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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.

BY JENNIE h. croft.

186. Do you think it possible to bring out the Christ-consciousness in the soul and hold to great worldly possessions? - L. C.

It has been said that "It is easier for a camel to go through the needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." This is true, not because the man is rich, but because he loves his money and places too high an estimation upon his possessions. Again we read, "The love of money is the root of all evil," and the answer to our question is in this passage from the Bible, for it is not money, but the love of money which leads to evil.

It has been the aim of the race from the beginning of time to strive for worldly possessions; to seek not only for comfort but affluence. That which we love we are apt to seek and endeavor to retain in our grasp, and it is this retaining or hoarding money for our own selfish use which stultifies the finer qualities of the soul, and prevents the unfolding of the Christ-consciousness. Money is good, and it is right and necessary that we have money, but, while we are giving due attention to the gaining of sufficient for our use, we are not to grasp and hoard it. We are channels through which good may flow for the benefit of our fellowmen, and if we give of that we have with love and blessing, it returns to us with manifold increase in the consciousness of the unfolding of the Christ-mind within. Lowell, in the vision of Sir Launfal, says:

"Who gives himself with his gift feeds three:

Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me."

If the same mind is in us that is in Christ Jesus, then we do not look upon that which we hold as our own exclusively, but that we are privileged to have

so that we may use our possessions for good. It has been asked if it is right to have costly pictures, etc., in our homes. Now, pictures and other works of art are educational and refining in their influence, and we believe it well to collect as much of the beautiful around us as we can, but here again we must be unselfish, we must willingly make it possible for the many to enjoy with us what they might not otherwise be able to see. This is the giving of good in another way. So we say, and say it emphatically, we cannot unfold the Christ-consciousness and hold to great possessions.

187. I wish I knew your views on creation. Do you believe in a special creation? I have always thought evolution far more reasonable. - MRS. J. S. J.

Evolution is expression of desire, and through this expression of desire all creatures have unfolded. There is but one Life, and this Life differentiates its expressed forms in the material by a reaching out process. Whatsoever an individual desires, he may have or be. Life being one, it follows that all creatures from the amoeba to man, are one common whole, and the Complete One embraces all. There is nothing in the doctrine of evolution that conflicts with the Bible. Theologians have ever striven to commit the Bible to false science, and have fought the knowledge of geography, astronomy and geology. Each of these sciences have absolutey proven themselves, and are now accepted by educated people. The Bible students who cry down evolution are deficient in knowledge of exact science. Evolution is a fixed science, and is doubted only by those who know nothing of it and who do not care to investigate. Evolution does not deal with ancestral monkeys or missing links, but with exact scientific facts. Special creation would break the order of constant nature, and this reverses every process of reasoning. That the chain of natural causation is never broken is accepted

by all, and every intelligent creature guides its life upon this knowledge.

The belief in special creation is proven erroneous by biology, geology and astronomy. The great column of expressed being has been proven to have its base in the sea and is builded in complete harmony-all divinely, divinely, exquisitely arranged through the invertebrates to man. Just as surely as the dynasty of the fish was followed by the dynasty of the reptile and the reptile by the mammal and the lower mammal by man, just so surely will material man be succeeded by glorified, immortal Man. Man is reaching out and evolving into a spiritual creature, and the desire will express itself.

188.

"Seek ye first the kidgdom of God, and all these things shall be added." How do we know when we receive the kingdom although we earnestly seek for it?

- M. E. W.

The kingdom of God is not received, it is established by man within his own consciousness, and it is this seeking to set up the kingdom which we are bidden to do. We know when this kingdom is established within us, when every motive and desire of the heart is to know and do the will of God, then God reigns in our hearts, and we are filled with love, with wisdom, and we realize that all power is ours to direct and control our lives through the indwelling God.

Will you kindly tell in your magazine what is the cause of rheumatism, and what thought will cure it?

-F. F.

The foundation of rheumatism is grief or bitterness, or a belief of loss or friends or property. The remedy is, affirm the real self to be spiritual, in which there is no loss or grieving or bitterness or mortal thought of rheumatism. Then affirm the abundant life, love, substance and harmony of Spirit, with an inward inexhaustible supply. -C. F.

"The ancestor of every action is thought.”

The New Unity Headquarters.

A Substantial Building to be Erected, with Auditorium, Healing and Reading Rooms, etc.. The Bond Issue a Reliable and Safe

Investment.

It is with pleasure we inform our readers that the Unity Society of Practical Christianity on August 17, 1905, upon making the first payment of $1,500, received a deed to the property at 913 and 915 Tracy

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Avenue. This site was chosen out of a score of propositions, it being conveniently located to various. car lines, and in a most excellent neighborhood.

The Building Committee, consisting of Messrs. J. I. Wallace, M. T. Scott and W. G. Haseltine, have decided to move the building, a large eightroom house, which we are now occupying, to the rear of the lots, and begin the erection of a new building just as soon as the income from bonds and popular subscriptions will warrant.

The first floor of the new building will be occupied by Unity Tract Society, publishers, containing the business office, shipping and stock rooms, and the printing department with its type, stones, presses, etc.

The second floor will be occupied in front with healing rooms, a general reception room, the circulating library, reading tables, etc. The remainder of this floor will be an auditorium, 43 x 46 feet, and will contain no pillars to obstruct the view. The ceiling of the auditorium will be 16 feet in height.

The third floor in front will be made either into a gallery for the auditorium or reading and silence or healing rooms.

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That we, the undersigned, have, and by these presents do, become associated together for the purpose of becoming a body corporate under the laws of the State of Missouri, and more

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