Those who have this broader understanding of man's being, often see in what seems a great disaster, or disease, the working out of inner causes that will eventuate in a return to better conditions. A man may be given over to the grossest sensualism and at the same time be passing through a purifying process. This seems paradoxical, but we have a parable in the fermentation of liquids in clarification. The action and reaction of thought is reflected in the chemistry of Nature.

Belshazzar, in the lesson of October 1, represents sense consciousness exhausting itself in materiality. "Thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified." This not only includes the sensualist, but all people who depend upon money and material possessions and fail to recognize God. There can be but one end to this state of thought, and that is the taking away of the kingdom. Sometimes this occurs while the individual is yet in the flesh body, but usually physical dissolution occurs before the Ego will let go its clinging to the things of the world.

Cyrus is the redeeming force of the whole consciousness, and his work is to restore the Spiritual thoughts with all their possessions to the Place of Peace, Mystic Jerusalem, which is the inner rest of the soul. The return of the children of Israel to Jerusalem with their treasure is is the gathering together at the soul's Spiritual centre of all the higher thoughts and their ideas of true substance.

The building of the new temple takes place in this "City of Peace" within. Babylon (confusion) gives up its captive thoughts, and a reign of spiritual harmony is inaugurated. Thus that one who passed out of the body a sensualist, or worshipper of mammon, may come again as a saint. "The mills of the gods grind slow but they grind exceeding fine."

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REPORTS OF THE WORK IN KAN

SAS CITY.

[That UNITY readers may know somewhat of the character of the teaching in our local meetings, the following stenographic reports are printed. These are not complete reports, but of the most salient points, according to the judgment of the reporter, Miss Millie Chandler.]

HEALING MEETING, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7TH

Held at Unity Headquarters, 1315 McGee Street, Charles Fillmore, speaker.

Jesus said, "I have come that ye might have life, and have it more abundantly." If you have vim and vigor, if you have a power about you and go about your work with energy, you can overcome the worst case of sickness.

Now let us hold in silence: "I am vitalized with the vitality of the Spirit."

Why do we lay so much stress upon the use of words? It is because words are the expression of thoughts, and thoughts are the generative powers. of the Spirit. You know in the beginning of the Scripture God said, "Let there be light: and there was light." The earth was without form and void, but God said, and all at once something occurred. If we look about us aright, we shall find things are not so dark. You think if there was not an absence of everything necessary to your success you would speak the Word, but that you can not speak words to the darkness. We are to speak the Word right out in the face of darkness, voidness and nothingness, and we shall through those same words bring things into visibility.

Now it is found that the body-organism is a magnet. The head is the positive pole of the magnet, and the feet the negative. When you begin to think and speak you set into action the positive and negative forces of your organism. The more you speak, the more you think, the more you set up this action. You generate a vortex of vitalism. In order

to get an electrical current, you must set the battery into action. So with this body-battery; you throw a power of sound words into it by saying, "I am filled with the vigor and life of the Spirit," and it begins at once to respond with a stronger life current. Right use of words is a science. If you think and say, "How sick I am," you lower your vitality. This works out in all the avenues of life, which have their issues in the mind. If you use words of Life and Truth, of Substance and Intelligence, you will get like results; so we are careful to acknowledge

power of right words. The more I speak these words the more I acknowledge the Spirit; the truer I am to it, the greater the results. You can heal yourself by speaking day after day true words, or, to put it in another way, by acknowledging God. There are people here now who have had some demonstration of the power of right spoken words and are willing to bear testimony. Jesus said,

Everyone therefore who shall confess me before men him will I also confess before my Father which is in heaven." That is, acknowledge the Christ outwardly, and you will receive a greater realization of the Spirit within, for the "Kingdom of God is within you."

Carl Gleeser: It is quite a pleasure for me to give my testimony tonight in behalf of the beneficience of this teaching, not only upon myself, but also to others with whom I come in contact. Why, only the other night I had a striking demonstration. was about quitting time, when the colored janitor came into the office, to clean up, and he casually emarked that he had had a dreadful headache all lay and he thought he would have to see the doctor about it. Said I, "A headache, what do you mean by having such a thing about you when I am around? Now, don't do that again! Sit right down in that chair this minute and I'll straighten you out in just two shakes of a lamb's tail.'" He was so taken back by my statement that he sat down in the chair and never said a word, I then in the Silence denied

the headache, and affirmed that the head was clear and normal, and in about two minutes said: "Now you have no headache! Go and sin no more!"

"Well, Mister," said he, "I have no headache now. Are you a doctor?" I said, "No, I am no doctor. Did ever a doctor set about it in the way 1 did, to relieve you of your headache?" "No, Boss, he never did." The next morning he assured me, "The headache has gone for good, sure enough."

I have had a number of cases of that kind, and one particular case where the doctor had worked all day without success, while to my ministrations the trouble yielded in a very little while.

Now, while in my own case I never had any hairbreadth escapes from sickness, but have enjoyed a large measure of health, I have been very much benefitted in my states of feeling and insight. I was a regular downright pessimist, and could conjure up more worries and troubles than would patch a supposedly hot place a mile; but am now getting bravely over that. Yes, indeed, I am becoming quite optimistic in my beliefs, and very happy. I know that my knowing capacity - my consciousness - is under my control; that I created, it and now cause all my joyous or unhappy states of mind. do and can build myself whatever I will. Health, strength and abundance can be my portion, if so I decree. No longer a cringing slave to a ruthless despot in the sky or playball of blind Fate, but a self-trusting, hopeful builder of my own character

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Mrs. Miller: Ever since I can remember, up to two years ago, I could scarcely see; I was almost blind. When I went to Dr. Sullivan, he told me to leave off my glasses. I held the thought, "God i my eyes," and in one week's time I was cured.

Mr. Fillmore: I could give you a thousand testi monials. Each day presents many examples of the power of the Spirit. It is so easy to speak the healing Word. Our milk-man had rheumatism and wa

getting so bad he could hardly get over to the house. I told him if he did not get better we should have to treat him. Yesterday when he came he said, "I am getting well. Did you people treat me?"

W. T. Alexander: I used to smoke and chew (or eat) tobacco. I said if this Science is what it is said to be, it ought to demonstrate over the use of tobacco. So I began declaring my spiritual dominion, and presently when I attempted to bite a piece of tobacco there was a resisting force, and when a man with a tobacco breath came toward me I would bolt. I still smoked; but one day I took a cigar and could not make it work; the force that drew the smoke would not operate, and I gave up. Have not smoked since.

And, then, my hands would perspire to such an extent that it was very disagreeable to shake hands with anyone, but I found you have but to speak the Word and your hands will be dry. Yes, and you can change your environment in every way, I have found.

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Prof. LeRoy Moore: That reminds me of a case rheumatism. A man came into my office sliding his feet along this way, and I asked him what was the He said, "You know that very deep snow we had? Well, I got my feet wet, and have had rheumatism ever since." "Well," I said, "don't you wash your face? You wash your hands, and the wet don't hurt you, does it?" He saw the ridiculousness of the proposition and walked out of the office well.

I used to chew tobacco. Well, I remember one morning I took a quid, and my father said, "I want to ask a favor of you; I am going to ask you to quit using tobacco." I said, "I am never going to take another chew of it," and I never have.

Just after I came into this Thought, my wife had a very real case of Bright's disease. She read Mrs. Yarnell's book, rose up within herself and said, "Now, my God, this must stop!" She has never been ill from that day to this.