 2 . A n d Isa a c so w e d in th a t la n d , a n d f o u n d in th e sa m e
y e a r a h u n d r e d f o ld : a n d J e h o v a h b le s se d h im .
1 3 . A n d th e m a n w a x e d g re a t, a n d g re w m o r e a n d m o re
u n ti l h e b e c a m e v ery g re a t: .
1 4 . A n d h e h a d p o sse ssio n s o f flocks, a n d p o sse ssio n s o r
h e rd s , a n d a g re a t h o u s e h o ld : a n d th e P h ilis tin e s e n v ie d h im .
1 5 . N o w a ll th e w e lls w h ic h h is f a t h e r 's se rv a n ts h a d d ig g e d
in th e d a y s o f A b ra h a m h is fa th e r , th e P h ilis tin e s h a d s to p p e d ,
a n d fille d w ith e a rth .
1 6 . A n d A b im e le c h s a id u n to Isaac, G o f r o m u s ; f o r th o u
a r t m u c h m ig h tie r th a n w e.
1 7 . A n d Isaac d e p a rte d th e n c e , a n d e n c a m p e d in th e v a lle y
o f G e ra r, a n d d w e lt th e r e . . . . .
1 8 . A n d Isaac d ig g e d a g a in th e w e lls o f w a te r, w h ic h th e y
h a d d ig g e d in th e d ays o f A b ra h a m h is f a t h e r ; f o r th e P h ilis tin e s
h a d s to p p e d th e m a f te r th e d e a th o f A b ra h a m : a n d h e c a lle d
th e i r n a m e s a f te r th e n a m e s by w h ic h h is f a th e r h a d c a lle d th e m .
1 9 . A n d Isa a c ’s se rv a n ts d ig g e d i n th e v a lle y , a n d f o u n d
th e r e a w e ll o f s p r in g in g w a te r. . . .
2 0 . A n d th e h e rd s m e n o f G e r a r s tro v e w ith I s a a c s h e r d s ­
m e n , sa y in g , T h e w a te r is o u rs : a n d h e c a lle d t h e n a m e o f th e
w e ll E se k , b e c a u se th e y c o n te n d e d w ith h im .
21 . A n d th e y d ig g e d a n o th e r w e ll, a n d th e y s tro v e f o r th a t
a lso : a n d h e c a lle d th e n a m e o f i t S itn a h .
2 2 . A n d h e re m o v e d f r o m th e n c e , a n d d ig g e d a n o th e r w e ll;
a n d f o r t h a t th e y s tro v e n o t: a n d h e c a lle d th e n a m e o f it
R e h o b o th ; a n d h e s a id , F o r n o w J e h o v a h h a th m a d e ro o m f o r
u s , a n d w e s h a ll b e f r u itf u l in t h e la n d .
2 3 . A n d h e w e n t u p fr o m th e n c e to B e e r-sh e b a .
2 4 . A n d J e h o v a h a p p e a re d u n to h im th e sa m e n ig h t, a n d
said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am
with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my
servant Abraham's sake.
25. A n d h e b u ild e d a n a lta r th e re , a n d c a lle d u p o n th e n a m e
o f J e h o v a h , a n d p itc h e d h is t e n t th e r e : a n d th e r e Isa a c ’s se rv a n ts
d ig g e d a w e ll.

G o l d e n T e x t — Blessed are the peacemakers: for they

shall be called sons of God.—Matt. 5:9.
S i l e n t P r a y e r — I yield my personal will to the divine
will, that I may know the joy of true wisdom.
The name Isaac means "laughter/’ "joy.” The greatest
joy that one can know is that which comes from a con­
sciousness of peace through obedience to the divine law.
In this state one makes union with God as he can never
do so long as he insists on enforcing his rights in the
realm of sense (the land of the Philistines). Strictly
speaking, man has no rights in this realm, for he is a
spiritual being and his rights are of the spiritual order.
However man is prone to seek joy through the avenue
of the senses and to consider it impossible or improper
to look for it in the domain of religion. He who does not
expect to have his heart made light and his way pleasant
by reason of his faith in God is mistaking religious
faith as a thing of gloom. This brings about "a fam­
ine in the land” or a dearth of the joy of living, and
since man must sometimes be glad if he is to express
the life of God within him, he turns for sustenance to
the subjective substance and life (Gerar), which in the
beginning is in the possession of the senses (the Philis­
tines), and is ruled over by the will.
When the thought of joy enters into the subjective
substance and impregnates it with its own essence, man’s
life is filled with peace and happiness, and he accom­
plishes with ease all that he undertakes. "Isaac sowed in
that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold: and
Jehovah blessed him.” Joy is a spiritual quality, and rests
in Divine Mind as its original source. The pleasures of
sense are a weak imitation of the joys of the higher realm,
the heavenly kingdom.
"In thy presence is fulness of joy;
In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore."
The measure of content that man as a natural being
feels is meager compared with that of his satisfaction as a
spiritual being, developing from "great” to "very great"
through keeping the law of increase in the spiritual realm.
The struggle that goes on within him as he seeks to de­
velop his better and dwarf his lower nature is no less
intense for being a silent one. The senses wish to retain
their hold upon him, and he is kept in an unsettled state
between the two influences. "The Philistines envied him
[Isaac].”
When man undertakes to live by the evidence of spir­
itual Truth instead of the testimony of the senses, the
latter tend to separate him from the spiritual forces al­
together. "Go from us; for thou art much mightier than
we.” Thereupon the spiritual man imposes on himself
self-restraint of a high order. When the Philistine herds­
men of Gerar, after Isaac had reopened a well first dug
by Abraham, contended with him for it, he surrendered
it without a struggle and opened another of the wells dug
by Abraham. The meaning of Esek, the name of the first
well that Isaac opened near Gerar, is "strife,” "conten­
tion.”
In reopening the inner sources of life that faith first
tapped for man (the wells dug by Abraham) but that
the cares and demands of the sense nature (the Philis­
tines) have stopped up, man’s joy in his work is some­
times interrupted by the striving for supremacy within
him of the higher and the lower nature. The name of the
second well, Sitnah, means "opposer,” "persecutor,”
"strife,” "hatred.” If man is to know the joy of living,
he must separate himself from strife, hatred, and all
kindred states. If one inner source fails to yield him the
substance of peace and satisfaction, he can leave it and
develop along another line. "He removed from thence, and
digged another well.”
The meaning of the name of the third well, Rehoboth,
is "broad places,” "enlargements.” Man’s third excursion
into his subconsciousness brings increased conviction of
formless substance and universal life, with the realization
that these are inexhaustible. He sees that as a son of the
Infinite he need depend on no one phase of inward power.
"Now Jehovah hath made room for us, and we shall be
fruitful in the land.” When we in thought separate our­
selves from the low ideals of the sense realm, we find
abundant room for joy in life.
Faith in God is a source of joy to man. Jehovah as­
sured Isaac, "I am the God of Abraham thy father.” Joy
is multiplied many times by faith. The unbeliever may
be sincere and stoical, but he is never a thoroughly happy
or joyous individual.
When we enter into the consciousness of inexhaustible
substance and life, we take possession of the key to the
union between the inner and outer departments of our
being. "He went up from thence to Beer-sheba.” The
word Beer-sheba means "well of the oath,” "seventh well.”
The seventh well is the well of fulfillment, symbolizing
our readiness to establish ourselves, mind, soul, and body,
in the consciousness of the Infinite. "And he builded an
altar there, and called upon the name of Jehovah, and
pitched his tent there.” Man rests finally and completely
in the consciousness of Truth.
QUESTIONS
1. W h a t b rin g s th e g re a te s t jo y to m a n ?
2 . W h a t is th e m e a n in g o f th e n a m e Is a a c ? A b im e le c h ?
G e r a r ? P h ilis tin e s ?
3. E x p la in th e sy m b o lo g y c o n ta in e d in th e s ta te m e n t th a t
in tim e o f f a m in e Isa a c w e n t to A b im e le c h , k in g o f G e ra r.
4 . W h a t is re p r e s e n te d by t h e w e lls th a t Isa a c r e o p e n e d ?

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 5. W h y m u s t m a n e x e r c is e f o r b e a r a n c e i n o r d e r t o k n o w jo y ?
6. H a s f a i t h a v i t a l c o n n e c ti o n w i t h jo y i n c o n s c io u s n e s s ?

★ ★ ★
Lesson 8 U nity Subject — The Interaction of Mind
M a y 2 3 ,1 9 3 7 and Body.
+ + I nternational Subject — The Weak­
ness of Esau.—Gen. 25:27-34; 27:41-45.
2 7 . A n d th e b o y s g re w : a n d E sa u w a s a s k ilfu l h u n te r , a
m a n o f th e f i e ld ; a n d Ja c o b w a s a q u ie t m a n , d w e llin g in te n ts.
28. N o w I s a a c l o v e d E s a u , b e c a u s e h e d i d e a t o f h i s v e n is o n :
a n d R e b e k a h lo v e d Ja c o b .
2 9 . A n d J a c o b b o ile d p o tta g e : a n d E s a u c a m e in f ro m th e
f ie ld , a n d h e w a s f a i n t :
3 0 . A n d E sa u sa id to Ja c o b , F e e d m e , I p ra y th e e , w ith th a t
s a m e r e d pottage; f o r I a m f a i n t : t h e r e f o r e w a s h i s n a m e c a lle d
Edom .
31. A n d J a c o b s a id , S e ll m e f i r s t t h y b i r t h r i g h t .
32. A n d E s a u s a i d , B e h o ld , I a m a b o u t t o d i e : a n d w h a t
p ro fit s h a ll th e b ir th r ig h t d o to m e ?
3 3 . A n d Ja c o b sa id , S w e a r to m e firs t; a n d h e s w a re u n to
h im : a n d h e so ld h is b ir th r i g h t u n to Jaco b .
3 4 . A n d Ja c o b g a v e E s a u b re a d a n d p o tta g e o f le n tils ;
a n d h e d id e a t a n d d r in k , a n d ro s e u p , a n d w e n t h is w a y : so
E sa u d e sp ise d h is b ir th r ig h t.
4 1 . A n d E sa u h a te d Ja c o b b e c a u se o f th e b le s s in g w h e re w ith
h i s f a t h e r b le s s e d h i m : a n d E s a u s a i d i n h i s h e a r t , T h e d a y s o f
m o u r n i n g f o r m y f a t h e r a r e a t h a n d ; t h e n w i l l I s la y m y b r o t h e r
Jacob.
4 2 . A n d t h e w o r d s o f E s a u h e r e l d e r s o n w e r e t o l d to
R e b e k a h ; a n d s h e s e n t a n d c a lle d Ja c o b h e r y o u n g e r so n , a n d
s a id u n t o h i m , B e h o ld , t h y b r o t h e r E s a u , a s t o u c h i n g th e e , d o t h
c o m f o r t h i m s e l f , purposing t o k i l l th e e .
4 3 . N o w t h e r e f o r e , m y s o n , o b e y m y v o i c e ; a n d a r is e , fle e
th o u to L a b a n m y b ro th e r to H a r a n ;
4 4 . A n d t a r r y w i t h h i m a f e w d a y s , u n t i l t h y b r o t h e r ’s f u r y
tu rn aw ay ;
4 5 . U n t i l t h y b r o t h e r ’s a n g e r t u r n a w a y f r o m t h e e , a n d h e
f o r g e t th a t w h ic h th o u h a s t d o n e to h im : th e n I w ill se n d , a n d
f e tc h th e e fr o m th e n c e : w h y s h o u ld I b e b e re a v e d o f y o u b o th
in o n e d ay?
 G olden T ext Every man that striveth in the games
exerciseth self-control in all things.— I Cor. 9:25.
Silent Prayer—7 nourish my body with its divine
birthright of true thoughts and words.
Esau ("rough,” "hairy”) represents the body or phys­
ical vigor, in other words, the animal consciousness. Jacob
( heel catcher,” "supplanter”) represents the mental con­
sciousness. While the two phases of consciousness are
very closely connected, they are not identical. Esau and
Jacob were twins, but except for their physical heritage
they had very little in common. Esau was a man of action,
an outdoor man. Jacob was an indoor man, inactive, a
thinker and a dreamer of dreams. Esau symbolizes the
objective life of man, with its interest in others and its
absorption in externals, Jacob the subjective life of in­
trospection and meditation.
Considered literally as a family history, the story of
Esau and Jacob and the birthright is without value to us
because of the materiality of Esau and the cunning and
duplicity of Jacob. Considered metaphysically as an ac­
count of man’s development in mind and body, we find
in it the lesson of the necessity of the soul’s development
by virtue of the mind’s taking precedence of the body and
causing it to conform to the divine law. "Jacob was a
quiet man, dwelling in tents.” Tents represent the body
consciousness, in which the mind dwells noiselessly, in
close touch with the soul or emotional nature. "Rebekah
[the soul] loved Jacob.”
Close as are mind and body, they are less close than
mind and soul. The body is die instrument of the natural
man, and he is the first-born. The mind is the instrument
of the spiritual man or the divine birthright itself, and
co-operates with the soul to bring man to a consciousness
of his own. In doing so it supplants the claims of the
body to first place in his thoughts.
 Not that man should neglect the body or belittle its
importance. Man’s work is to lift up the body through
the Christ power, replacing low impulses with high until
it becomes a glorious body, a fit temple of the indwelling
Spirit.
W e develop best when mind and body keep abreast.
,,,phe boys grew.’’ They should grow more alike instead of
less so. The body should express the mind, and the mind
reveal the body. A great mind in a stunted or misshapen
body marks a one-sided development instead of the all­
round growth of the man of God. A perfect physique in
a man whose thought processes are those of an untrained
child is a reduction of divine substance to half service and
a breaking of the first commandment, which requires com­
plete concentration of mind, heart, soul, and strength on
the one central Spirit.
The man of action is not necessarily a worldly man
lacking in regard for invisible good. He may have a lively
imagination trained to catch original ideas and put them
into practical use. Part of man’s birthright as a son of God
is the power to see things in new ways. The "skilful
hunter’’ is not always after venison. He may be on the
track of Truth, with the vast ranges of science or the yet
unexplored regions of sociology as his field. He may be
putting his faith into practice in any one of a thousand
ways. But to do so he must have within him a recognized
center of peace and quiet to which he can withdraw for
seasons of refreshing his mind as well as his body. For
the best results Esau and Jacob should work together,
their efforts complementing one another instead of con­
flicting. "A sound mind in a sound body” can be enjoyed
in no other way.
The joy that is an index of high animal spirits only
is a passing phase of man’s experience. "Isaac [joy] loved
Esau, because he did eat of his venison.” The delight of
the soul (Rebekah) in the beauty of the mind’s action in

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 thought has in it more real satisfaction than any mere
physical stimulus can arouse.
Food for thought is as necessary to the nurture and
growth of man in his true estate as any dish of pottage
can be to the physical body. Man can live most fully and
best only by claiming in himself the fulfillment of every
word of God. "A man shall eat good by the fruit of his
mouth.” To affirm that he is "strong in the Lord, and
in the power of his might” brings a realization of strength
that is more lasting than food taken without recognition
of its source in God. When, for example, we partake
of food without returning thanks for it in our heart as a
gift from the spiritual source from which all things derive,
we despise our birthright and deprive ourselves of part of
the strength we should otherwise take from it.
The latter part of the text of this lesson deals with a
second phase of inharmony between mind and body.
When man’s powers are harmonious the joy that fills him
is reflected equally by the mind and the body. No one can
be deeply joyous without feeling a physical as well as a
mental uplift. Nevertheless the joys of the intellect sur­
pass those which spring from a sense of physical well­
being alone. The "joy of the Lord” is man’s abiding
strength, and when he cherishes his birthright as the first­
born of Spirit, the perfect idea of Divine Mind, he knows
this joy.
When physical and material demands threaten to
disrupt man s thought life, he solves the problem by obey­
ing the urge of the soul to fix his attention on exalted
ideas, which arouse in him a higher degree of spiritual
intelligence than he has known before, and remove from
him the seeming necessity of resistance. Rebekah (thesoul)
urged Jacob to flee to Laban ("clear,” "shining,” "gentle,”
"noble”), to Haran ("exalted,” "mountaineer”). He who
prizes his peace of mind and an opportunity to develop
uninterruptedly his divine birthright of Christlikeness,
must take Jacob’s necessity for his own.
QUESTIONS
1 . W h a t p h a s e s o f c o n s c io u s n e s s a r e r e p r e s e n t e d b y E s a u
a n d J a c o b r e s p e c tiv e ly ?
2 . E x p la in th e m e ta p h y s ic a l im p o r t o f th e s ta te m e n t "J a c o b
w a s a q u ie t m a n , d w e llin g in te n ts .”
3. H o w d o e s o n e e n jo y " a s o u n d m i n d i n a s o u n d b o d y ?
4 . D o e s t h e b l e s s i n g o f jo y e x t e n d t o b o t h m i n d a n d b o d y ?
W h a t ty p e o f jo y is a ll - i n c l u s i v e ?
5 . W h e n p h y s ic a l a n d m a t e r i a l d e m a n d s t h r e a t e n t o d i s r u p t
m a n ’s t h o u g h t l if e , h o w d o e s h e s o lv e t h e p r o b l e m ?
★ ★ ★
L e s s o n 9 U n ity S u b je c t — S p ir itu a liz in g th e In -

M a y 3 0 ,1 9 3 7 te lle c t.

+ + I n t e r n a t i o n a l S u b je c t — T h e R e tn a k -

in g o f Ja c o b .— Gen. 28:16-22; 32:24-30.

16. A n d J a c o b a w a k e d o u t o f h i s s l e e p , a n d h e s a i d . S u r e ly
J e h o v a h is in t h i s p l a c e ; a n d I k n e w i t n o t .
1 7 . A n d h e w a s a f r a i d , a n d s a i d , H o w d r e a d f u l is t h i s
p l a c e ! t h i s is n o n e o t h e r t h a n t h e h o u s e o f G o d , a n d t h i s is
th e g a te o f h e a v e n .
1 8 . A n d J a c o b r o s e u p e a r ly i n t h e m o r n i n g , a n d t o o k t h e
s t o n e t h a t h e h a d p u t u n d e r h i s h e a d , a n d s e t i t u p f o r a p i ll a r ,
a n d p o u r e d o i l u p o n t h e t o p o f it.
1 9 . A n d h e c a lle d t h e n a m e o f t h a t p l a c e B e t h - e l : b u t t h e
n a m e o f t h e c ity w a s L u z a t t h e fir s t.
2 0 . A n d J a c o b v o w e d a v o w , s a y in g , I f G o d w i l l b e w i t h
m e , a n d w ill k e e p m e in th is w a y th a t I g o , a n d w ill g iv e m e
b re a d to e a t, a n d ra im e n t to p u t o n ,
2 1 . S o t h a t I c o m e a g a i n t o m y f a t h e r ’s h o u s e in p e ace,
a n d J e h o v a h w ill b e m y G o d ,
2 2 . T h e n th is s to n e , w h ic h I h a v e s e t u p f o r a p illa r, s h a ll
b e G o d ’s h o u s e : a n d o f a ll t h a t t h o u s h a l t g i v e m e I w i l l s u r e ly
g i v e t h e t e n t h u n t o th e e .
24. A nd Ja c o b w as le f t a lo n e ; a n d th e re w re s tle d a m an
w ith h im u n til th e b re a k in g o f th e day.
2 5 . A n d w h e n h e s a w t h a t h e p r e v a i le d n o t a g a i n s t h i m , h e
t o u c h e d t h e h o l l o w o f h i s t h i g h ; a n d t h e h o l l o w o f J a c o b ’s t h i g h
w a s s tra in e d , as h e w re s tle d w ith h im .
2 6 . A n d h e s a id , L e t m e g o , f o r t h e d a y b r e a k e t h . A n d h e
 s a i d , I w i l l n o t l e t t h e e g o , e x c e p t t h o u b le s s m e .
2 7 . A n d h e s a id u n t o h i m , W h a t is t h y n a m e ? A n d h e s a id ,
Jaco b .
2 8 . A n d h e s a id , T h y n a m e s h a l l b e c a l l e d n o m o r e J a c o b ,
b u t Is ra e l: fo r th o u h a st s triv e n w ith G o d a n d w ith m e n , a n d
h a s t p r e v a i le d .
2 9 . A n d J a c o b a s k e d h i m , a n d s a i d , T e l l m e , I p r a y th e e ,
t h y n a m e . A n d h e s a i d , W h e r e f o r e is i t t h a t t h o u d o s t a s k a f t e r
m y n a m e ? A n d h e b le s s e d h im th e re .
3 0 . A n d Ja c o b c a lle d th e n a m e o f th e p la c e P e n ie l: f o r ,
said he, I h a v e s e e n G o d f a c e t o f a c e , a n d m y l i f e is p r e s e r v e d .

G olden T ext— Be not fashioned according to this

world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind.—Rom. 12:2.
Silent Prayer— I separate myself in consciousness
from the mind of the flesh, that I may enter into the mind
that was in Christ Jesus.
Compared with the one who has entered into the
Christ consciousness, the man whose life is cast entirely
under the spell of the senses or the intellect is asleep.
Jacob ("supplanter”), representing the mental or intel­
i
lectual man, on his journey to Haran slept with his head
resting on a stone. He represents man using his wits to 1 '
make his way, his cleverness unrelieved by the ideal of
unselfish love for others.
Nevertheless even the selfish and material-minded man
has his dream, in which he seeks to escape from the
menace of the flesh. Jacob fled from Esau, and was no
sooner separated from him than he began to dream of a
higher realm of life and a world of power above that of
the physical. The name Haran means "high place,” and
the understanding that is directed toward a high place
leads to man’s illumination so that he is able thereafter
to avoid contact with material conditions.
Man advances to a higher state of consciousness
through first thinking higher thoughts and seeing the

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Most High overarching all his ideals. At this stage he
wakens from the dream of sense to the realization that
God is omnipresent and that man may become increasingly
aware of Him as he progresses in his understanding
of Being. The ladder represents various stages or steps
in Truth.
Man does not mount the ladder of Truth when he
first sees it. The sight is an ideal vision, and he contem­
plates it in thought only, dwelling on its possibilities and
its meaning (ascending and descending upon it). It seems
dreadful to him that he can see so much more in his mind
than he can at once express in his actions. This is ac­
counted for by the ideal structure of the mind and its
function of seeing what is "after its kind,” whereas ac­
tion reaches the ideal status only after the mind furnishes
man the impulse and provides the pattern or basis of
procedure. "Then that which is spiritual.” That the body
houses the mind and that the mind is capable of the high­
est flights of inspiration and the highest visions of the
ideal, is a thought that makes man fear presumption in
himself. If he presumes to be higher than he in fact is, he
faces disillusionment. If not, his power to visualize the
heights is "the gate of heaven” within him, through
which he is destined to enter the kingdom.
We make material conditions and difficulties serve
us by setting them up where we can examine them, and
pouring upon them the consecrating spirit of a joyful
heart (oil) in the faith that with God’s help we can mas­
ter them. Instead of thinking of them as hindrances to our
progress toward a higher consciousness, we can make dif­
ficulties into landmarks of progress. Through the help of
God we can so transmute trials and hardships that what
was material in us becomes spiritual ("this stone, which I
have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house” ).
But to do this we need to develop in ourselves a con­
sciousness of God’s omnipresence. God must be with us
in our thoughts. W e must see His power directing us
daily, His substance supplying all our needs ("bread to
eat”), His righteousness infolding us ("raiment to put
on” ), until we become so conscious of our oneness with
Him as to be at home with the thought of God ("come
again to my father’s house in peace”). When we establish
ourselves in this state Jehovah is indeed our God, and
the man of the flesh is definitely supplanted by the man of
Spirit.
God alone can give in infinite measure, but man, His
son, can give back to God at least a tenth of what he re­
ceives, appropriates, and transforms by his efforts into a
form bearing the imprint of his individuality. W e give to
God when we surmount our difficulties in the Christ way
or solve our problems through God consciousness. Diffi­
culties and problems are not all of life, but they form a
fraction of man’s equipment in overcoming. "Of all that
thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.”
He who has overcome the flesh consciousness stands
on a pinnacle of achievement in his inner life. Pinnacles
are lonely places uninhabited except for the presence that
wrestles with man in his final overcoming of fear. For
having learned to give his tenth to God, man prepares
himself to share the treasures of mind with his body con­
sciousness, and knowing the physical expression from his
former association, he fears to encounter it again.
When he wrestles with his better self man gains cour­
age to make unity between Spirit and the natural in him­
self. If at first he supplants the physical through what
seems a trick of the mind, ultimately he supplants the
habit of relying on mental tricks with effort to attune
himself to divine law that is worthy of a prince of God.
To prevail with G_od and man by reason of honest, per­
sistent, devoted effort is to win a new name for himself.
This is the significance of the name Israel that Jacob
wrestled for at the ford Jabbok.
 When the day of spiritual illumination breaks, man
sees that his trials have been tests to develop his strength
for the main purpose that he holds before himself. He
then sees God face to face in all that he has met in past
experience, and understands that through it he has pre­
served his life instead of losing it.
QUESTIONS
1 . W h a t m e t a p h y s i c a l m e a n i n g is f o u n d i n t h e s to r y o f
J a c o b 's f l i g h t f r o m E s a u a n d h i s d r e a m b y n i g h t w h i l e r e s t i n g o n
a s to n e f o r a p illo w ?
2. E x p l a i n J a c o b ’s l a d d e r .
3. H o w c a n w e m a k e d if f ic u ltie s s e r v e u s ?
4 . W h y s h o u l d w e g i v e b a c k to G o d a t e n t h o f w h a t w e
h a v e r e c e iv e d f r o m H i m o f w h a t is a lr e a d y H i s ?
5. I n d i c a t e h o w m a n s u p p l a n t s t h e h u m a n w i t h t h e d i v in e .
6 . W h a t is t h e m e a n i n g o f t h e n a m e I s r a e l , w o n b y J a c o b
w h ile w re s tlin g w ith h is b e tte r s e lf ?
7 . D o w e g a in a b le s s in g b y w r e s tlin g w ith th o u g h ts a n d
id e a s b e y o n d o u r p r e s e n t c o m p r e h e n s io n , a n d e n d e a v o r i n g t o
u n d e rs ta n d th e m ?

W o rd s Y o u S p o k e

The words you spoke

Were embers touched with incense rare
That found a heart bewildered, chill,
And gave it warmth. And pulsing where
It long had lain, a torpid will
Was stirred again to live and dare
By words you spoke.
— ETHEL GLENS LAWRENCE
 OH, BLESSED COMFORTER
W ords by
I sa b e l l a G. G o u ld M usic b y
F r a n g KISER

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C o m - f o r t - e r,
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4. Oh, M ight - y
h lu S W e e t Xest ' ing
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go
In this glad hour

T hou om - n i - p re s - e n t o ne, A - bout m e s h in e

L rJ ‘ Y1! f e a r - F o r T hou a rt m in e .’
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JT ?h y ThJ " Ch grace
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T h at a11 m ay know
W it h w o n - d r o u s p o w 'r

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R e - veal - in g T r u th to m e , T h e T r u t h t h a t s e ts m e free*
Th. 7 ? t h J ° y^ ° ' * r i ow 9: A - b o v e e a r t h ’s ills a n d w oe’s
T h e lif e , t h e T r u th , t h e lo v e T h a t s h i n - e t h fro m a - b o v e
g e n ' t l e 8w ay« G l a d l y T h y c la im s o - b e y ; ’
4= F ~~

W hen by T h y lig h t I se e , S p ir - it di - v in e ,
lo p e a c e - fu l, s u re r e - p ose T h o u le a d - e s t m e.
D e - sc e n d -m g l ik e a d o v e , S p i r - it di - v in e .
* ro m T h ee I c a n - n o t s tr a y , S p i r - i t di - v in e

May, 1937
 CHILD OF GOD
By Irene Stanley

Child of God, in my mind I see

Clearly the beautiful self of you,
Healthy and happy, strong and free,
Calm and courageous, pure and true;
Seeking upbuilding love and joy,
Tempted not by things that destroy,
Busy at wholesome work and play.
Thinking of you in this wonderful way,

Speaking these words alone, aloud,

Loving and praising you, I know
Safely beyond all storm and cloud
Happily forth your feet shall go.
Trusting Him who is able to do
A ll that is for His glory in you,
Placing you consciously in His care,
Child of God, I leave you there!
 SM&nt cUnihi
"BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"

W ise ways are ways of peace:

The joys of wisdom never cease.

C T h e S o ciety o f S ile n t U n ity , fo u n d e d m o re th a n th irty -fiv e

y e a rs a g o , is th e h e a lin g d e p a rtm e n t o f U n ity S c h o o l, m in is te rin g ,
w ith o u t se e in g th e m , to th o s e w h o n e e d h e lp .

C O u r p u rp o s e is to a id th r o u g h p ra y e r a ll p e rs o n s w h o , h a v in g
f a ith in th e p o w e r o f G o d , a sk f o r h e lp .

C 0 u r te m p o ra l n e e d s a re m e t by th e fre e w ill o ffe rin g s o f th o s e

to w h o m w e m in is te r. " G iv e , a n d it s h a ll b e g iv e n u n to y o u ;
g o o d m e a s u re , p re s s e d d o w n , s h a k e n to g e th e r, r u n n i n g o v e r."

C 0 u r S ile n t U n ity g r o u p n u m b e r s so m e n in e ty c o n se c ra te d
w o rk e rs w h o a re d e v o tin g th e ir liv es to G o d 's w o rk f o r h u m a n ity .
T h e y a re p r o v in g d a ily th a t p h y sic a l, fin a n c ia l, m e n ta l, a n d s p i r ­
itu a l d ifficu lties c a n be o v e rc o m e by rig h te o u s p ra y e r. E ven
th o u g h e v e ry th in g e lse m a y h a v e fa ile d , w e s h a ll p ra y with you,
f o r w e h a v e f a ith th a t " w ith G o d a ll th in g s a re p o s s ib le .”

C . W e p ra y with y o u a n d a ls o in s tru c t y o u h o w to p ra y to th e
F a th e r in se c re t in o r d e r th a t y o u m a y h e lp y o u rs e lf. S ile n t U n ity
is p ra y in g alw ays, a n d y o u r c o -o p e ra tio n in p ra y e r is o f m u tu a l
b e n e fit. D o n o t h e s ita te to w r ite to u s f o r h e lp b e c a u se y o u r
p ro b le m is p e rs o n a l. A ll c o rre s p o n d e n c e is c o n fid e n tia l.

Give your full nam e and address

Address your request to
S O C I E T Y OF SI LENT UNI TY
UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY
917 T racy , K ansas C ity , M o .
C able address: U n it y , K ansas C ity .
dt&alih. and (phnApcAify. |
That God is the anim ating principle o f a ll crea­
tio n is not a new or sta rtlin g observation. This has
been the conclusion o f th in kin g minds ever since the
b irth o f logic, and w ill never cease so long as that
faculty continues to be exercised. W here there is
effect there must be cause, and no amount o f sophist­
ry w ill erase the straight line between premise and
conclusion. T im id souls w ill cry pantheism, and
scare both themselves and us w ith a bugaboo they
do not understand; nevertheless the fact remains that
intelligence and design and a ll the other evidences
o f a planning m ind are so palpable in ourselves and
the w o rld about us that we cannot boast o f our sanity
and at the same tim e deny them.
W hen logic presents these m ighty truths to us
and we begin to tu rn our attention to the omnipres­
ent p rin cip le eternally pressing upon and flashing its
presence in to us and the w hole universe, we awaken
w ith in ourselves a consciousness o f it, and it begins
to th in k and plan through us. This is the firs t move­
ment o f Omnipresence, creating man as a self-con­
scious replica o f itse lf, that is, God. This is the Son
o f God o r C hrist, the exact reproduction in m iniature
o f the m ighty cosmic M in d . W hen this man o f cos­
m ic M in d arrives at fu ll m anifestation o f him self in
habitation and place, we have Jesus C hrist, the Son
o f God, or God g lo rifie d in man. Jesus in ecstasy be­
holding this clim ax exclaimed, "G lo rify thou me
 with thine own self with the glory which I had with
thee before the world was.”
So if we have not begun our glorification by real-
izing this quickening life within, let us commence
right now to recognize it in thought and word.
James Russell Lowell wrote, "It may be that the
longing to be so helps make the soul immortal.” A
great truth—told by a great soul. Desire from within
shoots a ray of energy from the imprisoned I a m to
the all-infolding Spirit and a thread o f golden light
unites parent and child. Darwin taught that desire
for light in the protoplasmic cell shot a ray from its
center to its surface and formed the primary eye. If
this be true, and it seems logical, it is possible for us
to animate the thirty-nine trillion cells estimated by
Doctor Crile to be present in our body and even­
tually make them all luminous, as did Jesus Christ.
Thus science is revealing to us the movements of
mind in forming the primary or physical body, which
by the quickening o f the Spirit is raised to the glori­
fied immortal body.
W e should not lose sight o f the fact that the com­
pletion o f this glorified body that God has planned
for us devolves upon us. W e must become conscious
o f God-Mind and co-operate with it in making His
plan manifest in us. As Jesus said, "My Father work-
eth even until now, and I work.”
The childlike simplicity of this primary work
seems so insignificant that great souls who have
delved into philosophy and worked with weighty in­
tellectual problems deem it beneath them to become
as a little child and concentrate their thoughts on
nursery rhymes. They do not realize that instead of
molding and animating the cells of their body, they
have projected their thoughts outwardly in speculat­
ing about the universe and its laws. So the cells left
to themselves gradually starve for want of mind
stimulation and finally die.
If you, dear reader, have attained eminence in
some earthly field of action and yet have not dem­
onstrated health, it may be that you need to take
sound words in some simple form and go unto your
Lord.
Our Healing and Prosperity Thoughts for this
month are framed in words so simple that a little
child can use and understand them, yet they secrete
in their naive artlessness creative forces beyond the
comprehension of the natural man. Try them and be
convinced.

H E A L IN G THOUGHT

God lives in me; no more I pine,

For love, and health, and joy are mine.

P R O S P E R IT Y THOUGHT

Perfect love hath quickened me,

A n d fears of lack in terror flee.
Use from May 20 to June 19

70 U n i*y
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These testimonials come from persons who have been healed
by the power o f Spirit, and are expressions o f the writers’
gratitude to God. Those who wish to gain inspiration from
some one whom God has healed may write, in care of the
Unity School Editorial Department, to givers of these testi­
monials. Each letter must give the initials and address of
the person to whom it is to be forwarded; also the name
and date of the periodical in which the testimonial appeared.*I

I WILL COME AND HEAL

■ ■ Y our prayers have helped me greatly. A month
ago when I called the doctor he found a sore appendix,
with an inflamed pelvic condition. I followed your in­
structions and prayed with you, and at the end of a week
returned to the doctor, who was delighted at my greatly
improved condition. I am deeply grateful for every perfect
demonstration of the Father’s care. God bless and prosper
you in all your ways.—Mrs. L. K., San Bernardino, Calif.
■ ■ I w ant to thank you for your prayer to help me
overcome stuttering. This year when I entered school my
teacher spoke about my voice being clear and distinct, and
my English has also improved. I am not ashamed to talk
now. I have used The Prayer of Faith since I was old
enough to learn it. I am very grateful for your help. You
may discontinue your prayers, as I feel that I am healed.
—FI. G., Bloomfield, Conn.
■ ■ A short time ago I asked for help for my eyes.
I am happy to say that they are completely healed. I have
stopped wearing glasses. I cannot begin to express my
appreciation for your never-failing kind and loving help.
—R. F. S., Vent nor, N . J.
■ ■ T hrough your prayers I have been restored from
what was considered a hopeless mental case to my home
and family again. I am very grateful for the light that has
come to me since you placed me on your prayer list. I
could not do without the Unity teachings and literature.
Bless you all for your wonderful work.—M. B., Arlington,
Va.
■ ■ I w ant to thank you for the many blessings your
prayers have helped me to realize in the past few months.
I have developed from a chronic invalid unable to make
a living to a healthy person (more healthy than I have
been for years), and I am able to go back to teaching
again. You have never failed me. I am very grateful.
—L. S., Rupert, Idaho.
■ ■ I wrote to you for prayers for my hearing. In less
than two months my hearing returned. Somehow God al­
ways answers prayer if we but trust. I consider Unity
School the greatest help in the world, and my heart goes
out in thanksgiving for the help I have received. God bless
you all.—0. C., Greenback, Term.
■ ■ T his letter will acknowledge receipt of your let­
ter in response to my telegram from Ft. Worth requesting
your aid in overcoming a complicated condition that
threatened pneumonia. I am happy to tell you that I was
up the next morning and went on my way rejoicing, thanks
to God and to Unity.—C. W ., Taft, Calif.
■ ■ I am grateful for your immediate help in answer
to my telegram. The intense pain left my throat before
evening, and I have been improving every day. You may
discontinue prayers. Unity has helped us many times, and
it is wonderful to know that we may have your help when
we need it. I am inclosing an offering with thanks.—R. C.,
Minneapolis, Minn.
■ ■ Some time ago I wrote to you for prayers. I had
been suffering with a cataract on my eye. A friend had sug-
 gested that I write to you. I mailed the letter one night,
and I can truly state that by the next night my eye was
all right. I praise God for His healing, and I bless all
Unity. May God be with you all—A. L., Springfield, Mo.
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FILLED WITH PLENTY
■ ■ W ords cannot express my appreciation of the
help you have so unfailingly given to me. Business has
improved a great deal, and I know that with God’s guid­
ance it will continue to do so. I am inclosing a love offer-
ing, and I pray that God will continue to bless each one
of you.—M. M., New York, New York.
■ ■ Several months ago I wrote to you for prayers
for my husband’s business. I rejoice to tell you that the
problem has been solved. In the meantime, so many bless­
ings have come to us that my heart is overflowing with
gratitude to God and your wonderful work. I am inclos­
ing a love offering from a grateful heart.— Mrs. D. K.,
Denver, Colo.
" " I asked your help in finding employment.
Within two weeks I found my present position. I have
already received a small raise. Words cannot express how
I feel toward Unity and your prayers. I have been told
that I am doing splendid work and that my work is very
much appreciated. All my life I have wanted a place like
this and now I have it. I praise God and Unity for all
that you have done. It is a great joy to know that through
your prayers I am blessed, guided, and prospered.—Mrs.
H. B., Columbus, Ohio.
■ ■ Some weeks ago I asked your help with reference
to a business problem. Since writing you there has been
a decided change for the better. God has been very gen­
erous in His help; instead of one way out of my troubles
there are three, and I am grateful and give thanks daily.
Through your help I have enjoyed definite increase in
mind, money, and affairs, and in appreciation I am in­
closing a love offering.—C. F. S., Detroit, Mich.
★ ★ ★
HE SHALL HAVE ABUNDANCE
■ ■ to tell you how much I have profited and
I w ant
been benefited by the use of the prosperity bank drill All
my troubles that loomed as large as mountains have rolled
away, and above all I have come to look upon God as the
source of my supply. Please send me another bank. L.
M. L., Kingston, B. W .L
■ ■ I w a n t to report the results of my prosperity bank
drill, the use of which makes the dollars go so far that
it is truly amazing. I always bless my pay envelope, and it
is like the widow’s oil: although there is not a great deal,
it reaches so far that it is just as effective as a raise in
pay. Like the oil, it stays, and I do wish that you would
pass this idea on to other Truth students. May God bless
you for the inspiration and cheer you are broadcasting
throughout the world.—E. H., Detroit, Mich.
m • T h a n k you for your co-operation. When I re­
ceived my prosperity bank I had just lost my position. For
two months I prayed diligently. I had some splendid
interviews, with many promises but no job. But I did not
lose faith. I trusted and honestly believed that God was
working with me, and He certainly was. I have now
secured out of a clear sky a fine position with a wonder­
ful company. I am very happy. We are daily finding new
blessings and giving thanks to God and to Unity for our
great good.—D. R. P., Oak Park, 111.
m U I WANT to tell you of the marvelous demonstra­
tion I had during my recent use of the prosperity bank
drill. Within a week I had been given a substantial raise
in salary, although when I was employed it was agreed that

74 U n ity
I was to have just a certain sum. Please send me another
bank, and my blessings on your good work.—L. P. A.,
San Francisco, Calif.
★ ★ ★
CHILDREN
■ ■ T hank you for your prayers for B------. He passed
all his examinations and graduated a very happy boy. I am
not only happy for him but happy in my faith in and
assurance of God’s abiding presence.—H. C., Union
Springs, N . Y.
■ ■ W hen I asked you to send me a Unity bank I
asked you to pray for me to help in my music lessons. My
prayers were answered, for when I played in the recital I
did not make a mistake, and I want to thank you so much
for your prayers.— V. H., Detroit, Mich.
■ ■ M y l i t t l e girl was very poor in her schoolwork.
She wrote to you for prayers, and I prayed with her. Soon
afterward her marks began to rise until they reached 100.
At the end of the last term her teacher told her she was a
very apt pupil. This is truly a miracle for a child who
failed repeatedly in her studies and received marks as low
as failure. God bless Unity.—E. S., New York City.
★ ★ ★
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES
■ ■ T he Correspondence School lessons have meant
so much to me; with each one I have gained a larger un­
derstanding of God and His infinite goodness. Many
blessings have come to me and mine, and I feel that my
study has opened the way by which my good is coming.
Thank you and bless you.—J. H. S., New Albany, Ind.
■ ■ I have thoroughly enjoyed this correspondence
course lesson, it has been most inspiring and helpful. I
have studied the booklets and tracts as you directed, and
have felt profound joy as I read their helpful messages.
I cannot tell you what a source of inspiration and daily
help it has been in my work. Thanks for your guidance
and help, and best wishes for you all and your great work.
—F. S. C., Lynbrook, N . Y.
★ ★ ★
MY HELP COMETH FROM JEHOVAH
■ ■ I GET MUCH enjoyment and inspiration and many
ideas for a higher standard of living from reading your
literature. Until two years ago my life was a series of dis­
appointments, unfulfilled ambitions, and I seemed to be
surrounded by a blank wall. My life is entirely changed,
thanks to the Unity teachings. I have seen every believing
prayer answered.—R. F., Fort Peck, Mont.
■ ■ I received my first copy of Weekly Unity some .V -*-
months ago and words cannot express how much this |
little magazine has helped me. I was so depressed that my
health was endangered. Since reading this magazine I
feel as if I had never lived before. I am entirely well and
read Weekly Unity faithfully each day. I praise God for
leading me to the Unity teachings.—Mrs. W. L., Glen-
side, Pa.
★ ★ ★
FREE FROM CARES
■ ■ I n the past few weeks I have begun to under­
stand the Unity teachings better than ever before. I seem
to feel a freedom from all worry and a lessening of the
tension caused by panic that used to come over me when I
couldn’t seem to see the money to pay our expenses. I am
very grateful to you and thank you for your prayers.
—Mrs. L. A., Arlington, Va.
■ ■ I am grateful for your help. My husband has
stopped his excessive drinking. I know that he sees his
freedom from this habit, and I thank God for His show-
 ing me the light through the Unity teachings. I love Him
for being my helper and my friend—E. S., Michigan
City, Ind. 6
★ ★ ★
LOVE ONE ANOTHER
■ ■ I asked your help in attaining more harmony in
my home, and I am happy to say that with God’s help
and your prayers I have been much happier and a more
agreeable companion to those about me. It is difficult to
describe the difference that a knowledge of the Unity
teachings has made in my life. My prayers and blessings
are with you in your wonderful work.—S. D., Portland,
Maine.
■ ■ I HAVE never been so happy or harmonious as
since I learned to trust God, through your prayers. I
thank you for the faith and courage that has helped me
over the rough places, and I have overcome many seem­
ingly incorrigible defects in body and mind. I cannot
say enough for Truth and what it has done for me in
all ways. If we but pray, believing, we shall always re­
ceive.—M. D., Chicago, 111.
* ★ ★
HE IS MY REFUGE
■ ■ Y ou have helped me and mine immeasurably
time and time again physically, mentally, and spiritually.
We were a very disorganized and worried household be­
fore I asked for your prayers. May God bless you in your
great work and undertakings.—I. G., Hempstead, N. Y.
■ ■ W e are very grateful for the good things that
have come to us through the teachings of your organ­
ization. We have known greater peace, happiness, and
prosperity since Unity came into our lives than ever be­
fore. We know how to find our way to God; we are more
in harmony with the forces that bring these blessings into
our lives. We are thankful to God that many problems
have been solved, and we thank you for all that you have
taught us. We pray that God may bless you all for your
great work.—Mrs. L. D. B., Nashville, Term.
★ ★ ★

UNTO US A CHILD
■ ■ M y baby arrived a short time ago, and the delivery
was accompanied with very little pain. The doctor was de­
lighted and amazed, and said I was a very lucky woman. I
am very grateful for your loving help. Mrs. R. S., Scun­
thorpe, Lines, England.
m ■ W ords cannot express my appreciation of your
thoughts and prayers during my recent confinement. I
have a beautiful baby girl, perfect in every way. She is
everything I expected her to be. W e are not surprised at
her good disposition, as nothing but good thoughts are
declared for her. She is truly our Unity baby, and we are
very thankful to you. All praise to God for our blessings.
—Mrs. C. C., Belding, Mich.
★ ★ ★
HIS TRUTH IS A SHIELD
■ ■ I wrote to you for prayers as we were starting
out on a trip. Our trip was very harmonious; it seemed
as if we were divinely guided and protected through traf­
fic and on mountain roads. I am very grateful, and God
bless you.—Mrs. J. C. S., Riverside, Calif.
■ ■ T hank you very much for your prayers. My hus­
band and I were divinely protected during our recent trip
to Florida. We had no trouble at all, and during the time
we were away our Father looked after us every minute.
Please accept with our sincere thanks the love offering
inclosed. You are doing a marvelous work.—Mrs. W . B.,
Newark, N . /.
HELP
• • fhom, SiknLlAmhj.
These are extracts from letters that Silent Unity
has written to those who have asked our help
in finding and obeying the divine law o f life

K in d ly e x p la in th e B ib le p a ss a g e " W h o s o e v e r
h a th , to h im s h a ll b e g iv e n , a n d h e s h a ll h a v e
a b u n d a n c e : b u t w h o so e v e r h a th n o t, f r o m h im
s h a ll b e ta k e n aw ay e v e n t h a t w h ic h h e h a th .”
— Question answered by Silent Unity.
When the disciples asked Jesus why He spoke in par­
ables to the multitudes, "He answered and said unto
them, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the
kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For who­
soever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have
abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be
taken away even that which he hath.”
'Whosoever hath” is the individual who through a
•constructive attitude of mind and a righteous use of his
abilities has developed capacity to receive largely. He is
the individual who is constantly alert and consciously
receptive to new and practical ideas. He is the individual
who is maintaining an outlook on life that enables him
to keep on growing and developing in understanding,
wisdom, faith, strength, power to accomplish things. He
is always ready for anything that is new and worth while
in life. Because he is working with the law of progress
and success and because his capacity to receive is growing,
this law attracts to him the good things of life in ever-
increasing measure.
"Whosoever hath not” is the individual who through
•disinterest, prejudice, laziness—negativeness of some kind
— has refused to open his mind to ideas that would bring
him the knowledge and power to achieve. A law of na­
ture is that everything in existence must have some use.
Whatever is not used tends to become latent and to dis­
appear. So instead of enlarging his capacity to receive,
"whosoever hath not” continues to abide in negation and
the power he has becomes inactive. He loses the ability to
keep the good with which he has been blessed because
he does not comply with the principle of success and
plenty.
The providing law of God works in and through
man, and each individual must invoke the law for him­
self in order to receive its benefits. "Work out your own
salvation.”
★ ★ ★
P e r h a p s so m e p e rs o n s a re te m p e ra m e n ta lly u n ­
fit f o r y o u r te a c h in g . W h e n I tr y so h a r d a n d p ra y
c o n sta n tly , w h y d o n ’t th in g s c o m e o u t a t le a s t h a l f ­
w a y r i g h t ?— Question answered by Silent Unity.

W e believe that you seem confused in your study of

Truth because you are trying too hard in a personal way
to bring about a reformation of mind, body, and affairs.
Overcoming is not a hard task, but it is training all the
faculties of your mind to look for the Truth, to conquer
apparent evil by refusing to recognize it. Inharmonious
conditions have no reality or entity but exist only in one’s
mind. Thus you can overcome apparent conditions with
positive declarations of Truth. The light will dispel dark­
ness and replace disorder with order. The light will bring
forth peace, health instead of weakness, and love instead
of fear and doubt.
The mental suffering that now seems apparent is only
the washing away of accumulated thoughts and beliefs
that are not in harmony with the Truth of your being,
and these conditions can have power or authority over
your life and affairs only to the extent of your own belief.
The divine law cannot bring you unhappiness, for it is
 good. Your fear of wrongdoing is an attitude of mind
that needs cleansing by the Spirit. When you submit your­
self wholly to the cleansing process of Spirit, you will not
experience a tendency to withhold anything that you
desire to be free from. As you cling to old thoughts and
conditions crosscurrents are set up in your mind and you
become confused and unhappy.
God is good, and He is the true source of your life
health peace harmony, and perfect satisfaction. Submit
yourself wholly to Him and do not fear the outcome of
His infinite blessings, made manifest in and through you.
„ w llI.ls good, and when you let Him have the con­
trolling influence in your life, all things will work in
harmony for your good.
★ ★ ★
Is there any hope of progress or success for a
man of fifty-two and a wife fitty?— Question an­
swered by Silent Unity.

If you and your husband will cease to think of your­

selves and your circumstances in the limited way of the
world, you can come into the unlimited abundance of the
Father. He did not limit your producing power, your pros­
perity, or your well-being to any certain age.
You will need to come into a more vital relationship
with the Father and with Jesus Christ by feeling the
nearness, the unfailing love, the richness of divine love
toward you. You will need to lay new hold upon life and
strength as your divine inheritance through the perfection
of the image and likeness of God within you. This image
and likeness is sometimes called the Christ mind or the
Christ principle within man. You will need to realize that
your minds are still perfect channels through which the
divine ideas of God-Mind may obtain expression as valu­
able ideas to yourselves and to others. Wisdom in making
contacts with others and eyes to see opportunities will set
your feet upon the path of ease and success.
 The Purpose of Unity
. . U nity School of C hristianity is an indgpendajt.edu-
cational institution, teaching the use of the Jesus Christ doctrine
in e v e ry d a y life .
Its p u rp o s e is n o t to fo u n d a n e w c h u rc h o r sect, b u t to h e lp
a n d te a c h in e n a n d w o m e n o f ev ery c h u rc h a n d alsoi thosei w h o
h a v e n o c h u rc h a ffilia tio n s to u se a n d p ro v e th e e te r n a l T r u
ta u g h t by th e M a s te r.
T h e U n ity te a c h in g s e x p la in th e a c tio n o f m in d , th e c o n n e c t­
ing lirdc b e tw e e n G o d a n d m a n . T h e y e x p la in h o w th e m in d
affe c ts th e b o d y , p ro d u c in g d is c o rd o r h a rm o n y , sic k n e ss o r
h e a l t h ; h o w it b rin g s m a n in to u n d e r s ta n d in g o f d iv in e aw .
W e su g g e s t th a t y o u a c cep t w h a t, in o u r lite r a tu re , a p p e a rs to
y o u to b e T r u t h , a n d th a t y o u w ith h o ld ju d g m e n t o n t h ^ r e ­
m a in d e r u n til y o u u n d e rs ta n d it b e tte r. I f y o u se e k th e H o ly
W i t as y o u r g u id e in to th e f u lln e s s o f T r u th , y o u w ill k n o w
f o r y o u rs e lf w h a t is o f G o d a n d w h a t is o f m a n .
A s w e k e e p o n se a rc h in g f o r T r u th , w e n o d o u b t s h a ll c h a n g e
so m e o F o u r id e a s, u n til e v e ry th in g s h o r t o f th e p e rfe c t w ill o f
g S is d r o p p e d f r o m o u r lif e a n d f r o m our cfoctrine. T h e r e
w o u ld b e n £ Pd iffe re n c e o f o p in io n a m o n g C h ris tia n s if h u m a
id e a s d id n o t p re v a il w id e ly , fo r th e r e is b u t o n e T r u th , a n d
so m e day w e " s h a ll se e eye to eye.
A U n ity c e n te r is a n a sso c ia tio n o f U n ity s tu d e n ts fo rm e d to
p ro v id e a n d m a in ta in a p la c e o f assem b ly , w h e re th e p rin c ip le s o f
P i c a l C h r is ti a n ! * , / s e t f o r th by Je s u s O ir is t:
in t h e li g h t o f p re s e n t-d a y e x p e rie n c e b y th e U n ity b c h o o l o r
C h ris tia n ity , s h a h b e ta u g h t u n S e r th e d ire c tio n o f a n a u th o riz e d
le a d e r. . ,
U n itv c e n te rs a n d stu d y classes a re p la c e s o f re lig io u s re se a rc h
for a “ p e o p t r e g a r d le s s /o f c r e e d ; a n 5 p la c e s w h e re h e lp f u l in -
s tru c tio n in C h ris tia n liv in g m a y b e rec e iv e d .
T h r o u g h its F ie ld D e p a r tm e n t th e U n ity S c h o o l o f C h ris tia n ­
ity o ffers a n a d v iso ry se rv ic e f o r th e p u rp o s e o f P ro m ° u ^ ^ hf
s ta n d a rd s o f c e n te r c o n d u c t, a n d a u th o riz e s t h e e s ta b lis h in g o f
U n ity classes a n d c e n te rs.
In f o r m a tio n c o n c e rn in g S ile n t U n ity (U n ity S c h o o l's h e a lin g
d e p a r tm e n t) m a y b e f o u n d e ls e w h e re in th is m a g a z in e .
 Seventh Year of the Unity Training School
The 1937 schedule of the Unity Training School
promises a season of real spiritual gain to those who
enroll. Plans are going forward to make this session even
better than the one of 1936, which was by far the most
successful in the history of the school.
Subjects Listed
There will be classes in Lessons in Truth, Christian
Healing, Miscellaneous Writings, The Twelve Powers of
Man, Mysteries of Genesis, Talks on Truth, Prosperity,
as well as courses in Methods and Ideals, Bible Inter­
pretation, The Silence, and other fundamental subjects.
Guest Teachers
The following teachers come from the held to teach
special subjects: Georgiana Tree West, of Louisville
Kentucky; Paul M. Rigby, of Seattle, Washington; Rich­
ard Lynch, of Lees Summit, Missouri; Louis E. Meyer, of
Rochester, New York; Ocoa Moore, of Orlando, Florida-
and Mary Wessel, of Bozeman, Montana.
Teachers from Headquarters
The following teachers from Unity School will conduct
classes: Charles and Cora Fillmore, Ernest C. Wilson
Franas J. Gable Celia C. Ayers, George E. Carpenter!
Clara May Rowland, Elsie Shaw, Ralph E. Johnson,
Florence Harling, and Ralph O’Day.
Opening Date
The first term of the 1937 school year will open May
3i and continue until June 25. The prospectus gives you
full details about this term and the other three terms to
follow. Decide now which term you will attend, and send
your enrollment well in advance of the opening date so
that the management can arrange for your comfort and
convenience. Address your correspondence to Unity Train­
ing School, 917 Tracy, Kansas City, Mo.
“In the M erry M onth o f M a y ”

S o m e of the inspiration of this season is reflected in

the May number of the Unity periodicals. Your Victory
Is God’s Victory” heads an article in Unity Daily Word.
The author, Frank B. Whitney, says that with a God-
given urge comes God power to succeed; that you cannot
escape victory unless you willfully resist the work of God
in you. He explains clearly why this is true.

T h e month of May holds a day that has come to mean

much to Americans—the day set apart for honoring moth­
ers—and Wee Wisdom magazine very appropriately con­
tains a Mother’s Day story called "Julie’s Gift,” written
by Mildred R. White. In this story Julie learns that cheer­
ful service is more acceptable to Mother than any other
gift her little daughter can make or buy for her. This
story, like all Wee Wisdom's stories, carries a splendid
lesson for boys and girls.

T e llin g you that May Progress carries an interview

with a young rancher is not particularly exciting, but
when we say that his name is Joel McCrea, we feel sure
of catching and holding your interest. When this screen
star was still a small boy he knew that some day he would
have his own ranch and his own stock. Today he is firmly
 convinced that a person is a little closer to the Creator
when he lives closer to nature. His story is told by Maude
Allison Lathem and makes the seventh interview in her
series ’'Picture People Who Know God.”

c
V ^an you imagine a man going without the necessities of
life while carrying in his pocket a perfectly good check
drawn in his favor for any amount that he may care to
fill in? Yet such a man typifies the race of human beings
who have not faith enough to present God’s check on the
bank of the universe and have their needs supplied—not
only their needs but their cherished desires. Gardner
Hunting draws this parallel in his Weekly Unity article,
which he calls Nothing to Lose.” He challenges you to
get in line and advance to the teller’s window, because
the cash is there for you.

C o n ta c t,” written by Francis J. Gable, is the lead article

in Good Business magazine this month. Other interesting
ones are "Traffic Lights,” by Fred A. Barrow; "Good Ad­
vertising Is Good Business,” by S. H. Cook; and "Iron
Hands,” by Carmen Darby McBride. This last article is in
keeping with today’s much-talked-of subject of "personal­
ity.” The author deplores die lack of it in applicants who
crowd the office of employment agencies. She says "pleas-
ing personality” is the one qualification required by firms
in all lines of business. Today everybody must have it
from the office boy up.
 WILL YOU TRY IT?
Many persons find it inconvenient to attend local
classes or come to the Unity Training School, and feel that
they are deprived of an opportunity to study the Unity
message. But for these Unity School provides a home study
course that offers a value equal to that of any resident
class. It invites you to enroll for the Unity Correspondence
Course, which insures thorough instruction and individual
attention. If you really want to study the principles of
Truth you can have no finer opportunity than this. Write
for full details about the course, addressing your letter to
the Unity Correspondence School Department, 917 Tracy,
Kansas City, Mo.

WEEKLY UNITY ENJOYED BY PRISONERS

In a prison with 8,000 inmates Weekly Unity is being
read and enjoyed. One of the men wrote the following
letter to Silent-70:
"I will be very happy to have you continue the sub­
scription for Weekly Unity, as outlined in your kind letter.
I not only read it thoroughly myself, but pass it along to
my friends. The amount of good done by your various
publications in this institution is absolutely incalculable. I
am both happy and proud to be one of your subscribers
here. I will thank you to continue the visits of the weekly
papers, for they are read and enjoyed.”
Silent-70 is doing a fine work in prisons and other in­
stitutions in many parts of the world. Your love offer­
ings help to pay for the Unity literature that Silent-70
sends them free of charge.
 The following Unity leaders are conducting a spiritual ministry in
keeping with the Christ teaching as interpreted by Unity School. With
the exception of those designated by (LT), these leaders are members of
the Unity Annual Conference. Centers are open for teaching, healing,
devotional services, and the sale of Unity literature.
Those designated by (LT) are Licensed Unity Teachers. They are pre­
paring for membership in the Unity Annual Conference.

ALABAMA COLORADO
B ir m in g h a m — Harriet Price (LT) Massey C o lo r a d o S p r i n g s —Mabel Beech, Unity Cen,
bldg DeGraff bldg
ARKANSAS D e n v e r —Ethel Burkle, Temple of Prac
L ittle R o c k —Mary Wayman, Unity. 809 Chr, 1555 Race
W 15th CONNECTICUT
N ew H a v e n —Bonnie Adams (LT) Unity,
CALIFORNIA 1151 Chapel
A l a m e d a —Frederick E. Andrews, Unity, H a r t f o r d —Harriet Gilbert (LT) Unity, 926
1300 Crand; Alice Hopkins (LT) Unity, Main
1300 Crand DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
B e r k e l e y —Susanna Scott (LT) 2535 Col­ W a s h i n g t o n —Margaret Feldt, Unity, New
lege Colonial hotel
E a g l e R o c k —Certrude Hall (LT) Unity, FLORIDA
2122% Colorado J a c k s o n v i l l e — Henrietta Miscally, Unity, 725
B e v e r ly H i l l s — Ruth Rae, Unity, 371 N Hogan
Bedford L a k e l a n d — Mary Fullenlove (LT) Unity,
G l e n d a l e —Geraldine Johnson, Unity, 119 S New Florida hotel
Kenwood; Mary Adams, Meta Cen, 1420 O r la n d o —Ocoa Moore, Unity, 409 S Orange
Kenneth S t P e t e r s b u r g — } . W. Young, Unity, 646
H o l l y w o o d —Geraldine Johnson, Unity Meta 5th ave S
Cen, 1641 N Cherokee; Rose Schneider T a m p a —Laura Hyer and Louise Ramey,
(LT) Unity Studio, 1217 N St Andrews 1st Unity Soc, De Soto hotel
I n g l e w o o d —Maude Galpin, Unity, Queen &
Commercial GEORGIA
A t l a n t a —Hazel Risk (LT) Unity, 74 Pryor
l o n e —Hazel Merriweather, Unity Cen
N E
La C a n a d a —Loretta Henncssy, 5223 La
Canada IDAHO
B o i s e —Christine Pustell, Unity, 505 Frank­
L o n g B e a c h —Louise Newman, Unity, 432 lin
Locust ILLINOIS
L o s A n g e l e s —Emma Luke, Unity Temple,
2120 S Union; Alfred Williams, Unity C h ic a g o —W. and Ann Hoschouer. Unity
Assb, 233 S Broadway; Nannie B. High- Fellowship, 25 E Jackson; Nellie Mc­
note, Unity Cl, 1532 Wilshire Collum, 1st Unity Soc, 159 N State;
O a k l a n d —Rose Emery, Unity Cen, Ebell Edith Reynolds, (LT) Unity Truth
Club bldg Home, 116 S Michigan
P a s a d e n a —Lily Stack, Unity, 11 N Oak M o l i n e — Goldie Richardson, Unity, Le
Knoll Claire hotel
R i c h m o n d —Beulah Tiller, Unity, 146 2d P e o r i a —Glenna Arrowsnrith (LT) Unity,
R i v e r s i d e —Katharine Sweaney (LT) Unity, 503 E Maywood
3639 8th R o c k f o r d —Bonnie Brown (LT) Unity,
S a c r a m e n t o —Naomi Anderson, Unity Cen, Stewart bldg; Mae Lundahl (LT) Unity,
Odd Fellows' hall 1230 Grant
S a n ta A n a —Louise Newman, Unity Soc, S p r i n g f i e l d —Mary Meek (LT) Unity, 509
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 INSEPARABLE
BY GRACE NOLL CROWELL

There are so many associated things:

Sunlight and shadow, seed and the good loam.
Clear water and the never-failing springs,
Mother and home.

Mother and home! two welded links that hold

Against the strain of life. They cannot part,
For Cod has bound them with a clasp of gold
About His heart.

Mother and home! So long as men shall turn

Seeking for some light, tangible and sure,
For food and comfort, and for fires that burn
These will endure.

They will be mated in the human breast

As long as mankind treads the earth's bright loam:
Symbol of love, of shelter, and of rest:
Mother and home.