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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit, by 
+Ralph Waldo Trine
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+Title: The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit
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+Author: Ralph Waldo Trine
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+THE HIGHER POWERS
+OF
+MIND AND SPIRIT
+
+
+BY
+RALPH WALDO TRINE
+
+AUTHOR OF "IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE," ETC.
+
+
+LONDON
+G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.
+1933
+
+
+
+
+First published May 1918
+Reprinted November 1918.
+Reprinted 1919, 1923, 1927, 1933.
+
+PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
+THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW
+
+
+
+
+FOREWORD
+
+
+We are all dwellers in two kingdoms, the inner kingdom, the kingdom of
+the mind and spirit, and the outer kingdom, that of the body and the
+physical universe about us. In the former, the kingdom of the unseen,
+lie the silent, subtle forces that are continually determining, and with
+exact precision, the conditions of the latter.
+
+To strike the right balance in life is one of the supreme essentials of
+all successful living. We must work, for we must have bread. We require
+other things than bread. They are not only valuable, comfortable, but
+necessary. It is a dumb, stolid being, however, who does not realize
+that life consists of more than these. They spell mere existence, not
+abundance, fullness of life.
+
+We can become so absorbed in making a living that we have no time _for
+living_. To be capable and efficient in one's work is a splendid thing;
+but efficiency _can be made_ a great mechanical device that robs life of
+far more than it returns it. A nation can become so possessed, and even
+obsessed, with the idea of power and grandeur through efficiency and
+organisation, that it becomes a great machine and robs its people of the
+finer fruits of life that spring from a wisely subordinated and
+coordinated individuality. Here again it is the wise balance that
+determines all.
+
+Our prevailing thoughts and emotions determine, and with absolute
+accuracy, the prevailing conditions of our outward, material life, and
+likewise the prevailing conditions of our bodily life. Would we have any
+conditions different in the latter we must then make the necessary
+changes in the former. The silent, subtle forces of mind and spirit,
+ceaselessly at work, are continually moulding these outward and these
+bodily conditions.
+
+He makes a fundamental error who thinks that these are mere sentimental
+things in life, vague and intangible. They are, as great numbers are now
+realising, the great and elemental things in life, the only things that
+in the end really count. The normal man or woman can never find real and
+abiding satisfaction in the mere possessions, the mere accessories of
+life. There is an eternal something within that forbids it. That is the
+reason why, of late years, so many of our big men of affairs, so many in
+various public walks in life, likewise many women of splendid equipment
+and with large possessions, have been and are turning so eagerly to the
+very things we are considering. To be a mere huckster, many of our big
+men are finding, cannot bring satisfaction, even though his operations
+run into millions in the year.
+
+And happy is the young man or the young woman who, while the bulk of
+life still lies ahead, realises that it is the things of the mind and
+the spirit--the fundamental things in life--that really count; that here
+lie the forces that are to be understood and to be used in moulding the
+everyday conditions and affairs of life; that the springs of life are
+all from within, that as is the inner so always and inevitably will be
+the outer.
+
+To present certain facts that may be conducive to the realisation of
+this more abundant life is the author's purpose and plan.
+
+                                        R. W. T.
+
+_Sunnybrae Farm,
+Croton-on-Hudson,
+New York._
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+Chapter                                                           Page
+
+   I. The Silent, Subtle Building Forces of Mind and Spirit          9
+
+  II. Soul, Mind, Body--The Subconscious Mind That
+      Interrelates Them                                             19
+
+ III. The Way Mind Through the Subconscious Mind Builds Body        37
+
+  IV. The Powerful Aid of the Mind in Rebuilding Body--How
+      Body Helps Mind                                               50
+
+   V. Thought as a Force in Daily Living                            63
+
+  VI. Jesus the Supreme Exponent of the Inner Forces and
+      Powers: His People's Religion and Their Condition             76
+
+ VII. The Divine Rule in the Mind and Heart: The Unessentials
+      We Drop--The Spirit Abides                                    89
+
+VIII. If We Seek the Essence of His Revelation, and the
+      Purpose of His Life                                          113
+
+  IX. His Purpose of Lifting Up, Energising, Beautifying,
+      and Saving the Entire Life: The Saving of the Soul is
+      Secondary; but Follows                                       140
+
+   X. Some Methods of Attainment                                   152
+
+  XI. Some Methods of Expression                                   173
+
+ XII. The World War--Its Meaning and Its Lessons for Us            191
+
+XIII. Our Sole Agency of International Peace, and
+      International Concord                                        213
+
+ XIV. The World's Balance-wheel                                    231
+
+
+
+
+THE HIGHER POWERS
+
+OF
+
+MIND AND SPIRIT
+
+
+
+
+I
+
+THE SILENT, SUBTLE BUILDING FORCES OF MIND AND SPIRIT
+
+
+There are moments in the lives of all of us when we catch glimpses of a
+life--our life--that is infinitely beyond the life we are now living. We
+realise that we are living below our possibilities. We long for the
+realisation of the life that we feel should be.
+
+Instinctively we perceive that there are within us powers and forces
+that we are making but inadequate use of, and others that we are
+scarcely using at all. Practical metaphysics, a more simplified and
+concrete psychology, well-known laws of mental and spiritual science,
+confirm us in this conclusion.
+
+Our own William James, he who so splendidly related psychology,
+philosophy, and even religion, to life in a supreme degree, honoured his
+calling and did a tremendous service for all mankind, when he so
+clearly developed the fact that we have within us powers and forces that
+we are making all too little use of--that we have within us great
+reservoirs of power that we have as yet scarcely tapped.
+
+The men and the women who are awake to these inner helps--these
+directing, moulding, and sustaining powers and forces that belong to the
+realm of mind and spirit--are never to be found among those who ask: Is
+life worth the living? For them life has been multiplied two, ten, a
+hundred fold.
+
+It is not ordinarily because we are not interested in these things, for
+instinctively we feel them of value; and furthermore our observations
+and experiences confirm us in this thought. The pressing cares of the
+everyday life--in the great bulk of cases, the bread and butter problem
+of life, which is after all the problem of ninety-nine out of every
+hundred--all seem to conspire to keep us from giving the time and
+attention to them that we feel we should give them. But we lose thereby
+tremendous helps to the daily living.
+
+Through the body and its avenues of sense, we are intimately related to
+the physical universe about us. Through the soul and spirit we are
+related to the Infinite Power that is the animating, the sustaining
+force--the Life Force--of all objective material forms. It is through
+the medium of the mind that we are able consciously to relate the two.
+Through it we are able to realise the laws that underlie the workings of
+the spirit, and to open ourselves that they may become the dominating
+forces of our lives.
+
+There is a divine current that will bear us with peace and safety on its
+bosom if we are wise and diligent enough to find it and go with it.
+Battling against the current is always hard and uncertain. Going with
+the current lightens the labours of the journey. Instead of being
+continually uncertain and even exhausted in the mere efforts of getting
+through, we have time for the enjoyments along the way, as well as the
+ability to call a word of cheer or to lend a hand to the neighbour, also
+on the way.
+
+The _natural, normal life_ is by a law divine under the guidance of the
+spirit. It is only when we fail to seek and to follow this guidance, or
+when we deliberately take ourselves from under its influence, that
+uncertainties arise, legitimate longings go unfulfilled, and that
+violated laws bring their penalties.
+
+It is well that we remember always that violated law carries with it its
+own penalty. The Supreme Intelligence--God, if you please--does not
+punish. He works through the channel of great immutable systems of law.
+_It is ours to find these laws._ That is what mind, intelligence, is
+for. Knowing them we can then obey them and reap the beneficent results
+that are always a part of their fulfilment; knowingly or unknowingly,
+intentionally or unintentionally, we can fail to observe them, we can
+violate them, and suffer the results, or even be broken by them.
+
+Life is not so complex if we do not so continually persist in making it
+so. Supreme Intelligence, creative Power works only through law. Science
+and religion are but different approaches to our understanding of the
+law. When both are real, they supplement one another and their findings
+are identical.
+
+The old Hebrew prophets, through the channel of the spirit, perceived
+and enunciated some wonderful laws of the natural and normal life--that
+are now being confirmed by well-established laws of mental and spiritual
+science--and that are now producing these identical results in the lives
+of great numbers among us today, when they said: "And thine ears shall
+hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye
+turn to the right hand and when ye turn to the left."
+
+And again: "The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek
+him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake
+you." "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
+thee; because he trusteth in thee." "The Lord in the midst of thee is
+mighty." "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall
+abide under the shadow of the Almighty." "Thou shalt be in league with
+the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace
+with thee." "Commit thy way unto the Lord: trust also in him and he
+shall bring it to pass." Now these formulations all mean something of a
+_very definite nature_, or, they mean nothing at all. If they are actual
+expressions of fact, they are governed by certain definite and immutable
+laws.
+
+These men gave us, however, no knowledge of _the laws_ underlying the
+workings of these inner forces and powers; they perhaps had no such
+knowledge themselves. They were intuitive perceptions of truth on their
+part. The scientific spirit of this, our age, was entirely unknown to
+them. The growth of the race in the meantime, the development of the
+scientific spirit in the pursuit and the finding of truth, makes us
+infinitely beyond them in some things, while in others they were far
+ahead of us. But this fact remains, and this is the important fact: If
+these things were actual facts in the lives of these early Hebrew
+prophets, they are then actual facts in our lives right now, today; or,
+if not actual facts, then they are facts that still lie in the realm of
+the potential, only waiting to be brought into the realm of the actual.
+
+These were not unusual men in the sense that the Infinite Power, God, if
+you please, could or did speak to them alone. They are types, they are
+examples of how any man or any woman, through desire and through will,
+can open himself or herself to the leadings of Divine Wisdom, and have
+actualised in his or her life an ever-growing sense of Divine Power. For
+truly "God is the same yesterday, and today, and forever." His laws are
+unchanging as well as immutable.
+
+None of these men taught, then, how to recognise the Divine Voice
+within, nor how to become continually growing embodiments of the Divine
+Power. They gave us perhaps, though, all they were able to give. Then
+came Jesus, the successor of this long line of illustrious Hebrew
+prophets, with a greater aptitude for the things of the spirit--the
+supreme embodiment of Divine realisation and revelation. With a greater
+knowledge of truth than they, he did greater things than they.
+
+He not only did these works, but he showed how he did them. He not only
+revealed _the Way_, but so earnestly and so diligently he implored his
+hearers to follow _the Way_. He makes known the secret of his insight
+and his power: "The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself:
+but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." Again, "I can
+of my own self do nothing." And he then speaks of his purpose, his aim:
+"I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more
+abundantly." A little later he adds: "The works that I do ye shall do
+also." Now again, these things mean something of a very definite nature,
+or they mean nothing at all.
+
+The works done, the results achieved by Jesus' own immediate disciples
+and followers, and in turn their followers, as well as in the early
+church for close to two hundred years after his time, all attest the
+truth of his teaching and demonstrate unmistakably the results that
+follow.
+
+Down through the intervening centuries, the teachings, the lives and the
+works of various seers, sages, and mystics, within the church and out of
+the church, have likewise attested the truth of his teachings. The bulk
+of the Christian world, however, since the third century, has been so
+concerned with various theories and teachings _concerning_ Jesus, that
+it has missed almost completely the real vital and vitalising teachings
+_of_ Jesus.
+
+We have not been taught primarily to follow his injunctions, and to
+apply the truths that he revealed to the problems of our everyday
+living. Within the last two score of years or a little more, however,
+there has been a great going back directly to the teachings of Jesus,
+and a determination to prove their truth and to make effective their
+assurances. Also various laws in the realm of Mental and Spiritual
+Science have become clearly established and clearly formulated, that
+confirm all his fundamental teachings.
+
+There are now definite and well-defined laws in relation to thought as a
+force, and the methods as to how it determines our material and bodily
+conditions. There are now certain well-defined laws pertaining to the
+subconscious mind, its ceaseless building activities, how it always
+takes its direction from the active, thinking mind, and how through this
+channel we may connect ourselves with reservoirs of power, so to speak,
+in an intelligent and effective manner.
+
+There are now well-understood laws underlying mental suggestion, whereby
+it can be made a tremendous source of power in our own lives, and can
+likewise be made an effective agency in arousing the motive powers of
+another for his or her healing, habit-forming, character-building. There
+are likewise well-established facts not only as to the value, but the
+absolute need of periods of meditation and quiet, alone with the Source
+of our being, stilling the outer bodily senses, and fulfilling the
+conditions whereby the Voice of the Spirit can speak to us and through
+us, and the power of the Spirit can manifest in and through us.
+
+A nation is great only as its people are great. Its people are great in
+the degree that they strike the balance between the life of the mind and
+the spirit--all the finer forces and emotions of life--and their outer
+business organisation and activities. When the latter become excessive,
+when they grow at the expense of the former, then the inevitable decay
+sets in, that spells the doom of that nation, and its time is tolled off
+in exactly the same manner, and under the same law, as has that of all
+the other nations before it that sought to reverse the Divine order of
+life.
+
+The human soul and its welfare is the highest business that any state
+can give its attention to. To recognise or to fail to recognise the
+value of the human soul in other nations, determines its real greatness
+and grandeur, or its self-complacent but essential vacuity. It is
+possible for a nation, through subtle delusions, to get such an attack
+of the big head that it bends over backwards, and it is liable, in this
+exposed position, to get a thrust in its vitals.
+
+To be carried too far along the road of efficiency, big business,
+expansion, world power, domination, at the expense of the great
+spiritual verities, the fundamental humanities of national life, that
+make for the real life and welfare of its people, and that give also its
+true and just relations with other nations and their people, is both
+dangerous and in the end suicidal--it can end in nothing but loss and
+eventual disaster. A silent revolution of thought is taking place in the
+minds of the people of all nations at this time, and will continue for
+some years to come. A stock-taking period in which tremendous
+revaluations are under way, is on. It is becoming clear-cut and
+decisive.
+
+
+
+
+II
+
+SOUL, MIND, BODY--THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND THAT INTERRELATES THEM
+
+
+There is a notable twofold characteristic of this our age--we might
+almost say: of this our generation. It is on the one hand a tremendously
+far-reaching interest in the deeper spiritual realities of life, in the
+things of the mind and the Spirit. On the other hand, there is a
+materialism that is apparent to all, likewise far-reaching. We are
+witnessing the two moving along, apparently at least, side by side.
+
+There are those who believe that out of the latter the former is
+arising, that we are witnessing another great step forward on the part
+of the human race--a new era or age, so to speak. There are many things
+that would indicate this to be a fact. The fact that the _material
+alone_ does not satisfy, and that from the very constitution of the
+human mind and soul, it cannot satisfy, may be a fundamental reason for
+this.
+
+It may be also that as we are apprehending, to a degree never equalled
+in the world's history, the finer forces in nature, and are using them
+in a very practical and useful way in the affairs and the activities of
+the daily life, we are also and perhaps in a more pronounced degree,
+realising, understanding, and using the finer, the higher insights and
+forces, and therefore powers, of mind, of spirit, and of body.
+
+I think there is a twofold reason for this widespread and rapidly
+increasing interest. A new psychology, or perhaps it were better to say,
+some new and more fully established laws of psychology, pertaining to
+the realm of the subconscious mind, its nature, and its peculiar
+activities and powers, has brought us another agency in life of
+tremendous significance and of far-reaching practical use.
+
+Another reason is that the revelation and the religion of Jesus the
+Christ is witnessing a _new birth_, as it were. We are finding at last
+an entirely new content in his teachings, as well as in his life. We are
+dropping our interest in those phases of a Christianity that he probably
+never taught, and that we have many reasons now to believe he never even
+thought--things that were added long years after his time.
+
+We are conscious, however, as never before, that that wonderful
+revelation, those wonderful teachings, and above all that wonderful
+life, have a content that can, that does, inspire, lift up, and make
+more effective, more powerful, more successful, and more happy, the life
+of every man and every woman who will accept, who will appropriate, who
+will live his teachings.
+
+Look at it, however we will, this it is that accounts for the vast
+number of earnest, thoughtful, forward looking men and women who are
+passing over, and in many cases are passing from, traditional
+Christianity, and who either of their own initiative, or under other
+leadership, are going back to those simple, direct, God-impelling
+teachings of the Great Master. They are finding salvation in his
+teachings and his example, where they _never could_ find it in various
+phases of the traditional teachings _about_ him.
+
+It is interesting to realise, and it seems almost strange that this new
+finding in psychology, and that this new and vital content in
+Christianity, have come about at almost identically the same time. Yet
+it is not strange, for the one but serves to demonstrate in a concrete
+and understandable manner the fundamental and essential principles of
+the other. Many of the Master's teachings of the inner life, teachings
+of "the Kingdom," given so far ahead of his time that the people in
+general, and in many instances even his disciples, were incapable of
+fully comprehending and understanding them, are now being confirmed and
+further elucidated by clearly defined laws of psychology.
+
+Speculation and belief are giving way to a greater knowledge of law. The
+supernatural recedes into the background as we delve deeper into the
+supernormal. The unusual loses its miraculous element as we gain
+knowledge of the law whereby the thing is done. We are realising that no
+miracle has ever been performed in the world's history that was not
+through the understanding and the use of Law.
+
+Jesus did unusual things; but he did them because of his unusual
+understanding of the law through which they could be done. _He_ would
+not have us believe otherwise. To do so would be a distinct
+contradiction of the whole tenor of his teachings and his injunctions.
+Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free, was his own
+admonition. It was the great and passionate longing of his master heart
+that the people to whom he came, grasp the _interior meanings_ of his
+teachings. How many times he felt the necessity of rebuking even his
+disciples for dragging his teachings down through their material
+interpretations. As some of the very truths that he taught are now
+corroborated and more fully understood, and in some cases amplified by
+well-established laws of psychology, mystery recedes into the
+background.
+
+We are reconstructing a more natural, a more sane, a more common-sense
+portrait of the Master. "It is the spirit that quickeneth," said he;
+"the flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, _they_
+are spirit and _they_ are life." Shall we recall again in this
+connection: "I am come that ye might have life and that ye might have it
+more abundantly"? When, therefore, we take him at his word, and listen
+intently to _his_ words, and not so much to the words of others about
+him; when we place our emphasis upon the fundamental spiritual truths
+that he revealed and that he pleaded so earnestly to be taken in the
+simple, direct way in which he taught them, we are finding that the
+religion of the Christ means a clearer and healthier understanding of
+life and its problems through a greater knowledge of the elemental
+forces and laws of life.
+
+Ignorance enchains and enslaves. Truth--which is but another way of
+saying a clear and definite knowledge of Law, the elemental laws of
+soul, of mind, and body, and of the universe about us--brings freedom.
+Jesus revealed essentially a spiritual philosophy of life. His whole
+revelation pertained to the essential divinity of the human soul and
+the great gains that would follow the realisation of this fact. His
+whole teaching revolved continually around his own expression, used
+again and again, the Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom of Heaven, and which
+he so distinctly stated was an inner state or consciousness or
+realisation. Something not to be found outside of oneself but to be
+found _only within_.
+
+We make a great error to regard man as merely a duality--mind and body.
+Man is a trinity,--soul, mind, and body, each with its own
+functions,--and it is the right coordinating of these that makes the
+truly efficient and eventually the perfect life. Anything less is always
+one-sided and we may say, continually out of gear. It is essential to a
+correct understanding, and therefore for any adequate use of the
+potential powers and forces of the inner life, to realise this.
+
+It is the physical body that relates us to the physical universe about
+us, that in which we find ourselves in this present form of existence.
+But the body, wondrous as it is in its functions and its mechanism, is
+not the life. It has no life and no power in itself. It is of the earth,
+earthy. Every particle of it has come from the earth through the food we
+eat in combination with the air we breathe and the water we drink, and
+every part of it in time will go back to the earth. It is the house we
+inhabit while here.
+
+We can make it a hovel or a mansion; we can make it even a pig-sty or a
+temple, according as the soul, the real self, chooses to function
+through it. We should make it servant, but through ignorance of the real
+powers within, we can permit it to become master. "Know ye not," said
+the Great Apostle to the Gentiles, "that your body is the temple of the
+Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your
+own?"
+
+The soul is the self, the soul made in the image of Eternal Divine Life,
+which, as Jesus said, is Spirit. The essential reality of the soul is
+Spirit. Spirit--Being--is one and indivisible, manifesting itself,
+however, in individual forms in existence. Divine Being and the human
+soul are therefore in essence the same, the same in quality. Their
+difference, which, however, is very great--though less in some cases
+than in others--is a difference _in degree_.
+
+Divine Being is the cosmic force, the essential essence, the Life
+therefore of all there is in existence. The soul is individual personal
+existence. The soul while in this form of existence manifests, functions
+through the channel of a material body. _It is the mind that relates the
+two._ It is through the medium of the mind that the two must be
+coordinated. The soul, the self, while in this form of existence, must
+have a body through which to function. The body, on the other hand, to
+reach and to maintain its highest state, must be continually infused
+with the life force of the soul. The life force of the soul is Spirit.
+If spirit, then _essentially one_ with Infinite Divine Spirit, for
+spirit, Being, is one.
+
+The embodied soul finds itself the tenant of a material body in a
+material universe, and according to a plan as yet, at least, beyond our
+human understanding, whatever may be our thoughts, our theories
+regarding it. The whole order of life as we see it, all the world of
+Nature about us, and we must believe the order of human life, is a
+gradual evolving from the lower to the higher, from the cruder to the
+finer. The purpose of life is unquestionably unfoldment, growth,
+advancement--likewise the evolving from the lower and the coarser to the
+higher and the finer.
+
+The higher insights and powers of the soul, always potential within,
+become of value only as they are realised and used. Evolution implies
+always involution. The substance of all we shall ever attain or be, is
+within us now, waiting for realisation and thereby expression. The soul
+carries its own keys to all wisdom and to all valuable and usable
+power.
+
+It was that highly illumined seer, Emanuel Swedenborg, who said: "Every
+created thing is in itself inanimate and dead, but it is animated and
+caused to live by this, that the Divine is in it and that it exists in
+and from the Divine." Again: "The universal end of creation is that
+there should be an external union of the Creator with the created
+universe; and this would not be possible unless there were beings in
+whom His Divine might be present as if in itself; thus in whom it might
+dwell and abide. To be His abode, they must receive His love and wisdom
+by a power which seems to be their own; thus, must lift themselves up to
+the Creator as if by their own power, and unite themselves with Him.
+Without this mutual action no union would be possible." And again:
+"Every one who duly considers the matter may know that the body does not
+think, because it is material, but the soul, because it is spiritual.
+All the rational life, therefore, which appears in the body belongs to
+the spirit, for the matter of the body is annexed, and, as it were,
+joined to the spirit, in order that the latter may live and perform uses
+in the natural world.... Since everything which lives in the body, and
+acts and feels by virtue of that life, belongs to the spirit alone, it
+follows that the spirit is the real man; or, what comes to the same
+thing, man himself is a spirit, in a form similar to that of his body."
+
+Spirit being the real man, it follows that the great, central fact of
+all experience, of all human life, is the coming into a conscious, vital
+realisation of our source, of our real being, in other words, of our
+essential oneness with the spirit of Infinite Life and Power--the source
+of all life and all power. We need not look for outside help when we
+have within us waiting to be realised, and thereby actualised, this
+Divine birthright.
+
+Browning was prophet as well as poet when in "Paracelsus" he said:
+
+    Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
+    From outward things, whate'er you may believe.
+    There is an inmost centre in us all,
+    Where truth abides in fulness; and around
+    Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,
+    This perfect, clear perception--which is truth.
+    A baffling and perverting carnal mesh
+    Binds it, and makes all error: and, to know
+    Rather consists in opening out a way
+    Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape,
+    Than in effecting entry for a light
+    Supposed to be without.
+
+How strangely similar in meaning it seems to that saying of an earlier
+prophet, Isaiah: "And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying,
+This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand and when
+ye turn to the left."
+
+All great educators are men of great vision. It was Dr. Hiram Corson who
+said: "It is what man draws up from his sub-self which is of prime
+importance in his true education, not what is put into him. It is the
+occasional uprising of our sub-selves that causes us, at times, to feel
+that we are greater than we know." A new psychology, spiritual science,
+a more commonsense interpretation of the great revelation of the Christ
+of Nazareth, all combine to enable us to make this occasional uprising
+our natural and normal state.
+
+No man has probably influenced the educational thought and practice of
+the entire world more than Friedrich Froebel. In that great book of his,
+"The Education of Man," he bases his entire system upon the following,
+which constitutes the opening of its first chapter: "In all things there
+lives and reigns an eternal law. This all-controlling law is necessarily
+based on an all-pervading, energetic, living, self-conscious, and hence
+eternal, Unity.... _This Unity is God._ All things have come from the
+Divine Unity, from God, and have their origin in the Divine Unity, in
+God alone. God is the sole source of all things. All things live and
+have their being in and through the Divine Unity, in and through God.
+All things are only through the divine effluence that lives in them. The
+divine effluence that lives in each thing is the essence of each thing.
+
+"It is the destiny and life work of all things to unfold their essence,
+hence their divine being, and, therefore, the Divine Unity itself--to
+reveal God in their external and transient being. It is the special
+destiny and life work of man, as an intelligent and rational being, to
+become fully, vividly, conscious of this essence of the divine effluence
+in him, and therefore of God.
+
+"The precept for life in general and for every one is: _Exhibit only thy
+spiritual, thy life, in the external, and by means of the external in
+thy actions, and observe the requirements of thy inner being and its
+nature._"
+
+Here is not only an undying basis for all real education, but also the
+basis of all true religion, as well as the basis of all ideal
+philosophy. Yes, there could be no evolution, unless the essence of all
+to be evolved, unfolded, were already involved in the human soul. To
+follow the higher leadings of the soul, which is so constituted that it
+is the inlet, and as a consequence the outlet of Divine Spirit, Creative
+Energy, the real source of all wisdom and power; to project its leadings
+into every phase of material activity and endeavour, constitutes the
+ideal life. It was Emerson who said: "Every soul is not only the inlet,
+but may become the outlet of all there is in God." To keep this inlet
+open, so as not to shut out the Divine inflow, is the secret of all
+higher achievement, as well as attainment.
+
+There is a wood separated by a single open field from my house. In it,
+halfway down a little hillside, there was some years ago a spring. It
+was at one time walled up with rather large loose stone--some three feet
+across at the top. In following a vaguely defined trail through the wood
+one day in the early spring, a trail at one time evidently considerably
+used, it led me to this spot. I looked at the stone enclosure, partly
+moss-grown. I wondered why, although the ground was wet around it, there
+was no water in or running from what had evidently been at one time a
+well-used spring.
+
+A few days later when the early summer work was better under way, I took
+an implement or two over, and half scratching, half digging inside the
+little wall, I found layer after layer of dead leaves and sediment, dead
+leaves and sediment. Presently water became evident, and a little later
+it began to rise within the wall. In a short time there was nearly three
+feet of water. It was cloudy, no bottom could be seen. I sat down and
+waited for it to settle.
+
+Presently I discerned a ledge bottom and the side against the hill was
+also ledge. On this side, close to the bottom, I caught that peculiar
+movement of little particles of silvery sand, and looking more closely I
+could see a cleft in the rock where the water came gushing and bubbling
+in. Soon the entire spring became clear as crystal, and the water
+finding evidently its old outlet, made its way down the little hillside.
+I was soon able to trace and to uncover its course as it made its way to
+the level place below.
+
+As the summer went on I found myself going to the spot again and again.
+Flowers that I found in no other part of the wood, before the autumn
+came were blooming along the little watercourse. Birds in abundance came
+to drink and to bathe. Several times I have found the half-tame deer
+there. Twice we were but thirty to forty paces apart. They have watched
+my approach, and as I stopped, have gone on with their drinking,
+evidently unafraid--as if it were likewise their possession. And so it
+is.
+
+After spending a most valuable hour or two in the quiet there one
+afternoon, I could not help but wonder as I walked home whether
+perchance the spring may not be actually happy in being able to resume
+its life, to fulfil, so to speak, its destiny; happy also in the service
+it renders flowers and the living wild things--happy in the service it
+renders even me. I am doubly happy and a hundred times repaid in the
+little help I gave it. It needed help, to enable it effectively to keep
+connection with its source. As it became gradually shut off from this,
+it weakened, became then stagnant, and finally it ceased its active
+life.
+
+Containing a fundamental truth deeper perhaps than we realise, are these
+words of that gifted seer, Emanuel Swedenborg: "There is only one
+Fountain of Life, and the life of man is a stream therefrom, which if it
+were not continually replenished from its source would instantly cease
+to flow." And likewise these: "Those who think in the light of interior
+reason can see that all things are connected by intermediate links with
+the First Cause, and that whatever is not maintained in that connection
+must cease to exist."
+
+There is a mystic force that transcends any powers of the intellect or
+of the body, that becomes manifest and operative in the life of man when
+this God-consciousness becomes awakened and permeates his entire being.
+Failure to realise and to keep in constant communion with our Source is
+what causes fears, forebodings, worry, inharmony, conflict, conflict
+that downs us many times in mind, in spirit, in body--failure to follow
+that Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world, failure
+to hear and to heed that Voice of the soul, that speaks continually
+clearer as we accustom ourselves to listen to and to heed it, failure to
+follow those intuitions with which the soul, every soul, is endowed, and
+that lead us aright and that become clearer in their leadings as we
+follow them. It is this guidance and this sustaining power that all
+great souls fall back upon in times of great crises.
+
+This single stanza by Edwin Markham voices the poet's inspiration:
+
+    At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky,
+    And flinging the clouds and the towers by,
+        Is a place of central calm;
+    So, here in the roar of mortal things
+    I have a place where my spirit sings,
+        In the hollow of God's palm.
+
+"That the Divine Life and Energy _actually lives in us_," was the
+philosopher Fichte's reply to the proposition--"the profoundest
+knowledge that man can attain." And speaking of the man to whom this
+becomes a real, vital, conscious realisation, he said: "His whole
+existence flows forth, softly and gently, from his Inward Being, and
+issues out into Reality without difficulty or hindrance."
+
+There are certain faculties that we have that are not a part of the
+active thinking mind; they seem to be no part of what we might term our
+_conscious intelligence_. They transcend any possible activities of our
+regular mental processes, and they are in some ways independent of them.
+Through some avenue, suggestions, intuitions of truth, intuitions of
+occurrences of which through the thinking mind we could know nothing,
+are at times borne in upon us; they flash into our consciousness, as we
+say, quite independent of any mental action on our part, and sometimes
+when we are thinking of something quite foreign to that which comes to,
+that which "impresses" us.
+
+This seems to indicate a source of knowledge, a faculty that is distinct
+from, but that acts in various ways in conjunction with, the active
+thinking mind. It performs likewise certain very definite and distinct
+functions in connection with the body. It is this that is called the
+_subconscious mind_--by some the superconscious or the supernormal mind,
+by others the subliminal self.
+
+Just what the subconscious mind is no man knows. It is easier to define
+its functions and to describe its activities than it is to state in
+exact terms what it is. It is similar in this respect to the physical
+force--if it be a physical force--electricity. It is only of late years
+that we know anything of electricity at all. Today we know a great deal
+of its nature and the laws of its action. No man living can tell exactly
+what electricity is. We are nevertheless making wonderful _practical
+applications_ of it. We are learning more _about it_ continually. Some
+day we may know what it _actually is_.
+
+The fact that the subconscious mind seems to function in a realm apart
+from anything that has to do with our conscious mental processes, and
+also that it has some definite functions as both directing and building
+functions to perform in connection with the body, and that it is at the
+same time subject to suggestion and direction from the active thinking
+mind, would indicate that it may be the true connecting link, the medium
+of exchange, between the soul and the body, the connector of the
+spiritual and the material so far as man is concerned.
+
+
+
+
+III
+
+THE WAY MIND THROUGH THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND BUILDS BODY
+
+
+When one says that he numbers among his acquaintances some who are as
+old at sixty as some others are at eighty, he but gives expression to a
+fact that has become the common possession of many. I have known those
+who at fifty-five and sixty were to all intents and purposes really
+older, more decrepit, and rapidly growing still more decrepit both in
+mind and body, than many another at seventy and seventy-five and even at
+eighty.
+
+History, then, is replete with instances, memorable instances, of
+people, both men and women, who have accomplished things at an age--who
+have even begun and carried through to successful completion things at
+an age that would seem to thousands of others, in the captivity of age,
+with their backs to the future, ridiculous even to think of
+accomplishing, much less of beginning. On account of a certain law that
+has always seemed to me to exist and that I am now firmly convinced is
+very _exact_ in its workings, I have been interested in talking with
+various ones and in getting together various facts relative to this
+great discrepancy in the ages of these two classes of "old" people.
+
+Within the year I called upon a friend whom, on account of living in a
+different portion of the country, I hadn't seen for nearly ten years.
+Conversation revealed to me the fact that he was then in his
+eighty-eighth year. I could notice scarcely a change in his appearance,
+walk, voice, and spirit. We talked at length upon the various,
+so-called, periods of life. He told me that about the only difference
+that he noticed in himself as compared with his middle life was that now
+when he goes out to work in his garden, and among his trees, bushes, and
+vines--and he has had many for many years--he finds that he is quite
+ready to quit and to come in at the end of about two hours, and
+sometimes a little sooner, when formerly he could work regularly without
+fatigue for the entire half day. In other words, he has not the same
+degree of endurance that he once had.
+
+Among others, there comes to mind in this connection another who is a
+little under seventy. It chances to be a woman. She is bent and decrepit
+and growing more so by very fixed stages each twelvemonth. I have known
+her for over a dozen years. At the time when I first knew her she was
+scarcely fifty-eight, she was already bent and walked with an
+uncertain, almost faltering tread. The dominant note of her personality
+was then as now, but more so now, fear for the present, fear for the
+future, a dwelling continually on her ills, her misfortunes, her
+symptoms, her approaching and increasing helplessness.
+
+Such cases I have observed again and again; so have all who are at all
+interested in life and in its forces and its problems. What is the cause
+of this almost world-wide difference in these two lives? In this case it
+is as clear as day--the mental characteristics and the mental habits of
+each.
+
+In the first case, here was one who early got a little philosophy into
+his life and then more as the years passed. He early realised that in
+himself his good or his ill fortune lay; that the mental attitude we
+take toward anything determines to a great extent our power in
+connection with it, as well as its effects upon us. He grew to love his
+work and he did it daily, but never under high pressure. He was
+therefore benefited by it. His face was always to the future, even as it
+is today. This he made one of the fundamental rules of his life. He was
+helped in this, he told me in substance, by an early faith which with
+the passing of the years has ripened with him into a demonstrable
+conviction--that there is a Spirit of Infinite Life back of all,
+working in love in and through the lives of all, and that in the degree
+that we realise it as the one Supreme Source of our lives, and when
+through desire and will, which is through the channel of our thoughts,
+we open our lives so that this Higher Power can work definitely in and
+through us, and then go about and do our daily work without fears or
+forebodings, the passing of the years sees only the highest good
+entering into our lives.
+
+In the case of the other one whom we have mentioned, a repetition seems
+scarcely necessary. Suffice it to say that the common expression on the
+part of those who know her--I have heard it numbers of times--is: "What
+a blessing it will be to herself and to others when she has gone!"
+
+A very general rule with but few exceptions can be laid down as follows:
+The body ordinarily looks as old as the mind thinks and feels.
+
+Shakespeare anticipated by many years the best psychology of the times
+when he said: "It is the mind that makes the body rich."
+
+It seems to me that our great problem, or rather our chief concern,
+should not be so much how to stay young in the sense of possessing all
+the attributes of youth, _for the passing of the years does bring
+changes_, but how to pass gracefully, and even magnificently, and with
+undiminished vigour from youth to middle age, and then how to carry that
+middle age into approaching old age, with a great deal more of the
+vigour and the outlook of middle life than _we ordinarily do_.
+
+The mental as well as the physical helps that are now in the possession
+of this our generation, are capable of working a revolution in the lives
+of many who are or who may become sufficiently awake to them, so that
+with them there will not be that--shall we say--immature passing from
+middle life into a broken, purposeless, decrepit, and sunless, and one
+might almost say, soulless old age.
+
+It seems too bad that so many among us just at the time that they have
+become of most use to themselves, their families, and to the world,
+should suddenly halt and then continue in broken health, and in so many
+cases lie down and die. Increasing numbers of thinking people the world
+over are now, as never before, finding that this is not necessary, that
+something is at fault, that that fault is in ourselves. If so, then
+reversely, the remedy lies in ourselves, in our own hands, so to speak.
+
+In order to actualise and to live this better type of life we have got
+to live better from both sides, both the mental and the physical, this
+with all due respect to Shakespeare and to all modern mental
+scientists.
+
+The body itself, what we term the physical body, whatever may be the
+facts regarding a finer spiritual body within it all the time giving
+form to and animating and directing all its movements, is of material
+origin, and derives its sustenance from the food we take, from the air
+we breathe, the water we drink. In this sense it is from the earth, and
+when we are through with it, it will go back to the earth.
+
+The body, however, is not the Life; it is merely the material agency
+that enables the Life to manifest in a material universe for a certain,
+though not necessarily a given, period of time. It is the Life, or the
+Soul, or the Personality that uses, and that in using shapes and moulds,
+the body and that also determines its strength or its weakness. When
+this is separated from the body, the body at once becomes a cold, inert
+mass, commencing immediately to decompose into the constituent material
+elements that composed it--literally going back to the earth and the
+elements whence it came.
+
+It is through the instrumentality or the agency of thought that the
+Life, the Self, uses, and manifests through, the body. Again, while it
+is true that the food that is taken and assimilated nourishes, sustains
+and builds the body, it is also true that the condition and the
+operation of the mind through the avenue of thought determines into what
+shape or form the body is so builded. So in this sense it is true that
+mind builds body; it is the agency, the force that determines the
+shaping of the material elements.
+
+Here is a wall being built. Bricks are the material used in its
+construction. We do not say that the bricks are building the wall; we
+say that the mason is building it, as is the case. He is using the
+material that is supplied him, in this case bricks, giving form and
+structure in a definite, methodical manner. Again, back of the mason is
+his mind, acting through the channel of his thought, that is directing
+his hands and all his movements. Without this guiding, directing _force_
+no wall could take shape, even if millions of bricks were delivered upon
+the scene.
+
+So it is with the body. We take the food, the water, we breathe the air;
+but this is all and always acted upon by a higher force. Thus it is that
+mind builds body, the same as in every department of our being it is the
+great builder. Our thoughts shape and determine our features, our walk,
+the posture of our bodies, our voices; they determine the effectiveness
+of our mental and our physical activities, as well as all our relations
+with and influence or effects upon others.
+
+You say: "I admit the operation of and even in certain cases the power
+of thought, also that at times it has an influence upon our general
+feelings, but I do not admit that it can have any direct influence upon
+the body." Here is one who has allowed herself to be long given to
+grief, abnormally so--notice her lowered physical condition, her lack of
+vitality. The New York papers within the past twelve months recorded the
+case of a young lady in New Jersey who, from _constant_ grieving over
+the death of her mother, died, fell dead, within a week.
+
+A man is handed a telegram. He is eating and enjoying his dinner. He
+reads the contents of the message. Almost immediately afterward, his
+body is a-tremble, his face either reddens or grows "ashy white," his
+appetite is gone; such is the effect of the mind upon the stomach that
+it literally refuses the food; if forced upon it, it may reject it
+entirely.
+
+A message is delivered to a lady. She is in a genial, happy mood. Her
+face whitens; she trembles and her body falls to the ground in a faint,
+temporarily helpless, apparently lifeless. Such are the intimate
+relations between the mind and the body. Raise a cry of fire in a
+crowded theatre. It may be a false alarm. There are among the audience
+those who become seemingly palsied, powerless to move. It is the state
+of the mind, and within several seconds, that has determined the state
+of these bodies. Such are examples of the wonderfully quick influence of
+the mind on the body.
+
+Great stress, or anxiety, or fear, may in two weeks' or even in two
+days' time so work its ravages that the person looks ten years or even
+twenty years older. A person has been long given to worry, or perhaps to
+worry in extreme form though not so long--a well-defined case of
+indigestion and general stomach trouble, with a generally lowered and
+sluggish vitality, has become pronounced and fixed.
+
+Any type of thought that prevails in our mental lives will in time
+produce its correspondences in our physical lives. As we understand
+better these laws of correspondences, we will be more careful as to the
+types of thoughts and emotions we consciously, or unwittingly, entertain
+and live with. The great bulk of all diseases, we will find, as we are
+continually finding more and more, are in the mind before being in the
+body, or are generated in the body through certain states and conditions
+of mind.
+
+The present state and condition of the body have been produced primarily
+by the thoughts that have been taken by the conscious mind into the
+subconscious, that is so intimately related to and that directs all the
+subconscious and involuntary functions of the body. Says one: It may be
+true that the mind has had certain effects upon the body; but to be able
+_consciously_ to affect the body through the mind is impossible and even
+unthinkable, for the body is a solid, fixed, material form.
+
+We must get over the idea, as we quickly will, if we study into the
+matter, that the body, in fact anything that we call material and solid,
+is really solid. Even in the case of a piece of material as "solid" as a
+bar of steel, the atoms forming the molecules are in continual action
+each in conjunction with its neighbour. In the last analysis the body is
+composed of cells--cells of bone, vital organ, flesh, sinew. In the body
+the cells are continually changing, forming and reforming. Death would
+quickly take place were this not true. Nature is giving us a new body
+practically every year.
+
+There are very few elements, cells, in the body of today that were there
+a year ago. The rapidity with which a cut or wound on the body is
+replaced by healthy tissue, the rapidity with which it heals, is an
+illustration of this. One "touches" himself in shaving. In a week,
+sometimes in less than a week, if the blood and the cell structure be
+particularly healthy, there is no trace of the cut, the formation of new
+cell tissue has completely repaired it. Through the formation of new
+cell structure the life-force within, acting through the blood, is able
+to rebuild and repair, if not too much interfered with, very rapidly.
+The reason, we may say almost the sole reason, that surgery has made
+such great advances during the past few years, so much greater
+correspondingly than medicine, is on account of a knowledge of the
+importance of and the use of antiseptics--keeping the wound clean and
+entirely free from all extraneous matter.
+
+So then, the greater portion of the body is really new, therefore young,
+in that it is almost entirely this year's growth. Newness of form is
+continually being produced in the body by virtue of this process of
+perpetual renewal that is continually going on, and the new cells and
+tissues are just as new as is the new leaf that comes forth in the
+springtime to take the place of and to perform the same functions as the
+one that was thrown off by the tree last autumn.
+
+The skin renews itself through the casting off of used cells (those that
+have already performed their functions) most rapidly, taking but a few
+weeks. The muscles, the vital organs, the entire arterial system, the
+brain and the nervous system all take longer, but all are practically
+renewed within a year, some in much less time. Then comes the bony
+structure, taking the longest, varying, we are told, from seven and
+eight months to a year, in unusual cases fourteen months and longer.
+
+It is, then, through this process of cell formation that the physical
+body has been built up, and through the same process that it is
+continually renewing itself. It is not therefore at any time or at any
+age a solid fixed mass or material, but a structure in a continually
+changing fluid form. It is therefore easy to see how we have it in our
+power, when we are once awake to the relations between the conscious
+mind and the subconscious--and it in turn in its relations to the
+various involuntary and vital functions of the body--to determine to a
+great extent how the body shall be built or how it shall be rebuilt.
+
+Mentally to live in any state or attitude of mind is to take that state
+or condition into the subconscious. _The subconscious mind does and
+always will produce in the body after its own kind._ It is through this
+law that we externalise and become in body what we live in our minds. If
+we have predominating visions of and harbour thoughts of old age and
+weakness, this state, with all its attendant circumstances, will become
+externalised in our bodies far more quickly than if we entertain
+thoughts and visions of a different type. Said Archdeacon Wilberforce in
+a notable address in Westminster Abbey some time ago: "The recent
+researches of scientific men, endorsed by experiments in the Salpétrière
+in Paris, have drawn attention to the intensely creative power of
+suggestions made by the conscious mind to the subconscious mind."
+
+
+
+
+IV
+
+THE POWERFUL AID OF THE MIND IN REBUILDING BODY--HOW BODY HELPS MIND
+
+
+"The body looks," some one has said, "as old as the mind feels." By
+virtue of a great mental law and at the same time chemical law we are
+well within the realm of truth when we say: The body ordinarily is as
+old as the mind feels.
+
+Every living organism is continually going through two processes: it is
+continually dying, and continually being renewed through the operation
+and the power of the Life Force within it. In the human body it is
+through the instrumentality of the cell that this process is going on.
+The cell is the ultimate constituent in the formation and in the life of
+tissue, fibre, tendon, bone, muscle, brain, nerve system, vital organ.
+It is the instrumentality that Nature, as we say, uses to do her work.
+
+The cell is formed; it does its work; it serves its purpose and dies;
+and all the while new cells are being formed to take its place. This
+process of new cell formation is going on in the body of each of us much
+more rapidly and uniformly than we think. Science has demonstrated the
+fact that there are very few cells in the body today that were there
+twelve months ago. The form of the body remains practically the same;
+but its constituent elements are in a constant state of change. The
+body, therefore, is continually changing; it is never in a fixed state
+in the sense of being a solid, but is always in a changing, fluid state.
+It is being continually remade.
+
+It is the Life, or the Life Force within, acting under the direction and
+guidance of the subconscious or subjective mind that is the agency
+through which this continually new cell-formation process is going on.
+The subconscious mind is, nevertheless, always subject to suggestions
+and impressions that are conveyed to it by the conscious or sense mind;
+and here lies the great fact, the one all-important fact for us so far
+as desirable or undesirable, so far as healthy or unhealthy, so far as
+normal or aging body-building is concerned.
+
+That we have it in our power to determine our physical and bodily
+conditions to a far greater extent than we do is an undeniable fact.
+That we have it in our power to determine and to dictate the conditions
+of "old age" to a marvellous degree is also an undeniable fact--if we
+are sufficiently keen and sufficiently awake to begin early enough.
+
+If any arbitrary divisions of the various periods of life were
+allowable, I should make the enumeration as follows: Youth, barring the
+period of babyhood, to forty-five; middle age, forty-five to sixty;
+approaching age, sixty to seventy-five; old age, seventy-five to
+ninety-five and a hundred.
+
+That great army of people who "age" long before their time, that
+likewise great army of both men and women who along about middle age,
+say from forty-five to sixty, break and, as we say, all of a sudden go
+to pieces, and many die, just at the period when they should be in the
+prime of life, in the full vigour of manhood and womanhood and of
+greatest value to themselves, to their families, and to the world, is
+something that is _contrary to nature_, and is one of the pitiable
+conditions of our time. A greater knowledge, a little foresight, a
+little care in _time_ could prevent this in the great majority of cases,
+in ninety cases out of every hundred, without question.
+
+Abounding health and strength--wholeness--is the natural law of the
+body. The Life Force of the body, acting always under the direction of
+the subconscious mind, _will build, and always does build_, healthily
+and normally, unless too much interfered with. It is this that
+determines the type of the cell structure that is continually being
+built into the body from the available portions of the food that we
+take to give nourishment to the body. It is affected for good or for
+bad, helped or hindered, in its operation by the type of conscious
+thought that is directed toward it, and that it is always influenced by.
+
+Of great suggestive value is the following by an able writer and
+practitioner:
+
+"God has managed, and perpetually manages, to insert into our nature a
+tendency toward health, and against the unnatural condition which we
+call disease. When our flesh receives a wound, a strange nursing and
+healing process is immediately commenced to repair the injury. So in all
+diseases, organic or functional, this mysterious healing power sets
+itself to work at once to triumph over the morbid condition.... Cannot
+this healing process be greatly accelerated by a voluntary and conscious
+action of the mind, assisted, if need be, by some other person? I
+unhesitatingly affirm, from experience and observation, that it can. By
+some volitional, mental effort and process of thought, this sanative
+colatus, or healing power which God has given to our physiological
+organism, may be greatly quickened and intensified in its action upon
+the body. Here is the secret philosophy of the cures effected by Jesus
+Christ.... There is a law of the action of mind on the body that is no
+more an impenetrable mystery than the law of gravitation. It can be
+understood and acted upon in the cure of disease as well as any other
+law of nature."
+
+If, then, it be possible through this process to change physical
+conditions in the body even after they have taken form and have become
+fixed, as we say, isn't it possible even more easily to determine the
+type of cell structure that is grown in the first place?
+
+The ablest minds in the world have thought and are thinking that if we
+could find a way of preventing the hardening of the cells of the system,
+producing in turn hardened arteries and what is meant by the general
+term "ossification," that the process of aging, growing old, could be
+greatly retarded, and that the condition of perpetual youth that we seem
+to catch glimpses of in rare individuals here and there could be made a
+more common occurrence than we find it today.
+
+The cause of ossification is partly mental, partly physical, and in
+connection with them both are hereditary influences and conditions that
+have to be taken into consideration.
+
+Shall we look for a moment to the first? The food that is taken into the
+system, or the available portions of the food, is the building material;
+but the mind is always the builder.
+
+There are, then, two realms of mind, the conscious and the
+subconscious. Another way of expressing it would be to say that mind
+functions through two avenues--the avenue of the conscious and the
+avenue of the subconscious. The conscious is the thinking mind; the
+subconscious is the doing mind. The conscious is the sense mind, it
+comes in contact with and is acted upon through the avenue of the five
+senses. The subconscious is that quiet, finer, all-permeating inner mind
+or force that guides all the inner functions, the life functions of the
+body, and that watches over and keeps them going even when we are
+utterly unconscious in sleep. The conscious suggests and gives
+directions; the subconscious receives and carries into operation the
+suggestions that are received.
+
+The thoughts, ideas, and even beliefs and emotions of the conscious mind
+are the seeds that are taken in by the subconscious and that in this
+great _realm of causation_ will germinate and produce of their own kind.
+The chemical activities that go on in the process of cell formation in
+the body are all under the influence, the domination of this great
+all-permeating subconscious, or subjective realm within us.
+
+In that able work, "The Laws of Psychic Phenomena," Dr. Thomas J. Hudson
+lays down this proposition: "That the subjective mind is constantly
+amenable to control by suggestion." It is easy, when we once understand
+and appreciate this great fact, to see how the body builds, or rather is
+built, for health and strength, or for disease and weakness; for youth
+and vigour, or for premature ossification and age. It is easy, then, to
+see how we can have a hand in, in brief can have the controlling hand
+in, building either the one or the other.
+
+It is in the province of the intelligent man or woman to take hold of
+the wheel, so to speak, and to determine as an intelligent human being
+should, what condition or conditions shall be given birth and form to
+and be externalised in the body.
+
+A noted thinker and writer has said: "Whatever the mind is set upon, or
+whatever it keeps most in view, that it is bringing to it, and the
+continual thought or imagining must at last take form and shape in the
+world of seen and tangible things."
+
+And now, to be as concrete as possible, we have these facts: The body is
+continually changing in that it is continually throwing out and off,
+used cells, and continually building new cells to take their places.
+This process, as well as all the inner functions of the body, is
+governed and guarded by the subconscious realm of our being. The
+subconscious can do and does do whatever it is _actually_ directed to
+do by the conscious, thinking mind. "We must be careful on what we allow
+our minds to dwell," said Sir John Lubbock, "the soul is dyed by its
+thoughts."
+
+If we believe ourselves subject to weakness, decay, infirmity, when we
+should be "whole," the subconscious mind seizes upon the pattern that is
+sent it and builds cell structure accordingly. This is one great reason
+why one who is, as we say, chronically thinking and talking of his
+ailments and symptoms, who is complaining and fearing, is never well.
+
+To see one's self, to believe, and therefore to picture one's self in
+mind as strong, healthy, active, well, is to furnish a pattern, is to
+give suggestion and therefore direction to the subconscious so that it
+will build cell tissue having the stamp and the force of healthy, vital,
+active life, which in turn means abounding health and strength.
+
+So, likewise, at about the time that "old age" is supposed ordinarily to
+begin, when it is believed in and looked for by those about us and those
+who act in accordance with this thought, if we fall into this same
+mental drift, we furnish the subconscious the pattern that it will
+inevitably build bodily conditions in accordance with. We will then find
+the ordinarily understood marks and conditions of old age creeping upon
+us, and we will become subject to their influences in every department
+of our being. Whatever is thus pictured in the mind and lived in, the
+Life Force will produce.
+
+To remain young in mind, in spirit, in feeling, is to remain young in
+body. Growing old at the period or age at which so many grow old, is to
+a great extent a matter of habit.
+
+To think health and strength, to see ourselves continually growing in
+this condition, is to set into operation the subtlest dynamic force for
+the externalisation of these conditions in the body that can be even
+conceived of. If one's bodily condition, through abnormal, false mental
+and emotional habits, has become abnormal and diseased, this same
+attitude of mind, of spirit, of imagery, is to set into operation _a
+subtle and powerful corrective agency that, if persisted in, will
+inevitably tend to bring normal, healthy conditions to the front again_.
+
+True, if these abnormal, diseased conditions have been helped on or have
+been induced by wrong physical habits, by the violation of physical
+laws, this violation must cease. But combine the two, and then give the
+body the care that it requires in a moderate amount of simple, wholesome
+food, regular cleansing to assist it in the elimination of impurities
+and of used cell structure that is being regularly cast off, an
+abundance of pure air and of moderate exercise, and a change amounting
+almost to a miracle can be wrought--it may be, indeed, what many people
+of olden time would have termed a miracle.
+
+The mind thus becomes "a silent, transforming, sanative energy" of great
+potency and power. That it can be so used is attested by the fact of the
+large numbers, and the rapidly increasing numbers, all about us who are
+so using it. This is what many people all over our country are doing
+today, with the results that, by a great elemental law--Divine Law if
+you choose--_many_ are curing themselves of various diseases, _many_ are
+exchanging weakness and impotence for strength and power, _many_ are
+ceasing, comparatively speaking, are politely refusing, to grow old.
+
+Thought is a force, subtle and powerful, and it tends inevitably to
+produce of its kind.
+
+In forestalling "old age," at least old age of the decrepit type, it is
+the period of middle life where the greatest care is to be employed. If,
+at about the time "old age" is supposed ordinarily to begin, the "turn"
+at middle life or a little later, we would stop to consider what this
+period really means, that it means with both men and women a period of
+life where some simple readjustments are to be made, a period of a
+little rest, a little letting up, a temporary getting back to the
+playtime of earlier years and a bringing of these characteristics back
+into life again, then a complete letting-up would not be demanded by
+nature a little later, as it is demanded in such a lamentably large
+number of cases at the present time.
+
+So in a definite, deliberate way, youth should be blended into the
+middle life, and the resultant should be a force that will stretch
+middle life for an indefinite period into the future.
+
+And what an opportunity is here for mothers, at about the time that the
+children have grown, and some or all even have "flown"! Of course,
+Mother shouldn't go and get foolish, she shouldn't go cavorting around
+in a sixteen-year-old hat, when the hat of the thirty-five-year-old
+would undoubtedly suit her better; but she should rejoice that the
+golden period of life is still before her. Now she has leisure to do
+many of those things _that she has so long wanted to do_.
+
+The world's rich field of literature is before her; the line of study or
+work she has longed to pursue, she bringing to it a better equipped mind
+and experience than she has ever had before. There is also an interest
+in the life and welfare of her community, in civic, public welfare lines
+that the present and the quick-coming time before us along women's
+enfranchisement lines, along women's commonsense equality lines, is
+making her a responsible and full sharer in. And how much more valuable
+she makes herself, also, to her children, as well as to her community,
+inspiring in them greater confidence, respect, and admiration than if
+she allows herself to be pushed into the background by her own weak and
+false thoughts of herself, or by the equally foolish thoughts of her
+children in that she is now, or is at any time, to become a back number.
+
+Life, as long as we are here, should mean continuous unfoldment,
+advancement, and this is undoubtedly the purpose of life; but
+age-producing forces and agencies mean deterioration, as opposed to
+growth and unfoldment. They ossify, weaken, stiffen, deaden, both
+mentally and physically. For him or her who yearns to stay young, the
+coming of the years does not mean or bring abandonment of hope or of
+happiness or of activity. It means comparative vigour combined with
+continually larger experience, and therefore even more usefulness, and
+hence pleasure and happiness.
+
+Praise also to those who do not allow any one or any number of
+occurrences in life to sour their nature, rob them of their faith, or
+cripple their energies for the enjoyment of the fullest in life while
+here. It's those people _who never allow themselves in spirit to be
+downed_, no matter what their individual problems, surroundings, or
+conditions may be, but who chronically bob up serenely who, after all,
+_are the masters of life_, and who are likewise the strength-givers and
+the helpers of others. There are multitudes in the world today, there
+are readers of this volume, who could add a dozen or a score of
+years--teeming, healthy years--to their lives by a process of
+self-examination, a mental housecleaning, and a reconstructed, positive,
+commanding type of thought.
+
+Tennyson was prophet when he sang:
+
+    Cleave then to the sunnier side of doubt,
+    And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith!
+    She reels not in the storm of warring words,
+    She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No,"
+    She sees the Best that glimmers through the Worst,
+    She feels the sun is hid but for a night,
+    She spies the summer through the winter bud,
+    She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls,
+    She hears the lark within the songless egg,
+    She finds the fountain where they wailed "mirage."
+
+
+
+
+V
+
+THOUGHT AS A FORCE IN DAILY LIVING
+
+
+Some years ago an experience was told to me that has been the cause of
+many interesting observations since. It was related by a man living in
+one of our noted university towns in the Middle West. He was a
+well-known lecture manager, having had charge of many lecture tours for
+John B. Gough, Henry Ward Beecher, and others of like standing. He
+himself was a man of splendid character, was of a sensitive organism, as
+we say, and had always taken considerable interest in the powers and
+forces pertaining to the inner life.
+
+As a young man he had left home, and during a portion of his first year
+away he had found employment on a Mississippi steamboat. One day in
+going down the river, while he was crossing the deck, a sudden stinging
+sensation seized him in the head, and instantly vivid thoughts of his
+mother, back at the old home, flashed into his mind. This was followed
+by a feeling of depression during the remainder of the day. The
+occurrence was so unusual and the impression of it was so strong that
+he made an account of it in his diary.
+
+Some time later, on returning home, he was met in the yard by his
+mother. She was wearing a thin cap on her head which he had never seen
+her wear before. He remarked in regard to it. She raised the cap and
+doing so revealed the remains of a long ugly gash on the side of her
+head. She then said that some months before, naming the time, she had
+gone into the back yard and had picked up a heavy crooked stick having a
+sharp end, to throw it out of the way, and in throwing it, it had struck
+a wire clothesline immediately above her head and had rebounded with
+such force that it had given her the deep scalp wound of which she was
+speaking. On unpacking his bag he looked into his diary and found that
+the time she had mentioned corresponded exactly with the strange and
+unusual occurrence to himself as they were floating down the
+Mississippi.
+
+The mother and son were very near one to the other, close in their
+sympathies, and there can be but little doubt that the thoughts of the
+mother as she was struck went out, and perhaps _went strongly out_, to
+her boy who was now away from home. He, being sensitively organised and
+intimately related to her in thought, and alone at the time,
+undoubtedly got, if not her thought, at least the effects of her
+thought, as it went out to him under these peculiar and tense
+conditions.
+
+There are scores if not hundreds of occurrences of a more or less
+similar nature that have occurred in the lives of others, many of them
+well authenticated. How many of us, even, have had the experience of
+suddenly thinking of a friend of whom we have not thought for weeks or
+months, and then entirely unexpectedly meeting or hearing from this same
+friend. How many have had the experience of writing a friend, one who
+has not been written to or heard from for a long time, and within a day
+or two getting a letter from that friend--the letters "crossing," as we
+are accustomed to say. There are many other experiences or facts of a
+similar nature, and many of them exceedingly interesting, that could be
+related did space permit. These all indicate to me that thoughts are not
+mere indefinite things but that thoughts are forces, that they go out,
+and that every distinct, clear-cut thought has, or may have, an
+influence of some type.
+
+Thought transference, which is now unquestionably an established fact,
+notwithstanding much chicanery that is still to be found in connection
+with it, is undoubtedly to be explained through the fact that _thoughts
+are forces_. A positive mind through practice, at first with very
+simple beginnings, gives form to a thought that another mind open and
+receptive to it--and sufficiently attuned to the other mind--is able to
+receive.
+
+Wireless telegraphy, as a science, has been known but a comparatively
+short time. The laws underlying it have been in the universe perhaps, or
+undoubtedly, always. It is only lately that the mind of man has been
+able to apprehend them, and has been able to construct instruments in
+accordance with these laws. We are now able, through a knowledge of the
+laws of vibration and by using the right sending and receiving
+instruments, to send actual messages many hundreds of miles directly
+through the ether and without the more clumsy accessories of poles and
+wires. This much of it we know--_there is perhaps even more yet to be
+known_.
+
+We may find, as I am inclined to think we shall find, that thought is a
+form of vibration. When a thought is born in the brain, it goes out just
+as a sound wave goes out, and transmits itself through the ether, making
+its impressions upon other minds that are in a sufficiently sensitive
+state to receive it; this in addition to the effects that various types
+of thoughts have upon the various bodily functions of the one with whom
+they take origin.
+
+We are, by virtue of the laws of evolution, constantly apprehending the
+finer forces of nature--the tallow-dip, the candle, the oil lamp, years
+later a more refined type of oil, gas, electricity, the latest tungsten
+lights, radium--and we may be still only at the beginnings. Our finest
+electric lights of today may seem--will seem--crude and the quality of
+their light even more crude, twenty years hence, even less. Many other
+examples of our gradual passing from the coarser to the finer in
+connection with the laws and forces of nature occur readily to the minds
+of us all.
+
+The present great interest on the part of thinking men and women
+everywhere, in addition to the more particular studies, experiments, and
+observations of men such as Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Ramsay, and
+others, in the powers and forces pertaining to the inner life is an
+indication that we have reached a time when we are making great strides
+along these lines. Some of our greatest scientists are thinking that we
+are on the eve of some almost startling glimpses into these finer
+realms. My own belief is that we are likewise on the eve of apprehending
+the more precise _nature_ of thought as a force, the methods of its
+workings, and the law underlying its more intimate and everyday uses.
+
+Of one thing we can rest assured; nothing in the universe, nothing in
+connection with human life is outside of the Realm of Law. The elemental
+law of Cause and Effect is absolute in its workings. One of the great
+laws pertaining to human life is: As is the inner, so always and
+inevitably is the outer--Cause, Effect. Our thoughts and emotions are
+the silent, subtle forces that are constantly externalising themselves
+in kindred forms in our outward material world. Like creates like, and
+like attracts like. As is our prevailing type of thought, so is our
+prevailing type and our condition of life.
+
+The type of thought we entertain has its effect upon our energies and to
+a great extent upon our bodily conditions and states. Strong, clear-cut,
+positive, hopeful thought has a stimulating and life-giving effect upon
+one's outlook, energies, and activities; and upon all bodily functions
+and powers. A falling state of the mind induces a chronically gloomy
+outlook and produces inevitably a falling condition of the body. The
+mind grows, moreover, into the likeness of the thoughts one most
+habitually entertains and lives with. Every thought reproduces of its
+kind.
+
+Says an authoritative writer in dealing more particularly with the
+effects of certain types of thoughts and emotions upon bodily
+conditions: "Out of our own experience we know that anger, fear, worry,
+hate, revenge, avarice, grief, in fact all negative and low emotions,
+produce weakness and disturbance not only in the mind but in the body as
+well. It has been proved that they actually generate poisons in the
+body, they depress the circulation; they change the quality of the
+blood, making it less vital; they affect the great nerve centres and
+thus partially paralyse the very seat of the bodily activities. On the
+other hand, faith, hope, love, forgiveness, joy, and peace, all such
+emotions are positive and uplifting, and so act on the body as to
+restore and maintain harmony and actually to stimulate the circulation
+and nutrition."
+
+The one who does not allow himself to be influenced or controlled by
+fears or forebodings is the one who ordinarily does not yield to
+discouragements. He it is who is using the positive, success-bringing
+types of thought that are continually working for him for the
+accomplishment of his ends. The things that he sees in the ideal, his
+strong, positive, and therefore creative type of thought, is continually
+helping to actualise in the realm of the real.
+
+We sometimes speak lightly of ideas, but this world would be indeed a
+sorry place in which to live were it not for ideas--and were it not for
+ideals. Every piece of mechanism that has ever been built, if we trace
+back far enough, was first merely an idea in some man's or woman's
+mind. Every structure or edifice that has ever been reared had form
+first in this same immaterial realm. So every great undertaking of
+whatever nature had its inception, its origin, in the realm of the
+immaterial--at least as we at present call it--before it was embodied
+and stood forth in material form.
+
+It is well, then, that we have our ideas and our ideals. It is well,
+even, to build castles in the air, if we follow these up and give them
+material clothing or structure, so that they become castles on the
+ground. Occasionally it is true that these may shrink or, rather, may
+change their form and become cabins; but many times we find that an
+expanded vision and an expanded experience lead us to a knowledge of the
+fact that, so far as happiness and satisfaction are concerned, the
+contents of a cabin may outweigh many times those of the castle.
+
+Successful men and women are almost invariably those possessing to a
+supreme degree the element of faith. Faith, absolute, unconquerable
+faith, is one of the essential concomitants, therefore one of the great
+secrets of success. We must realise, and especially valuable is it for
+young men and women to realise, that one carries his success or his
+failure with him, that it does not depend upon outside conditions.
+There are some that no circumstances or combinations of circumstances
+can thwart or keep down. Let circumstance seem to thwart or circumvent
+them in one direction, and almost instantly they are going forward along
+another direction. Circumstance is kept busy keeping up with them. When
+she meets such, after a few trials, she apparently decides to give up
+and turn her attention to those of the less positive, the less forceful,
+therefore the less determined, types of mind and of life. Circumstance
+has received some hard knocks from men and women of this type. She has
+grown naturally timid and will always back down whenever she recognises
+a mind, and therefore a life, of sufficient force.
+
+To make the best of whatever present conditions are, to form and clearly
+to see one's ideal, though it may seem far distant and almost
+impossible, to believe in it, and to believe in one's ability to
+actualise it--this is the first essential. Not, then, to sit and idly
+fold the hands, expecting it to actualise itself, but to take hold of
+the first thing that offers itself to do,--that lies sufficiently along
+the way,--to do this faithfully, believing, knowing, that it is but the
+step that will lead to the next best thing, and this to the next; this
+is the second and the completing stage of all accomplishment.
+
+We speak of fate many times as if it were something foreign to or
+outside of ourselves, forgetting that fate awaits always our own
+conditions. A man decides his own fate through the types of thoughts he
+entertains and gives a dominating influence in his life. He sits at the
+helm of his thought world and, guiding, decides his own fate, or,
+through negative, vacillating, and therefore weakening thought, he
+drifts, and fate decides him. Fate is not something that takes form and
+dominates us irrespective of any say on our own part. Through a
+knowledge and an intelligent and determined use of the silent but
+ever-working power of thought we either condition circumstances, or,
+lacking this knowledge or failing to apply it, we accept the rôle of a
+conditioned circumstance. It is a help sometimes to realise and to voice
+with Henley:
+
+    Out of the night that covers me,
+      Black as the pit from pole to pole,
+    I thank whatever gods may be
+      For my unconquerable soul.
+
+The thoughts that we entertain not only determine the conditions of our
+own immediate lives, but they influence, perhaps in a much more subtle
+manner than most of us realise, our relations with and our influence
+upon those with whom we associate or even come into contact. All are
+influenced, even though unconsciously, by them.
+
+Thoughts of good will, sympathy, magnanimity, good cheer--in brief, all
+thoughts emanating from a _spirit of love_--are felt in their positive,
+warming, and stimulating influences by others; they inspire in turn the
+same types of thoughts and feelings in them, and they come back to us
+laden with their ennobling, stimulating, pleasure-bringing influences.
+
+Thoughts of envy, or malice, or hatred, or ill will are likewise felt by
+others. They are influenced adversely by them. They inspire either the
+same types of thoughts and emotions in them; or they produce in them a
+certain type of antagonistic feeling that has the tendency to neutralise
+and, if continued for a sufficient length of time, deaden sympathy and
+thereby all friendly relations.
+
+We have heard much of "personal magnetism." Careful analysis will, I
+think, reveal the fact that the one who has to any marked degree the
+element of personal magnetism is one of the large-hearted, magnanimous,
+cheer-bringing, unself-centred types, whose positive thought forces are
+being continually felt by others, and are continually inspiring and
+calling forth from others these same splendid attributes. I have yet to
+find any one, man or woman, of the opposite habits and, therefore, trend
+of mind and heart who has had or who has even to the slightest
+perceptible degree the quality that we ordinarily think of when we use
+the term "personal magnetism."
+
+If one would have friends he or she must be a friend, must radiate
+habitually friendly, helpful thoughts, good will, love. The one who
+doesn't cultivate the hopeful, cheerful, uncomplaining, good-will
+attitude toward life and toward others becomes a drag, making life
+harder for others as well as for one's self.
+
+Ordinarily we find in people the qualities we are mostly looking for, or
+the qualities that our own prevailing characteristics call forth. The
+larger the nature, the less critical and cynical it is, the more it is
+given to looking for the best and the highest in others, and the less,
+therefore, is it given to gossip.
+
+It was Jeremy Bentham who said: "In order to love mankind, we must not
+expect too much of them." And Goethe had a still deeper vision when he
+said: "Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
+and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own."
+
+The chief characteristic of the gossip is that he or she prefers to live
+in the low-lying miasmic strata of life, revelling in the negatives of
+life and taking joy in finding and peddling about the findings that he
+or she naturally makes there. The larger natures see the good and
+sympathise with the weaknesses and the frailties of others. They realise
+also that it is so consummately inconsistent--many times even humorously
+inconsistent--for one also with weaknesses, frailties, and faults,
+though perhaps of a little different character, to sit in judgment of
+another. Gossip concerning the errors or shortcomings of another is
+judging another. The one who is himself perfect is the one who has the
+right to judge another. By a strange law, however, though by a natural
+law, we find, as we understand life in its fundamentals better, such a
+person is seldom if ever given to judging, much less to gossip.
+
+Life becomes rich and expansive through sympathy, good will, and good
+cheer; not through cynicism or criticism. That splendid little poem of
+but a single stanza by Edwin Markham, "Outwitted," points after all to
+one of life's fundamentals:
+
+    He drew a circle that shut me out--
+    Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout,
+    But Love and I had the wit to win:
+    We drew a circle that took him in!
+
+
+
+
+VI
+
+JESUS THE SUPREME EXPONENT OF THE INNER FORCES AND POWERS: HIS PEOPLE'S
+RELIGION AND THEIR CONDITION
+
+
+In order to have any true or adequate understanding of what the real
+revelation and teachings of Jesus were, two things must be borne in
+mind. It is necessary in the first place, not only to have a knowledge
+of, but always to bear in mind the method, the medium through which the
+account of his life has come down to us. Again, before the real content
+and significance of Jesus' revelation and teachings can be intelligently
+understood, it is necessary that we have a knowledge of the conditions
+of the time in which he lived and of the people to whom he spoke, to
+whom his revelation was made.
+
+To any one who has even a rudimentary knowledge of the former, it
+becomes apparent at once that no single saying or statement of Jesus can
+be taken to indicate either his revelation or his purpose. These must be
+made to depend upon not any single statement or saying of his own, much
+less anything reported about him by another; but it must be made to
+depend rather upon the whole tenor of his teachings.
+
+Jesus put nothing in writing. There was no one immediately at hand to
+make a record of any of his teachings or any of his acts. It is now well
+known that no one of the gospels was written by an immediate hearer, by
+an eye-witness.
+
+The Gospel of Mark, the oldest gospel, or in other words the one written
+nearest to Jesus' time, was written some forty years after he had
+finished his work. Matthew and Luke, taken to a great extent from the
+Gospel of Mark, supplemented by one or two additional sources, were
+written many years after. The Gospel of John was not written until after
+the beginning of the second century after Christ. These four sets of
+chronicles, called the Gospels, written independently one of another,
+were then collected many years after their authors were dead, and still
+a great deal later were brought together into a single book.
+
+The following concise statement by Professor Henry Drummond throws much
+light upon the way the New Testament portions of our Bible took form:
+"The Bible is not a book; it is a library. It consists of sixty-six
+books. It is a great convenience, but in some respects a great
+misfortune, that these books have always been bound up together and
+given out as one book to the world, when they are not; because that has
+led to endless mistakes in theology and practical life. These books,
+which make up this library, written at intervals of hundreds of years,
+were collected after the last of the writers was dead--long after--by
+human hands. Where were the books? Take the New Testament. There were
+four lives of Christ. One was in Rome; one was in Southern Italy; one
+was in Palestine; one in Asia Minor. There were twenty-one letters. Five
+were in Greece and Macedonia; five in Asia; one in Rome. The rest were
+in the pockets of private individuals. Theophilus had Acts. They were
+collected undesignedly. In the third century the New Testament consisted
+of the following books: The four Gospels, Acts, thirteen letters of
+Paul, I John, I Peter; and, in addition, the Epistles of Barnabas and
+Hermas. This was not called the New Testament, but the Christian
+Library. Then these last books were discarded. They ceased to be
+regarded as upon the same level as the others. In the fourth century the
+canon was closed--that is to say, a list was made up of the books which
+were to be regarded as canonical. And then long after that they were
+stitched together and made up into one book--hundreds of years after
+that. Who made up the complete list? It was never formally made up. The
+bishops of the different churches would draw up a list each of the books
+that they thought ought to be put into this Testament. The churches also
+would give their opinions. Sometimes councils would meet and talk it
+over--discuss it. Scholars like Jerome would investigate the
+authenticity of the different documents, and there came to be a general
+consensus of the churches on the matter."
+
+Jesus spoke in his own native language, the Aramaic. His sayings were
+then rendered into Greek, and, as is well known by all well-versed
+Biblical scholars, it was not an especially high order of Greek. The New
+Testament scriptures including the four gospels, were then many hundreds
+of years afterwards translated from the Greek into our modern
+languages--English, German, French, Swedish, or whatever the language of
+the particular translation may be. Those who know anything of the matter
+of translation know how difficult it is to render the exact meanings of
+any statements or writing into another language. The rendering of a
+_single word_ may sometimes mean, or rather may make a great difference
+in the thought of the one giving the utterance. How much greater is this
+liability when the thing thus rendered is twice removed from its
+original source and form!
+
+The original manuscripts had no punctuation and no verse divisions;
+these were all arbitrarily supplied by the translators later on. It is
+also a well-established fact on the part of leading Biblical scholars
+that through the centuries there have been various interpolations in the
+New Testament scriptures, both by way of omissions and additions.
+
+Reference is made to these various facts in connection with the sayings
+and the teachings of Jesus and the methods and the media through which
+they have come down to us, to show how impossible it would be to base
+Jesus' revelation or purpose upon any single utterance made or purported
+to be made by him--to indicate, in other words, that to get at his real
+message, his real teachings, and his real purpose, we must find the
+binding thread if possible, the reiterated statement, the repeated
+purpose that makes them throb with the living element.
+
+Again, no intelligent understanding of Jesus' revelation or ministry can
+be had without a knowledge of the conditions of the time, and of the
+people to whom his revelation was made, among whom he lived and worked;
+for his ministry had in connection with it both a time element and an
+eternal element. There are two things that must be noted, the moral and
+religious condition of the people; and, again, their economic and
+political status.
+
+The Jewish people had been preeminently a religious people. But a great
+change had taken place. Religion was at its lowest ebb. Its spirit was
+well-nigh dead, and in its place there had gradually come into being a
+Pharisaic legalism--a religion of form, ceremony. An extensive system of
+ecclesiastical tradition, ecclesiastical law and observances, which had
+gradually robbed the people of all their former spirit of religion, had
+been gradually built up by those in ecclesiastical authority.
+
+The voice of that illustrious line of Hebrew prophets had ceased to
+speak. It was close to two hundred years since the voice of a living
+prophet had been heard. Tradition had taken its place. It took the form:
+Moses hath said; It has been said of old; The prophet hath said. The
+scribe was the keeper of the ecclesiastical law. The lawyer was its
+interpreter.
+
+The Pharisees had gradually elevated themselves into an ecclesiastical
+hierarchy who were the custodians of the law and religion. They had come
+to regard themselves as especially favoured, a privileged class--not
+only the custodians but the dispensers of all religious knowledge--and
+therefore of religion. The people, in their estimation, were of a lower
+intellectual and religious order, possessing no capabilities in
+connection with religion or morals, dependent therefore upon their
+superiors in these matters.
+
+This state of affairs that had gradually come about was productive of
+two noticeable results: a religious starvation and stagnation on the
+part of the great mass of the people on the one hand, and the creation
+of a haughty, self-righteous and domineering ecclesiastical hierarchy on
+the other. In order for a clear understanding of some of Jesus' sayings
+and teachings, some of which constitute a very vital part of his
+ministry, it is necessary to understand clearly what this condition was.
+
+Another important fact that sheds much light upon the nature of the
+ministry of Jesus is to be found, as has already been intimated, in the
+political and the economic condition of the people of the time. The
+Jewish nation had been subjugated and were under the domination of Rome.
+Rome in connection with Israel, as in connection with all conquered
+peoples, was a hard master. Taxes and tribute, tribute and taxes, could
+almost be said to be descriptive of her administration of affairs.
+
+She was already in her degenerate stage. Never perhaps in the history of
+the world had men been so ruled by selfishness, greed, military power
+and domination, and the pomp and display of material wealth. Luxury,
+indulgence, over-indulgence, vice. The inevitable concomitant
+followed--a continually increasing moral and physical degeneration. An
+increasing luxury and indulgence called for an increasing means to
+satisfy them. Messengers were sent and additional tribute was levied.
+Pontius Pilate was the Roman administrative head or governor in Judea at
+the time. Tiberius Cæsar was the Roman Emperor.
+
+Rome at this time consisted of a few thousand nobles and people of
+station--freemen--and hundreds of thousands of slaves. Even her
+campaigns in time became virtual raids for plunder. She conquered--and
+she plundered those whom she conquered. Great numbers from among the
+conquered peoples were regularly taken to Rome and sold into slavery.
+Judea had not escaped this. Thousands of her best people had been
+transported to Rome and sold into slavery. It was never known where the
+blow would fall next; what homes would be desolated and both sons and
+daughters sent away into slavery. No section, no family could feel any
+sense of security. A feeling of fear, a sense of desolation pervaded
+everywhere.
+
+There was a tradition, which had grown into a well-defined belief, that
+a Deliverer would be sent them, that they would be delivered out of the
+hands of their enemies and that their oppressors would in turn be
+brought to grief. There was also in the section round about Judæa a
+belief, which had grown until it had become well-nigh universal, that
+the end of the world, or the end of the age, was speedily coming, that
+then there would be an end of all earthly government and that the reign
+of Jehovah--the kingdom of God--would be established. These two beliefs
+went hand in hand. They were kept continually before the people, and now
+and then received a fresh impetus by the appearance of a new prophet or
+a new teacher, whom the people went gladly out to hear. Of this kind was
+John, the son of a priest, later called John the Baptist.
+
+After his period of preparation, he came out of the wilderness of Judæa,
+and in the region about the Jordan with great power and persuasiveness,
+according to the accounts, he gave utterance to the message: Repent ye,
+for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Forsake all earthly things; they
+will be of avail but a very short time now, turn ye from them and
+prepare yourselves for the coming of the Kingdom of God. The old things
+will speedily pass away; all things will become new. Many went out to
+hear him and were powerfully appealed to by the earnest, rugged
+utterances of this new preacher of righteousness and repentance.
+
+His name and his message spread through all the land of Judea and the
+country around the Jordan. Many were baptised by him there, he making
+use of this symbolic service which had been long in use by certain
+branches of the Jewish people, especially the order of the Essenes.
+
+Among those who went out to hear John and who accepted baptism at his
+hands was Jesus, the son of Joseph and Mary, whose home was at Nazareth.
+It marks also the beginning of his own public ministry, for which he
+evidently had been in preparation for a considerable time.
+
+It seems strange that we know so little of the early life of one
+destined to exert such a powerful influence upon the thought and the
+life of the world. In the gospel of Mark, probably the most reliable,
+because the nearest to his time, there is no mention whatever of his
+early life. The first account is where he appears at John's meetings.
+Almost immediately thereafter begins his own public ministry.
+
+In the gospel of Luke we have a very meagre account of him. It is at the
+age of twelve. The brief account gives us a glimpse into the lives of
+his father and his mother, Joseph and Mary; showing that at that time
+they were not looked upon as in any way different from all of the
+inhabitants of their little community, Nazareth, the little town in
+Galilee--having a family of several sons and daughters, and that Jesus,
+the eldest of the family, grew in stature and in knowledge, as all the
+neighbouring children grew; but that he, even at an early age, showed
+that he had a wonderful aptitude for the things of the spirit. I
+reproduce Luke's brief account here:
+
+"Now, his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the
+passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem,
+after the custom of the feast. And when they had fulfilled the days, as
+they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem: and Joseph
+and his mother knew not of it. But they, supposing him to have been in
+the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their
+kinsfolk and acquaintances. And when they found him not, they turned
+back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. And it came to pass that after
+three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the
+doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions. And all that heard
+him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
+
+"And when they saw him they were amazed: and his mother said unto him,
+Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Behold, thy father and I have
+sought thee sorrowing. And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought
+me? Wist ye not that I must be about my father's business? And they
+understood not the saying which he spake unto them. And he went down
+with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his
+mother kept all these sayings in her heart. And Jesus increased in
+wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man."
+
+Nothing could be more interesting than to know the early life of Jesus.
+There are various theories as to how this was spent, that is, as to what
+his preparation was--the facts of his life, in addition to his working
+with his father at his trade, that of a carpenter; but we know nothing
+that has the stamp of historical accuracy upon it. Of his entire life,
+indeed, including the period of his active ministry, from thirty to
+nearly thirty-three, it is but fair to presume that we have at best but
+a fragmentary account in the Gospel narratives. It is probable that many
+things connected with his ministry, and many of his sayings and
+teachings, we have no record of at all.
+
+It is probable that in connection with his preparation he spent a great
+deal of time alone, in the quiet, in communion with his Divine Source,
+or as the term came so naturally to him, with God, his Father--God, our
+Father, for that was his teaching--my God and your God. The many times
+that we are told in the narratives that he went to the mountain alone,
+would seem to justify us in this conclusion. Anyway, it would be
+absolutely impossible for anyone to have such a vivid realisation of his
+essential oneness with the Divine, without much time spent in such a
+manner that the real life could evolve into its Divine likeness, and
+then mould the outer life according to this ideal or pattern.
+
+
+
+
+VII
+
+THE DIVINE RULE IN THE MIND AND HEART: THE UNESSENTIALS WE DROP--THE
+SPIRIT ABIDES
+
+
+That Jesus had a supreme aptitude for the things of the spirit, there
+can be no question. That through desire and through will he followed the
+leadings of the spirit--that he gave himself completely to its
+leadings--is evident both from his utterances and his life. It was this
+combination undoubtedly that led him into that vivid sense of his life
+in God, which became so complete that he afterwards speaks--I and my
+Father are one. That he was always, however, far from identifying
+himself as equal with God is indicated by his constant declaration of
+his dependence upon God. Again and again we have these declarations: "My
+meat and drink is to do the will of God." "My doctrine is not mine, but
+his that sent me." "I can of myself do nothing: as I hear I judge; and
+my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will
+of him that sent me."
+
+And even the very last acts and words of his life proclaim this
+constant sense of dependence for guidance, for strength, and even for
+succour. With all his Divine self-realisation there was always,
+moreover, that sense of humility that is always a predominating
+characteristic of the really great. "Why callest thou me good? There is
+none good but one--that is God."
+
+It is not at all strange, therefore, that the very first utterance of
+his public ministry, according to the chronicler Mark was: The Kingdom
+of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. And while this was
+the beginning utterance, it was the keynote that ran through his entire
+ministry. It is the basic fact of all his teachings. The realisation of
+his own life he sought to make the realisation of all others. It was, it
+is, a call to righteousness, and a call to righteousness through the
+only channel that any such call can be effective--through a realisation
+of the essential righteousness and goodness of the human soul.
+
+An unbiased study of Jesus' own words will reveal the fact that he
+taught only what he himself had first realised. It is this, moreover,
+that makes him the supreme teacher of all time--Counsellor, Friend,
+Saviour. It is the saving of men from their lower conceptions and
+selves, a lifting of them up to their higher selves, which, as he
+taught, is eternally one with God, the Father, and which, when realised,
+will inevitably, reflexly, one might say, lift a man's thoughts, acts,
+conduct--the entire life--up to that standard or pattern. It is thus
+that the Divine ideal, that the Christ becomes enthroned within. The
+Christ-consciousness is the universal Divine nature in us. It is the
+state of God-consciousness. It is the recognition of the indwelling
+Divine life as the source, and therefore the essence of our own lives.
+
+Jesus came as the revealer of a new truth, a new conception of man.
+Indeed, the Messiah. He came as the revealer of the only truth that
+could lead his people out of their trials and troubles--out of their
+bondage. They were looking for their Deliverer to come in the person of
+a worldly king and to set up his rule as such. He came in the person of
+a humble teacher, the revealer of a mighty truth, the revealer of the
+Way, the only way whereby real freedom and deliverance can come. For
+those who would receive him, he was indeed the Messiah. For those who
+would not, he was not, and the same holds today.
+
+He came as the revealer of a truth which had been glimpsed by many
+inspired teachers among the Jewish race and among those of other races.
+The time waited, however, for one to come who would first embody this
+truth and then be able effectively to teach it. This was done in a
+supreme degree by the Judæan Teacher. He came not as the doer-away with
+the Law and the Prophets, but rather to regain and then to supplement
+them. Such was his own statement.
+
+It is time to ascend another round. I reveal God to you, not in the
+Tabernacle, but in the human heart--then in the Tabernacle in the degree
+that He is in the hearts of those who frequent the Tabernacle. Otherwise
+the Tabernacle becomes a whited sepulchre. The Church is not a building,
+an organisation, not a creed. The Church is the Spirit of Truth. It must
+have one supreme object and purpose--to lead men to the truth. I reveal
+what I have found--I in the Father and the Father in me. I seek not to
+do mine own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.
+
+Everything was subordinated to this Divine realisation and to his Divine
+purpose.
+
+The great purpose at which he laboured so incessantly was the teaching
+of the realisation of the Divine will in the hearts and minds, and
+through these in the lives of men--the finding and the realisation of
+the Kingdom of God. This is the supreme fact of life. Get right at the
+centre and the circumference will then care for itself. As is the
+inner, so always and invariably will be the outer. There is an inner
+guide that regulates the life when this inner guide is allowed to assume
+authority. Why be disconcerted, why in a heat concerning so many things?
+It is not the natural and the normal life. Life at its best is something
+infinitely beyond this. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His
+righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." And if
+there is any doubt in regard to his real meaning in this here is his
+answer: "Neither shall they say, 'Lo here' or 'Lo there' for behold the
+Kingdom of God is within you."
+
+Again and again this is his call. Again and again this is his
+revelation. In the first three gospels alone he uses the expression "the
+Kingdom of God," or "the Kingdom of Heaven," upwards of thirty times.
+Any possible reference to any organisation that he might have had in
+mind, can be found in the entire four gospels but twice.
+
+It would almost seem that it would not be difficult to judge as to what
+was uppermost in his mind. I have made this revelation to you; you must
+raise yourselves, you must become _in reality_ what _in essence_ you
+really are. I in the Father, and the Father in me. I reveal only what I
+myself know. As I am, ye shall be. God is your Father. In your real
+nature you are Divine. Drop your ideas of the depravity of the human
+soul. To believe it depraves. To teach it depraves the one who teaches
+it, and the one who accepts it. Follow not the traditions of men. I
+reveal to you your Divine birthright. Accept it. It is best. Behold all
+things are become new. The Kingdom of God is the one all-inclusive
+thing. Find it and all else will follow.
+
+"Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison
+shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it
+is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth;
+but when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs,
+and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge
+under the shadow of it." "Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? Is
+it like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal,
+till the whole was leavened?" Seek ye first the Kingdom, and the Holy
+Spirit, the channel of communion between God your source, and
+yourselves, will lead you, and will lead you into all truth. It will
+become as a lamp to your feet, a guide that is always reliable.
+
+To refuse allegiance to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, is the
+real sin, the only sin that cannot be forgiven. Violation of all moral
+and natural law may be forgiven. It will bring its penalty, for the
+violation of law carries in itself its own penalty, its own
+punishment--_it is a part of law_; but cease the violation and the
+penalty ceases. The violation registers its ill effects in the illness,
+the sickness, of body and spirit. If the violation has been long
+continued, these effects may remain for some time; but the instant the
+violation ceases the repair will begin, and things will go the other
+way.
+
+Learn from this experience, however, that there can be no deliberate
+violation of, or blaspheming against any moral or natural law. But
+deliberately to refuse obedience to the inner guide, the Holy Spirit,
+constitutes a defiance that eventually puts out the lamp of life, and
+that can result only in confusion and darkness. It severs the ordained
+relationship, the connecting, the binding cord, between the soul--the
+self--and its Source. Stagnation, degeneracy, and eventual death is
+merely the natural sequence.
+
+With this Divine self-realisation the Spirit assumes control and
+mastery, and you are saved from the follies of error, and from the
+consequences of error. Repent ye--turn from your trespasses and sins,
+from your lower conceptions of life, of pleasure and of pain, and walk
+in this way. The lower propensities and desires will lose their hold
+and will in time fall away. You will be at first surprised, and then
+dumfounded, at what you formerly took for pleasure. True pleasure and
+satisfaction go hand in hand,--nor are there any bad after results.
+
+All genuine pleasures should lead to more perfect health, a greater
+accretion of power, a continually expanding sense of life and service.
+When God is uppermost in the heart, when the Divine rule under the
+direction of the Holy Spirit becomes the ruling power in the life of the
+individual, then the body and its senses are subordinated to this rule;
+the passions become functions to be used; license and perverted use give
+way to moderation and wise use; and there are then no penalties that
+outraged law exacts; satiety gives place to satisfaction. It was Edward
+Carpenter who said: "In order to enjoy life one must be a master of
+life--for to be a slave to its inconsistencies can only mean torment;
+and in order to enjoy the senses one must be master of them. To dominate
+the actual world you must, like Archimedes, base your fulcrum somewhere
+beyond."
+
+It is not the use, but the abuse of anything good in itself that brings
+satiety, disease, suffering, dissatisfaction. Nor is asceticism a true
+road of life. All things are for use; but all must be wisely, in most
+cases, moderately used, for true enjoyment. All functions and powers are
+for use; but all must be brought under the domination of the Spirit--the
+God-illumined spirit. This is the road that leads to heaven here and
+heaven hereafter--and we can rest assured that we will never find a
+heaven hereafter that we do not make while here. Through everything runs
+this teaching of the Master.
+
+How wonderfully and how masterfully and simply he sets forth his whole
+teaching of sin and the sinner and his relation to the Father in that
+marvellous parable, the Parable of the Prodigal Son. To bring it clearly
+to mind again it runs:
+
+"A certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father,
+Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth _to me_. And he
+divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son
+gathered all together, and took his journey to a far country, and there
+wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all,
+there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
+And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent
+him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his
+belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
+And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my
+father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I
+will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have
+sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be
+called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose and
+came to his father.
+
+"But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had
+compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and kissed him. And the son
+said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight,
+and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his
+servants, Bring forth the best robe and put it on him; and put a ring on
+his hand, and shoes on his feet: and bring hither the fatted calf, and
+kill it; and let us eat, and be merry; for this my son was dead, and is
+alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. Now
+his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the
+house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants,
+and asked what these things meant. And he said unto him, Thy brother is
+come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath
+received him safe and sound. And he was angry and would not go in:
+therefore came his father out, and entreated him, and he answering said
+to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither
+transgressed I at any time thy commandment; and yet thou never gavest me
+a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: but as soon as this thy
+son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast
+killed for him the fatted calf. And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever
+with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make
+merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again;
+and was lost, and is found."
+
+It does away forever in all thinking minds with any participation of
+Jesus in that perverted and perverting doctrine that man is by nature
+essentially depraved, degraded, fallen, in the sense as was given to the
+world long, long after his time in the doctrine of the Fall of Man, and
+the need of redemption through some external source outside of himself,
+in distinction from the truth that he revealed that was to make men
+free--the truth of their Divine nature, and this love of man by the
+Heavenly Father, and the love of the Heavenly Father by His children.
+
+To connect Jesus with any such thought or teaching would be to take the
+heart out of his supreme revelation. For his whole conception of God the
+Father, given in all his utterances, was that of a Heavenly Father of
+love, of care, longing to exercise His protecting care and to give good
+gifts to His children--and this because it is the _essential nature_ of
+God to be fatherly. His Fatherhood is not, therefore, accidental, not
+dependent upon any conditions or circumstances; it is essential.
+
+If it is the nature of a father to give good gifts to his children, so
+in a still greater degree is it the nature of the Heavenly Father to
+give good gifts to those who ask Him. As His words are recorded by
+Matthew: "Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will
+he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If
+ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how
+much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them
+that ask him?" So in the parable as presented by Jesus, the father's
+love was such that as soon as it was made known to him that his son who
+had been lost to him had returned, he went out to meet him; he granted
+him full pardon--and there were no conditions.
+
+Speaking of the fundamental teaching of the Master, and also in
+connection with this same parable, another has said: "It thus appears
+from this story, as elsewhere in the teaching of Jesus, that he did not
+call God our father because He created us, or because He rules over us,
+or because He made a covenant with Abraham, but simply and only because
+He loves us. This parable individualises the divine love, as did also
+the missionary activity of Jesus. The gospels know nothing of a national
+fatherhood, of a God whose love is confined to a particular people. It
+is the individual man who has a heavenly Father, and this individualised
+fatherhood is the only one of which Jesus speaks. As he had realised his
+own moral and spiritual life in the consciousness that God was his
+father, so he sought to give life to the world by a living revelation of
+the truth that God loves each separate soul. This is a prime factor in
+the religion and ethics of Jesus. It is seldom or vaguely apprehended in
+the Old Testament teaching; but in the teaching of Jesus it is central
+and normative." Again in the two allied parables of Jesus--the Parable
+of the Lost Sheep, and the Parable of the Lost Coin--it is his purpose
+to teach the great love of the Father for all, including those lost in
+their trespasses and sins, and His rejoicing in their return.
+
+This leads to Jesus' conception and teaching of sin and repentance.
+Although God is the Father, He demands filial obedience in the hearts
+and the minds of His children. Men by following the devices and desires
+of their own hearts, are not true to their real nature, their Divine
+pattern. By following their selfish desires they have brought sin, and
+thereby suffering, on themselves and others. The unclean, the selfish
+desires of mind and heart, keep them from their higher moral and
+spiritual ideal--although not necessarily giving themselves to gross
+sin. Therefore, they must become sons of God by repenting--by turning
+from the evil inclinations of their hearts and seeking to follow the
+higher inclinations of the heart as becomes children of God and those
+who are dwellers in the Heavenly Kingdom. Therefore, his opening
+utterance: "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand;
+repent ye, and believe the gospel."
+
+Love of God with the whole heart, and love of the neighbour, leading to
+the higher peace and fulfilment, must take the place of these more
+selfish desires that lead to antagonisms and dissatisfactions both
+within and without. All men are to pray: Forgive us our sins. All men
+are to repent of their sins which are the results of following their own
+selfish desires,--those of the body, or their own selfish desires to the
+detriment of the welfare of the neighbour.
+
+All men are to seek the Divine rule, the rule of God in the heart, and
+thereby have the guidance of the Holy Spirit, which is the Divine
+spirit of wisdom that tabernacles with man when through desire and
+through will he makes the conditions whereby it can make its abode with
+him. It is a manifestation of the force that is above man--it is the
+eternal heritage of the soul. "Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the
+Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." And therein lies salvation. It
+follows the seeking and the finding of the Kingdom of God and His
+righteousness that Jesus revealed to a waiting world.
+
+And so it was the spirit of religion that Jesus came to reveal--the real
+Fatherhood of God and the Divine Sonship of man. A better righteousness
+than that of the scribes and the Pharisees--not a slavish adherence to
+the Law, with its supposed profits and rewards. Get the motive of life
+right. Get the heart right and these things become of secondary
+importance. As his supreme revelation was the personal fatherhood of
+God, from which follows necessarily the Divine sonship of man, so there
+was a corollary to it, a portion of it almost as essential as the main
+truth itself--namely, that all men are brothers. Not merely those of one
+little group, or tribe or nation; not merely those of any one little set
+or religion; not merely those of this or that little compartment that we
+build and arbitrarily separate ourselves into--but all men the world
+over. If this is not true then Jesus' supreme revelation is false.
+
+In connection with this great truth he brought a new standard by virtue
+of the logic of his revelation. "Ye have heard that it hath been said,
+Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you,
+Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate
+you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
+that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven."
+Struggling for recognition all through the Old Testament scriptures, and
+breaking through partially at least in places, was this conception which
+is at the very basis of all man's relationship with man.
+
+And finally through this supreme Master of life it did break through,
+with a wonderful newborn consciousness.
+
+The old dispensation, with its legal formalism, was an eye for an eye
+and a tooth for a tooth. The new dispensation was--"But I say unto you,
+Love your enemies." Enmity begets enmity. It is as senseless as it is
+godless. It runs through all his teachings and through every act of his
+life. If fundamentally you do not have the love of your fellow-man in
+your hearts, you do not have the love of God in your hearts and you
+cannot have.
+
+And that this fundamental revelation be not misunderstood, near the
+close of his life he said: "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye
+love one another." No man could be, can be his disciple, his follower,
+and fail in the realisation of this fundamental teaching. "By this shall
+all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another." And
+going back again to his ministry we find that it breathes through every
+teaching that he gave. It breathes through that short memorable prayer
+which we call the Lord's Prayer. It permeates the Sermon on the Mount.
+It is the very essence of his summing up of this discourse. We call it
+the Golden Rule. "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye
+even so to them." Not that it was original with Jesus; other teachers
+sent of God had given it before to other peoples--God's other children;
+but he gave it a new emphasis, a new setting. _He made it fundamental._
+
+So a man who is gripped at all vitally by Jesus' teaching of the
+personal fatherhood of God, and the personal brotherhood of man, simply
+can't help but make this the basic rule of his life--and moreover find
+joy in so making it. A man who really comprehends this fundamental
+teaching can't be crafty, sneaking, dishonest, or dishonourable, in his
+business, or in any phase of his personal life. He never hogs the
+penny--in other words, he never seeks to gain his own advantage to the
+disadvantage of another. He may be long-headed; he may be able to size
+up and seize conditions; but he seeks no advantage for himself to the
+detriment of his fellow, to the detriment of his community, or to the
+detriment of his extended community, the nation or the world. He is
+thoughtful, considerate, open, frank; and, moreover, he finds great joy
+in being so.
+
+I have never seen any finer statement of the essential reasonableness,
+therefore, of the essential truth of the value and the practice of the
+Golden Rule than that given by a modern disciple of Jesus who left us
+but a few years ago. A poor boy, a successful business man, straight,
+square, considerate in all his dealings,--a power among his fellows, a
+lamp indeed to the feet of many--was Samuel Milton Jones, thrice mayor
+of Toledo. Simple, unassuming, friend of all, rich as well as poor, poor
+as well as rich, friend of the outcast, the thief, the criminal, looking
+beyond the exterior, he saw as did Jesus, the human soul always intact,
+though it erred in its judgment--as we all err in our judgments, each in
+his own peculiar way--and that by forbearance, consideration, and love,
+it could be touched and the life redeemed--redeemed to happiness, to
+usefulness, to service. Notwithstanding his many duties, business and
+political, he thought much and he loved to talk of the things we are
+considering.
+
+His brief statement of the fundamental reasons and the comprehensive
+results of the actual practice of the Golden Rule are shot through with
+such fine insight, such abounding comprehension, that they deserve to
+become immortal. He was my friend and I would not see them die. I
+reproduce them here: "As I view it, the Golden Rule is the supreme law
+of life. It may be paraphrased this way: As you do unto others, others
+will do unto you. What I give, I get. If I love you, really and truly
+and actively love you, you are as sure to love me in return as the earth
+is sure to be warmed by the rays of the midsummer sun. If I hate you,
+ill-treat you and abuse you, I am equally certain to arouse the same
+kind of antagonism towards me, unless the Divine nature is so developed
+that it is dominant in you, and you have learned to love your enemies.
+What can be plainer? The Golden Rule is the law of action and reaction
+in the field of morals, just as definite, just as certain here as the
+law is definite and certain in the domain of physics.
+
+"I think the confusion with respect to the Golden Rule arises from the
+different conceptions that we have of the word love. I use the word
+love as synonymous with reason, and when I speak of doing the loving
+thing, I mean the reasonable thing. When I speak of dealing with my
+fellow-men in an unreasonable way, I mean an unloving way. The terms are
+interchangeable, absolutely. The reason why we know so little about the
+Golden Rule is because we have not practised it."
+
+Was Mayor Jones a Christian? you ask. He was a follower of the
+Christ--for it was he who said: "By this shall all men know ye are my
+disciples, if ye love one another." Was he a member of a religious
+organisation? I don't know--it never occurred to me to ask him. Thinking
+men the world over are making a sharp distinction in these days between
+organised Christianity and essential Christianity.
+
+The element of fear has lost its hold on the part of thinking men and
+women. It never opened up, it never can open up the springs of
+righteousness in the human heart. He believed and he acted upon the
+belief that it was the spirit that the Master taught--that God is a God
+of love and that He reveals Himself in terms of love to those who really
+know Him. He believed that there is joy to the human soul in following
+this inner guide and translating its impulses into deeds of love and
+service for one's fellow-men. If we could, if we would thus translate
+religion into terms of life, it would become a source of perennial joy.
+
+It is not with observation, said Jesus, that the supreme thing that he
+taught--the seeking and finding of the Kingdom of God--will come. Do not
+seek it at some other place, some other time. It is within, and if
+within it will show forth. Make no mistake about that,--it will show
+forth. It touches and it sensitises the inner springs of action in a
+man's or a woman's life. When a man realises his Divine sonship that
+Jesus taught, he will act as a son of God. Out of the heart spring
+either good or evil actions. Self-love, me, mine; let me get all I can
+for myself, or, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself--the Divine law
+of service, of mutuality--the highest source of ethics.
+
+You can trust any man whose heart is right. He will be straight, clean,
+reliable. His word will be as good as his bond. Personally you can't
+trust a man who is brought into any line of action, or into any
+institution through fear. The sore is there, liable to break out in
+corruption at any time. This opening up of the springs of the inner life
+frees him also from the letter of the law, which after all consists of
+the traditions of men, and makes him subject to that higher moral guide
+within. How clearly Jesus illustrated this in his conversations
+regarding the observance of the Sabbath--how the Sabbath was made for
+man and not man for the Sabbath, and how it was always right to do good
+on the Sabbath.
+
+I remember some years ago a friend in my native state telling me the
+following interesting incident in connection with his grandmother. It
+was in northern Illinois--it might have been in New England. "As a boy,"
+said he, "I used to visit her on the farm. She loved her cup of coffee
+for breakfast. Ordinarily she would grind it fresh each morning in the
+kitchen; but when Sunday morning came she would take her coffee-grinder
+down into the far end of the cellar, where no one could see and no one
+could hear her grind it." He could never quite tell, he said, whether it
+was to ease her own conscience, or in order to give no offence to her
+neighbours.
+
+Now, I can imagine Jesus passing by and stopping at that home--it was a
+home known for its native kindly hospitality--and meeting her just as
+she was coming out of the cellar with her coffee-grinder--his quick and
+unerring perception enabling him to take in the whole situation at once,
+and saying: "In the name of the Father, Aunt Susan, what were you doing
+with your coffee-grinder down in the cellar on this beautiful Sabbath
+morning? You like your cup of coffee, and I also like the coffee that
+you make; thank God that you have it, and thank God that you have the
+good health to enjoy it. We can give praise to the Father through eating
+and drinking, if, as in everything else, these are done in moderation
+and we give value received for all the things that we use. So don't take
+your grinder down into the cellar on the Sabbath morning; but grind your
+coffee up here in God's sunshine, with a thankful heart that you have it
+to grind."
+
+And I can imagine him, as he passes out of the little front gate,
+turning and waving another good-bye and saying: "When I come again, Aunt
+Susan, be it week-day or Sabbath, remember God's sunshine and keep out
+of the cellar." And turning again in a half-joking manner: "And when you
+take those baskets of eggs to town, Aunt Susan, don't pick out too many
+of the large ones to keep for yourself, but take them just as the hens
+lay them. And, Aunt Susan, give good weight in your butter. This will do
+your soul infinitely more good than the few extra coins you would gain
+by too carefully calculating"--Aunt Susan with all her lovable
+qualities, had a little tendency to close dealing.
+
+I think we do incalculable harm by separating Jesus so completely from
+the more homely, commonplace affairs of our daily lives. If we had a
+more adequate account of his discourses with the people and his
+associations with the people, we would perhaps find that he was not,
+after all, so busy in saving the world that he didn't have time for the
+simple, homely enjoyments and affairs of the everyday life. The little
+glimpses that we have of him along these lines indicate to me that he
+had. Unless we get his truths right into this phase of our lives, the
+chances are that we will miss them entirely.
+
+And I think that with all his earnestness, Jesus must have had an
+unusually keen sense of humour. With his unusual perceptions and his
+unusual powers in reading and in understanding human nature, it could
+not be otherwise. That he had a keen sense for beauty; that he saw it,
+that he valued it, that he loved it, especially beauty in all nature,
+many of his discourses so abundantly prove. Religion with him was not
+divorced from life. It was the power that permeated every thought and
+every act of the daily life.
+
+
+
+
+VIII
+
+IF WE SEEK THE ESSENCE OF HIS REVELATION, AND THE PURPOSE OF HIS LIFE
+
+
+If we would seek the essence of Jesus' revelation, attested both by his
+words and his life, it was to bring a knowledge of the ineffable love of
+God to man, and by revealing this, to instil in the minds and hearts of
+men love for God, and a knowledge of and following of the ways of God.
+It was also then to bring a new emphasis of the Divine law of love--the
+love of man for man. Combined, it results, so to speak, in raising men
+to a higher power, to a higher life,--as individuals, as groups, as one
+great world group.
+
+It is a newly sensitised attitude of mind and heart that he brought and
+that he endeavoured to reveal in all its matchless beauty--a following
+not of the traditions of men, but fidelity to one's God, whereby the
+Divine rule in the mind and heart assumes supremacy and, as must
+inevitably follow, fidelity to one's fellow-men. These are the
+essentials of Jesus' revelation--the fundamental forces in his own
+life. His every teaching, his every act, comes back to them. I believe
+also that all efforts to mystify the minds of men and women by later
+theories _about_ him are contrary to his own expressed teaching, and in
+exact degree that they would seek to substitute other things for these
+fundamentals.
+
+I call them fundamentals. I call them his fundamentals. What right have
+I to call them his fundamentals?
+
+An occasion arose one day in the form of a direct question for Jesus to
+state in well-considered and clear-cut terms the essence, the gist, of
+his entire teachings--therefore, by his authority, the fundamentals of
+essential Christianity. In the midst of one of the groups that he was
+speaking to one day, we are told that a certain lawyer arose--an
+interpreter of, an authority on, the existing ecclesiastical law. The
+reference to him is so brief, unfortunately, that we cannot tell whether
+his question was to confound Jesus, as was so often the case, or whether
+being a liberal Jew he longed for an honest and truly helpful answer.
+From Jesus' remark to him, after his primary answer, we are justified in
+believing it was the latter.
+
+His question was: "Master, which is the great commandment in the law?"
+Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
+heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first
+and great commandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love
+thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and
+the prophets."
+
+Here we have a wonderful statement from a wonderful source. So clear-cut
+is it that any wayfaring man, though a fool, cannot mistake it.
+Especially is this true when we couple with it this other statement of
+Jesus: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I
+am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." We must never forget that Jesus
+was born, lived, and died a Jew, the same as all of his disciples--and
+they never regarded themselves in any other light. The _basis_ of his
+religion was the religion of Israel. It was this he taught and
+expounded, now in the synagogue, now out on the hillside and by the
+lake-side. It was this that he tried to teach in its purity, that he
+tried to free from the hedges that ecclesiasticism had built around it,
+this that he endeavoured to raise to a still higher standard.
+
+One cannot find the slightest reference in any of his sayings that would
+indicate that he looked upon himself in any other light--except the
+overwhelming sense that it was his mission to bring in the new
+dispensation by fulfilling the old, and then carrying it another great
+step forward, which he did in a wonderful way--both God-ward and
+man-ward.
+
+We must not forget, then, that Jesus said that he did not come to
+destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil them. We must not
+forget, however, that before fulfilling them he had to free them. The
+freedom-giving, God-illumined words spoken by free God-illumined men,
+had, in the hands of those not God-illumined, later on become
+institutionalised, made into a system, a code. The people were taught
+that only the priests had access to God. They were the custodians of
+God's favour and only through the institution could any man, or any
+woman, have access to God. This became the sacred thing, and as the
+years had passed this had become so hedged about by continually added
+laws and observances that all the spirit of religion had become crushed,
+stifled, beaten to the ground.
+
+The very scribes and Pharisees themselves, supposed to minister to the
+spiritual life and the welfare of the people, became enrobed in their
+fine millinery and arrogance, masters of the people, whose ministers
+they were supposed to be, as is so apt to be the case when an
+institution builds itself upon the free, all-embracing message of truth
+given by any prophet or any inspired teacher. It has occurred time and
+time again. Christianity knows it well. It is only by constant vigilance
+that religious freedom is preserved, from which alone comes any high
+degree of morality, or any degree of free and upward-moving life among
+the people.
+
+It was on account of this shameful robbing of the people of their Divine
+birthright that the just soul of Jesus, abhorring both casuistry and
+oppression under the cloak of religion, gave utterance to that fine
+invective that he used on several occasions, the only times that he
+spoke in a condemnatory or accusing manner: "Now do ye, Pharisee, make
+clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is
+full of ravening and wickedness. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
+hypocrites! For ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk
+over them are not aware of them.... Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! For
+ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch
+not the burdens with one of your fingers.... Woe unto you, lawyers! For
+ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves,
+and them that were entering in ye hindered."
+
+And here is the lesson for us. It is the spirit that must always be kept
+uppermost in religion. Otherwise even the revelation and the religion
+of Jesus could be compressed into a code, with its self-appointed
+instruments of interpretation, the same as the Pharisees did the Law and
+the Prophets that he so bitterly condemned, with a bravery so intrepid
+and so fearless that it finally caused his death.
+
+No, if God is not in the human soul waiting to make Himself known to the
+believing, longing heart, accessible to all alike without money and
+without price, without any prescribed code, then the words of Jesus have
+not been correctly handed down to us. And then again, confirming us in
+the belief that a man's deepest soul relation is a matter between him
+and his God, are his unmistakable and explicit directions in regard to
+prayer.
+
+It is so easy to substitute the secondary thing for the fundamental, the
+by-thing for the essential, the container for the thing itself. You will
+recall that symbolic act of Jesus at the last meeting, the Last Supper
+with his disciples, the washing of the disciples' feet by the Master.
+The point that is intended to be brought out in the story is, of course,
+the extraordinary condescension of Jesus in doing this menial service
+for his disciples. "The feet-washing symbolises the attitude of humble
+service to others. Every follower of Jesus must experience it." One of
+the disciples is so astonished, even taken aback by this menial service
+on the part of Jesus, that he says: Thou shall never wash my feet. Jesus
+answered him, "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me."
+
+In Oriental countries where sandals are worn that cover merely the soles
+of the feet, it was, it is the custom of the host to offer his guest who
+comes water with which to wash his feet. There is no reason why this
+simple incident of humble service, or rather this symbolic act of humble
+service, could not be taken and made an essential condition of salvation
+by any council that saw fit to make it such. Things just as strange as
+this have happened; though any thinking man or woman _today_ would deem
+it essentially foolish.
+
+It is an example of how the spirit of a beautiful act could be
+misrepresented to the people. For if you will look at them again, Jesus'
+words are very explicit: "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with
+me." But hear Jesus' own comment as given in John: "So after he had
+washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again,
+he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me Master
+and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master,
+have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I
+have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
+Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his
+lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know
+these things, happy are ye if ye do them." It is a means to an end and
+not an end in itself. The spirit that it typifies is essential; but not
+the act itself.
+
+The same could be rightly said of the Lord's Supper. It is an observance
+that can be made of great value, one very dear and valuable to many
+people. But it cannot, if Jesus is to be our authority, and if correctly
+reported, be by any means made a fundamental, an essential of salvation.
+From the rebuke administered by Jesus to his disciples in a number of
+cases where they were prone to drag down his meanings by their purely
+material interpretations, we should be saved from this.
+
+You will recall his teaching one day when he spoke of himself as the
+bread of life that a man may eat thereof and not die. Some of his Jewish
+hearers taking his words in a material sense and arguing in regard to
+them one with another said: "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
+Hearing them Jesus reaffirming his statement said: "Verily, verily, I
+say unto you, except ye eat of the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink
+his blood, ye have not life in yourselves.... For my flesh is meat
+indeed, and my blood is drink indeed." His disciples, likewise, prone
+here as so often to make a literal and material interpretation of his
+statements, said one to another: "This is a hard saying; who can hear
+him?" Or according to our idiom--who can understand him? Jesus asked
+them squarely if what he had just said caused them to stumble, and in
+order to be sure that they might not miss his real meaning and therefore
+teaching, said: "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
+nothing: the words that I speak unto you, _they_ are spirit, and _they_
+are life."
+
+Try as we will, we cannot get away from the fact that it was the words
+of truth that Jesus brought that were ever uppermost in his mind. He
+said, Follow me, not some one else, nor something else that would claim
+to represent me. And follow me merely because I lead you to the Father.
+
+So supremely had this young Jewish prophet, the son of a carpenter, made
+God's business his business, that he had come into the full realisation
+of the oneness of his life with the Father's life. He was able to
+realise and to say, "I and my Father are one." He was able to bring to
+the world a knowledge of the great fact of facts--the essential oneness
+of the human with the Divine--that God tabernacles with men, that He
+makes His abode in the minds and the hearts of those who through desire
+and through will open their hearts to His indwelling presence.
+
+The first of the race, he becomes the revealer of this great eternal
+truth--the mediator, therefore, between God and man--in very truth the
+Saviour of men. "If a man love me," said he, "he will keep my words: and
+my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode
+with him.... If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even
+as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love."
+
+It is our eternal refusal to follow Jesus by listening to the words of
+life that he brought, and our proneness to substitute something else in
+their place, that brings the barrenness that is so often evident in the
+everyday life of the Christian. We have been taught _to believe in_
+Jesus; we have not been taught _to believe_ Jesus. This has resulted in
+a separation of Christianity from life. The predominating motive has
+been the saving of the soul. It has resulted too often in a selfish,
+negative, repressive, ineffective religion. As Jesus said: "And why call
+ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"
+
+We are just beginning to realise at all adequately that it was _the
+salvation of the life_ that he taught. When the life is redeemed to
+righteousness through the power of the indwelling God and moves out in
+love and in service for one's fellow-men, the soul is then saved.
+
+A man may be a believer in Jesus for a million years and still be an
+outcast from the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. But a man can't
+believe Jesus, which means following his teachings, without coming at
+once into the Kingdom and enjoying its matchless blessings both here and
+hereafter. And if there is one clear-cut teaching of the Master, it is
+that the life here determines and with absolute precision the life to
+come.
+
+One need not then concern himself with this or that doctrine, whether it
+be true or false. Later speculations and theories are not for him.
+Jesus' own saying applies here: "If any man will do his will he shall
+know of the doctrine, whether it be of God." He enters into the Kingdom,
+the Kingdom of Heaven here and now; and when the time comes for him to
+pass out of this life, he goes as a joyous pilgrim, full of anticipation
+for the Kingdom that awaits him, and the Master's words go with him: "In
+my Father's house are many mansions."
+
+By thus becoming a follower of Jesus rather than merely a believer in
+Jesus, he gradually comes into possession of insights and powers that
+the Master taught would follow in the lives of those who became his
+followers. The Holy Spirit, the Divine Comforter, of which Jesus spoke,
+the Spirit of Truth, that awaits our bidding, will lead continually to
+the highest truth and wisdom and insight and power. Kant's statement,
+"The other world is not another locality, but only another way of seeing
+things," is closely allied to the Master's statement: "The Kingdom of
+God is within you." And closely allied to both is this statement of a
+modern prophet: "The principle of Christianity and of every true
+religion is within the soul--the realisation of the incarnation of God
+in every human being."
+
+When we turn to Jesus' own teachings we find that his insistence was not
+primarily upon the saving of the soul, but upon the saving of the life
+for usefulness, for service, here and now, for still higher growth and
+unfoldment, whereby the soul might be grown to a sufficient degree that
+it would be worth the saving. And this is one of the great facts that is
+now being recognised and preached by the forward-looking men and women
+in our churches and by many equally religious outside of our churches.
+
+And so all aspiring, all thinking, forward-looking men and women of our
+day are not interested any more in theories about, explanations of, or
+dogmas about Jesus. They are being won and enthralled by the wonderful
+personality and life of Jesus. They are being gripped by the power of
+his teachings. They do not want theories about God--they want God--and
+God is what Jesus brought--God as the moving, the predominating, the
+all-embracing force in the individual life. But he who finds the Kingdom
+of God, whose life becomes subject to the Divine rule and life within,
+realises at once also his true relations with the whole--with his
+neighbour, his fellow-men. He realises that his neighbour is not merely
+the man next door, the man around the corner, or even the man in the
+next town or city; but that his neighbour _is every man and every woman
+in the world_--because all children of the same infinite Father, all
+bound in the same direction, but over many different roads.
+
+The man who has come under the influence and the domination of the
+Divine rule, realises that his interests lie in the same direction as
+the interests of all, that he cannot gain for himself any good--that is,
+any essential good--at the expense of the good of all; but rather that
+his interests, his Welfare, and the interests and the welfare of all
+others are identical. God's rule, the Divine rule, becomes for him,
+therefore, the fundamental rule in the business world, the dominating
+rule in political life and action, the dominating rule in the law and
+relations of nations.
+
+Jesus did not look with much favour upon outward form, ceremony, or with
+much favour upon formulated, or formal religion; and he somehow or other
+seemed to avoid the company of those who did. We find him almost
+continually down among the people, the poor, the needy, the outcast, the
+sinner--wherever he could be of service to the Father, that is, wherever
+he could be of service to the Father's children. According to the
+accounts he was not always as careful in regard to those with whom he
+associated as the more respectable ones, the more respectable classes of
+his day thought he should be. They remarked it many times. Jesus noticed
+it and remarked in turn.
+
+We find him always where the work was to be done--friend equally of the
+poor and humble, and those of station--truly friend of man, teaching,
+helping, uplifting. And then we find him out on the mountain side--in
+the quiet, in communion--to keep his realisation of his oneness with the
+Father intact; and with this help he went down regularly to the people,
+trying to lift their minds and lives up to the Divine ideal that he
+revealed to them, that they in turn might realise their real relations
+one with another, that the Kingdom of God and His righteousness might
+grow and become the dominating law and force in the world--"Thy Kingdom
+come, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven."
+
+It is this Kingdom idea, the Divine rule, the rule of God in all of the
+relations and affairs of men on earth that is gripping earnest men and
+women in great numbers among us today. Under the leadership of these
+thinking, God-impelled men and women, many of our churches are pushing
+their endeavours out into social service activities along many different
+lines; and the result is they are calling into their ranks many able men
+and women, especially younger men and women, who are intensely
+religious, but to whom formal, inactive religion never made any appeal.
+
+When the Church begins actually to throw the Golden Rule onto its
+banner, not in theory but in actual practice, actually forgetting self
+in the Master's service, careless even of her own interests, her
+membership, she thereby calls into her ranks vast numbers of the best of
+the race, especially among the young, so that the actual result is a
+membership not only larger than she could ever hope to have otherwise,
+but a membership that commands such respect and that exercises such
+power, that she is astounded at her former stupidity in being shackled
+so long by the traditions of the past. A new life is engendered. There
+is the joy of real accomplishment.
+
+We are in an age of great changes. Advancing knowledge necessitates
+changes. And may I say a word here to our Christian ministry, that
+splendid body of men for whom I have such supreme admiration? One of the
+most significant facts of our time is this widespread inclination and
+determination on the part of such great numbers of thinking men and
+women to go directly to Jesus for their information of, and their
+inspiration from him. The beliefs and the voice of the laymen, those in
+our churches and those out of our churches, must be taken into account
+and reckoned with. Jesus is too large and too universal a character to
+be longer the sole possession, the property of any organisation.
+
+There is a splendid body of young men and young women numbering into
+untold thousands, who are being captured by the personality and the
+simple direct message of Jesus. Many of these have caught his spirit and
+are going off into other lines of the Master's service. They are doing
+effective and telling work there. Remember that when the spirit of the
+Christ seizes a man, it is through the channel of present-day forms and
+present-day terms, not in those of fifteen hundred, or sixteen hundred,
+or even three hundred years ago.
+
+There is a spirit of intellectual honesty that prevents many men and
+women from subscribing to anything to which they cannot give their
+intellectual assent, as well as their moral and spiritual assent. They
+do not object to creeds. They know that a creed is but a statement, a
+statement of a man's or a woman's belief, whether it be in connection
+with religion, or in connection with anything else. But what they do
+object to is dogma, that unholy thing that lives on credulity, that is
+therefore destructive of the intellectual and the moral life of every
+man and every woman who allows it to lay its paralysing hand upon them,
+that can be held to if one is at all honest and given to thought, only
+through intellectual chicanery.
+
+We must not forget also that God is still at work, revealing Himself
+more fully to mankind through modern prophets, through modern agencies.
+His revelation is not closed. It is still going on. The silly
+presumption in the statement therefore--"the truth once delivered."
+
+It is well occasionally to call to mind these words by Robert Burns,
+singing free and with an untrammelled mind and soul from his
+heather-covered hills:
+
+    Here's freedom to him that wad read,
+      Here's freedom to him that wad write;
+    There's nane ever feared that the truth should be heared
+      But them that the truth wad indict.
+
+It is essential to remember that we are in possession of knowledge, that
+we are face to face with conditions that are different from any in the
+previous history of Christendom. The Christian church must be sure that
+it moves fast enough so as not to alienate, but to draw into it that
+great body of intellectually alive, intellectually honest young men and
+women who have the Christ spirit of service and who are mastered by a
+great purpose of accomplishment. Remember that these young men and women
+are now merely standing where the entire church will stand in a few
+years. Remember that any man or woman who has the true spirit of service
+has the spirit of Christ--and more, has the religion of the Christ.
+
+Remember that Jesus formulated no organisation. His message of the
+Kingdom was so far-reaching that no organisation could ever possibly
+encompass it, though an organisation may be, and has been, a great aid
+in actualising it here on earth. He never made any conditions as to
+through whom, or what, his truth should be spread, and he would condemn
+today any instrumentality that would abrogate to itself any monopoly of
+his truth, just as he condemned those ecclesiastical authorities of his
+day who presumed to do the same in connection with the truth of God's
+earlier prophets.
+
+And so I would say to the Church--beware and be wise. Make your
+conditions so that you can gain the allegiance and gain the help of this
+splendid body of young men and young women. Many of them are made of the
+stock that Jesus would choose as his own apostles. Among the young men
+will be our greatest teachers, our great financiers, our best
+legislators, our most valuable workers and organisers in various fields
+of social service, our most widely read authors, eminent and influential
+editorial and magazine writers as well as managers.
+
+Many of these young women will have high and responsible positions as
+educators. Some will be heads and others will be active workers in our
+widely extended and valuable women's clubs. Some will have a hand in
+political action, in lifting politics out of its many-times low
+condition into its rightful state in being an agent for the
+accomplishment of the people's best purposes and their highest good.
+Some will be editors of widely circulating and influential women's
+magazines. Some will be mothers, true mothers of the children of others,
+denied their rights and their privileges. Make it possible for them,
+nay, make it incumbent upon them to come in, to work within the great
+Church organisation.
+
+It cannot afford that they stay out. It is suicidal to keep them out.
+Any other type of organisation that did not look constantly to
+commanding the services of the most capable and expert in its line would
+fall in a very few months into the ranks of the ineffectives. A business
+or a financial organisation that did not do the same would go into
+financial bankruptcy in even a shorter length of time. By attracting
+this class of men and women into its ranks it need fear neither moral
+nor financial bankruptcy.
+
+But remember, many men and women of large calibre are so busy doing
+God's work in the world that they have no time and no inclination to be
+attracted by anything that does not claim their intellectual as well as
+their moral assent. The Church must speak fully and unequivocally in
+terms of present-day thought and present-day knowledge, to win the
+allegiance or even to attract the attention of this type of men and
+women.
+
+And may I say here this word to those outside, and especially to this
+class of young men and young women outside of our churches? Changes,
+and therefore advances in matters of this kind come slowly. This is true
+from the very nature of human nature. Inherited beliefs, especially when
+it comes to matters of religion, take the deepest hold and are the
+slowest to change. Not in all cases, but this is the general rule.
+
+Those who hold on to the old are earnest, honest. They believe that
+these things are too sacred to be meddled with, or even sometimes, to be
+questioned. The ordinary mind is slow to distinguish between tradition
+and truth--especially where the two have been so fully and so adroitly
+mixed. Many are not in possession of the newer, the more advanced
+knowledge in various fields that you are in possession of. But remember
+this--in even a dozen years a mighty change has taken place--except in a
+church whose very foundation and whose sole purpose is dogma.
+
+In most of our churches, however, the great bulk of our ministers are
+just as forward-looking, just as earnest as you, and are deeply desirous
+of following and presenting the highest truth in so far as it lies
+within their power to do so. It is a splendid body of men, willing to
+welcome you on your own grounds, longing for your help. It is a mighty
+engine for good. Go into it. Work with it. Work through it. The best
+men in the Church are longing for your help. They need it more than they
+need anything else. I can assure you of this--I have talked with many.
+
+They feel their handicaps. They are moving as rapidly as they find it
+possible to move. On the whole, they are doing splendid work and with a
+big, fine spirit of which you know but little. You will find a wonderful
+spirit of self-sacrifice, also. You will find a stimulating and precious
+comradeship on the part of many. You will find that you will get great
+good, even as you are able to give great good.
+
+The Church, as everything else, needs to keep its machinery in continual
+repair. Help take out the worn-out parts--but not too suddenly. The
+Church is not a depository, but an instrument and engine of truth and
+righteousness. Some of the older men do not realise this; but they will
+die off. Respect their beliefs. Honest men have honest respect for
+differences of opinion, for honest differences in thought. Sympathy is a
+great harmoniser. "Differences of opinion, intellectual distinctions,
+these must ever be--separation of mind, but unity of heart."
+
+I like these words of Lyman Abbott. You will like them. They are spoken
+out of a full life of rich experience and splendid service. They have,
+moreover, a sort of unifying effect. They are more than a tonic: "Of
+all characters in history none so gathers into himself and reflects from
+himself all the varied virtues of a complete manhood as does Jesus of
+Nazareth. And the world is recognising it.... If you go back to the
+olden time and the old conflicts, the question was, 'What is the
+relation of Jesus Christ to the Eternal?' Wars have been fought over the
+question, 'Was he of one substance with the Father?' I do not know; I do
+not know of what substance the Father is; I do not know of what
+substance Jesus Christ is. What I do know is this--that when I look into
+the actual life that I know about, the men and women that are about me,
+the men and women in all the history of the past, of all the living
+beings that ever lived and walked the earth, there is no one that so
+fills my heart with reverence, with affection, with loyal love, with
+sincere desire to follow, as doth Jesus Christ....
+
+"I do not need to decide whether he was born of a virgin. I do not need
+to decide whether he rose from the dead. I do not need to decide whether
+he made water into wine, or fed five thousand with two loaves and five
+small fishes. Take all that away, and still he stands the one
+transcendent figure toward whom the world has been steadily growing, and
+whom the world has not yet overtaken even in his teachings.... I do not
+need to know what is his metaphysical relation to the Infinite. I say it
+reverently--I do not care. I know for me he is the great Teacher; I know
+for me he is the great Leader whose work I want to do; and I know for me
+he is the great Personality, whom I want to be like. That I know.
+Theology did not give that to me, and theology cannot get it away from
+me."
+
+And what a basis as a test of character is this twofold injunction--this
+great fundamental of Jesus! All religion that is genuine flowers in
+character. It was Benjamin Jowett who said, and most truly: "The value
+of a religion is in the ethical dividend that it pays." When the heart
+is right towards God we have the basis, the essence of religion--the
+consciousness of God in the soul of man. We have truth in the inward
+parts. When the heart is right towards the fellow-man we have the
+essential basis of ethics; for again we have truth in the inward parts.
+
+Out of the heart are the issues of life. When the heart is right all
+outward acts and relations are right. Love draws one to the very heart
+of God; and love attunes one to all the highest and most valued
+relationships in our human life.
+
+Fear can never be a basis of either religion or ethics. The one who is
+moved by fear makes his chief concern the avoidance of detection on the
+one hand, or the escape of punishment on the other. Men of large calibre
+have an unusual sagacity in sifting the unessential from the essential
+as also the false from the true. Lincoln, when replying to the question
+as to why he did not unite himself with some church organisation, said:
+"When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification
+of membership, the Saviour's condensed statement of the substance of
+both law and gospel: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
+heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbour
+as thyself, that church shall I join with all my heart and soul."
+
+He was looked upon by many in his day as a non-Christian--by some as an
+infidel. His whole life had a profound religious basis, so deep and so
+all-absorbing that it gave him those wonderful elements of personality
+that were instantly and instinctively noticed by, and that moved all men
+who came in touch with him; and that sustained him so wonderfully,
+according to his own confession, through those long, dark periods of the
+great crisis, The fact that in yesterday's New York paper--Sunday
+paper--I saw the notice of a sermon in one of our Presbyterian
+pulpits--Lincoln, the Christian--shows that we have moved up a round
+and are approaching more and more to an essential Christianity.
+
+Similar to this statement or rather belief was that of Emerson,
+Jefferson, Franklin, and a host of other men among us whose lives have
+been lives of accomplishment and service for their fellow-men. Emerson,
+who said: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light
+which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the
+firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his
+thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own
+rejected thoughts. They come back to us with a certain alienated
+majesty." Emerson, who also said: "I believe in the still, small voice,
+and that voice is the Christ within me." It was he of whom the famous
+Father Taylor in Boston said: "It may be that Emerson is going to hell,
+but of one thing I am certain: he will change the climate there and
+emigration will set that way."
+
+So thought Jefferson, who said: "I have sworn eternal hostility to every
+form of tyranny over the minds of men." And as he, great prophet, with
+his own hand penned that immortal document--the Declaration of American
+Independence--one can almost imagine the Galilean prophet standing at
+his shoulder and saying: Thomas, I think it well to write it so. Both
+had a burning indignation for that species of self-seeking either on the
+part of an individual or an organisation that would seek to enchain the
+minds and thereby the lives of men and women, and even lay claim to
+their children. Yet Jefferson in his time was frequently called an
+atheist--and merely because men in those days did not distinguish as
+clearly as we do today between ecclesiasticism and religion, between
+formulated and essential Christianity.
+
+So we are brought back each time to Jesus' two fundamentals--and these
+come out every time foursquare with the best thought of our time. The
+religion of Jesus is thereby prevented from being a mere tribal
+religion. It is prevented from being merely an organisation that could
+possibly have his sanction as such--that is, an organisation that would
+be able to say: This is his, and this only. It makes it have a
+world-wide and eternal content. The Kingdom that Jesus taught is
+infinitely broader in its scope and its inclusiveness than any
+organisation can be, or that all organisations combined can be.
+
+
+
+
+IX
+
+HIS PURPOSE OF LIFTING UP, ENERGISING, BEAUTIFYING, AND SAVING THE
+ENTIRE LIFE: THE SAVING OF THE SOUL IS SECONDARY; BUT FOLLOWS
+
+
+We have made the statement that Jesus did unusual things, but that he
+did them on account of, or rather by virtue of, his unusual insight into
+and understanding of the laws whereby they could be done. His
+understanding of the powers of the mind and spirit was intuitive and
+very great. As an evidence of this were his numerous cases of healing
+the sick and the afflicted.
+
+Intuitively he perceived the existence and the nature of the subjective
+mind, and in connection with it the tremendous powers of suggestion.
+Intuitively he was able to read, to diagnose the particular ailment and
+the cause of the ailment before him. His thought was so poised that it
+was energised by a subtle and peculiar spiritual power. Such confidence
+did his personality and his power inspire in others that he was able to
+an unusual degree to reach and to arouse the slumbering subconscious
+mind of the sufferer and to arouse into action its own slumbering
+powers whereby the life force of the body could transcend and remould
+its error-ridden and error-stamped condition.
+
+In all these cases he worked through the operation of law--it is exactly
+what we know of the laws of suggestion today. The remarkable cases of
+healing that are being accomplished here and there among us today are
+done unquestionably through the understanding and use of the same laws
+that Jesus was the supreme master of.
+
+By virtue of his superior insight--his understanding of the laws of the
+mind and spirit--he was able to use them so fully and so effectively
+that he did in many cases eliminate the element of time in his healing
+ministrations. But even he was dependent in practically all cases, upon
+the mental cooperation of the one who would be healed. Where this was
+full and complete he succeeded; where it was not he failed. Such at
+least again and again is the statement in the accounts that we have of
+these facts in connection with his life and work. There were places
+where we are told he could do none of his mighty works on account of
+their unbelief, and he departed from these places and went elsewhere.
+Many times his question was: "Believe ye that I am able to do this?"
+Then: "According to your faith be it unto you," and the healing was
+accomplished.
+
+The laws of mental and spiritual therapeutics are identically the same
+today as they were in the days of Jesus and his disciples, who made the
+healing of sick bodies a part of their ministration. It is but fair to
+presume from the accounts that we have that in the early Church of the
+Disciples, and for well on to two hundred years after Jesus' time, the
+healing of the sick and the afflicted went hand in hand with the
+preaching and the teaching of the Kingdom. There are those who believe
+that it never should have been abandoned. As a well-known writer has
+said: "Healing is the outward and practical attestation of the power and
+genuineness of spiritual religion, and ought not to have dropped out of
+the Church." Recent sincere efforts to re-establish it in church
+practice, following thereby the Master's injunction, is indicative of
+the thought that is alive in connection with the matter today.[A] From
+the accounts that we have Jesus seems to have engaged in works of
+healing more during his early than during his later ministry. He may
+have used it as a means to an end. On account of his great love and
+sympathy for the physical sufferer as well as for the moral sufferer, it
+is but reasonable to suppose that it was an integral part of his
+announced purpose--the saving of the life, of the entire life, for
+usefulness, for service, for happiness.
+
+And so we have this young Galilean prophet, coming from an hitherto
+unknown Jewish family in the obscure little village of Nazareth, giving
+obedience in common with his four brothers and his sisters to his father
+and his mother; but by virtue of a supreme aptitude for and an
+irresistible call to the things of the spirit--made irresistible through
+his overwhelming love for the things of the spirit--he is early absorbed
+by the realisation of the truth that God is his father and that all men
+are brothers.
+
+The thought that God is his father and that he bears a unique and filial
+relationship to God so possesses him that he is filled, permeated with
+the burning desire to make this newborn message of truth and thereby of
+righteousness known to the world.
+
+His own native religion, once vibrating through the souls of the
+prophets as the voice of God, has become so obscured, so hedged about,
+so killed by dogma, by ceremony, by outward observances, that it has
+become a mean and pitiable thing, and produces mean and pitiable
+conditions in the lives of his people. The institution has become so
+overgrown that the spirit has gone. But God finds another prophet,
+clearly and supremely open to His spirit, and Jesus comes as the
+Messiah, the Divine Son of God, the Divine Son of Man, bringing to the
+earth a new Dispensation. It is the message of the Divine Fatherhood of
+God, God whose controlling character is love, and with it the Divine
+sonship of man. An integral part of it is--all men are brothers.
+
+He comes as the teacher of a new, a higher righteousness. He brings the
+message and he expounds the message of the Kingdom of God. All men he
+teaches must repent and turn from their sins, and must henceforth live
+in this Kingdom. It is an inner kingdom. Men shall not say: Behold it is
+here or it is there; for, behold, it is within you. God is your father
+and God longs for your acknowledgment of Him as your father; He longs
+for your love even as He loves you. You are children of God, but you
+are not true Sons of God until through desire the Divine rule and life
+becomes supreme in your minds and hearts. It is thus that you will find
+the Kingdom of God. When you do, then your every act will show forth in
+accordance with this Divine ideal and guide, and the supreme law of
+conduct in your lives will be love for your neighbour, for all mankind.
+Through this there will then in time become actualised the Kingdom of
+Heaven on the earth.
+
+He comes in no special garb, no millinery, no brass bands, no formulas,
+no dogmas, no organisation other than the Kingdom, to uphold and become
+a slave to, and in turn be absorbed by, as was the organisation that he
+found strangling all religion in the lives of his people and which he so
+bitterly condemned. What he brought was something infinitely
+transcending this--the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, to which
+all men were heirs--equal heirs--and thereby redemption from their sins,
+therefore salvation, the saving of their lives, would be the inevitable
+result of their acknowledgment of and allegiance to the Divine rule.
+
+How he embraced all--such human sympathy--coming not to destroy but to
+fulfil; not to judge the world but to save the world. How he loved the
+children! How he loved to have them about him! How he loved their
+simplicity, and native integrity of mind and heart! Hear him as he says:
+"Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God
+as a little child, he shall not enter therein"; and again: "Suffer the
+little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the
+Kingdom of God." The makers of dogma, in evolving some three hundred
+years later on the dogma of the inherent sinfulness and degradation of
+the human life and soul, could certainly find not the slightest trace of
+any basis for it again in these words and acts of Jesus.
+
+We find him sympathising with and mingling with and seeking to draw unto
+the way of his own life the poor, the outcast, the sinner, the same as
+the well-to-do and those of station and influence--seeking to draw all
+through love and knowledge to the Father.
+
+There is a sense of justice and righteousness in his soul, however, that
+balks at oppression, injustice, and hypocrisy. He therefore condemns and
+in scathing terms those and only those who would seek to place any
+barrier between the free soul of any man and his God, who would bind
+either the mind or the conscience of man to any prescribed formulas or
+dogmas. Honouring, therefore the forms that his intelligence and his
+conscience allowed him to honour, he disregarded those that they did
+not.
+
+Like other good Jewish rabbis, for he was looked upon during his
+ministry and often addressed as Rabbi, he taught in the synagogues of
+his people; but oftener out on the hillsides and by the lake-side, under
+the blue sky and the stars of heaven. Giving due reverence to the Law
+and the Prophets--the religion of his people and his own early
+religion--but in spirit and in discriminating thought so far
+transcending them, that the people marvelled at his teachings and
+said--surely this a prophet come from God; no man ever spoke to us as he
+speaks. By the ineffable beauty of his life and the love and the
+winsomeness of his personality, and by the power of the truths that he
+taught, he won the hearts of the common people. They followed him and
+his following continually increased.
+
+Through it all, however, he incurred the increasing hostility and the
+increasing hatred of the leaders, the hierarchy of the existing
+religious organisation. They were animated by a double motive, that of
+protecting themselves, and that of protecting their established
+religion. But in their slavery to the organisation, and because unable
+to see that it was the spirit of true religion that he brought and
+taught, they cruelly put him to death--the same as the organisation
+established later on in his name, put numbers of God's true prophets,
+Jesus' truest disciples to death, and essentially for the same reasons.
+
+Jesus' quick and almost unerring perception enabled him to foresee this.
+It did not deter him from going forward with his message, standing
+resolutely and superbly by his revelation, and at the last almost
+courting death--feeling undoubtedly that the sealing of his revelation
+and message with his very life blood would but serve to give it its
+greatest power and endurance. Heroically he met the fate that he
+perceived was conspiring to end his career, to wreck his teachings and
+his influence. He went forth to die clear-sighted and unafraid.
+
+He died for the sake of the truth of the message that he lived and so
+diligently and heroically laboured for--the message of the ineffable
+love of God for all His children and the bringing of them into the
+Father's Kingdom. And we must believe from his whole life's teaching,
+not to save their souls from some future punishment; not through any
+demand of satisfaction on the part of God; not as any substitutionary
+sacrifice to appease the demands of an angry God--for it was the exact
+opposite of this that his whole life teaching endeavoured to make
+known. It was supremely the love of the Father and His longing for the
+love and allegiance, therefore the complete life and service of His
+children. It was the beauty of holiness--the beauty of wholeness--the
+wholeness of life, the saving of the whole life from the sin and
+sordidness of self and thereby giving supreme satisfaction to God. It
+was love, not fear. If not, then almost in a moment he changed the
+entire purpose and content, the entire intent of all his previous life
+work. This is unthinkable.
+
+In his last act he did not abrogate his own expressed statement, that
+the very essence of his message was expressed, as love to God and love
+to one's neighbour. He did not abrogate his continually repeated
+declaration that it was the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, which
+brings man's life into right relations with God and into right relations
+with his fellow-men, that it was his purpose to reveal and to draw all
+men to, thereby aiding God's eternal purpose--to establish in this world
+a state which he designated the Kingdom of Heaven wherein a social order
+of brotherliness and justice, wrought and maintained through the potency
+of love, would prevail. In doing this he revealed the character of God
+by being himself an embodiment of it.
+
+It was the power of a truth that was to save the life that he was
+always concerned with. Therefore his statement that the Son of Man has
+come that men might have life and might have it more abundantly--to save
+men from sin and from failure, and secondarily from their consequences;
+to make them true Sons of God and fit subjects and fit workers in His
+Kingdom. Conversion according to Jesus is the fact of this Divine rule
+in the mind and heart whereby the life is saved--the saving of the soul
+follows. It is the direct concomitant of the saved life.
+
+In his death he sealed his own statement: "The law and the prophets were
+until John; since that time the Kingdom of God is preached, and every
+man presseth into it." Through his death he sealed the message of his
+life when putting it in another form he said: "Verily, verily, I say
+unto you, He that heareth my word and believeth on Him that sent me hath
+everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation: but is passed
+from death unto life."
+
+In this majestic life divinity and humanity meet. Here is the
+incarnation. The first of the race consciously, vividly, and fully to
+realise that God incarnates Himself and has His abode in the hearts and
+the lives of men, the first therefore to realise his Divine Sonship and
+become able thereby to reveal and to teach the Divine Fatherhood of God
+and the Divine Sonship of Man.
+
+In this majestic life is the atonement, the realisation of the
+at-one-ment of the Divine in the human, made manifest in his own life
+and in the way that he taught, sealed then by his own blood.
+
+In this majestic life we have the mediator, the medium or connector of
+the Divine and the human. In it we have the Saviour, the very
+incarnation of the truth that he taught, and that lifts the minds and
+thereby the lives of men up to their Divine ideal and pattern, that
+redeems their lives from the sordidness and selfishness and sin of the
+hitherto purely material self, and that being thereby saved, makes them
+fit subjects for the Father's Kingdom.
+
+In this majestic life is the full embodiment of the beauty of
+holiness--whose words have gone forth and whose spirit is ceaselessly at
+work in the world, drawing men and women up to their divine ideal, and
+that will continue so to draw all in proportion as his words of truth
+and his life are lifted up throughout the world.
+
+
+
+
+X
+
+SOME METHODS OF ATTAINMENT
+
+
+After this study of the teachings of the Divine Master let us know this.
+It is the material that is the transient, the temporary; and the mental
+and spiritual that is the real and the eternal. We must not become
+slaves to habit. The material alone can never bring happiness--much less
+satisfaction. These lie deeper. That conversation between Jesus and the
+rich young man is full of significance for us all, especially in this
+ambitious, striving, restless age.
+
+Abundance of life is determined not alone by one's material possessions,
+but primarily by one's riches of mind and spirit. A world of truth is
+contained in these words: "Life is what we are alive to. It is not a
+length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, mere luxury
+or idleness, pride or money-making, and not to goodness and kindness,
+purity and love, history, poetry, and music, flowers, God and eternal
+hopes, is to be all but dead."
+
+Why be so eager to gain possession of the hundred thousand or the
+half-million acres, of so many millions of dollars? Soon, and it may be
+before you realise it, all must be left. It is as if a man made it his
+ambition to accumulate a thousand or a hundred thousand automobiles. All
+soon will become junk. But so it is with all material things beyond what
+we can actually and profitably use for our good and the good of
+others--and that we actually do so use.
+
+A man can eat just so many meals during the year or during life. If he
+tries to eat more he suffers thereby. He can wear only so many suits of
+clothing; if he tries to wear more, he merely wears himself out taking
+off and putting on. Again it is as Jesus said: "For what shall it profit
+a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own life?" And right
+there is the crux of the whole matter. All the time spent in
+accumulating these things beyond the reasonable amount, is so much taken
+from the life--from the things of the mind and the spirit. It is in the
+development and the pursuit of these that all true satisfaction lies.
+Elemental law has so decreed.
+
+We have made wonderful progress, or rather have developed wonderful
+skill in connection with things. We need now to go back and catch up the
+thread and develop like skill in making the life.
+
+Little wonder that brains are addled, that nerves are depleted, that
+nervous dyspepsia, that chronic weariness, are not the exception but
+rather the rule. Little wonder that sanitariums are always full; that
+asylums are full and overflowing--and still more to be built. No wonder
+that so many men, so many good men break and go to pieces, and so many
+lose the life here at from fifty to sixty years, when they should be in
+the very prime of life, in the full vigour of manhood; at the very age
+when they are capable of enjoying life the most and are most capable of
+rendering the greatest service to their fellows, to their community,
+because of greater growth, experience, means, and therefore leisure.
+Jesus was right--What doth it profit? And think of the real riches that
+in the meantime are missed.
+
+It is like an addled-brain driver in making a trip across the continent.
+He is possessed, obsessed with the insane desire of making a record. He
+plunges on and on night and day, good weather and foul--and all the time
+he is missing all the beauties, all the benefits to health and spirit
+along the way. He has none of these when he arrives--he has missed them
+all. He has only the fact that he has made a record drive--or nearly
+made one. And those with him he has not only robbed of the beauties
+along the way; but he has subjected them to all the discomforts along
+the way. And what really underlies the making of a record? It is
+primarily the spirit of vanity.
+
+When the mental beauties of life, when the spiritual verities are
+sacrificed by self-surrender to and domination by the material, one of
+the heavy penalties that inexorable law imposes is the drying up, so to
+speak, of the finer human perceptions--the very faculties of enjoyment.
+It presents to the world many times, and all unconscious to himself, a
+stunted, shrivelled human being--that eternal type that the Master had
+in mind when he said: "Thou fool, this night shall thy soul be required
+of thee." He whose sole employment or even whose primary employment
+becomes the building of bigger and still bigger barns to take care of
+his accumulated grain, becomes incapable of realising that life and the
+things that pertain to it are of infinitely more value than barns, or
+houses, or acres, or stocks, or bonds, or railroad ties. These all have
+their place, all are of value; but they can never be made the life. A
+recent poem by James Oppenheim presents a type that is known to nearly
+every one:[B]
+
+    I heard the preacher preaching at the funeral:
+    He moved the relatives to tears telling them of
+      the father, husband, and friend that was dead:
+    Of the sweet memories left behind him:
+    Of a life that was good and kind.
+
+    I happened to know the man,
+    And I wondered whether the relatives would
+      have wept if the preacher had told the truth:
+    Let us say like this:
+
+    "The only good thing this man ever did in his life,
+    Was day before yesterday:
+    _He died_....
+    But he didn't even do that of his own volition....
+    He was the meanest man in business on Manhattan Island,
+    The most treacherous friend, the crudest and stingiest husband,
+    And a father so hard that his children left home as soon as they were
+      old enough....
+    Of course he had divinity: everything human has:
+    But he kept it so carefully hidden away that he might just as well not
+      have had it....
+
+    "Wife! good cheer! now you can go your own way and live your own life!
+    Children, give praise! you have his money: the only good thing he ever
+      gave you....
+    Friends! you have one less traitor to deal with....
+    This is indeed a day of rejoicing and exultation!
+    Thank God this man is dead!"
+
+An unknown enjoyment and profit to him is the world's great field of
+literature, the world's great thinkers, the inspirers of so many through
+all the ages. That splendid verse by Emily Dickinson means as much to
+him as it would to a dumb stolid ox:
+
+    He ate and drank the precious words,
+      His spirit grew robust,
+    He knew no more that he was poor,
+      Nor that his frame was dust;
+    He danced along the dingy days,
+      And this bequest of wings
+    Was but a book! What liberty
+      A loosened spirit brings!
+
+Yes, life and its manifold possibilities of unfoldment and avenues of
+enjoyment--life, and the things that pertain to it--is an infinitely
+greater thing than the mere accessories of life.
+
+What infinite avenues of enjoyment, what peace of mind, what serenity of
+soul may be the possession of all men and all women who are alive to
+the inner possibilities of life as portrayed by our own prophet,
+Emerson, when he said:
+
+    Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home,
+    I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;
+    And when I am stretched beneath the pines,
+    Where the evening star so holy shines,
+    I laugh at the lore and pride of man,
+    At the Sophist schools and the learned clan;
+    For what are they all in their high conceit,
+    When man in the bush with God may meet?
+
+It was he who has exerted such a world-wide influence upon the minds and
+lives of men and women who also said: "Great men are they who see that
+spirituality is stronger than any material force: that thoughts rule the
+world." And this is true not only of the world in general, but it is
+true likewise in regard to the individual life.
+
+One of the great secrets of all successful living is unquestionably the
+striking of the right balance in life. The material has its place--and a
+very important place. Fools indeed were we to ignore or to attempt to
+ignore this fact. We cannot, however, except to our detriment, put the
+cart before the horse. Things may contribute to happiness, but things
+cannot bring happiness--and sad indeed, and crippled and dwarfed and
+stunted becomes the life of every one who is not capable of realising
+this fact. Eternally true indeed is it that the life is more than meat
+and the body more than raiment.
+
+All life is from an inner centre outward. As within, so without. As we
+think we become. Which means simply this: our prevailing thoughts and
+emotions are never static, but dynamic. Thoughts are forces--like
+creates like, and like attracts like. It is therefore for us to choose
+whether we shall be interested primarily in the great spiritual forces
+and powers of life, or whether we shall be interested solely in the
+material things of life.
+
+But there is a wonderful law which we must not lose sight of. It is to
+the effect that when we become sufficiently alive to the inner powers
+and forces, to the inner springs of life, the material things of life
+will not only follow in a natural and healthy sequence, but they will
+also assume their right proportions. They will take their right places.
+
+It was the recognition of this great fundamental fact of life that Jesus
+had in mind when he said: "But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and
+all these things shall be added unto you,"--meaning, as he so distinctly
+stated, the kingdom of the mind and spirit made open and translucent to
+the leading of the Divine Wisdom inherent in the human soul, when that
+leading is sought and when through the right ordering of the mind we
+make the conditions whereby it may become operative in the individual
+life.
+
+The great value of God as taught by Jesus is that God dwells in us. It
+is truly Emmanuel--God with us. The law must be observed--the conditions
+must be met. "The Lord is with you while ye be with him; and if ye will
+seek him, he will be found of you." "The spirit of the living God
+dwelleth in you." "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that
+giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given
+him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering." That there is a Divine
+law underlying prayer that helps to release the inner springs of wisdom,
+which in turn leads to power, was well known to Jesus, for his life
+abundantly proved it.
+
+His great aptitude for the things of the spirit enabled him intuitively
+to realise this, to understand it, to use it. And there was no mystery,
+no secret, no subterfuge on the part of Jesus as to the source of his
+power. In clear and unmistakable words he made it known--and why should
+he not? It was the truth, the truth of this inner kingdom that would
+make men free that he came to reveal. "The words that I speak unto you
+I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the
+works." "My Father worketh hitherto and I work.... For as the Father
+hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in
+himself.... I can of mine own self do nothing." As he followed the
+conditions whereby this higher illumination can come so must we.
+
+The injunction that Jesus gave in regard to prayer is unquestionably the
+method that he found so effective and that he himself used. How many
+times we are told that he withdrew to the mountain for his quiet period,
+for communion with the Father, that the realisation of his oneness with
+God might be preserved intact. In this continual realisation--I and my
+Father are one--lay his unusual insight and power. And his distinct
+statement which he made in speaking of his own powers--as I am ye shall
+be--shows clearly the possibilities of human unfoldment and attainment,
+since he realised and lived and then revealed the way.
+
+Were not this Divine source of wisdom and power the heritage of every
+human soul, distinctly untrue then would be Jesus' saying: "For every
+one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him
+that knocketh, it shall be opened." Infinitely better is it to know that
+one has this inner source of guidance and wisdom which as he opens
+himself to it becomes continually more distinct, more clear and more
+unerring in its guidance, than to be continually seeking advice from
+outside sources, and being confused in regard to the advice given. This
+is unquestionably the way of the natural and the normal life, made so
+simple and so plain by Jesus, and that was foreshadowed by Isaiah when
+he said: "Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard that the everlasting
+God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not,
+neither is weary? He giveth power to the faint and to them that have no
+might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
+and the young men shall utterly fall. But they that wait upon the Lord
+shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
+they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint."
+
+Not that problems and trials will not come. They will come. There never
+has been and there never will be a life free from them. Life isn't
+conceivable on any other terms. But the wonderful source of consolation
+and strength, the source that gives freedom from worry and freedom from
+fear is the realisation of the fact that the guiding force and the
+moulding power is within us. It becomes active and controlling in the
+degree that we realise and in the degree that we are able to open
+ourselves so that the Divine intelligence and power can speak to and can
+work through us.
+
+Judicious physical exercise induces greater bodily strength and vigour.
+An active and alert mental life, in other words mental activity, induces
+greater intellectual power. And under the same general law the same is
+true in regard to the development and the use of spiritual power. It,
+however, although the most important of all because it has to do more
+fundamentally with the life itself, we are most apt to neglect. The
+losses, moreover, resulting from this neglect are almost beyond
+calculation.
+
+To establish one's centre aright is to make all of life's activities and
+events and results flow from this centre in orderly sequence. A modern
+writer of great insight has said: "The understanding that God is, and
+_all there is_, will establish you upon a foundation from which you can
+never be moved." To know that the power that is God is the power that
+works in us is knowledge of transcendent import.
+
+To know that the spirit of Infinite wisdom and power which is the
+creating, the moving, and the sustaining force in all life, thinks and
+acts in and through us as our own very life, in the degree that we
+consciously and deliberately desire it to become the guiding and the
+animating force in our lives, and open ourselves fully to its leadings,
+and follow its leadings, is to attain to that state of conscious oneness
+with the Divine that Jesus realised, lived and revealed, and that he
+taught as the method of the natural and the normal life for all men.
+
+We are so occupied with the matters of the sense-life that all
+unconsciously we become dominated, ruled by the things of the senses.
+Now in the real life there is the recognition of the fact that the
+springs of life are all from within, and that the inner always leads and
+rules the outer. Under the elemental law of Cause and Effect this is
+always done--whether we are conscious of it or not. But the difference
+lies here: The master of life consciously and definitely allies himself
+in mind and spirit with the great central Force and rules his world from
+within. The creature of circumstances, through lack of desire or through
+weakness of will, fails to do this, and, lacking guiding and directing
+force, drifts and becomes thereby the creature of circumstance.
+
+One of deep insight has said: "That we do not spontaneously see and know
+God, as we see and know one another, and so manifest the God-nature as
+we do the sense-nature, is because that nature is yet latent, and in a
+sense slumbering within us. Yet the God-nature within us connects us as
+directly and vitally with the Being and Kingdom of God within, behind,
+and above the world, as does the sense-nature with the world external to
+us. Hence as the sense-consciousness was awakened and established by the
+recognition of and communication with the outward world through the
+senses, so the God-consciousness must be awakened by the corresponding
+recognition of, and communication with the Being and Kingdom of God
+through intuition--the spiritual sense of the inner man.... The true
+prayer--the prayer of silence--is the only door that opens the soul to
+the direct revelation of God, and brings thereby the realisation of the
+God-nature in ourselves."
+
+As the keynote to the world of sense is activity, so the keynote to
+spiritual light and power is quiet. The individual consciousness must be
+brought into harmony with the Cosmic consciousness. Paul speaks of the
+"sons of God." And in a single sentence he describes what he means by
+the term--"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the
+sons of God." An older prophet has said: "The Lord in the midst of thee
+is mighty." Jesus with his deep insight perceived the identity of his
+real life with the Divine life, the indwelling Wisdom and Power,--the
+"Father in me." The whole course of his ministry was his attempt "to
+show those who listened to him how he was related to the Father, and to
+teach them that they were related to the same Father in exactly the same
+way."
+
+There is that within man that is illumined and energised through the
+touch of His spirit. We can bring our minds into rapport, into such
+harmony and connection with the infinite Divine mind that it speaks in
+us, directs us, and therefore acts through us as our own selves. Through
+this connection we become illumined by Divine wisdom and we become
+energised by Divine power. It is ours, then, to act under the guidance
+of this higher wisdom and in all forms of expression to act and to work
+augmented by this higher power. The finite spirit, with all its
+limitations, becomes at its very centre in rapport with Infinite spirit,
+its Source. The finite thereby becomes the channel through which the
+Infinite can and does work.
+
+To use an apt figure, it is the moving of the switch whereby we connect
+our wires as it were with the central dynamo which is the force that
+animates, that gives and sustains life in the universe. It is making
+actual the proposition that was enunciated by Emerson when he said:
+"Every soul is not only the inlet, but may become the outlet of all
+there is in God." Significant also in this connection is his statement:
+"The only sin is limitation." It is the actualising of the fact that in
+Him we live and move and have our being, with its inevitable resultant
+that we become "strong in the Lord and in the power of His might." There
+is perhaps no more valuable way of realising this end, than to adopt the
+practice of taking a period each day for being alone in the quiet, a
+half hour, even a quarter hour; stilling the bodily senses and making
+oneself receptive to the higher leadings of the spirit--receptive to the
+impulses of the soul. This is following the master's practice and
+example of communion with the Father. Things in this universe and in
+human life do not happen. All is law and sequence. The elemental law of
+cause and effect is universal and unvarying. In the realm of spirit law
+is as definite as in the realm of mechanics--in the realm of all
+material forces.
+
+If we would have the leading of the spirit, if we would perceive the
+higher intuitions and be led intuitively, bringing the affairs of the
+daily life thereby into the Divine sequence, we must observe the
+conditions whereby these leadings can come to us, and in time become
+habitual.
+
+The law of the spirit is quiet--to be followed by action--but quiet, the
+more readily to come into a state of harmony with the Infinite
+Intelligence that works through us, and that leads us as our own
+intelligence when through desire and through will, we are able to bring
+our subconscious minds into such attunement that it can act through us,
+and we are able to catch its messages and follow its direction. But to
+listen and to observe the conditions whereby we can listen is essential.
+
+Jesus' own words as well as his practice apply here. After his
+admonition against public prayer, or prayer for show, or prayer of much
+speaking, he said: "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet,
+and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret;
+and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly." Now
+there are millions of men, women, and children in the world who have no
+closets. There are great numbers of others who have no access to them
+sometimes for days, or weeks, or months at a time. It is evident,
+therefore, that in the word that has been rendered closet he
+meant--enter into the quiet recesses of your own soul that you may thus
+hold communion with the Father.
+
+Now the value of prayer is not that God will change or order any laws or
+forces to suit the numerous and necessarily the diverse petitions of
+any. All things are through law, and law is fixed and inexorable. The
+value of prayer, of true prayer, is that through it one can so harmonise
+his life with the Divine order that intuitive perceptions of truth and a
+greater perception and knowledge of law becomes his possession. As has
+been said by an able contemporary thinker and writer: "We cannot form a
+passably thorough notion of man without saturating it through and
+through with the idea of a cosmic inflow from outside his world
+life--the inflow of God. Without a large consciousness of the universe
+beyond our knowledge, few men, if any, have done great things.[C]
+
+I shall always remember with great pleasure and profit a call a few days
+ago from Dr. Edward Emerson of Concord, Emerson's eldest son. Happily I
+asked him in regard to his father's methods of work--if he had any
+regular methods. He replied in substance: "It was my father's custom to
+go daily to the woods--_to listen_. He would remain there an hour or
+more in order to get whatever there might be for him that day. He would
+then come home and write into a little book--his 'day-book'--what he had
+gotten. Later on when it came time to write a book, he would transcribe
+from this, in their proper sequence and with their proper connections,
+these entrances of the preceding weeks or months. The completed book
+became virtually a ledger formed or posted from his day-books."
+
+The prophet is he who so orders his life that he can adequately listen
+to the voice, the revelations of the over soul, and who truthfully
+transcribes what he hears or senses. He is not a follower of custom or
+of tradition. He can never become and can never be made the subservient
+tool of an organisation. His aim and his mission is rather to free men
+from ignorance, superstition, credulity, from half truths, by leading
+them into a continually larger understanding of truth, of law--and
+therefore of righteousness.
+
+It was more than a mere poetic idea that Lowell gave utterance to when
+he said:
+
+    The thing we long for, that we are
+    For one transcendent moment.
+
+To establish this connection, to actualise this God-consciousness, that
+it may not be for one transcendent moment, but that it may become
+constant and habitual, so that every thought arises, and so that every
+act goes forth from this centre, is the greatest good that can come into
+the possession of man. There is nothing greater. It is none other than
+the realisation of Jesus' injunction--"Seek ye first the Kingdom of God
+and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." It
+is then that he said--Do not worry about your life. Your mind and your
+will are under the guidance of the Divine mind; your every act goes out
+under this direction and all things pertaining to your life will fall
+into their proper places. Therefore do not worry about your life.
+
+When a man finds his centre, when he becomes centred in the Infinite,
+then redemption takes place. He is redeemed from the bondage of the
+senses. He lives thereafter under the guidance of the spirit, and this
+is salvation. It is a new life that he has entered into. He lives in a
+new world, because his outlook is entirely new. He is living now in the
+Kingdom of Heaven. Heaven means harmony. He has brought his own personal
+mind and life into harmony with the Divine mind and life. He becomes a
+coworker with God.
+
+It is through such men and women that God's plans and purposes are
+carried out. They not only hear but they interpret for others God's
+voice. They are the prophets of our time and the prophets of all time.
+They are doing God's work in the world, and in so doing they are finding
+their own supreme satisfaction and happiness. They are not looking
+forward to the Eternal life. They realise that they are now in the
+Eternal life, and that there is no such thing as eternal life if this
+life that we are now in is not it. When the time comes for them to stop
+their labours here, they look forward without fear and with anticipation
+to the change, the transition to the other form of life--but not to any
+other life. The words of Whitman embody a spirit of anticipation and of
+adventure for them:
+
+      Joy, Shipmate, joy!
+    (Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry)
+    One life is closed, one life begun,
+    The long, long anchorage we leave,
+    The ship is clear at last, she leaps.
+      Joy, Shipmate, joy!
+
+They have an abiding faith that they will take up the other form of life
+exactly where they left it off here. Being in heaven now they will be in
+heaven when they awake to the continuing beauties of the life subsequent
+to their transition. Such we might also say is the teaching of Jesus
+regarding the highest there is in life here and the best there is in the
+life hereafter.
+
+
+
+
+XI
+
+SOME METHODS OF EXPRESSION
+
+
+The life of the Spirit, or, in other words, the true religious life, is
+not a life of mere contemplation or a life of inactivity. As Fichte, in
+"The Way Toward the Blessed Life," has said: "True religion,
+notwithstanding that it raises the view of those who are inspired by it
+to its own region, nevertheless, retains their Life firmly in the domain
+of action, and of right moral action.... Religion is not a business by
+and for itself which a man may practise apart from his other
+occupations, perhaps on certain fixed days and hours; but it is the
+inmost spirit that penetrates, inspires, and pervades all our Thought
+and Action, which in other respects pursue their appointed course
+without change or interruption. That the Divine Life and Energy actually
+lives in us is inseparable from Religion."
+
+How thoroughly this is in keeping with the thought of the highly
+illumined seer, Swedenborg, is indicated when he says: "The Lord's
+Kingdom is a Kingdom of ends and uses." And again: "Forsaking the world
+means loving God and the neighbour; and God is loved when a man lives
+according to His commandments, and the neighbour is loved when a man
+performs uses." And still again: "To be of use means to desire the
+welfare of others for the sake of the common good; and not to be of use
+means to desire the welfare of others not for the sake of the common
+good but for one's own sake.... In order that man may receive heavenly
+life he must live in the world and engage in its business and
+occupations, and thus by a moral and civil life acquire spiritual life.
+In no other way can spiritual life be generated in man, or his spirit be
+prepared for heaven."
+
+We hear much today both in various writings and in public utterances of
+"the spiritual" and "the spiritual life." I am sure that to the great
+majority of men and women the term spiritual, or better, the spiritual
+life, means something, but something by no means fully tangible or
+clear-cut. I shall be glad indeed if I am able to suggest a more
+comprehensible concept of it, or putting it in another form and better
+perhaps, to present a more clear-cut portraiture of the spiritual life
+in expression--in action.
+
+And first let us note that in the mind and in the teachings of Jesus
+there is no such thing as the secular life and the religious life. His
+ministry pertained to every phase of life. The truth that he taught was
+a truth that was to permeate every thought and every act of life.
+
+We make our arbitrary divisions. We are too apt to deny the fact that
+the Lord is the Lord of the week-day, the same as He is the Lord of the
+Sabbath. Jesus refused to be bound by any such consideration. He taught
+that every act that is a good act, every act that is of service to
+mankind is not only a legitimate act to be done on the Sabbath day, but
+an act that _should_ be performed on the Sabbath day. And any act that
+is not right and legitimate for the Sabbath day is neither right nor
+legitimate for the week-day. In other words, it is the spirit of
+righteousness that must permeate and must govern every act of life and
+every moment of life.
+
+In seeking to define the spiritual life, it were better to regard the
+world as the expression of the Divine mind. The spirit is the life; the
+world and all things in it, the material to be moulded, raised, and
+transmuted from the lower to the higher. This is indeed the law of
+evolution, that has been through all the ages and that today is at work.
+It is the God-Power that is at work and every form of useful activity
+that helps on with this process of lifting and bettering is a form of
+Divine activity. If therefore we recognise the one Divine life working
+in and through all, the animating force, therefore the Life of all, and
+if we are consciously helping in this process we are spiritual men.
+
+No man of intelligence can fail to recognise the fact that life is more
+important than things. Life is the chief thing, and material things are
+the elements that minister to, that serve the purposes of the life.
+Whoever does anything in the world to preserve life, to better its
+conditions, who, recognising the Divine force at work lifting life up
+always to better, finer conditions, is doing God's work in the
+world--because cooperating with the great Cosmic world plan.
+
+The ideal, then, is men and women of the spirit, open and responsive
+always to its guidance, recognising the Divine plan and the Divine
+ideal, working cooperatively in the world to make all conditions of life
+fairer, finer, more happy. He who lives and works not as an individual,
+that is not for his good alone, but who recognises the essential oneness
+of life--is carrying out his share of the Divine plan.
+
+A man may be unusually gifted; he may have unusual ability in business,
+in administration; he may be a giant in finance, in administration, but
+if for self alone, if lack of vision blinds him to the great Divine
+plan, if he does not recognise his relative place and value; if he gains
+his purposes by selfishness, by climbing over others, by indifference to
+human pain or suffering--oblivious to human welfare--his ways are the
+ways of the jungle. His mind and his life are purely sordid, grossly and
+blindly self-centred--wholly material. He gains his object, but by
+Divine law not happiness, not satisfaction, not peace. He is outside the
+Kingdom of Heaven--the kingdom of harmony. He is living and working out
+of harmony with the Divine mind that is evolving a higher order of life
+in the world. He is blind too, he is working against the Divine plan.
+
+Now what is the Divine call? Can he be made into a spiritual man? Yes. A
+different understanding, a different motive, a different object--then
+will follow a difference in methods. Instead of self alone he will have
+a sense of, he will have a call to service. And this man, formerly a
+hinderer in the Divine plan, becomes a spiritual giant. His splendid
+powers and his qualities do not need to be changed. Merely his motives
+and thereby his methods, and he is changed into a giant engine of
+righteousness. He is a part of the great world force and plan. He is
+doing his part in the great world work--he is a coworker with God. And
+here lies salvation. Saved from self and the dwarfed and stunted
+condition that will follow, his spiritual nature unfolds and envelops
+his entire life. His powers and his wealth are thereafter to bless
+mankind. But behold! by another great fundamental law of life in doing
+this he is blessed ten, a hundred, a millionfold.
+
+Material prosperity is or may become a true gain, a veritable blessing.
+But it can become a curse to the world and still more to its possessor
+when made an end in itself, and at the expense of all the higher
+attributes and powers of human life.
+
+We have reason to rejoice that a great change of estimate has not only
+begun but is now rapidly creeping over the world. He of even a
+generation ago who piled and piled, but who remained ignorant of the
+more fundamental laws of life, blind to the law of mutuality and
+service, would be regarded today as a low, beastly type. I speak
+advisedly. It is this obedience to the life of the spirit that Whitman
+had in mind when he said: "And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy
+walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud." It was the full flowering
+of the law of mutuality and service that he saw when he said: "I saw a
+city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth. I
+dream'd that it was the new City of Friends. Nothing was greater there
+than the quality of robust love; it led the rest. It was seen every hour
+in the actions of the men of that city and in all their looks and
+words." It is through obedience to this life of the spirit that order is
+brought out of chaos in the life of the individual and in the life of
+the community, in the business world, the labour world, and in our great
+world relations.
+
+But in either case, we men and women of Christendom, to be a Christian
+is not only to be good, but to be good for something. According to the
+teachings of the Master true religion is not only personal salvation,
+but it is giving one's self through all of one's best efforts to
+actualise the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. The finding of the
+Kingdom is not only personal but social and world-affirming--and in the
+degree that it becomes fully and vitally personal will it become so.
+
+A man who is not right with his fellow-men is not right and cannot be
+right with God. This is coming to be the clear-cut realisation of all
+progressive religious thought today. Since men are free from the
+trammels of an enervating dogma that through fear made them seek, or
+rather that made them contented with religion as primarily a system of
+rewards and punishments, they are now awakening to the fact that the
+logical carrying out of Jesus' teaching of the Kingdom is the
+establishing here on this earth of an order of life and hence of a
+society where greater love and cooperation and justice prevail. Our
+rapidly growing present-day conception of Christianity makes it not
+world-renouncing, but world-affirming.
+
+This modern conception of the function of a true and vital Christianity
+makes it the task of the immediate future to apply Christianity to
+trade, to commerce, to labour relations, to all social relations, to
+international relations. "And, in the wider field of religious thought,"
+says a writer in a great international religious paper, "what truer
+service can we render than to strip theology of all that is unreal or
+needlessly perplexing, and make it speak plainly and humanly to people
+who have their duty to do and their battle to fight?" It makes
+intelligent, sympathetic, and helpful living take the place of the tooth
+and the claw, the growl and the deadly hiss of the jungle--all right in
+their places, but with no place in human living.
+
+The growing realisation of the interdependence of all life is giving a
+new standard of action and attainment, and a new standard of estimate.
+Jesus' criterion is coming into more universal appreciation: He that is
+greatest among you shall be as he who serves. Through this fundamental
+law of life there are responsibilities that cannot be evaded or
+shirked--and of him to whom much is given much is required.
+
+It was President Wilson who recently said: "It is to be hoped that these
+obvious truths will come to more general acceptance; that honest
+business will quit thinking that it is attacked when loaded-dice
+business is attacked; that the mutuality of interest between employer
+and employee will receive ungrudging admission; and, finally, that men
+of affairs will lend themselves more patriotically to the work of making
+democracy an efficient instrument for the promotion of human welfare. It
+cannot be said that they have done so in the past.... As a consequence,
+many necessary things have been done less perfectly without their
+assistance that could have been done more perfectly with their expert
+aid." He is by no means alone in recognising this fact. Nor is he at all
+blind to the great change that is already taking place.
+
+In a recent public address in New York, the head of one of the largest
+plants in the world, and who starting with nothing has accumulated a
+fortune of many millions, said: "The only thing I am proud of--prouder
+of than that I have amassed a great fortune--is that I established the
+first manual training school in Pennsylvania. The greatest delight of
+my life is to see the advancement of the young men who have come up
+about me."
+
+This growing sense of personal responsibility, and still better, of
+personal interest, this giving of one's abilities and one's time, _in
+addition to one's means_, is the beginning of the fulfilment of what I
+have long thought: namely, the great gain that will accrue to numberless
+communities and to the nation, when men of great means, men of great
+business and executive ability, give of their time and their abilities
+for the accomplishment of those things for the public welfare that
+otherwise would remain undone, or that would remain unduly delayed. What
+a gain will result also to those who so do in the joy and satisfaction
+resulting from this higher type of accomplishment hallowed by the
+undying element of human service!
+
+You keep silent too much. "Have great leaders, and the rest will
+follow," said Whitman. The gift of your abilities while you live would
+be of priceless worth for the establishing and the maintenance of a
+fairer, a healthier, and a sweeter life in your community, your city,
+your country. It were better to do this and to be contented with a
+smaller accumulation than to have it so large or even so excessive, and
+when the summons comes to leave it to two or three or to half a dozen
+who cannot possibly have good use for it all, and some of whom perchance
+would be far better off without it, or without so much. By so doing you
+would be leaving something still greater to them as well as to hundreds
+or thousands of others.
+
+Significant in this connection are these words by a man of wealth and of
+great public service:[D]
+
+"On the whole, the individualistic age has not been a success, either
+for the individual, or the community in which he has lived, or the
+nation. We are, beyond question, entering on a period where the welfare
+of the community takes precedence over the interests of the individual
+and where the liberty of the individual will be more and more
+circumscribed for the benefit of the community as a whole. Man's
+activities will hereafter be required to be not only for himself but for
+his fellow-men. To my mind there is nothing in the signs of the times so
+certain as this.
+
+"The man of exceptional ability, of more than ordinary talent, will
+hereafter look for his rewards, for his honours, not in one direction
+but in two--first, and foremost, in some public work accomplished, and,
+secondarily, in wealth acquired. In place of having it said of him at
+his death that he left so many hundred thousand dollars it will be said
+that he rendered a certain amount of public service, and, incidentally,
+left a certain amount of money. Such a goal will prove a far greater
+satisfaction to him, he will live a more rational, worthwhile life, and
+he will be doing his share to provide a better country in which to live.
+We face new conditions, and in order to survive and succeed we shall
+require a different spirit of public service."
+
+I am well aware of the fact that the mere accumulation of wealth is not,
+except in very rare cases, the controlling motive in the lives of our
+wealthy men of affairs. It is rather the joy and the satisfaction of
+achievement. But nevertheless it is possible, as has so often proved, to
+get so much into a habit and thereby into a rut, that one becomes a
+victim of habit; and the life with all its superb possibilities of human
+service, and therefore of true greatness, becomes side-tracked and
+abortive.
+
+There are so many different lines of activity for human betterment for
+children, for men and women, that those of great executive and financial
+ability have wonderful opportunities. Greatness comes always through
+human service. As there is no such thing as finding happiness by
+searching for it directly, so there is no such thing as achieving
+greatness by seeking it directly. It comes not primarily through
+brilliant intellect, great talents, but primarily through the heart. It
+is determined by the way that brilliant intellect, great talents are
+used. It is accorded not to those who seek it directly. By an indirect
+law it is accorded to those who, forgetting self, give and thereby lose
+their lives in human service.
+
+Both poet and prophet is Edwin Markham when he says:
+
+    We men of earth have here the stuff
+    Of Paradise--we have enough!
+    We need no other stones to build
+    The stairs into the Unfulfilled--
+    No other ivory for the doors--
+    No other marble for the floors--
+    No other cedar for the beam
+    And dome of man's immortal dream.
+
+    Here on the paths of every day--
+    Here on the common human way,
+    Is all the stuff the gods would take
+    To build a Heaven; to mould and make
+    New Edens. Ours the stuff sublime
+    To build Eternity in time!
+
+This putting of divinity into life and raising thereby an otherwise
+sordid life up to higher levels and thereby to greater enjoyments, is
+the power that is possessed equally by those of station and means, and
+by those in the more humble or even more lowly walks of life.
+
+When your life is thus touched by the spirit of God, when it is ruled by
+this inner Kingdom, when your constant prayer, as the prayer of every
+truly religious man or woman will be--Lord, what wilt Thou have me to
+do? My one desire is that Thy will be my will, and therefore that Thy
+will be done in me and through me--then you are living the Divine life;
+you are a coworker with God. And whether your life according to accepted
+standards be noted or humble it makes no difference--you are fulfilling
+your Divine mission. You should be, you cannot help being fearless and
+happy. You are a part of the great creative force in the world.
+
+You are doing a man's or a woman's work in the world, and in so doing
+you are not unimportant; you are essential. The joy of true
+accomplishment is yours. You can look forward always with sublime
+courage and expectancy. The life of the most humble can thus become an
+exalted life. Mother, watching over, cleaning, feeding, training, and
+educating your brood; seamstress, working, with a touch of the Divine
+in all you do--it must be done by some one--allow it to be done by none
+better than by you. Farmer, tilling your soil, gathering your crops,
+caring for your herds; you are helping feed the world. There is nothing
+more important.
+
+    "Who digs a well, or plants a seed,
+      A sacred pact he keeps with sun and sod;
+    With these he helps refresh and feed
+      The world, and enters partnership with God."
+
+If you do not allow yourself to become a slave to your work, and if you
+cooperate within the house and the home so that your wife and your
+daughters do not become slaves or near-slaves, what an opportunity is
+yours of high thinking and noble living! The more intelligent you
+become, the better read, the greater the interest you take in community
+and public affairs, the more effectively you become what in reality and
+jointly you are--the backbone of this and of every nation. Teacher,
+poet, dramatist, carpenter, ironworker, clerk, college head, Mayor,
+Governor, President, Ruler--the effectiveness of your work and the
+satisfaction in your work will be determined by the way in which you
+relate your thought and your work to the Divine plan, and coordinate
+your every activity in reference to the highest welfare of the greater
+whole.
+
+However dimly or clearly we may perceive it great changes are taking
+place. The simple, direct teachings of the Christ are reaching more and
+more the mind, are stirring the heart and through these are dominating
+the actions of increasing numbers of men and women. The realisation of
+the mutual interdependence of the human family, the realisation of its
+common source, and that when one part of it goes wrong all suffer
+thereby, the same as when any portion of it advances all are lifted and
+benefited thereby, makes us more eager for the more speedy actualising
+of the Kingdom that the Master revealed and portrayed.
+
+It was Sir Oliver Lodge who in this connection recently said: "Those who
+think that the day of the Messiah is over are strangely mistaken; it has
+hardly begun. In individual souls Christianity has flourished and borne
+fruit, but for the ills of the world itself it is an almost untried
+panacea. It will be strange if this ghastly war fosters and simplifies
+and improves a knowledge of Christ, and aids a perception of the
+ineffable beauty of his life and teaching; yet stranger things have
+happened, and whatever the churches may do, I believe that the call of
+Christ himself will be heard and attended to by a larger part of
+humanity in the near future, as never yet it has been heard or attended
+to on earth."
+
+The simple message of the Christ, with its twofold injunction of Love,
+is, when sufficiently understood and sufficiently heeded, all that we
+men of earth need to lift up, to beautify, to make strong and Godlike
+individual lives and thereby and of necessity the life of the world.
+Jesus never taught that God incarnated Himself in him alone. I challenge
+any man living to find any such teaching by him. He did proclaim his own
+unique realisation of God. Intuitively and vividly he perceived the
+Divine life, the eternal Word, the eternal Christ, manifesting in his
+clean, strong, upright soul, so that the young Jewish rabbi and prophet,
+known in all his community as Jesus, the son of Joseph and Mary and
+whose brothers and sisters they knew so well,[E] became the
+firstborn--fully born--of the Father.
+
+He then pleaded with all the energy and love and fervour of his splendid
+heart and vigorous manhood that all men should follow the Way that he
+revealed and realise their Divine Sonship, that their lives might be
+redeemed--redeemed from the bondage of the bodily senses and the
+bondage of merely the things of the outer world, and saved as fit
+subjects of and workers in the Father's Kingdom. Otherwise for millions
+of splendid earnest men and women today his life-message would have no
+meaning.
+
+To make men awake to their real identity, and therefore to their
+possibilities and powers as true sons of God, the Father of all, and
+therefore that all men are brothers--for otherwise God is not Father of
+all--and to live together in brotherly love and mutual cooperation
+whereby the Divine will becomes done on earth as it is in heaven--this
+is his message to we men of earth. If we believe his message and accept
+his leadership, then he becomes indeed our elder brother who leads the
+way, the Word in us becomes flesh, the Christ becomes enthroned in our
+lives,--and we become co-workers with him in the Father's vineyard.
+
+
+
+
+XII
+
+THE WORLD WAR--ITS MEANING AND ITS LESSONS FOR US
+
+
+Whatever differences of opinion--and honest differences of opinion--may
+have existed and may still exist in America in regard to the great world
+conflict, there is a wonderful unanimity of thought that has
+crystallised itself into the concrete form--_something must be done in
+order that it can never occur again_. The higher intelligence of the
+nation must assert itself. It must feel and think and act in terms of
+internationalism. Not that the feeling of nationalism in any country
+shall, or even can be eradicated or even abated. It must be made,
+however, to coordinate itself with the now rapidly growing sense of
+world-consciousness, that the growing intelligence of mankind, aided by
+some tremendously concrete forms of recent experience, is now
+recognising as a great reality.
+
+That there were very strong sympathies for both the Allied Nations and
+for the Central Powers in the beginning, goes without saying, How could
+it be otherwise, when we realise the diverse and complex types of our
+citizenship?
+
+One of the most distinctive, and in some ways one of the most
+significant, features of the American nation is that it is today
+composed of representatives, and in some cases, of enormous bodies of
+representatives, numbering into the millions, of practically every
+nation in the world.
+
+There are single cities where, in one case twenty-six, in another case
+twenty-nine, and in other cases a still larger number of what are today
+designated as hyphenated citizens are represented. The orderly removal
+of the hyphen, and the amalgamation of these splendid representatives of
+practically all nations into genuine American citizens, infused with
+American ideals and pushed on by true American ambitions, is one of the
+great problems that the war has brought in a most striking manner to our
+attention.
+
+Not that these representatives of many nations shall in any way lose
+their sense of sympathy for the nations of their birth, in times of
+either peace or of distress, although they have found it either
+advisable or greatly to their own personal advantage and welfare to
+leave the lands of their birth and to establish their homes here.
+
+The fact that in the vast majority of cases they find themselves better
+off here, and choose to remain and assume the responsibilities of
+citizenship in the Western Republic, involves a responsibility that
+some, if not indeed many, heretofore have apparently too lightly
+considered. There must be a more supreme sense of allegiance, and a
+continually growing sense of responsibility to the nation, that, guided
+by their own independent judgment and animated by their own free wills,
+they have chosen as their home.
+
+There is a difference between sympathy and allegiance; and unless a man
+has found conditions intolerable in the land of his birth, and this is
+the reason for his seeking a home in another land more to his liking and
+to his advantage, we cannot expect him to be devoid of sympathy for the
+land of his birth, especially in times of stress or of great need. We
+can expect him, however, and we have a right to demand his _absolute
+allegiance_ to the land of his adoption. And if he cannot give this,
+then we should see to it that he return to his former home. If he is
+capable of clear thinking and right feeling, he also must realise the
+fundamental truth of this fact.
+
+There are public schools in America where as many as nineteen languages
+are spoken in a single room. Our public schools, so eagerly sought by
+the children of parents of foreign birth, in their intense eagerness
+for an education, that is offered freely and without cost to all, can
+and must be made greater instruments in converting what must in time
+become a great menace to our institutions, and even to the very life of
+the nation itself, into a real and genuine American citizenship. Our
+best educators, in addition to our clearest thinking citizens, are
+realising as never before, that our public-school system chiefly, among
+our educational institutions, must be made a great melting-pot through
+which this process of amalgamation must be carried on.
+
+We are also realising clearly now that, as a nation, we have been
+entirely too lax in connection with our immigration privileges,
+regulations and restrictions. We have been admitting foreigners to our
+shores in such enormous quantities each year that we have not been able
+at all adequately to assimilate them, nor have we used at all a
+sufficiently wise discrimination in the admission of desirables or
+undesirables.
+
+We have received, or we have allowed to be dumped upon our shores, great
+numbers of the latter whom we should know would inevitably become
+dependents, as well as great numbers of criminals. The result has been
+that they have been costing certain localities millions of dollars every
+year. But entirely aside from the latter, the last two or three years
+have brought home to us as never before the fact that those who come to
+our shores must come with the avowed and the settled purpose of becoming
+real American citizens, giving full and absolute allegiance to the
+institutions, the laws, the government of the land of their adoption.
+
+If any other government is not able so to manage as to make it more
+desirable for its subjects to remain in the land of their birth, rather
+than to seek homes in the land with institutions more to their liking,
+or with advantages more conducive to their welfare, that government then
+should not expect to retain, even in the slightest degree, the
+allegiance of such former subjects. A hyphenated citizenship may become
+as dangerous to a republic as a cancer is in the human body. A country
+with over a hundred hyphens cannot fulfil its highest destiny.
+
+We, as a nation, have been rudely shaken from our long dream of almost
+inevitable national security. We have been brought finally, and although
+as a nation we have no desire for conquest or empire, and no desire for
+military glory, and therefore no need of any great army or navy for
+offensive purposes, we have been brought finally to realise that we do,
+nevertheless, stand in need of a national strengthening of our arm of
+defence. A land of a hundred million people, where one could travel many
+times for a sixmonth and never see the sign of a soldier, is brought,
+though reluctantly, to face a new state of affairs; but one,
+nevertheless, that must be faced--calmly faced and wisely acted upon.
+And while it is true that as a nation we have always had the tradition
+of non-militarism, it is not true that we have had the tradition of
+military or of naval impotence or weakness.
+
+Preparedness, therefore, has assumed a position of tremendous
+importance, in individual thought, in public discussion, and almost
+universally in the columns of the public press. One of the most vital
+questions among us then is, not so much as to how we shall prepare, but
+how shall we prepare adequately for defensive purposes, in case of any
+emergency arising, without being thrown too far along the road of
+militarism, and without an inordinate preparation that has been the
+scourge and the bane of many old-world countries for so many years, and
+that quite as much as anything has been provocative of the horrible
+conflict that has literally been devastating so many European countries.
+
+It is clearly apparent that the best thought in America today calls for
+an adequate preparation for purposes of defence, and calls for a
+recognition of facts as they are. It also clearly sees the danger of
+certain types of mind and certain interests combining to carry the
+matter much farther than is at all called for. The question is--How
+shall we then strike that happy balance that is the secret of all
+successful living in the lives of either individuals or in the lives of
+nations?
+
+All clear-seeing people realise that, as things are in the world today,
+there is a certain amount of preparedness that is necessary for
+influence and for insurance. As within the nation a police force is
+necessary for the enforcement of law, for the preservation of law and
+order, although it is not at all necessary that every second or third
+man be a policeman, so in the council of nations the individual nation
+must have a certain element of force that it can fall back upon if all
+other available agencies fail. In diplomacy the strong nations win out,
+the weaker lose out. Military and naval power, unless carried to a
+ridiculous excess does not, therefore, lie idle, even when not in actual
+use.
+
+Our power and influence as a nation will certainly not be in proportion
+to our weakness. Although righteousness exalteth a nation, it is
+nevertheless true that righteousness alone will not protect a
+nation--while other nations are fully armed. National weakness does not
+make for peace.
+
+Righteousness, combined with a spirit of forbearance, combined with a
+keen desire to give justice as well as to demand justice, if combined
+with the power to strike powerfully and sustainedly in defence of
+justice, and in defence of national integrity, is what protects a
+nation, and this it is that in the long run exalteth a nation--_while
+things are as they are_.
+
+While conditions have therefore brought prominently to the forefront in
+America the matter of military training and military service--an
+adequate military preparation for purposes of defence, for full and
+adequate defence, the best thought of the nation is almost a unit in the
+belief that, for us as a nation, an immense standing army is unnecessary
+as well as inadvisable.
+
+No amount of military preparation that is not combined definitely and
+completely with an enhanced citizenship, and therefore with an advance
+in real democracy, is at all worthy of consideration on the part of the
+American people, or indeed on the part of the people of any nation.
+Pre-eminently is this true in this day and age.
+
+Observing this principle we could then, while a certain degree of
+universal training under some system similar to the Swiss or Australian
+system is being carried on, and to serve _our immediate needs_, have an
+army of even a quarter of a million men without danger of militarism and
+without heavy financial burdens, and without subverting our American
+ideas--providing it is an industrial arm. There are great engineering
+projects that could be carried on, thereby developing many of our now
+latent resources; there is an immense amount of road-building that could
+be projected in many parts of, if not throughout the entire country;
+there are great irrigation projects that could be carried on in the far
+West and Southwest, reclaiming millions upon millions of acres of what
+are now unproductive desert lands; all these could be carried on and
+made even to pay, keeping busy a large number of men for half a dozen
+years to come.
+
+This army of this number of men could be recruited, trained to an
+adequate degree of military service, and at the same time could be
+engaged in profitable employment on these much-needed works. They could
+then be paid an adequate wage, ample to support a family, or ample to
+lay up savings if without family. Such men leaving the army service,
+would then have a degree of training and skill whereby they would be
+able to get positions or employment, all more remunerative than the
+bulk of them, perhaps, would ever be able to get without such training
+and experience.
+
+An army of this number of trained men, somewhat equally divided between
+the Atlantic and the Pacific seaboards, the bulk of them engaged in
+regular constructive work, _work that needs to be done and that,
+therefore, could be profitably done_, and ready to be called into
+service at a moment's notice, would constitute a tremendous insurance
+against any aggression from without, and would also give a tremendous
+sense of security for half a dozen years at least. This number could
+then be reduced, for by that time several million young men from
+eighteen years up would be partially trained and in first-class physical
+shape to be summoned to service should the emergency arise.
+
+In addition to the vast amount of good roads building, whose cost could
+be borne in equal proportions by nation, state and county--a most
+important factor in connection with military necessity as well as a
+great economic factor in the successful development and advancement of
+any community--the millions of acres of now arid lands in the West,
+awaiting only water to make them among the most valuable and productive
+in all the world, could be used as a great solution of our immigration
+problem.
+
+Up to the year when the war began, there came to our shores upwards of
+one million immigrants every twelve months, seeking work, and most of
+them homes in this country. The great bulk of them got no farther than
+our cities, increasing congestion, already in many cases acute, and many
+of them becoming in time, from one cause or another, dependents, the
+annual cost of their maintenance aggregating many millions every year.
+
+With these vast acres ready for them large numbers could, under a wise
+system of distribution, be sent on to the great West and Southwest, and
+more easily and directly now since the Panama Canal is open for
+navigation. Allotments of these lands could be assigned them that they
+could in time become owners of, through a wisely established system of
+payments. Many of them would thereby be living lives similar to those
+they lived in their own countries, and for which their training and
+experience there have abundantly fitted them. They would thus become a
+far more valuable type of citizens--landowners--than they could ever
+possibly become otherwise, and especially through our present
+unorganised hit-or-miss system. They would in time also add annually
+hundreds of millions of productive work to the wealth of the country.
+
+The very wise system that was inaugurated some time ago in connection
+with the Coast Defence arm of our army is, under the wise direction of
+our present Secretary of War, to be extended to all branches of the
+service. For some time in the Coast Artillery Service the enlisted man
+under competent instruction has had the privilege of becoming a skilled
+machinist or a skilled electrician. Now the system is to be extended
+through all branches of the military service, and many additional trades
+are to be added to the curricula of the trade schools of the army. The
+young man can, therefore, make his own selection and become a trained
+artisan at the same time that he serves his time in the army, with all
+expenses for such training, as well as maintenance, borne by the
+Government. He can thereby leave the service fully equipped for
+profitable employment.
+
+This will have the tendency of calling a better class of young men into
+the service; it will also do away with the well-founded criticism that
+army life and its idleness, or partly-enforced idleness, unfits a man
+for useful industrial service after he quits the army. If this same
+system is extended through the navy, as it can be, both army and navy
+service will meet the American requirement--that neither military nor
+naval service take great numbers of men from productive employment, to
+be in turn supported by other workers. Instead of so much dead timber,
+they are all the time producing while in active service, and are being
+trained to be highly efficient as producers, when they leave the
+service.
+
+Under this system the Federal Government can build its own ordnance
+works and its own munition factories and become its own maker of
+whatever may be required in all lines of output. We will then be able to
+escape the perverse influence of gain on the part of large munition
+industries, and the danger that comes from that portion of a military
+party whose motives are actuated by personal gain.
+
+If the occasion arises, or if we permit the occasion to arise, Kruppism
+in America will become as dangerous and as sinister in its influences
+and its proportions, as it became in Germany.
+
+Another great service that the war has done us, is by way of bringing
+home to us the lesson that has been so prominently brought to the front
+in connection with the other nations at war, namely, the necessity of
+the speedy and thorough mobilisation of all lines of industries and
+business; for the thoroughness and the efficiency with which this can be
+done may mean success that otherwise would result in failure and
+disaster. We are now awake to the tremendous importance of this.
+
+It is at last becoming clearly understood among the peoples and the
+nations of the world that, as a nation, we have no desire for conquest,
+for territory, for empire--we have no purposes of aggression; we have
+quite enough to do to develop our resources and our as yet great
+undeveloped areas.
+
+A few months before the war broke, I had conversations with the heads or
+with the representatives of leading publishing houses in several
+European countries. It was at a time when our Mexican situation was
+beginning to be very acute. I remember at that time especially, the
+conversation with the head of one of the largest publishing houses in
+Italy, in Milan. I could see plainly his scepticism when, in reply to
+his questions, I endeavoured to persuade him that as a nation we had no
+motives of conquest or of aggression in Mexico, that we were interested
+solely in the restoration of a representative and stable government
+there. And since that time, I am glad to say that our acts as a nation
+have all been along the line of persuading him, and also many other
+like-minded ones in many countries abroad, of the truth of this
+assertion. By this general course we have been gaining the confidence
+and have been cementing the friendship of practically every South
+American republic, our immediate neighbours on the southern continent.
+This has been a source of increasing economic power with us, and an
+element of greatly added strength, and also a tremendous energy working
+all the time for the preservation of peace.
+
+One can say most confidently, even though recognising our many grave
+faults as a nation, that our course along this line has been such,
+especially of late years, as to inspire confidence on the part of all
+the fair-minded nations of the world.
+
+Our theory of the state, the theory of democracy, is not that the state
+is above all, and that the individual and his welfare are as nothing
+when compared to it, but rather that the state is the agency through
+which the highest welfare of all its subjects is to be evolved,
+expressed, maintained. No other theory to my mind, is at all compatible
+with the intelligence of any free-thinking people.
+
+Otherwise, there is always the danger and also the likelihood, while
+human nature is as it is, for some ruler, some clique, or factions so to
+concentrate power into their own hands, that for their own ambitions,
+for aggrandisement, or for false or short-sighted and half-baked ideas
+of additions to their country, it is dragged into periodic wars with
+other nations.
+
+Nor do we share in the belief that the state is above morality, but
+rather that identically the same moral ideals, precepts and obligations
+that bind individuals must be held sacred by the state, otherwise it
+becomes a pirate among nations, and it will inevitably in time be hunted
+down and destroyed as such, however great its apparent power. Nor do we
+as a nation share in the belief that war is necessary and indeed good
+for a nation, to inspire and to preserve its manly qualities, its
+virility, and therefore its power. Were this the only way that this
+could be brought about, it might be well and good; but the price to be
+paid is a price that is too enormous and too frightful, and the results
+are too uncertain. We believe that these same ideals can be inculcated,
+that these same energies can be used along useful, conserving,
+constructive lines, rather than along lines of destruction.
+
+A nation may have the most colossal and perfect military system in the
+world, and still may suffer defeat in any given while, because of those
+unseen things that pertain to the soul of another people, whereby powers
+and forces are engendered and materialised that make defeat for them
+impossible; and in the matter of big guns, it is well always to remember
+that no nation can build them so great that another nation may not build
+them still greater. National safety does not necessarily lie in that
+direction. Nor, on the other hand, along the lines of extreme
+pacificism--surely not as long as things are as they are. The argument
+of the lamb has small deterrent effect upon the wolf--as long as the
+wolf is a wolf. And sometimes wolves hunt in packs. The most preeminent
+lesson of the great war for us as a nation should be this--there should
+be constantly a degree of preparedness sufficient to hold until all the
+others, the various portions of the nation, thoroughly coordinated and
+ready, can be summoned into action. Thus are we prepared, thus are we
+safe, and there is no danger or fear of militarism.
+
+In a democracy it should, without question, be a fundamental fact that
+hand in hand with equal rights there should go a sense of equal duty. A
+call for defence should have a universal response. So it is merely good
+common-sense, good judgment, if you please, for all the young men of the
+nation to have a training sufficient to enable them to respond
+effectively if the nation's safety calls them to its defence. It is no
+crime, however we may deprecate war, to be thus prepared.
+
+For young men--and we must always remember that it is the young men who
+are called for this purpose--for young men to be called to the colours
+by the tens or the hundreds of thousands, unskilled and untrained, to be
+shot down, decimated by the thoroughly trained and skilled troops of
+another nation, or a combination of other nations, is indeed the crime.
+Never, moreover, was folly so great as that shown by him or by her who
+will not see. And to look at the matter without prejudice, we will
+realise that this is merely policing what we have. It is meeting force
+with adequate force, _if it becomes necessary_, so to meet it.
+
+This is necessary until such time as we have in operation among nations
+a thoroughly established machinery whereby force will give place to
+reason, whereby common sense will be used in adjusting all differences
+between nations, as it is now used in adjusting differences between
+individuals.
+
+Our period of isolation is over. We have become a world-nation. Equality
+of rights presupposes equality of duty. In our very souls we loathe
+militarism. Conquest and aggression are foreign to our spirit, and
+foreign to our thoughts and ambitions. But weakness will by no means
+assure us immunity from aggression from without. Universal military
+training up to a reasonable point, and the joint sense of responsibility
+of every man and every woman in the nation, and the right of the
+national government to expect and to demand that every man and woman
+stand ready to respond to the call to service, whatever form it may
+take--this is our armour.
+
+All intelligent people know that the national government has always had
+the power to draft every male citizen fit for service into military
+service. It is not therefore a question of universal military service.
+The real and only question is whether these or great numbers of these go
+out illy prepared and equipped as sheep to the shambles perchance, or
+whether they go out trained and equipped to do a man's work--more
+adequately prepared to protect themselves as well as the integrity of
+the nation. It is not to be done for the love or the purpose of
+militarism; but recognising the fact that militarism still persists,
+that with us it may not be triumphant should we at any time be forced to
+face it. There are certain facts that only to our peril as well as our
+moral degradation, we can be blind to. Said a noted historian but a few
+days ago:
+
+"I loathe war and militarism. I have fought them for twenty years. But I
+am a historian, and I know that bullies thrive best in an atmosphere of
+meekness. As long as this military system lasts you must discourage the
+mailed fist by showing that you will meet it with something harder than
+a boxing glove. We do not think it good to admit into the code of the
+twentieth century that a great national bully may still with impunity
+squeeze the blood out of its small neighbours and seize their goods."
+
+We need not fear militarism arising in America as long as the
+fundamental principles of democracy are preserved and continually
+extended, which can be done only through the feeling of the individual
+responsibility of every man and every woman to take a keen and constant
+interest in the matters of their own government--community, state,
+national, and now international. We must realise and ever more fully
+realise that in a government such as ours, the people are the
+government, and that when in it anything goes wrong, or wrongs and
+injustices are allowed to grow and hold sway, we are to blame.
+
+Universal military training has not militarised Switzerland nor has it
+Australia. It is rather the very essence of democracy and the very
+antithesis of militarism.
+
+    "Let each son of Freedom bear
+      His portion of the burden. Should not each one do his share?
+        To sacrifice the splendid few--
+        The strong of heart, the brave, the true,
+        Who live--or die--as heroes do,
+      While cowards profit--is not fair!"
+
+Many still recall that not a few well-meaning people at the close of the
+Civil War proclaimed that, with upwards of two million trained men
+behind him, General Grant would become a military dictator, and that
+this would be followed by the disappearance of democracy in the nation.
+But the mind, the temper, the traditions of our people are all a
+guarantee against militarism. The gospel, the hallucination of the
+shining armour, the will to power, has no attraction for us. We loathe
+it; nor do we fear its undermining and crushing our own liberties
+internally. Nevertheless, it is true that vigilance is always and always
+will be the price of liberty. There must be a constant education towards
+citizenship. There must be an alert democracy, so that any land and sea
+force is always the servant of the spirit; for only otherwise it can
+become its master--but otherwise it will become its master.
+
+
+
+
+XIII
+
+OUR SOLE AGENCY OF INTERNATIONAL PEACE, AND INTERNATIONAL CONCORD
+
+
+The consensus of intelligent thought throughout the world is to the
+effect that just as we have established an orderly method for the
+settlement of disputes between individuals or groups of individuals in
+any particular nation, we must now move forward and establish such
+methods for the settlement of disputes among nations. There is no
+civilised country in the world that any longer permits the individual to
+take the law into his own hands.
+
+The intelligent thought of the world now demands the definite
+establishment of a World Federation for the enforcement of peace among
+nations. It demands likewise the definite establishment of a permanent
+World Court, backed by adequate force for the arbitrament of all
+disputes among nations--unable to be adjusted by the nations themselves
+in friendly conference. We have now reached the stage in world
+development and in world intercourse where peace must be
+internationalised. Our present chaotic condition, which exists simply
+because we haven't taken time as yet to establish a method, must be
+made to give place to an intelligently devised system of law and order.
+Anything short of this means a periodic destruction of the finest fruits
+of civilisation. It means also the periodic destruction of the finest
+young manhood of the world. This means, in turn, the speedy degeneration
+of the human race. The deification of force, augmented by all the
+products and engines of modern science, is simply the way of sublimated
+savagery.
+
+The world is in need of a new dispensation. Recent events show
+indisputably that we have reached the parting of the ways, the family of
+nations must now push on into the new day or the world will plunge on
+into a darker night. There is no other course in sight. I know of no
+finer words penned in any language--this time it was in French--to
+express an unvarying truth than these words by Victor Hugo: "There is
+one thing that is stronger than armies, and that is an idea whose time
+has come."
+
+Never before, after viewing the great havoc wrought, the enormous debts
+that will have to be paid for between fifty and a hundred years to come,
+the tremendous disruptions and losses in trade, the misery and
+degradation stalking broadcast over every land engaged in the
+war--scarcely a family untouched--never before have nations been in the
+state of mind to consider and to long to act upon some sensible and
+comprehensive method of international concord and adjustments. If this
+succeeds, the world, including ourselves, is the gainer. If this does
+not succeed, though the chances are overwhelmingly in its favour, then
+we can proclaim to the assembled nations that as long as a state of
+outlawry exists among nations, that then no longer by chance but by
+design, we as a nation will be in a state of preparedness broad and
+comprehensive enough to defend ourselves against the violation of any of
+the rights of a sovereign nation. It is only in this way that we can
+show a due appreciation of the struggles and the sacrifices of those who
+gave us our national existence; it is only in this way that we can,
+retain our self-respect, that we can command the respect of other
+nations _while things are as they are_; that we can hope to retain any
+degree of influence and authority for the diplomatic arm of our
+Government in the Council of Nations.
+
+Every neutral nation has suffered tremendously by the war. Every neutral
+nation will suffer until a new world-order among nations is projected
+and perfected.
+
+We owe a tremendous duty to the world in connection with this great
+world crisis and upheaval. Diligently should our best men and women,
+those of insight and greatest influence, and with the expenditure of
+both time and means, seek to further the practical working out of a
+World Federation and a permanent World Court. Public opinion should be
+thus aroused and solidified so that the world knows that we stand as a
+united nation back of the idea and the plan.
+
+The divine right of kings has gone. It holds no more. We hear now and
+then, it is true, some silly statement in regard to it, but little
+attention is paid to it. The divine right of priests has gone except in
+the minds of the few remaining ignorant and herdable ones. The divine
+right of dynasties--or rather of dynasties to persist--seems to die a
+little harder, but it is well on the way. We are now realising that the
+only divine right is the right of the people--and all the people.
+
+Never again should it be possible for one man, or for one little group
+of men so to lead, or so to mislead a nation as to plunge it into war.
+The growth of democracy compelling the greater participation of all the
+people in government must prohibit this. So likewise the close
+relationship of the entire world now must make it forever impossible for
+a single nation or a group of nations for any cause to plunge a whole
+world or any part of it into war. These are sound and clear-visioned
+words recently given utterance to by James Bryce: "However much we
+condemn reckless leaders and the ruthless caste that live for war, the
+real source of the mischief is the popular sentiment behind them. The
+lesson to be learned is that doctrines and deep-rooted passions, whence
+these evils spring, can only be removed by the slow and steady working
+of spiritual forces. What most is needed is the elimination of those
+feelings the teachings of which breed jealousy and hatred and prompt men
+to defiance and aggression."
+
+Humanity and civilisation is not headed towards Ab the cave-man,
+whatever appearances, in the minds of many, may indicate at the present
+time. Humanity will arise and will reconstruct itself. Great lessons
+will be learned. Good will result. But what a terrific price to pay!
+What a terrific price to pay to learn the lesson that "moral forces are
+the only invincible forces in the universe"! It has been slow, but
+steadily the world is advancing to that stage when the individual or the
+nation that does not know that the law of mutuality, of cooperation, and
+still more the law of sympathy and good will, is the supreme law in real
+civilisation, real advancement, and real gain--that does not know that
+its own welfare is always bound up with the welfare of the greater
+whole--is still in the brute stage of life and the bestial propensities
+are still its guiding forces.
+
+Prejudice, suspicion, hatred, national big-headedness, must give way to
+respect, sympathy, the desire for mutual understanding and cooperation.
+The higher attributes must and will assert themselves. The former are
+the ways of periodic if not continuous destruction--the latter are the
+ways of the higher spiritual forces that must prevail. Significant are
+these words of one of our younger but clear-visioned American poets,
+Winter Bynner:
+
+    Whether the time be slow or fast,
+      Enemies, hand in hand,
+    Must come together at the last
+      And understand.
+
+    No matter how the die is cast,
+      Or who may seem to win--
+    We know that we must love at last--
+      Why not begin?
+
+The teaching of hatred to children, the fostering of hatred in adults,
+can result only in harm to the people and the nation where it is
+fostered. The dragon's tooth will leave its marks upon the entire nation
+and the fair life of all the people will suffer by it. The holding in
+contempt of other people makes it sometimes necessary that one's own
+head be battered against the wall that he may be sufficiently aroused to
+recognise and to appreciate their sterling and enduring qualities.
+
+The use of a club is more spectacular for some at least than the use of
+intellectual and moral forces. The rattling of the machine-gun produces
+more commotion than the more quiet ways of peace. All of the powerful
+forces in nature, those of growth, germination, and conservation, the
+same as in human life are quiet forces. So in the preservation of peace.
+It consists rather in a high constructive policy. It requires always
+clear vision, a constantly progressive and cooperative method of life
+and action; frank and open dealing and a resolute purpose. It is won and
+maintained by nothing so much in the long run as when it makes the
+Golden Rule its law of conduct. Slowly we are realising that great
+armaments--militarism--do not insure peace. They may lead away from
+it--they are very apt to lead away from it.
+
+Peace is related rather to the great moral laws of conduct. It has to do
+with straight, clean, open dealing. It is fostered by sympathy,
+forbearance. This does not mean that it pertains to weakness. On the
+contrary it is determined by resolute but high purpose, the actual and
+active desire of a nation to live on terms of peace with all other
+nations; and the world's; recognition of this fact is a most powerful
+factor in inducing and in actualising such living.
+
+Our own achievement of upwards of a hundred years in living in
+peaceable, sympathetic and mutually beneficial relations with Canada;
+Canada's achievement in so living with us, should be a distinct and
+clear-cut answer to the argument that nations need to fortify their
+boundaries one against another. This is true only where suspicion,
+mistrust, fear, secret diplomacy, and secret alliances hold instead of
+the great and eternally constructive forces--sympathy, good will, mutual
+understanding, induced and conserved by an International Joint
+Commission of able men whose business it is to investigate, to
+determine, and to adjust any differences that through the years may
+arise. Here we have a boundary line of upwards of three thousand miles
+and not a fort; vast areas of inland seas and not a war vessel; and for
+upwards of a hundred years not a difference that the High Joint
+Commission has not been able to settle amicably and to the mutual
+advantage of both countries.
+
+I know that in connection with this we have an advantage over the
+old-world nations because we are free from age-long prejudices,
+hatreds, and past scores. But if this great conflict does not lead along
+the lines of the constructive forces and the working out of a new world
+method, then the future of Europe and of the world is dark indeed.
+Surely it will lead to a new order--it is almost inconceivable that it
+will not.
+
+The Golden Rule is a wonderful developer in human life, a wonderful
+harmoniser in community life--with great profit it could be extended as
+the law of conduct in international relations. It must be so extended.
+Its very foundation is sympathy, good will, mutuality, love.
+
+The very essence of Jesus' entire revelation and teaching was love. It
+was not the teaching of weakness or supineness in the face of wrong,
+however. There was no failure on his part to smite wrong when he saw
+it--wrong taking the form of injustice or oppression. He had, as we have
+seen, infinite sympathy for and forbearance with the weak, the sinful;
+but he had always a righteous indignation and a scathing denunciation
+for oppression--for that spirit of hell that prompts men or
+organisations to seek, to study, to dominate the minds and thereby the
+lives of others. It was, moreover, that he would not keep silent
+regarding the deadly ecclesiasticism that bore so heavily upon his
+people and that had well-nigh crushed all their religious life whence
+are the very springs of life, that he aroused the deadly antagonism of
+the ruling hierarchy. And as he, witnessing for truth and freedom,
+steadfastly and defiantly opposed oppression, so those who catch his
+spirit today will do as he did and will realise as duty--"While wrong is
+wrong let no man prate of peace!"
+
+                    Peace? Peace? Peace?
+    While wrong is wrong let no man prate of peace!
+    He did not prate, the Master. Nay, he smote!
+
+           *       *       *       *       *
+
+    Hate wrong! Slay wrong! Else mercy, justice, truth,
+    Freedom and faith, shall die for humankind.[F]
+
+Nor did the code and teachings of Jesus prevent him driving the
+money-changers from out the temple court. It was not for the purpose of
+doing them harm. It was rather to do them good by driving home to them
+in some tangible and concrete form, through the skin and flesh of their
+bodies, what the thick skins of their moral natures were unable to
+comprehend. The resistance of wrongdoing is not opposed to the law of
+love. As in community life there is the occasional bully who has
+sometimes to be knocked down in order that he may have a due
+appreciation of individual rights and community amenities, so among
+nations a similar lesson is sometimes necessary in order that it or its
+leaders may learn that there are certain things that do not pay, and,
+moreover, will not be allowed by the community of nations.
+
+Making might alone the basis of national policy and action, or making it
+the basis of settlement in international settlements, but arouses and
+intensifies hatred and the spirit of revenge. So in connection with this
+great world crisis--after it all then comes the great problem of
+reorganisation and rehabilitation, and unless there comes about an
+international concord strong and definite enough to prevent a recurrence
+of what has been, it would almost seem that restoration were futile; for
+things will be restored only in time to be destroyed again.
+
+No amount of armament we know now will prevent war. It can be prevented
+only by a definite concord of the nations brought finally to realise the
+futility of war. To deny the possibility of a World League and a World
+Court is to deny the ability of men to govern themselves. The history of
+the American Republic in its demonstration of the power and the genius
+of federation should disprove the truth of this. Here we have a nation
+composed of forty-eight sovereign states and with the most heterogeneous
+accumulation of people that ever came together in one country, let alone
+one nation, and great numbers of them from those nations that for
+upwards of a thousand years have been periodically springing at one
+another's throats. Enlightened self-government has done it. The real
+spirit and temper of democracy has done it. But it must be the
+preservation of the real spirit of democracy and constant vigilance that
+must preserve it.
+
+Prejudice, suspicion, hatred on the part of individuals or on the part
+of the people of one nation against the people of another nation, have
+never yet advanced the welfare of any individual or any nation and never
+can. The world war is but the direct result of the type of peace that
+preceded it. The militarist argument reduced to its lowest terms amounts
+merely to this: "For two nations to keep peace each must be stronger
+than the other."
+
+Representative men of other countries do not resent our part in pressing
+this matter and in taking the leadership in it. But even if they did
+they would have no just right to. There is, however, a very general
+feeling that the American Republic, as the world's greatest example of
+_successful federation_, should take the lead in the World Federation.
+
+This is now going to be greatly fostered by virtue of one great good
+that the world war will eventually have accomplished--the doom and the
+end of autocracy. Dynasties and privileged orders that have lived and
+lived alone on militarism, will have been foreclosed on. The people in
+control, in an increasingly intelligent control of their own lives and
+their own governments, will be governed by a higher degree of
+self-enlightenment and mutual self-interest than under the domination or
+even the leadership of any type of hereditary ruling class or war-lord.
+In some countries autocracy in religion, through the free mingling and
+discussions of men of various nationalities and religious persuasions,
+will be again lessened, whereby the direct love and power of God in the
+hearts of men, as Jesus taught, will have a fuller sway and a more holy
+and a diviner moulding power in their lives.
+
+It was during those long, weary years coupled with the horrible crimes
+of the Thirty Years' War that the science of International Law began to
+take form, the result of that notable work, "De Jure Belli ac Pacis," by
+Grotius. It is ours to see that out of this more intense and thereby
+even more horrible conflict a new epoch in human and international
+relations be born.
+
+As the higher powers of mind and spirit are realised and used, great
+primal instincts impelling men to expression and action that find their
+outlet many times in war, will be transmuted and turned from destruction
+into powerful engines of construction. When a moral equivalent for war
+of sufficient impelling power is placed before men, those same virile
+qualities and powers that are now marshalled so easily for purposes of
+fighting, will, under the guidance and in the service of the spirit, be
+used for the conserving of human life, and for the advancement and the
+increase of everything that administers to life, that makes it more
+abundant, more mutual, and more happy. And God knows that the call for
+such service is very great.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+And even now comes the significant word that the long, the too long
+awaited world's Bill of Rights has taken form. The intelligence and the
+will of righteous men, duly appointed as the representatives of fourteen
+sovereign nations, has asserted itself, and the beginning has been made,
+without which there can be neither growth nor advancement. The
+Constitution of the World League has taken form. It is not a perfect
+instrument; but it will grow into as perfect an instrument as need be
+for its purpose. Changes and additions to it will be made as times and
+conditions indicate. Partisanship even with us may seek to defeat it.
+There is no question, however, but that the sober sense of the American
+people is behind it.
+
+One of the most fundamental results, we might say purposes of the great
+world war, was to end war. It means now that the world's unity and
+mutuality and its community of interests must be realised and that we
+build accordingly. It means that the world's peace must be fostered and
+preserved by the use of brains and guided by the heart; or that every
+brute force made ghastly and deadly to the n_th_ degree that modern
+science can devise, be periodically called in to settle the disputes or
+curb the ambitions that will disrupt the peace of the world.
+
+The common people the world over are desiring as near as can be arrived
+at, some surety as to the preservation of the world's peace; and they
+will brook no interference with a plan that seems the most feasible way
+to that end. The whole world is in that temper that gives significance
+to the words of President Wilson when a day or two ago he said: "Any
+man who resists the present tides that run in the world will find
+himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem as if
+he had been separated from his human kind forever." Unless, he might
+have added--he has and can demonstrate a better plan. The two chief
+arguments against it, that it will take away from our individual rights
+and that it will lead us into entangling alliances, no longer hold--for
+we are entangled already. We are a part of the great world force and it
+were futile longer to seek to escape our duties as such. They are as
+essential as "our rights."
+
+It is with us now as a nation as it was with that immortal group that
+gathered to sign our Declaration of Independence, to whom Franklin said:
+"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
+
+It is well for Americans to recall that the first League of Nations was
+when thirteen distinct nationalities one day awoke to the fact that it
+were better to forget their differences and to a great extent their
+boundaries, and come together in a common union. They had their thirteen
+distinct armies to keep up, in order to defend themselves each against
+the other or against any combination of the others, to say nothing of
+any outside power that might move against them. Jealousies arose and
+misunderstandings were frequent. So zealous was each of its own rights
+that when the Constitutional Convention had completed its work, and the
+Constitution was ready for adoption, there were those who actually left
+the hall rather than sign it. They were good men but they were looking
+at stern facts and they wanted no idealism in theirs. Good men, some
+animated by the partisan spirit, it is true, earnest in their
+beliefs--but unequipped with the long vision. Their names are now
+recalled only through the search of the antiquarian.
+
+Infinitely better it has been found for the thirteen and eventually the
+forty-eight to stand together than to stand separately. The thirteen
+separate states were farther separated so far as means of communication
+and actual knowledge of one another were concerned, than are the nations
+of the world today.
+
+It took men of great insight as well as vision to formulate our own
+Constitution which made thirteen distinct and sovereign states the
+United States of America. The formulation of the Constitution of the
+World League has required such men. As a nation we may be proud that two
+representative Americans have had so large a share in its
+accomplishment--President Wilson, good Democrat, and Ex-President Taft,
+good Republican.
+
+The greatest international and therefore world document ever produced
+has been forged--it awaits the coming days, years, and even generations
+for its completion. And we accord great honour also to those statesmen
+of other nations who have combined keen insight born of experience, with
+a lofty idealism; for out of these in any realm of human activities and
+relations, whatever eventually becomes the practical, is born.
+
+
+
+
+XIV
+
+THE WORLD'S BALANCE-WHEEL
+
+
+It was Lincoln who gave us a wonderful summary when he said: "After all
+the one meaning of life is to be kind."
+
+Love, sympathy, fellowship is the very foundation of all civilised,
+happy, ideal life. It is the very balance-wheel of life itself. It gives
+that genuineness and simplicity in voice, in look, in spirit that is so
+instinctively felt by all, and to which all so universally respond. It
+is like the fragrance of the flower--the emanation of its soul.
+
+Interesting and containing a most vital truth is this little memoir by
+Christine Rossetti: "One whom I knew intimately, and whose memory I
+revere, once in my hearing remarked that, 'unless we love people, we
+cannot understand them.' This was a new light to me." It contains indeed
+a profound truth.
+
+Love, sympathy, fellowship, is what makes human life truly human.
+Cooperation, mutual service, is its fruitage. A clear-cut realisation of
+this and a resolute acting upon it would remove much of the cloudiness
+and the barrenness from many a life; and its mutual recognition--and
+action based upon it--would bring order and sweetness and mutual gain in
+vast numbers of instances in family, in business, in community life. It
+would solve many of the knotty problems in all lines of human relations
+and human endeavour, whose solution heretofore has seemed well-nigh
+impossible. It is the telling oil that will start to running smoothly
+and effectively many an otherwise clogged and grating system of human
+machinery.
+
+When men on both sides are long-headed enough, are sensible enough to
+see its practical element and make it the fundamental basis of all
+relationships, of all negotiations, and all following activities in the
+relations between capital and labour, employer and employee, literally a
+new era in the industrial world will spring into being. Both sides will
+be the gainer--the dividends flowing to each will be even surprising.
+
+There is really no labour problem outside of sympathy, mutuality,
+good-will, cooperation, brotherhood.
+
+Injustice always has been and always will be the cause of all labour
+troubles. But we must not forget that it is sometimes on one side and
+sometimes on the other. Misunderstanding is not infrequently its
+accompaniment. Imagination, sympathy, mutuality, cooperation,
+brotherhood are the hand-maidens of justice. No man is intelligent
+enough, is big enough to be the representative or the manager of
+capital, who is not intelligent enough to realise this. No man is fit to
+be the representative of, or fit to have anything to do with the
+councils of labour who has not brains, intelligence enough to realise
+this. These qualities are not synonyms of or in any way related to
+sentimentality or any weak-kneed ethics. They underlie the soundest
+business sense. In this day and age they are synonyms of the word
+practical. There was a time and it was not so many years ago, when heads
+and executives of large enterprises did not realise this as fully as
+they realise it today. A great change has already taken place. A new era
+has already begun, and the greater the ability and the genius the more
+eager is its possessor to make these his guiding principles, and to
+hasten the time when they will be universally recognised and built upon.
+The same is true of the more intelligent in the rank and file of labour,
+as also of the more intelligent and those who are bringing the best
+results as leaders of labour. There is no intelligent man or woman today
+who does not believe in organised labour. There is no intelligent
+employer who does not believe in it and who does not welcome it.
+
+The bane of organised labour in the past has too often been the
+unscrupulous, the self-seeking, or the bull-headed labour leader.
+Organised labour must be constantly diligent to purge itself of these
+its worst enemies. Labour is entitled to the very highest wage, or to
+the best returns in cooperative management that it can get, and that are
+consistent with sound business management, as also to the best labour
+conditions that a sympathetic and wise management can bring about. It
+must not, however, be unreasonable in its demands, neither bull-headed,
+nor seek to travel too fast--otherwise it may lose more than it will
+gain.
+
+It must not allow itself to act as a shield for the ineffective worker,
+or the one without a sense of mutuality, whose aim is to get all he can
+get without any thought as to what he gives in return, or even with the
+deliberate purpose of giving the least that he can give and get away
+with it. Where there is a good and a full return, there should be not
+only the desire but an eagerness to give a full and honest service. Less
+than this is indicative of a lack of honest and staunch manhood or
+womanhood.
+
+It is incumbent upon organised labour also to remember that it
+represents but eight per cent of the actual working people of this
+nation. Whether one works with his brains, or his hands, or both, is
+immaterial. Nor does organised labour represent the great farming
+interests of the country--even more fundamentally the backbone of the
+nation.
+
+The desirable citizen of any nation is he or she who does not seek to
+prosper at the expense of his fellows, who does not seek the advancement
+of his group to the detriment of all other groups--who realises that
+none are independent, that all are interdependent.
+
+He who is a teacher or a preacher of class-consciousness, is either
+consciously or unconsciously--generally consciously and intentionally--a
+preacher of class-hatred. There is no more undesirable citizen in any
+nation than he. "Do you know why money is so scarce, brothers?" the soap
+box orator demanded, and a fair-sized section of the backbone of the
+nation waited in leisurely patience for the answer. A tired-looking
+woman had paused for a moment on the edge of the crowd. She spoke
+shortly. "It's because so many of you men spend your time telling each
+other why, 'stead of hustling to see that it ain't!" He is a fair
+representative of the class-consciousness, class-hatred type. Again he
+is represented by the theorist constitutionally and chronically too lazy
+to do honest and constructive work either physically or mentally. Again
+by the one who has the big-head affliction. Or again by the one
+afflicted with a species of insanity or criminality manifesting of late
+under the name of Bolshevism--a self-seeking tyranny infinitely worse
+than Czarism itself.
+
+Its representatives have proved themselves moral perverts, determined to
+carry out their theories and gain their own ends by treachery, theft,
+coersion, murder, and every foul method that will aid them in reducing
+order to chaos--through the slogan of rule or ruin. Through brigandage,
+coersion, murder, it gets the funds to send its agents into those
+countries whose governments are fully in the hands of the people, and
+where if at any time injustice prevails it is solely the fault of the
+people in not using in an intelligent and determined manner the
+possessions they already have. Or putting it in another way, on account
+of shirking the duties it is morally incumbent upon them as citizens of
+free governments to perform.
+
+In America, whose institutions have been built and maintained solely by
+the people, our duty is plain, for orderly procedure has been and ever
+must be our watch-word. Vigilance is moreover nowhere required more than
+in representative government. Whenever the red hand of anarchy,
+Bolshevism, terrorism raises itself it should be struck so instantly and
+so powerfully that it has not only no time to gain adherents, but has no
+time to make its escape. It should be the Federal prison for any
+American who allows himself to become so misguided as to seek to
+substitute terrorism and destruction for our orderly and lawful methods
+of procedure, or quick deportation for any foreigner who seeks our
+shores to carry out these purposes, or comes as an agent for those who
+would do the same.
+
+Organised labour has never occupied so high a position as it occupies
+today. That the rank and file will for an instant have commerce with
+these agencies, whatever any designing leader here and there may seek to
+do, is inconceivable. That its organisations will be sought to be used
+by them is just as probable. Its duty as to vigilance and determination
+is pronounced. And unless vigilant and determined the set-backs it may
+get and the losses it may suffer are just as pronounced. The spirit and
+temper of the American people is such that it will not stand for
+coersion, lawlessness, or any unfair demands. Public opinion is after
+all the court of last resort. No strike or no lockout can succeed with
+us that hasn't that tremendous weapon, public opinion, behind it. The
+necessity therefore of being fair in all demands and orderly in all
+procedure, and in view of this it is also well to remember that
+organised labour represents but eight per cent of the actual working
+people of this nation.
+
+The gains of organised labour in the past have been very great. It is
+also true that the demands of organised labour even today are very
+great. In true candor it must also be said that not only the impulse but
+the sincere desire of the great bulk of employers is in a conciliatory
+way to grant all demands of labour that are at all consistent with sound
+economic management, even in many cases to a great lessening of their
+own profits, as well as to maintain working conditions as befits their
+workers as valuable and honoured members of our body politic, as they
+naturally are and as they so richly deserve.
+
+For their own welfare, however, to say nothing of the welfare of the
+nation, labour unions must purge themselves of all anarchistic and
+destructive elements. Force is a two-edged sword, and the force of this
+nation when once its sense of justice and right is outraged and its
+temper is aroused, will be found to be infinitely superior to any
+particular class, whether it be capital or whether it be labour.
+Organised labour stands in the way to gain much by intelligent and
+honest work and orderly procedure. And to a degree perhaps never before
+equalled, does it stand in a position to lose much if through
+self-deception on its own part or through unworthy leadership, it
+deceives itself in believing itself superior to the forces of law and
+order.
+
+In a nation where the people through their chosen representatives and by
+established systems of procedure determine their own institutions, when
+agitators get beyond law and reason and lose sight too completely of the
+law of mutuality, there is a power backed by a force that it is mere
+madness to defy. The rights as well as the power of all the people will
+be found to be infinitely superior to those of any one particular group
+or class--clear-seeing men and women in any democratic form of
+government realise that the words mutuality and self-interest bear a
+very close relationship.
+
+The greatest gains in the relations between capital and labour during
+the coming few years will undoubtedly be along the lines of
+profit-sharing. Some splendid beginnings are already in successful
+operation. There is the recognition that capital is entitled initially
+to a fair return; again that labour is entitled to a good and full
+living wage--when both these conditions are met then that there be an
+equal division of the profits that remain, between the capital and the
+skill and management back of the capital invested on the one hand, and
+labour on the other. Without the former labour would have no employment
+in the particular enterprise; without the workers the former could not
+carry on. Each is essential to the other.
+
+Labour being not a commodity, as some material thing merely to be bought
+and sold, but the human element, is entitled to more than a living wage.
+It has human aspirations, and desires and needs. It has not only its
+present but its own and its children's future to safeguard. When it is
+thus made a partner in the business it becomes more earnest and reliable
+and effective in its work, less inclined to condone the shiftless, the
+incompetent, the slacker; more eager and resolute in withstanding the
+ill-founded, reckless or sinister suggestions or efforts of an
+ill-advised leadership.
+
+Capital or employer is the gainer also, because it is insured that loyal
+and more intelligent cooperation in its enterprise that is as essential
+to its success as is the genius and skill of management.
+
+Taking a different form but proving most valuable alike for management
+and capital on the one hand, and its workers on the other, is the case
+of one of our great industrial plants, the largest of its kind in the
+world and employing many thousands of workers, where already a trifle
+over forty per cent. of its stock is in the hands of the workers. Their
+thrift and their good judgment have enabled them to take advantage of
+attractive prices and easy methods of payment made them by the company's
+management. There are already many other concerns where this is true in
+greater or less proportion.
+
+These are facts that certain types of labour agitators or even leaders
+as well as special pleaders for labour, find it convenient to forget, or
+at least not to mention. The same is true also of the millions that are
+every year being paid out to make all working conditions and
+surroundings cheerful, healthful, safe; in various forms of insurance,
+in retiring pensions. Through the initiative of this larger type of
+employer, or manager of capital, many hundreds of thousands both men and
+women and in continually increasing numbers, are being thus
+benefited--outside and above their yearly wage or salary.
+
+A new era in connection with capital and labour has for some time been
+coming into being; the era of democracy in industry has arrived. The day
+of the autocratic sway on the part of capital has passed; nor will we as
+a nation take kindly to the autocratic sway of labour. It is obtaining
+a continually fuller recognition; and cooperation leading in many lines
+to profit-sharing is the new era we are now passing into.
+
+Though there are very large numbers of men of great wealth, employers
+and heads of industrial enterprises, who have caught the spirit of the
+new industrial age upon which we have already begun to enter, and who
+are glad to see labour getting its fairer share of the profits of
+industry and a larger recognition as partners in industry, there are
+those who, lacking both imagination and vision, attempt to resist the
+tide that, already turned, is running in volume. They are our American
+Bourbons, our American Junkers. They are, considering the ominous
+undercurrents of change, unrest and discontent that are so apparent in
+the entire industrial and economic world today, our worst breeders and
+feeders of Bolshevism and lawlessness.
+
+If they had their way and their numbers were sufficiently large, the
+flames of Bolshevism and anarchy would be so fed that even in America we
+would have little hope of escaping a great conflagration. They are the
+ones who are determined to see that their immense profits are
+uncurtailled, whose homes must have ten bathrooms each; while great
+numbers of their workers without whom they would have to close up the
+industry--hence their essential partners in the industry though not in
+name--haven't even a single bath-room and with families as large and in
+many cases larger.
+
+They are they who must have three or four homes each, aggregating in the
+millions to build and to maintain. They are they who cannot see why
+workmen should discuss such things among themselves, or even question
+them, though in many cases they are scarcely able to make ends meet in
+the face of continually advancing or even soaring prices, who never
+enjoy a holiday, and are unable to lay up for the years to come, when
+they will no longer be "required" in industry. They are they therefore
+who have but little if any interest or care for even the physical
+well-being of their workers, say nothing of their mental and spiritual
+well-being and enjoyments--beyond the fact that they are well enough fed
+and housed for the next day's work.
+
+They are they who when it is suggested that, recognizing the change and
+the run of the tide, they be keen-minded enough to anticipate changing
+conditions and organize their business so that their workers have some
+joint share in its conditions and conduct, and some share in its profits
+beyond a mere living wage, reply--"I'll be damned if I do." It doesn't
+require much of a prophetic sense now however, to be able to tell
+them--they'll be damned if they don't.
+
+There is reason to rejoice also that for the welfare of American
+institutions, the number of this class is continually decreasing. Did
+they predominate, with the unmistakable undercurrents of unrest, born of
+a sense of injustice, there would be in time, and in a shorter time than
+we perhaps realize, but one outcome. Steeped in selfishness, making
+themselves impervious to all the higher leadings and impulses of the
+soul--less than men--they are not only enemies of their own better
+selves, but enemies of the nation itself.
+
+Bolshevism in Russia was born, or rather was able to get its hold, only
+through the long generations of Czarism and the almost universal state
+of ignorance in which its people were held, that preceded it. The great
+preponderance and the continually growing numbers of men with
+imagination, with a sense of care, mutuality, cooperation, brotherhood,
+in our various large enterprises is a force that will save this and
+other nations from a similar experience.
+
+I have great confidence in the Russian people. Its soul is sound; and
+after the forces of treachery, incompetence and terrorism have spent
+themselves, and the better elements are able to organize in sufficient
+force to drive the beasts from its borders, it will arise and assert
+itself. There will be builded a new Russia that will be one of the great
+and commanding nations of the world. In the meantime it affords a most
+concrete and valuable lesson to us and to all other nations--to strike
+on the one hand, the forces of treachery and lawlessness the moment they
+show themselves, and on the other hand, to see that the soil is made
+fertile for neither their entrance nor growth.
+
+The strong nation is that in which under the leadership of universal
+free education and equal opportunities, a due watch is maintained to see
+that the rights of all individuals and all classes are nurtured and
+carefully guarded. In such a government the nation and its interests is
+and must be supreme. Then if built upon high ethical and moral standards
+where mutuality is the watch-word and the governing principle of its
+life, its motto might through right, power through justice, it becomes a
+fit and effective member of the Society of Nations.
+
+Internationalism is higher than nationalism, humanity is above the
+nation. The stronger however the individual nation, the stronger
+necessarily will be the Society of Nations.
+
+Love, sympathy, fellowship, is not inconsistent with the use of force to
+restrain malignant evil, in the case of nations as in the case of
+individuals. Where goodness is weak it is exploited and becomes a victim
+of the stronger, when, devoid of a sense of mutuality, it is
+conscienceless. Strength without conscience, goodness, ungoverned by the
+law of mutuality, becomes tyranny. In seeking its own ends it violates
+every law of God and man.
+
+For the safety therefore of the better life of the world, for the very
+safety and welfare of the Society of Nations, those nations that combine
+strength with goodness, strength with good-will, strength with an
+ever-growing sense of mutuality, which is the only law of a happy,
+orderly, and advancing human life, must combine to check the power of
+any people or nation still devoid of the knowledge of this law, lest
+goodness, truth and all the higher instincts and potentialities of life,
+even freedom itself perish from the earth. This can be done and must be
+done not through malice or hatred, but through a sense of right and
+duty.
+
+There is no more diabolical, no more damnable ambition on the part of
+individuals, organizations or nations than to rule, to gain domination
+over the minds and the lives of others either for the sake of power and
+domination or for the material gain that can be made to flow therefrom.
+As a rule, however, it is both. There is nothing more destructive to
+the higher moral and ethical life of the individual or the organization
+controlled by this desire, nothing so destructive to the life of the one
+or ones so dominated, and as a consequence to the life of society itself
+as this evil and prostituting desire and purpose.
+
+Where this has become the clearly controlling motive, malignant and
+deep-seated, if in the case of a nation, then it is the duty of those
+nations that combine strength with character, strength with goodness, to
+combine to check the evil wrought by such a nation. If by persuasion and
+good-will, well and good. If not, then through the exercise of a
+restraining force. This is not contrary to the law of love, for the love
+of the good is the controlling motive. It is only thus that the higher
+moral law which for its growth and consummation is dependent upon
+individuals, can grow and gain supremacy in the world.
+
+Intellectual independence and acumen, combined with a love of truth,
+goodness, righteousness, love and service for others, is the greatest
+aid there can be in carrying out the Divine plan and purpose in the
+world. The sword of love therefore becomes the sword of righteousness
+that cuts out the cancerous growth that is given from to by malignant
+ill will; the sword of righteousness that strikes down slavery and
+oppression; the sword of righteousness therefore that becomes the sword
+of civilization.
+
+It is a weapon that does not have to be always used however; for when
+its power is once clearly understood it is feared. Its deterrent power
+becomes therefore infinitely more effective than in its actual use. So
+in any new world settlement, any nation or group that is not up to this
+moral world standard, that would seek to impose its will and its
+institutions upon any other nations for the sake of domination, or to
+rob them of their goods, must be restrained through the federated power
+of the other nations, not by forcing their own beliefs or codes or
+institutions upon it, but by restraining it and making ineffective any
+ambitions or purposes that it may plan, or until its people whatever its
+leadership may be, are brought clearly and concretely to see that such
+methods do not pay.
+
+That Jesus to whom we ultimately go for our moral leadership, not only
+sanctioned, but used and advocated the use of righteous force, when
+malignant evil in the form of self-seeking sought domination, either
+intellectual or physical, for its own selfish gain and aggrandizement,
+is clearly evidenced by many of his own sayings and his own acts.
+
+So within the nation during this great reconstruction period, these are
+times that call for heroic men and women. In a Democracy or in any
+representative form of government an alert citizenship is its only
+safety. With a vastly increased voting population, in that many millions
+of women citizens are now admitted to full citizenship, the need for
+intelligent action and attention to matters of government was never so
+great. Great numbers will be herded and voted by organizations as well
+as by machines. As these will comprise the most ignorant and therefore
+the herdable ones, it is especially incumbent upon the great rank and
+file of intelligent women to see that they take and maintain an active
+interest in public affairs.
+
+Politics is something that we cannot evade except to the detriment of
+our country and thereby to our own detriment. Politics is but another
+word for government. And in a sense we the individual voter are the
+government and unless we make matters of government our own concern,
+there are organizations and there are groups of designing men who will
+steal in and get possession for their own selfish aggrandizement and
+gain. This takes sometimes the form of power, to be traded for other
+power, or concessions; but always if you will trace far enough, eventual
+money gain. Or again it takes the form of graft and even direct loot.
+The losses that are sustained through a lowered citizenship, through
+inefficient service, through a general debauchery of public
+institutions, through increased taxation to make up for the amounts that
+are drawn off in graft and loot are well nigh incalculable--and for the
+sole reason that you and I, average citizens, do not take the active
+personal interest in our own matters of government that we should take.
+
+Clericalism, Tammanyism, Bolshevism, Syndicalism--and all in the guise
+of interest in the people--get their holds and their profits in this
+way. It is essential that we be locally wise and history wise. Any class
+or section or organization that is less than the nation itself must be
+watched and be made to keep its own place, or it becomes a menace to the
+free and larger life of the nation. Even in the case of a great national
+crisis a superior patriotism is affected and paraded in order that it
+may camouflage its other and real activities.
+
+When at times we forget ourselves and speak of rights rather than duties
+in connection with our country, it were well to recall and to repeat the
+words of Franklin: "The sun never repents of the good he does nor does
+he ever demand a recompense."
+
+Not only is constant vigilance incumbent upon us, but realising the fact
+that the boys and the girls of today are the citizens of tomorrow--the
+nation's voters and law-makers--it is incumbent upon us to see that
+American free education through American free public schools, is
+advanced to and maintained at its highest possibilities, and kept free
+from any agencies that will make for a divided or anything less than a
+whole-hearted and intelligent citizenship. The motto on the Shakespeare
+statue at Leicester Square in London: "There is no darkness but
+ignorance," might well be reproduced in every city and every hamlet in
+the nation.
+
+Late revelations have shown how even education can be manipulated and
+prostituted for ulterior purposes. Parochial schools whether Protestant,
+Catholic, Jewish, or Oriental, have no place in American
+institutions--and whether their work is carried on in English or in a
+foreign language. They are absolutely foreign to the spirit of our
+institutions. They are purely for the sake of something less than the
+nation itself. Blind indeed are we if we are not history-wise. Criminal
+indeed are we to allow any boys or girls to be diverted to them and to
+be deprived of the advantages of a better schooling and being brought
+under the influences of agencies that are thoroughly and wholly
+American.
+
+American education must be made for American institutions and for
+nothing less than this. The nation's children should be shielded from
+any power that seeks to get possession of them in order at an early and
+unaccountable age to fasten authority upon them, and to drive a wedge
+between them and all others of the nation.
+
+The nation has a duty to every child within its borders. To fail to
+recognize or to shirk that duty, will call for a price to be paid
+sometime as great as that that has been paid by every other nation that
+did not see until too late. Sectarianism in education stultifies and
+robs the child and nullifies the finest national instincts in education.
+It is for but one purpose--the use and the power of the organization
+that plans and that fosters it.
+
+Our government profiting by the long weary struggles of other countries,
+is founded upon the absolute separation of church and state. This does
+not mean the separation of religion in its true sense from the state;
+but keeping it free from every type of sectarian influence and
+domination. It is ours to see that no silent subtle influences are at
+work, that will eventually make the same trouble here as in other
+countries, or that will thrust out the same stifling hand to undermine
+and to throttle universal free public education, and the inalienable
+right that every child has to it. Our children are the wards of and
+accountable to the state--they are not the property of any organization,
+group or groups, less than the state.
+
+We need the creation of a strong Federal Department of Education of
+cabinet rank, with ample means and strong powers to be the guiding
+genius of all our state and local departments of education, with greater
+attention paid to a more thorough and concrete training in civics, in
+moral and ethical education, in addition to the other well recognized
+branches in public school education. It should have such powers also as
+will enable it to see that every child is in school up to a certain age,
+or until all the fundamentals of a prescribed standard of American
+education are acquired.
+
+A recent tabulation made public by a Federal Deputy Commissioner of
+Naturalization has shown that a little over one tenth, in round numbers,
+11,000,000, of our population is composed of unnaturalized aliens. Even
+this however tells but a part of the story; for vast numbers of even
+those who have become naturalized, have in no sense become Americanized.
+
+Speaking of this class an able editorial in a recent number of one of
+our leading New York dailies has said:
+
+"Of the millions of aliens who have gone through the legal forms of
+naturalization a very large proportion have not in any sense been
+Americanized, and, though citizens, they are still alien in habits of
+thought, in speech and in their general attitude toward the community.
+
+"There are industrial centres not far from New York City that are wholly
+foreign. There are sections of this city that--except as the children
+through the schools and association with others of their own age yield
+to change--are intensely alien.
+
+"To penetrate these barriers and open new avenues of communication with
+the people who live within them is no longer a task to be performed by
+individual effort. Americanization is a work that must be undertaken and
+directed on a scale so extensive that only through the cooperation of
+the States and the Federal Government can it be successfully carried
+out. It cannot longer be neglected without serious harm to the life and
+welfare of the Nation."
+
+Some even more startling facts are given out in figures by the
+Department of the Interior, figures supplied to it by the Surgeon
+General's Office of the Army. The War Department records show that 24.9
+per cent. of the draft army examined by that department's agents were
+unable to read and understand a newspaper, or to write letters home. In
+one draft in New York State in May, 1918, 16.6 per cent. were classed as
+illiterate. In one draft in connection with South Carolina troops in
+July, 1918, 49.5 per cent. where classed as illiterate. In one draft in
+connection with Minnesota troops in July of the same year, 14.2 per
+cent. were classed as illiterate. In other words it means for example
+that in New York State we have in round numbers 700,000 men between 21
+and 31 years of age who are illiterate. The same source reveals the fact
+that in the nation in round numbers over 10,000,000 are either
+illiterate or without a knowledge of our language. The South is the home
+of most of the wholly uneducated, the North of those of foreign speech.
+And in speaking of this class a recent editorial in another
+representative New York daily, after making mention of one industrial
+centre but a few miles out of New York City, in New Jersey, where nearly
+16 out of every 100 cannot read English, has said:
+
+"Such people may enjoy the advantages America offers. Of its spirit and
+institutions they can comprehend nothing. They are the easy dupes of
+foreign agitators, unassimilable, an element of weakness in the social
+body that might easily be converted into an element of strength. Many
+of them have the vote, controlled by leaders interested only in designs
+alien to America's welfare.
+
+"The problem is national in scope * * *. The best way to keep Bolshevism
+out of America is to reduce ignorance of our speech and everything else
+to a minimum. However alert our immigration officers may be, foreign
+agents of social disorder are sure to pass through our doors, and as
+long as we allow children to grow up among us who have no means of
+finding out the meaning of our laws and forms of government the seeds of
+discontent will be sown in congenial soil."
+
+Profoundly true also are the following words from an editorial in still
+another New York daily in dealing with that great army of 700,000
+illiterates within the State, or rather that portion of them who are
+adults of foreign birth:
+
+"The first thing to do is to teach them, and make them realize that a
+knowledge of the English language is a prerequisite of first class
+American citizenship. * * * The wiping out of illiteracy is a foundation
+stone in building up a strong population, able and worthy to hold its
+own in the world. With the disappearance of illiteracy and of the
+ignorance of the language of the country will also disappear many of the
+trouble-breeding problems which have held back immigrants in gaining
+their fair share of real prosperity, the intelligence and self-respect
+which are vital ingredients in any good citizenship. Real freedom of
+life and character cannot be enjoyed by the man or woman whose whole
+life is passed upon the inferior plane of ignorance and prejudice. Teach
+them all how to deserve the benefits of life in America, and they will
+soon learn how to gain and protect them."
+
+It is primarily among the ignorant and illiterate that Bolshevism,
+anarchy, political rings, and every agency that attempts through
+self-seeking to sow the seeds of discontent, treachery, and disloyalty,
+works to exploit them and to herd them for political ends. No man can
+have that respect for himself, or feel that he has the respect due him
+from others as an honest and diligent worker, whatever his line of work,
+who is handicapped by the lack of an ordinary education. The heart of
+the American nation is sound. Through universal free public education it
+must be on the alert and be able to see through Bourbonism and
+understand its methods on the one hand, and Bolshevism on the other; and
+be determined through intelligent action to see that American soil is
+made uncongenial to both.
+
+Our chief problem is to see that Democracy is made safe for and made of
+real service to the world. Our American education must be made
+continually more keenly alive to the great moral, ethical and social
+needs of the time. Thereby it will be made religious without having any
+sectarian slant or bias; it will be made safe for and the hand-maid of
+Democracy and not a menace to it.
+
+Vast multitudes today are seeing as never before that the moral and
+ethical foundations of the nation's and the world's life is a matter of
+primal concern to all.
+
+We are finding more and more that the simple fundamentals of life and
+conduct as portrayed by the Christ of Nazareth not only constitutes a
+great idealism, but the only practical way of life. Compared to this and
+to the need that it come more speedily and more universally into
+operation in the life of the world today, truly "sectarian peculiarities
+are obsolete impertinences."
+
+Our time needs again more the prophet and less the priest. It needs the
+God-impelled life and voice of the prophet with his face to the future,
+both God-ward and man-ward, burning with an undivided devotion to truth
+and righteousness. It needs less the priest, too often with his back to
+the future and too often the pliant tool of the organisation whose chief
+concern is, and ever has been, the preservation of itself under the
+ostensible purpose of the preservation of the truth once delivered, the
+same that Jesus with his keen powers of penetration saw killed the
+Spirit as a high moral guide and as an inspirer to high and
+unself-centred endeavour, and that he characterised with such scathing
+scorn. There are splendid exceptions; but this is the rule now even as
+it was in his day.
+
+The prophet is concerned with truth, not a system; with righteousness,
+not custom; with justice, not expediency. Is there a man who would dare
+say that if Christianity--the Christianity of the Christ--had been
+actually in vogue, in practice in all the countries of Christendom
+during the last fifty years, during the last twenty-five years, that
+this colossal and gruesome war would ever have come about? No
+clear-thinking and honest man would or could say that it would. We need
+again the voice of the prophet, clear-seeing, high-purposed, and
+unafraid. We need again the touch of the prophet's hand to lead us back
+to those simple fundamental teachings of the Christ of Nazareth, that
+are life-giving to the individual, and that are world-saving.
+
+We speak of our Christian civilisation, and the common man, especially
+in times like these, asks what it is, where it is--and God knows that we
+have been for many hundred years wandering in the wilderness. He is
+thinking that the Kingdom of God on earth that the true teachings of
+Jesus predicated, and that he laboured so hard to actualise, needs some
+speeding up. There is a world-wide yearning for spiritual peace and
+righteousness on the part of the common man. He is finding it
+occasionally in established religion, but often, perhaps more often,
+independently of it. He is finding it more often through his own contact
+and relations with the Man of Nazareth--for him the God-man. There is no
+greater fact in our time, and there is no greater hope for the future
+than is to be found in this fact.
+
+Jesus gave the great principles, the animating spirit of life, not
+minute details of conduct. The real Church of Christ is not an
+hierarchy, an institution, it is a brotherhood--the actual establishing
+of the Kingdom of God in moral, ethical and social terms in the world.
+
+Among the last words penned by Dr. John Watson--Ian Maclaren--good
+churchman, splendid writer, but above all independent thinker and
+splendid man, were the following: "Was it not the chief mistake and also
+the hopeless futility of Pharisaism to meddle with the minute affairs of
+life, and to lay down what a man should do at every turn? It was not
+therefore an education of conscience, but a bondage of conscience; it
+did not bring men to their full stature by teaching them to face their
+own problems of duty and to settle them, it kept them in a state of
+childhood, by forbidding and commanding in every particular of daily
+life. Pharisaism, therefore, whether Jewish or Gentile, ancient or
+modern, which replaces the moral law by casuistry, and the enlightened
+judgment of the individual by the confessional, creates a narrow
+character and mechanical morals. Freedom is the birthright of the soul,
+and it is by the discipline of life the soul finds itself. It were a
+poor business to be towed across the pathless ocean of this world to the
+next; by the will of God and for our good we must sail the ship
+ourselves, and steer our own course. It is the work of the Bible to show
+us the stars and instruct us how to take our reckoning * * *.
+
+"Jesus did not tell us what to do, for that were impossible, as every
+man has his own calling, and is set in by his own circumstances, but
+Jesus has told us how to carry ourselves in the things we have to do,
+and He has put the heart in us to live becomingly, not by pedantic
+rules, but by an instinct of nobility. Jesus is the supreme teacher of
+the Bible and He came not to forbid or to command, but to place the
+Kingdom of God as a living force, and perpetual inspiration within the
+soul of man, and then, to leave him in freedom and in grace to fulfil
+himself."[G]
+
+We no longer admit that Christ is present and at work only when a
+minister is expounding the gospel or some theological precept or
+conducting some ordained observance in the pulpit; or that religion is
+only when it is labelled as such and is within the walls of a church.
+That belonged to the chapter in Christianity that is now rapidly
+closing, a chapter of good works and results--but so pitiably below its
+possibilities. So pitiably below because men had been taught and without
+sufficient thought accepted the teaching that to be a Christian was to
+hold certain beliefs about the Christ that had been formulated by early
+groups of men and that had come down through the centuries.
+
+The chapter that is now opening upon the world is the one that puts
+Christ's own teachings in the simple, frank, and direct manner in which
+he gave them, to the front. It makes life, character, conduct, human
+concern and human service of greater importance than mere matters of
+opinion. It makes eager and unremitting work for the establishing of the
+Kingdom of God, the kingdom of right relations between men, here on this
+earth, the essential thing. It insists that the telling test as to
+whether a man is a Christian is how much of the Christ spirit is in
+evidence in his life--and in every phase of his life. Gripped by this
+idea which for a long time the forward-looking and therefore the big men
+in them have been striving for, our churches in the main are moving
+forward with a new, a dauntless, and a powerful appeal.
+
+Differences that have sometimes separated them on account of differences
+of opinion, whether in thought or interpretation,[H] are now found to be
+so insignificant when compared to the actual simple fundamentals that
+the Master taught, and when compared to the work to be done, that a
+great Interallied Church Movement is now taking concrete and strong
+working form, that is equipping the church for a mighty and far-reaching
+Christian work. A new and great future lies immediately ahead. The good
+it is equipping itself to accomplish is beyond calculation--a work in
+which minister and layman will have equal voice and equal share.
+
+It will receive also great inspiration and it will eagerly strike hands
+with all allied movements that are following the same leader, but along
+different roads.
+
+Britain's apostle of brotherhood and leader of the Brotherhood Movement
+there, Rev. Tom Sykes, who has caught so clearly the Master's own basis
+of Christianity--love for and union with God, love for and union with
+the brother--has recently put so much stimulating truth into a single
+paragraph that I reproduce it here:
+
+"The emergence of the feeling of kinship with the Unseen is the most
+arresting and revealing fact of human history. * * * _The union
+with God_ is not through the display of ritual, but the affiliation and
+conjunction of life. We do not believe we are in a universe that has
+screens and folds, where the spiritual commerce of man has to be
+conducted on the principle of secret diplomacy. The universe is frank
+and open, and God is straightforward and honourable. _In making the
+spirit and practice of brotherliness_ the test of religious value, we
+are at one with Him who said: 'Inasmuch as ye do it unto one of the
+least--ye do it unto me.' _We touch the Father when we help His child._
+Jesus taught us not to come to God asking, art Thou this or that? but to
+call Him Father and live upon it. Do not admit that many of our
+Brotherhood meetings are in 'neutral' or 'secular' halls and buildings!
+'Where two or three gather in My name, there am I.' Where He is, there
+is hallowed ground."
+
+We need a stock-taking and a mobilisation of our spiritual forces. But
+what, after all, does this mean? Search as we may we are brought back
+_every time_ to this same Man of Nazareth, the God-man--Son of Man and
+Son of God. And gathering it into a few brief sentences it is this:
+Jesus' great revelation was this consciousness of God in the individual
+life, and to this he witnessed in a supreme and masterly way, because
+this he supremely realised and lived. Faith in him and following him
+does not mean acquiring some particular notion of God or some particular
+belief about him himself. It is the living in one's own life of this
+same consciousness of God as one's source and Father, and a living in
+these same filial relations with him of love and guidance and care that
+Jesus entered into and continuously lived.
+
+When this is done there is no problem and no condition in the individual
+life that it will not clarify, mould, and therefore take care of; for
+"[Greek transliteration: mê merimnate tê psychê hymôn]"--do not worry about your
+life--was the Master's clear-cut command. Are we ready for this high
+type of spiritual adventure? Not only are we assured of this great and
+mighty truth that the Master revealed and going ahead of us lived, that
+under this supreme guidance we need not worry about the things of the
+life, but that under this Divine guidance we need not think _even of the
+life itself_, if for any reason it becomes our duty or our privilege to
+lay it down. Witnessing for truth and standing for truth he again
+preceded us in this.
+
+But this, this love for God or rather this state that becomes the
+natural and the normal life when we seek the Kingdom, and the Divine
+rule becomes dominant and operative in mind and heart, leads us directly
+back to his other fundamental: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
+For if God is my Father and if he cares for me in this way--and every
+other man in the world is my brother and He cares for him in exactly the
+same way--then by the sanction of God his Father I haven't anything on
+my brother; and by the love of God my Father my brother hasn't anything
+on me. It is but the most rudimentary commonsense then, that we be
+considerate one of another, that we be square and decent one with
+another. We will do well as children of the same Father to sit down and
+talk matters over; and arise with the conclusion that the advice of
+Jesus, our elder brother, is sound: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye
+would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."
+
+He gave it no label, but it has subsequently become known as the Golden
+Rule. There is no higher rule and no greater developer of the highest
+there is in the individual human life, and no greater adjuster and
+beautifier of the problems of our common human life. And when it becomes
+sufficiently strong in its action in this, the world awaits its
+projection into its international life. This is the truth that he
+revealed--the twofold truth of love to God and love for the neighbour,
+that shall make men free. The truth of the Man of Nazareth still holds
+and shall hold, and we must realise this adequately before we ask or can
+expect any other revelation.
+
+We are in a time of great changes. The discovery of new laws and
+therefore of new truth necessitates changes and necessitates advances.
+But whatever changes or advances may come, the Divine reality still
+survives, independent of Jesus it is true, but as the world knows him
+still better, it will give to him its supreme gratitude and praise, in
+that he was the most perfect revealer of God to man, of God in man, and
+the most concrete in that he embodied and lived this truth in his own
+matchless human-divine life; and stands as the God-man to which the
+world is gradually approaching. For as Goethe has said--"We can never
+get beyond the spirit of Jesus."
+
+Love it is, he taught, that brings order out of chaos, that becomes the
+solvent of the riddle of life, and however cynical, skeptical, or
+practical we may think at times we may be, a little quiet clear-cut
+thought will bring us each time back to the truth that it is the
+essential force that leads away from the tooth and the claw of the
+jungle, that lifts life up from and above the clod. Love is the world's
+balance-wheel; and as the warming and ennobling element of sympathy,
+care and consideration radiates from it, increasing one's sense of
+mutuality, which in turn leads to fellowship, cooperation, brotherhood,
+a holy and diviner conception and purpose of life is born, that makes
+human life more as it should be, as it must be--as it will be.
+
+I love to feel that when one makes glad the heart of any man, woman,
+child, or animal, he makes glad the heart of God--and I somehow feel
+that it is true.
+
+As our household fires radiate their genial warmth, and make more joyous
+and more livable the lot of all within the household walls, so life in
+its larger scope and in all its human relations, becomes more genial and
+more livable and reveals more abundantly the deeper riches of its
+diviner nature, as it is made more open and more obedient to the higher
+powers of mind and spirit.
+
+Do you know that incident in connection with the little Scottish girl?
+She was trudging along, carrying as best she could a boy younger, but it
+seemed almost as big as she herself, when one remarked to her how heavy
+he must be for her to carry, when instantly came the reply: "He's na
+heavy. He's mi brither." Simple is the incident; but there is in it a
+truth so fundamental that pondering upon it, it is enough to make many a
+man, to whom dogma or creed make no appeal, a Christian--and a mighty
+engine for good in the world. And more--there is in it a truth so
+fundamental and so fraught with potency and with power, that its wider
+recognition and projection into all human relations would reconstruct a
+world.
+
+    _I saw the mountains stand
+    Silent, wonderful, and grand,
+    Looking out across the land
+    When the golden light was falling
+    On distant dome and spire;
+    And I heard a low voice calling,
+    "Come up higher, come up higher,
+    From the lowland and the mire,
+    From the mist of earth desire,
+    From the vain pursuit of pelf.
+    From the attitude of self:
+    Come up higher, come up higher."_
+
+                       _James G. Clark_
+
+
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote A: The Emmanuel Movement in Boston in connection with Emmanuel
+Church, inaugurated some time ago under the leadership and direction of
+two well-known ministers, Dr. Worcester and Dr. McComb, and a well-known
+physician, Dr. Coriat, and similar movements in other cities is an
+attestation of this.
+
+That most valuable book under the joint authorship of these three men:
+"Religion and Medicine," Moffat, Yard and Company, New York, will be
+found of absorbing interest and of great practical value by many. The
+amount of valuable as well as interesting and reliable material that it
+contains is indeed remarkable.]
+
+[Footnote B: "War and Laughter," by James Oppenheim--The Century
+Company, New York.]
+
+[Footnote C: Henry Holt in "Cosmic Relations."]
+
+[Footnote D: From a notable article in the New York "Times Magazine,"
+Sunday, April 1, 1917, by George W. Perkins, chairman Mayor's Food
+Supply Commission.]
+
+[Footnote E: Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of
+James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? And are his sisters not here
+with us?--Mark 6:3.]
+
+[Footnote F: From that strong, splendid poem "Buttadeus," by William
+Samuel Johnson.]
+
+[Footnote G: "God's Message to the Human Soul"--_Revell_.]
+
+[Footnote H: The thought of the layman in practically all of our
+churches is much the same as that of Mr. Lloyd George when he said: "The
+Church to which I belong is torn with a fierce dispute; one part says it
+is baptism _into_ the name of the Father, and the other that it is
+baptism _in_ the name of the Father. I belong to one of these parties. I
+feel most strongly about this. I would die for it, but I forget which it
+is."]
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Notes
+
+
+Made minor punctuation, spelling, and hyphenation changes for
+consistency.
+
+Corrected the following typos:
+
+Page 81: Changed Pharasaic to Pharisaic.
+  (come into being a Pharisaic legalism)
+
+Page 140: Changed subconsious to subconscious.
+  (the slumbering subconsious mind)
+
+Page 193: Changed independant to independent.
+  (guided by their own independant judgment)
+
+Page 217: Changed terriffic to terrific.
+  (What a terriffic price to pay to learn the lesson)
+
+Page 221: Changed symathy to sympathy.
+  (He had, as we have seen, infinite symathy for and forbearance)
+
+Page 232: Changed accompaniament to accompaniment.
+  (Misunderstanding is not infrequently its accompaniament.)
+
+Page 237: Changed viligant to vigilant.
+  (And unless viligant and determined)
+
+Page 245: Changed tyrany to tyranny.
+  (ungoverned by the law of mutuality, becomes tyrany.)
+
+Page 245: Changed malignent to malignant.
+  (the use of force to restrain malignent evil,)
+
+Page 253: Changed inaliable to inalienable.
+  (the inaliable right that every child has)
+
+Page 258: Changed impertinances to impertinences.
+  ("sectarian peculiarities are obsolete impertinances.")
+
+Page 259: Changed Chrisitianity to Christianity.
+  (Chrisitianity of the Christ)
+
+Page 260: Changed heirarchy to hierarchy.
+  (The real Church of Christ is not an heirarchy,)
+
+Page 262: Changed that to than.
+  (human service of greater importance that mere matters of opinion.)
+
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+<h1>THE HIGHER POWERS<br />
+<small>OF</small><br />
+MIND AND SPIRIT</h1>
+
+
+<p class="title"><small>BY</small><br />
+<big>RALPH WALDO TRINE</big><br />
+
+<small>AUTHOR OF "IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE," ETC.</small></p>
+
+
+<p class="title">LONDON<br />
+G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.<br />
+1933<br />
+</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p class="center">
+First published May 1918<br />
+Reprinted November 1918.<br />
+Reprinted 1919, 1923, 1927, 1933.<br />
+<br />
+<small>PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.<br />
+THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW</small><br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="FOREWORD" id="FOREWORD"></a>FOREWORD</h2>
+
+
+<p>We are all dwellers in two kingdoms,
+the inner kingdom, the kingdom of the mind
+and spirit, and the outer kingdom, that of the
+body and the physical universe about us. In
+the former, the kingdom of the unseen, lie
+the silent, subtle forces that are continually
+determining, and with exact precision, the
+conditions of the latter.</p>
+
+<p>To strike the right balance in life is one of
+the supreme essentials of all successful living.
+We must work, for we must have bread. We
+require other things than bread. They are
+not only valuable, comfortable, but necessary.
+It is a dumb, stolid being, however, who does
+not realize that life consists of more than
+these. They spell mere existence, not abundance,
+fullness of life.</p>
+
+<p>We can become so absorbed in making a
+living that we have no time <i>for living</i>. To be
+capable and efficient in one's work is a splendid
+thing; but efficiency <i>can be made</i> a great
+mechanical device that robs life of far more
+than it returns it. A nation can become so
+possessed, and even obsessed, with the idea of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>
+power and grandeur through efficiency and
+organisation, that it becomes a great machine
+and robs its people of the finer fruits of life
+that spring from a wisely subordinated and
+coordinated individuality. Here again it is
+the wise balance that determines all.</p>
+
+<p>Our prevailing thoughts and emotions determine,
+and with absolute accuracy, the prevailing
+conditions of our outward, material life,
+and likewise the prevailing conditions of our
+bodily life. Would we have any conditions
+different in the latter we must then make the
+necessary changes in the former. The silent,
+subtle forces of mind and spirit, ceaselessly
+at work, are continually moulding these outward
+and these bodily conditions.</p>
+
+<p>He makes a fundamental error who thinks
+that these are mere sentimental things in life,
+vague and intangible. They are, as great numbers
+are now realising, the great and elemental
+things in life, the only things that in the end
+really count. The normal man or woman can
+never find real and abiding satisfaction in the
+mere possessions, the mere accessories of life.
+There is an eternal something within that
+forbids it. That is the reason why, of late
+years, so many of our big men of affairs, so
+many in various public walks in life, likewise
+many women of splendid equipment and with
+large possessions, have been and are turning<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span>
+so eagerly to the very things we are considering.
+To be a mere huckster, many of our big
+men are finding, cannot bring satisfaction, even
+though his operations run into millions in the
+year.</p>
+
+<p>And happy is the young man or the young
+woman who, while the bulk of life still lies
+ahead, realises that it is the things of the
+mind and the spirit&mdash;the fundamental things
+in life&mdash;that really count; that here lie the
+forces that are to be understood and to be
+used in moulding the everyday conditions
+and affairs of life; that the springs of life are
+all from within, that as is the inner so always
+and inevitably will be the outer.</p>
+
+<p>To present certain facts that may be conducive
+to the realisation of this more abundant
+life is the author's purpose and plan.</p>
+
+<p class="author">
+R. W. T.</p>
+
+<p><i><span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Sunnybrae Farm,<br /></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Croton-on-Hudson,<br /></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">New York.<br /></span></i>
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="toc">
+<tr><td align='center'>Chapter</td><td align='left'>&nbsp;</td><td align='right'>Page</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>I.</td><td align='left'>The Silent, Subtle Building Forces of Mind and Spirit</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>II.</td><td align='left'>Soul, Mind, Body&mdash;The Subconscious Mind That Interrelates Them</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>III.</td><td align='left'>The Way Mind Through the Subconscious Mind Builds Body</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>IV.</td><td align='left'>The Powerful Aid of the Mind in Rebuilding Body&mdash;How Body Helps Mind</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>V.</td><td align='left'>Thought as a Force in Daily Living</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>VI.</td><td align='left'>Jesus the Supreme Exponent of the Inner Forces and Powers: His People's Religion and Their Condition</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_76">76</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>VII.</td><td align='left'>The Divine Rule in the Mind and Heart: The Unessentials We Drop&mdash;The Spirit Abides</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_89">89</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>VIII.</td><td align='left'>If We Seek the Essence of His Revelation, and the Purpose of His Life</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_113">113</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>IX.</td><td align='left'>His Purpose of Lifting Up, Energising, Beautifying, and Saving the Entire Life: The Saving of the Soul is Secondary; but Follows</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_140">140</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>X.</td><td align='left'>Some Methods of Attainment</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_152">152</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>XI.</td><td align='left'>Some Methods of Expression</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_173">173</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>XII.</td><td align='left'>The World War&mdash;Its Meaning and Its Lessons for Us</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_191">191</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>XIII.</td><td align='left'>Our Sole Agency of International Peace, and International Concord</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_213">213</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>XIV.</td><td align='left'>The World's Balance-wheel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_231">231</a></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>THE HIGHER POWERS<br />
+<small>OF</small><br />
+MIND AND SPIRIT</h2>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="I" id="I"></a><big>I</big><br /><br />
+
+THE SILENT, SUBTLE BUILDING FORCES
+OF MIND AND SPIRIT</h2>
+
+
+<p>There are moments in the lives of all of us
+when we catch glimpses of a life&mdash;our life&mdash;that
+is infinitely beyond the life we are now
+living. We realise that we are living below
+our possibilities. We long for the realisation
+of the life that we feel should be.</p>
+
+<p>Instinctively we perceive that there are
+within us powers and forces that we are making
+but inadequate use of, and others that
+we are scarcely using at all. Practical metaphysics,
+a more simplified and concrete psychology,
+well-known laws of mental and
+spiritual science, confirm us in this conclusion.</p>
+
+<p>Our own William James, he who so splendidly
+related psychology, philosophy, and even
+religion, to life in a supreme degree, honoured
+his calling and did a tremendous service for all<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>
+mankind, when he so clearly developed the
+fact that we have within us powers and forces
+that we are making all too little use of&mdash;that
+we have within us great reservoirs of power
+that we have as yet scarcely tapped.</p>
+
+<p>The men and the women who are awake to
+these inner helps&mdash;these directing, moulding,
+and sustaining powers and forces that belong
+to the realm of mind and spirit&mdash;are never to be
+found among those who ask: Is life worth
+the living? For them life has been multiplied
+two, ten, a hundred fold.</p>
+
+<p>It is not ordinarily because we are not interested
+in these things, for instinctively we
+feel them of value; and furthermore our
+observations and experiences confirm us in
+this thought. The pressing cares of the everyday
+life&mdash;in the great bulk of cases, the bread
+and butter problem of life, which is after all
+the problem of ninety-nine out of every hundred&mdash;all
+seem to conspire to keep us from giving
+the time and attention to them that we
+feel we should give them. But we lose thereby
+tremendous helps to the daily living.</p>
+
+<p>Through the body and its avenues of sense,
+we are intimately related to the physical universe
+about us. Through the soul and spirit
+we are related to the Infinite Power that is
+the animating, the sustaining force&mdash;the Life
+Force&mdash;of all objective material forms. It is<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span>
+through the medium of the mind that we are
+able consciously to relate the two. Through
+it we are able to realise the laws that underlie
+the workings of the spirit, and to open ourselves
+that they may become the dominating
+forces of our lives.</p>
+
+<p>There is a divine current that will bear us
+with peace and safety on its bosom if we are
+wise and diligent enough to find it and go
+with it. Battling against the current is always
+hard and uncertain. Going with the current
+lightens the labours of the journey. Instead
+of being continually uncertain and even exhausted
+in the mere efforts of getting through,
+we have time for the enjoyments along the
+way, as well as the ability to call a word of
+cheer or to lend a hand to the neighbour, also
+on the way.</p>
+
+<p>The <i>natural, normal life</i> is by a law divine
+under the guidance of the spirit. It is only
+when we fail to seek and to follow this guidance,
+or when we deliberately take ourselves
+from under its influence, that uncertainties
+arise, legitimate longings go unfulfilled, and
+that violated laws bring their penalties.</p>
+
+<p>It is well that we remember always that
+violated law carries with it its own penalty.
+The Supreme Intelligence&mdash;God, if you please&mdash;does
+not punish. He works through the
+channel of great immutable systems of law.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span>
+<i>It is ours to find these laws.</i> That is what
+mind, intelligence, is for. Knowing them we
+can then obey them and reap the beneficent
+results that are always a part of their fulfilment;
+knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally
+or unintentionally, we can fail to
+observe them, we can violate them, and suffer
+the results, or even be broken by them.</p>
+
+<p>Life is not so complex if we do not so continually
+persist in making it so. Supreme Intelligence,
+creative Power works only through
+law. Science and religion are but different approaches
+to our understanding of the law.
+When both are real, they supplement one another
+and their findings are identical.</p>
+
+<p>The old Hebrew prophets, through the channel
+of the spirit, perceived and enunciated
+some wonderful laws of the natural and normal
+life&mdash;that are now being confirmed by
+well-established laws of mental and spiritual
+science&mdash;and that are now producing these
+identical results in the lives of great numbers
+among us today, when they said: "And
+thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying,
+This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye
+turn to the right hand and when ye turn to
+the left."</p>
+
+<p>And again: "The Lord is with you, while
+ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will
+be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>
+will forsake you." "Thou wilt keep him in
+perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee;
+because he trusteth in thee." "The Lord in
+the midst of thee is mighty." "He that dwelleth
+in the secret place of the Most High shall
+abide under the shadow of the Almighty."
+"Thou shalt be in league with the stones of
+the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at
+peace with thee." "Commit thy way unto
+the Lord: trust also in him and he shall bring
+it to pass." Now these formulations all mean
+something of a <i>very definite nature</i>, or, they
+mean nothing at all. If they are actual expressions
+of fact, they are governed by certain
+definite and immutable laws.</p>
+
+<p>These men gave us, however, no knowledge
+of <i>the laws</i> underlying the workings of these
+inner forces and powers; they perhaps had no
+such knowledge themselves. They were intuitive
+perceptions of truth on their part. The
+scientific spirit of this, our age, was entirely
+unknown to them. The growth of the race
+in the meantime, the development of the
+scientific spirit in the pursuit and the finding
+of truth, makes us infinitely beyond them in
+some things, while in others they were far
+ahead of us. But this fact remains, and this
+is the important fact: If these things were
+actual facts in the lives of these early Hebrew
+prophets, they are then actual facts in our<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>
+lives right now, today; or, if not actual facts,
+then they are facts that still lie in the realm of
+the potential, only waiting to be brought into
+the realm of the actual.</p>
+
+<p>These were not unusual men in the sense
+that the Infinite Power, God, if you please,
+could or did speak to them alone. They are
+types, they are examples of how any man or
+any woman, through desire and through will,
+can open himself or herself to the leadings of
+Divine Wisdom, and have actualised in his
+or her life an ever-growing sense of Divine
+Power. For truly "God is the same yesterday,
+and today, and forever." His laws are
+unchanging as well as immutable.</p>
+
+<p>None of these men taught, then, how to
+recognise the Divine Voice within, nor how
+to become continually growing embodiments
+of the Divine Power. They gave us perhaps,
+though, all they were able to give. Then came
+Jesus, the successor of this long line of illustrious
+Hebrew prophets, with a greater aptitude
+for the things of the spirit&mdash;the supreme embodiment
+of Divine realisation and revelation.
+With a greater knowledge of truth than they,
+he did greater things than they.</p>
+
+<p>He not only did these works, but he showed
+how he did them. He not only revealed <i>the
+Way</i>, but so earnestly and so diligently he implored
+his hearers to follow <i>the Way</i>. He<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span>
+makes known the secret of his insight and his
+power: "The words that I speak unto you
+I speak not of myself: but the Father that
+dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." Again,
+"I can of my own self do nothing." And he
+then speaks of his purpose, his aim: "I am
+come that ye might have life, and that ye
+might have it more abundantly." A little
+later he adds: "The works that I do ye shall
+do also." Now again, these things mean
+something of a very definite nature, or they
+mean nothing at all.</p>
+
+<p>The works done, the results achieved by
+Jesus' own immediate disciples and followers,
+and in turn their followers, as well as in the
+early church for close to two hundred years
+after his time, all attest the truth of his teaching
+and demonstrate unmistakably the results
+that follow.</p>
+
+<p>Down through the intervening centuries,
+the teachings, the lives and the works of various
+seers, sages, and mystics, within the church
+and out of the church, have likewise attested
+the truth of his teachings. The bulk of the
+Christian world, however, since the third
+century, has been so concerned with various
+theories and teachings <i>concerning</i> Jesus, that
+it has missed almost completely the real vital
+and vitalising teachings <i>of</i> Jesus.</p>
+
+<p>We have not been taught primarily to follow<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span>
+his injunctions, and to apply the truths
+that he revealed to the problems of our everyday
+living. Within the last two score of years
+or a little more, however, there has been a great
+going back directly to the teachings of Jesus,
+and a determination to prove their truth and
+to make effective their assurances. Also various
+laws in the realm of Mental and Spiritual
+Science have become clearly established and
+clearly formulated, that confirm all his fundamental
+teachings.</p>
+
+<p>There are now definite and well-defined
+laws in relation to thought as a force, and the
+methods as to how it determines our material
+and bodily conditions. There are now certain
+well-defined laws pertaining to the subconscious
+mind, its ceaseless building activities,
+how it always takes its direction from the
+active, thinking mind, and how through this
+channel we may connect ourselves with reservoirs
+of power, so to speak, in an intelligent
+and effective manner.</p>
+
+<p>There are now well-understood laws underlying
+mental suggestion, whereby it can be
+made a tremendous source of power in our
+own lives, and can likewise be made an effective
+agency in arousing the motive powers of
+another for his or her healing, habit-forming,
+character-building. There are likewise well-established
+facts not only as to the value, but<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span>
+the absolute need of periods of meditation and
+quiet, alone with the Source of our being,
+stilling the outer bodily senses, and fulfilling
+the conditions whereby the Voice of the Spirit
+can speak to us and through us, and the power
+of the Spirit can manifest in and through us.</p>
+
+<p>A nation is great only as its people are
+great. Its people are great in the degree that
+they strike the balance between the life of the
+mind and the spirit&mdash;all the finer forces and
+emotions of life&mdash;and their outer business
+organisation and activities. When the latter
+become excessive, when they grow at the expense
+of the former, then the inevitable decay
+sets in, that spells the doom of that nation,
+and its time is tolled off in exactly the same
+manner, and under the same law, as has that
+of all the other nations before it that sought
+to reverse the Divine order of life.</p>
+
+<p>The human soul and its welfare is the highest
+business that any state can give its attention
+to. To recognise or to fail to recognise
+the value of the human soul in other nations,
+determines its real greatness and grandeur, or
+its self-complacent but essential vacuity. It
+is possible for a nation, through subtle delusions,
+to get such an attack of the big head
+that it bends over backwards, and it is liable,
+in this exposed position, to get a thrust in its
+vitals.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>To be carried too far along the road of efficiency,
+big business, expansion, world power,
+domination, at the expense of the great spiritual
+verities, the fundamental humanities of
+national life, that make for the real life and
+welfare of its people, and that give also its
+true and just relations with other nations and
+their people, is both dangerous and in the end
+suicidal&mdash;it can end in nothing but loss and
+eventual disaster. A silent revolution of
+thought is taking place in the minds of the
+people of all nations at this time, and will
+continue for some years to come. A stock-taking
+period in which tremendous revaluations
+are under way, is on. It is becoming clear-cut
+and decisive.</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="II" id="II"></a><big>II</big><br /><br />
+
+SOUL, MIND, BODY&mdash;THE SUBCONSCIOUS
+MIND THAT INTERRELATES THEM</h2>
+
+
+<p>There is a notable twofold characteristic of
+this our age&mdash;we might almost say: of this
+our generation. It is on the one hand a tremendously
+far-reaching interest in the deeper
+spiritual realities of life, in the things of the
+mind and the Spirit. On the other hand,
+there is a materialism that is apparent to all,
+likewise far-reaching. We are witnessing the
+two moving along, apparently at least, side by
+side.</p>
+
+<p>There are those who believe that out of the
+latter the former is arising, that we are witnessing
+another great step forward on the
+part of the human race&mdash;a new era or age, so
+to speak. There are many things that would
+indicate this to be a fact. The fact that the
+<i>material alone</i> does not satisfy, and that from
+the very constitution of the human mind and
+soul, it cannot satisfy, may be a fundamental
+reason for this.</p>
+
+<p>It may be also that as we are apprehending,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span>
+to a degree never equalled in the world's history,
+the finer forces in nature, and are using
+them in a very practical and useful way in
+the affairs and the activities of the daily life,
+we are also and perhaps in a more pronounced
+degree, realising, understanding, and using the
+finer, the higher insights and forces, and therefore
+powers, of mind, of spirit, and of body.</p>
+
+<p>I think there is a twofold reason for this
+widespread and rapidly increasing interest.
+A new psychology, or perhaps it were better
+to say, some new and more fully established
+laws of psychology, pertaining to the realm
+of the subconscious mind, its nature, and its
+peculiar activities and powers, has brought
+us another agency in life of tremendous significance
+and of far-reaching practical use.</p>
+
+<p>Another reason is that the revelation and
+the religion of Jesus the Christ is witnessing
+a <i>new birth</i>, as it were. We are finding at
+last an entirely new content in his teachings,
+as well as in his life. We are dropping our
+interest in those phases of a Christianity that
+he probably never taught, and that we have
+many reasons now to believe he never even
+thought&mdash;things that were added long years
+after his time.</p>
+
+<p>We are conscious, however, as never before,
+that that wonderful revelation, those wonderful
+teachings, and above all that wonderful<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>
+life, have a content that can, that does, inspire,
+lift up, and make more effective, more powerful,
+more successful, and more happy, the life
+of every man and every woman who will accept,
+who will appropriate, who will live his
+teachings.</p>
+
+<p>Look at it, however we will, this it is that
+accounts for the vast number of earnest,
+thoughtful, forward looking men and women
+who are passing over, and in many cases are
+passing from, traditional Christianity, and
+who either of their own initiative, or under
+other leadership, are going back to those simple,
+direct, God-impelling teachings of the
+Great Master. They are finding salvation in
+his teachings and his example, where they
+<i>never could</i> find it in various phases of the traditional
+teachings <i>about</i> him.</p>
+
+<p>It is interesting to realise, and it seems almost
+strange that this new finding in psychology,
+and that this new and vital content
+in Christianity, have come about at almost
+identically the same time. Yet it is not
+strange, for the one but serves to demonstrate
+in a concrete and understandable manner the
+fundamental and essential principles of the
+other. Many of the Master's teachings of the
+inner life, teachings of "the Kingdom," given
+so far ahead of his time that the people in
+general, and in many instances even his disciples,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span>
+were incapable of fully comprehending
+and understanding them, are now being confirmed
+and further elucidated by clearly defined
+laws of psychology.</p>
+
+<p>Speculation and belief are giving way to
+a greater knowledge of law. The supernatural
+recedes into the background as we delve
+deeper into the supernormal. The unusual
+loses its miraculous element as we gain knowledge
+of the law whereby the thing is done.
+We are realising that no miracle has ever
+been performed in the world's history that
+was not through the understanding and the
+use of Law.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus did unusual things; but he did them
+because of his unusual understanding of the
+law through which they could be done. <i>He</i>
+would not have us believe otherwise. To do
+so would be a distinct contradiction of the
+whole tenor of his teachings and his injunctions.
+Ye shall know the truth and the truth
+shall make you free, was his own admonition.
+It was the great and passionate longing of his
+master heart that the people to whom he came,
+grasp the <i>interior meanings</i> of his teachings.
+How many times he felt the necessity of rebuking
+even his disciples for dragging his teachings
+down through their material interpretations.
+As some of the very truths that he taught are
+now corroborated and more fully understood,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span>
+and in some cases amplified by well-established
+laws of psychology, mystery recedes into the
+background.</p>
+
+<p>We are reconstructing a more natural, a
+more sane, a more common-sense portrait
+of the Master. "It is the spirit that quickeneth,"
+said he; "the flesh profiteth nothing;
+the words that I speak unto you,
+<i>they</i> are spirit and <i>they</i> are life." Shall we
+recall again in this connection: "I am come
+that ye might have life and that ye might
+have it more abundantly"? When, therefore,
+we take him at his word, and listen intently
+to <i>his</i> words, and not so much to the words
+of others about him; when we place our emphasis
+upon the fundamental spiritual truths
+that he revealed and that he pleaded so
+earnestly to be taken in the simple, direct way
+in which he taught them, we are finding that
+the religion of the Christ means a clearer and
+healthier understanding of life and its problems
+through a greater knowledge of the elemental
+forces and laws of life.</p>
+
+<p>Ignorance enchains and enslaves. Truth&mdash;which
+is but another way of saying a clear
+and definite knowledge of Law, the elemental
+laws of soul, of mind, and body, and of the universe
+about us&mdash;brings freedom. Jesus revealed
+essentially a spiritual philosophy of life. His
+whole revelation pertained to the essential<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span>
+divinity of the human soul and the great gains
+that would follow the realisation of this fact.
+His whole teaching revolved continually
+around his own expression, used again and
+again, the Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom of
+Heaven, and which he so distinctly stated was
+an inner state or consciousness or realisation.
+Something not to be found outside of oneself
+but to be found <i>only within</i>.</p>
+
+<p>We make a great error to regard man as
+merely a duality&mdash;mind and body. Man is a
+trinity,&mdash;soul, mind, and body, each with its
+own functions,&mdash;and it is the right coordinating
+of these that makes the truly efficient and
+eventually the perfect life. Anything less is
+always one-sided and we may say, continually
+out of gear. It is essential to a correct understanding,
+and therefore for any adequate use
+of the potential powers and forces of the inner
+life, to realise this.</p>
+
+<p>It is the physical body that relates us to
+the physical universe about us, that in which
+we find ourselves in this present form of existence.
+But the body, wondrous as it is in its
+functions and its mechanism, is not the life.
+It has no life and no power in itself. It is
+of the earth, earthy. Every particle of it has
+come from the earth through the food we
+eat in combination with the air we breathe and
+the water we drink, and every part of it in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span>
+time will go back to the earth. It is the house
+we inhabit while here.</p>
+
+<p>We can make it a hovel or a mansion; we
+can make it even a pig-sty or a temple, according
+as the soul, the real self, chooses to function
+through it. We should make it servant,
+but through ignorance of the real powers
+within, we can permit it to become master.
+"Know ye not," said the Great Apostle to
+the Gentiles, "that your body is the temple of
+the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye
+have of God, and ye are not your own?"</p>
+
+<p>The soul is the self, the soul made in the
+image of Eternal Divine Life, which, as Jesus
+said, is Spirit. The essential reality of the
+soul is Spirit. Spirit&mdash;Being&mdash;is one and indivisible,
+manifesting itself, however, in individual
+forms in existence. Divine Being and the
+human soul are therefore in essence the same,
+the same in quality. Their difference, which,
+however, is very great&mdash;though less in some
+cases than in others&mdash;is a difference <i>in
+degree</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Divine Being is the cosmic force, the essential
+essence, the Life therefore of all there is
+in existence. The soul is individual personal
+existence. The soul while in this form of
+existence manifests, functions through the
+channel of a material body. <i>It is the mind
+that relates the two.</i> It is through the medium<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span>
+of the mind that the two must be coordinated.
+The soul, the self, while in this form of existence,
+must have a body through which to
+function. The body, on the other hand, to
+reach and to maintain its highest state, must
+be continually infused with the life force of
+the soul. The life force of the soul is Spirit.
+If spirit, then <i>essentially one</i> with Infinite
+Divine Spirit, for spirit, Being, is one.</p>
+
+<p>The embodied soul finds itself the tenant of
+a material body in a material universe, and
+according to a plan as yet, at least, beyond
+our human understanding, whatever may be
+our thoughts, our theories regarding it. The
+whole order of life as we see it, all the world
+of Nature about us, and we must believe the
+order of human life, is a gradual evolving from
+the lower to the higher, from the cruder to the
+finer. The purpose of life is unquestionably
+unfoldment, growth, advancement&mdash;likewise
+the evolving from the lower and the coarser to
+the higher and the finer.</p>
+
+<p>The higher insights and powers of the soul,
+always potential within, become of value only
+as they are realised and used. Evolution implies
+always involution. The substance of all
+we shall ever attain or be, is within us now,
+waiting for realisation and thereby expression.
+The soul carries its own keys to all wisdom
+and to all valuable and usable power.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>It was that highly illumined seer, Emanuel
+Swedenborg, who said: "Every created thing
+is in itself inanimate and dead, but it is animated
+and caused to live by this, that the
+Divine is in it and that it exists in and from
+the Divine." Again: "The universal end of
+creation is that there should be an external
+union of the Creator with the created universe;
+and this would not be possible unless there
+were beings in whom His Divine might be
+present as if in itself; thus in whom it might
+dwell and abide. To be His abode, they must
+receive His love and wisdom by a power which
+seems to be their own; thus, must lift themselves
+up to the Creator as if by their own
+power, and unite themselves with Him. Without
+this mutual action no union would be
+possible." And again: "Every one who duly
+considers the matter may know that the body
+does not think, because it is material, but the
+soul, because it is spiritual. All the rational
+life, therefore, which appears in the body belongs
+to the spirit, for the matter of the body
+is annexed, and, as it were, joined to the
+spirit, in order that the latter may live and
+perform uses in the natural world.... Since
+everything which lives in the body, and acts
+and feels by virtue of that life, belongs to the
+spirit alone, it follows that the spirit is the
+real man; or, what comes to the same thing,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span>
+man himself is a spirit, in a form similar to
+that of his body."</p>
+
+<p>Spirit being the real man, it follows that
+the great, central fact of all experience, of all
+human life, is the coming into a conscious,
+vital realisation of our source, of our real
+being, in other words, of our essential oneness
+with the spirit of Infinite Life and Power&mdash;the
+source of all life and all power. We need
+not look for outside help when we have within
+us waiting to be realised, and thereby actualised,
+this Divine birthright.</p>
+
+<p>Browning was prophet as well as poet
+when in "Paracelsus" he said:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From outward things, whate'er you may believe.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There is an inmost centre in us all,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where truth abides in fulness; and around<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">This perfect, clear perception&mdash;which is truth.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A baffling and perverting carnal mesh<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Binds it, and makes all error: and, to know<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Rather consists in opening out a way<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Than in effecting entry for a light<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Supposed to be without.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>How strangely similar in meaning it seems
+to that saying of an earlier prophet, Isaiah:<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span>
+"And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,
+saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when
+ye turn to the right hand and when ye turn
+to the left."</p>
+
+<p>All great educators are men of great vision.
+It was Dr. Hiram Corson who said: "It is
+what man draws up from his sub-self which is
+of prime importance in his true education, not
+what is put into him. It is the occasional
+uprising of our sub-selves that causes us, at
+times, to feel that we are greater than we
+know." A new psychology, spiritual science,
+a more commonsense interpretation of the
+great revelation of the Christ of Nazareth, all
+combine to enable us to make this occasional
+uprising our natural and normal state.</p>
+
+<p>No man has probably influenced the educational
+thought and practice of the entire world
+more than Friedrich Froebel. In that great book
+of his, "The Education of Man," he bases his
+entire system upon the following, which constitutes
+the opening of its first chapter: "In all
+things there lives and reigns an eternal law.
+This all-controlling law is necessarily based
+on an all-pervading, energetic, living, self-conscious,
+and hence eternal, Unity.... <i>This
+Unity is God.</i> All things have come from the
+Divine Unity, from God, and have their origin
+in the Divine Unity, in God alone. God is the
+sole source of all things. All things live and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span>
+have their being in and through the Divine
+Unity, in and through God. All things are
+only through the divine effluence that lives in
+them. The divine effluence that lives in each
+thing is the essence of each thing.</p>
+
+<p>"It is the destiny and life work of all things
+to unfold their essence, hence their divine
+being, and, therefore, the Divine Unity itself&mdash;to
+reveal God in their external and transient
+being. It is the special destiny and life work
+of man, as an intelligent and rational being,
+to become fully, vividly, conscious of this
+essence of the divine effluence in him, and
+therefore of God.</p>
+
+<p>"The precept for life in general and for
+every one is: <i>Exhibit only thy spiritual, thy
+life, in the external, and by means of the external
+in thy actions, and observe the requirements
+of thy inner being and its nature.</i>"</p>
+
+<p>Here is not only an undying basis for all
+real education, but also the basis of all true
+religion, as well as the basis of all ideal philosophy.
+Yes, there could be no evolution, unless
+the essence of all to be evolved, unfolded,
+were already involved in the human soul. To
+follow the higher leadings of the soul, which
+is so constituted that it is the inlet, and as a
+consequence the outlet of Divine Spirit, Creative
+Energy, the real source of all wisdom
+and power; to project its leadings into every<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span>
+phase of material activity and endeavour, constitutes
+the ideal life. It was Emerson who
+said: "Every soul is not only the inlet, but
+may become the outlet of all there is in God."
+To keep this inlet open, so as not to shut out
+the Divine inflow, is the secret of all higher
+achievement, as well as attainment.</p>
+
+<p>There is a wood separated by a single open
+field from my house. In it, halfway down a
+little hillside, there was some years ago a
+spring. It was at one time walled up with
+rather large loose stone&mdash;some three feet
+across at the top. In following a vaguely defined
+trail through the wood one day in the
+early spring, a trail at one time evidently considerably
+used, it led me to this spot. I looked
+at the stone enclosure, partly moss-grown.
+I wondered why, although the ground was
+wet around it, there was no water in or running
+from what had evidently been at one
+time a well-used spring.</p>
+
+<p>A few days later when the early summer
+work was better under way, I took an implement
+or two over, and half scratching, half
+digging inside the little wall, I found layer
+after layer of dead leaves and sediment, dead
+leaves and sediment. Presently water became
+evident, and a little later it began to rise within
+the wall. In a short time there was nearly
+three feet of water. It was cloudy, no bottom<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span>
+could be seen. I sat down and waited for it to
+settle.</p>
+
+<p>Presently I discerned a ledge bottom and
+the side against the hill was also ledge. On
+this side, close to the bottom, I caught that
+peculiar movement of little particles of silvery
+sand, and looking more closely I could see a
+cleft in the rock where the water came gushing
+and bubbling in. Soon the entire spring
+became clear as crystal, and the water finding
+evidently its old outlet, made its way down
+the little hillside. I was soon able to trace
+and to uncover its course as it made its way
+to the level place below.</p>
+
+<p>As the summer went on I found myself
+going to the spot again and again. Flowers
+that I found in no other part of the wood,
+before the autumn came were blooming along
+the little watercourse. Birds in abundance
+came to drink and to bathe. Several times I
+have found the half-tame deer there. Twice
+we were but thirty to forty paces apart.
+They have watched my approach, and as I
+stopped, have gone on with their drinking,
+evidently unafraid&mdash;as if it were likewise their
+possession. And so it is.</p>
+
+<p>After spending a most valuable hour or two
+in the quiet there one afternoon, I could not
+help but wonder as I walked home whether
+perchance the spring may not be actually<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span>
+happy in being able to resume its life, to fulfil,
+so to speak, its destiny; happy also in the
+service it renders flowers and the living wild
+things&mdash;happy in the service it renders even
+me. I am doubly happy and a hundred times
+repaid in the little help I gave it. It needed
+help, to enable it effectively to keep connection
+with its source. As it became gradually shut
+off from this, it weakened, became then stagnant,
+and finally it ceased its active life.</p>
+
+<p>Containing a fundamental truth deeper perhaps
+than we realise, are these words of that
+gifted seer, Emanuel Swedenborg: "There is
+only one Fountain of Life, and the life of
+man is a stream therefrom, which if it were
+not continually replenished from its source
+would instantly cease to flow." And likewise
+these: "Those who think in the light of interior
+reason can see that all things are connected
+by intermediate links with the First
+Cause, and that whatever is not maintained
+in that connection must cease to exist."</p>
+
+<p>There is a mystic force that transcends any
+powers of the intellect or of the body, that
+becomes manifest and operative in the life
+of man when this God-consciousness becomes
+awakened and permeates his entire being.
+Failure to realise and to keep in constant communion
+with our Source is what causes fears,
+forebodings, worry, inharmony, conflict, conflict<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span>
+that downs us many times in mind, in
+spirit, in body&mdash;failure to follow that Light
+that lighteth every man that cometh into the
+world, failure to hear and to heed that Voice
+of the soul, that speaks continually clearer as
+we accustom ourselves to listen to and to heed
+it, failure to follow those intuitions with which
+the soul, every soul, is endowed, and that lead
+us aright and that become clearer in their leadings
+as we follow them. It is this guidance
+and this sustaining power that all great souls
+fall back upon in times of great crises.</p>
+
+<p>This single stanza by Edwin Markham
+voices the poet's inspiration:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And flinging the clouds and the towers by,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Is a place of central calm;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So, here in the roar of mortal things<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I have a place where my spirit sings,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">In the hollow of God's palm.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>"That the Divine Life and Energy <i>actually
+lives in us</i>," was the philosopher Fichte's reply
+to the proposition&mdash;"the profoundest knowledge
+that man can attain." And speaking of
+the man to whom this becomes a real, vital,
+conscious realisation, he said: "His whole existence
+flows forth, softly and gently, from his
+Inward Being, and issues out into Reality
+without difficulty or hindrance."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>There are certain faculties that we have
+that are not a part of the active thinking mind;
+they seem to be no part of what we might
+term our <i>conscious intelligence</i>. They transcend
+any possible activities of our regular
+mental processes, and they are in some
+ways independent of them. Through some
+avenue, suggestions, intuitions of truth, intuitions
+of occurrences of which through the
+thinking mind we could know nothing, are at
+times borne in upon us; they flash into our
+consciousness, as we say, quite independent of
+any mental action on our part, and sometimes
+when we are thinking of something quite
+foreign to that which comes to, that which
+"impresses" us.</p>
+
+<p>This seems to indicate a source of knowledge,
+a faculty that is distinct from, but that
+acts in various ways in conjunction with, the
+active thinking mind. It performs likewise
+certain very definite and distinct functions in
+connection with the body. It is this that is
+called the <i>subconscious mind</i>&mdash;by some the
+superconscious or the supernormal mind, by
+others the subliminal self.</p>
+
+<p>Just what the subconscious mind is no man
+knows. It is easier to define its functions and
+to describe its activities than it is to state
+in exact terms what it is. It is similar in this
+respect to the physical force&mdash;if it be a physical<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span>
+force&mdash;electricity. It is only of late years that
+we know anything of electricity at all. Today
+we know a great deal of its nature and the
+laws of its action. No man living can tell
+exactly what electricity is. We are nevertheless
+making wonderful <i>practical applications</i>
+of it. We are learning more <i>about it</i> continually.
+Some day we may know what
+it <i>actually is</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The fact that the subconscious mind seems
+to function in a realm apart from anything
+that has to do with our conscious mental
+processes, and also that it has some definite
+functions as both directing and building functions
+to perform in connection with the body,
+and that it is at the same time subject to suggestion
+and direction from the active thinking
+mind, would indicate that it may be the
+true connecting link, the medium of exchange,
+between the soul and the body, the connector
+of the spiritual and the material so far as man
+is concerned.</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="III" id="III"></a><big>III</big><br /><br />
+
+THE WAY MIND THROUGH THE SUBCONSCIOUS
+MIND BUILDS BODY</h2>
+
+
+<p>When one says that he numbers among his
+acquaintances some who are as old at sixty as
+some others are at eighty, he but gives expression
+to a fact that has become the common
+possession of many. I have known those who
+at fifty-five and sixty were to all intents and
+purposes really older, more decrepit, and
+rapidly growing still more decrepit both in
+mind and body, than many another at seventy
+and seventy-five and even at eighty.</p>
+
+<p>History, then, is replete with instances,
+memorable instances, of people, both men and
+women, who have accomplished things at an
+age&mdash;who have even begun and carried through
+to successful completion things at an age that
+would seem to thousands of others, in the captivity
+of age, with their backs to the future,
+ridiculous even to think of accomplishing, much
+less of beginning. On account of a certain
+law that has always seemed to me to exist and
+that I am now firmly convinced is very <i>exact</i>
+in its workings, I have been interested in talking
+with various ones and in getting together<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span>
+various facts relative to this great discrepancy
+in the ages of these two classes of "old"
+people.</p>
+
+<p>Within the year I called upon a friend
+whom, on account of living in a different portion
+of the country, I hadn't seen for nearly
+ten years. Conversation revealed to me the
+fact that he was then in his eighty-eighth year.
+I could notice scarcely a change in his appearance,
+walk, voice, and spirit. We talked at
+length upon the various, so-called, periods of
+life. He told me that about the only difference
+that he noticed in himself as compared
+with his middle life was that now when he
+goes out to work in his garden, and among his
+trees, bushes, and vines&mdash;and he has had many
+for many years&mdash;he finds that he is quite ready
+to quit and to come in at the end of about two
+hours, and sometimes a little sooner, when
+formerly he could work regularly without fatigue
+for the entire half day. In other words,
+he has not the same degree of endurance that
+he once had.</p>
+
+<p>Among others, there comes to mind in this
+connection another who is a little under
+seventy. It chances to be a woman. She is
+bent and decrepit and growing more so by
+very fixed stages each twelvemonth. I have
+known her for over a dozen years. At the
+time when I first knew her she was scarcely<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>
+fifty-eight, she was already bent and walked
+with an uncertain, almost faltering tread. The
+dominant note of her personality was then as
+now, but more so now, fear for the present,
+fear for the future, a dwelling continually on
+her ills, her misfortunes, her symptoms, her approaching
+and increasing helplessness.</p>
+
+<p>Such cases I have observed again and again;
+so have all who are at all interested in life and
+in its forces and its problems. What is the
+cause of this almost world-wide difference in
+these two lives? In this case it is as clear as
+day&mdash;the mental characteristics and the mental
+habits of each.</p>
+
+<p>In the first case, here was one who early got
+a little philosophy into his life and then more
+as the years passed. He early realised that in
+himself his good or his ill fortune lay; that the
+mental attitude we take toward anything determines
+to a great extent our power in connection
+with it, as well as its effects upon us. He
+grew to love his work and he did it daily, but
+never under high pressure. He was therefore
+benefited by it. His face was always to the
+future, even as it is today. This he made one
+of the fundamental rules of his life. He was
+helped in this, he told me in substance, by an
+early faith which with the passing of the years
+has ripened with him into a demonstrable conviction&mdash;that
+there is a Spirit of Infinite Life<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span>
+back of all, working in love in and through the
+lives of all, and that in the degree that we
+realise it as the one Supreme Source of our
+lives, and when through desire and will, which
+is through the channel of our thoughts, we open
+our lives so that this Higher Power can work
+definitely in and through us, and then go
+about and do our daily work without fears or
+forebodings, the passing of the years sees only
+the highest good entering into our lives.</p>
+
+<p>In the case of the other one whom we have
+mentioned, a repetition seems scarcely necessary.
+Suffice it to say that the common expression
+on the part of those who know her&mdash;I have
+heard it numbers of times&mdash;is: "What a blessing
+it will be to herself and to others when she
+has gone!"</p>
+
+<p>A very general rule with but few exceptions
+can be laid down as follows: The body ordinarily
+looks as old as the mind thinks and
+feels.</p>
+
+<p>Shakespeare anticipated by many years the
+best psychology of the times when he said: "It
+is the mind that makes the body rich."</p>
+
+<p>It seems to me that our great problem, or
+rather our chief concern, should not be so
+much how to stay young in the sense of possessing
+all the attributes of youth, <i>for the
+passing of the years does bring changes</i>, but
+how to pass gracefully, and even magnificently,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span>
+and with undiminished vigour from youth to
+middle age, and then how to carry that middle
+age into approaching old age, with a great
+deal more of the vigour and the outlook of
+middle life than <i>we ordinarily do</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The mental as well as the physical helps that
+are now in the possession of this our generation,
+are capable of working a revolution in
+the lives of many who are or who may become
+sufficiently awake to them, so that with them
+there will not be that&mdash;shall we say&mdash;immature
+passing from middle life into a broken, purposeless,
+decrepit, and sunless, and one might
+almost say, soulless old age.</p>
+
+<p>It seems too bad that so many among us just
+at the time that they have become of most use
+to themselves, their families, and to the world,
+should suddenly halt and then continue in
+broken health, and in so many cases lie down
+and die. Increasing numbers of thinking people
+the world over are now, as never before,
+finding that this is not necessary, that something
+is at fault, that that fault is in ourselves.
+If so, then reversely, the remedy lies in ourselves,
+in our own hands, so to speak.</p>
+
+<p>In order to actualise and to live this better
+type of life we have got to live better from
+both sides, both the mental and the physical,
+this with all due respect to Shakespeare and to
+all modern mental scientists.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The body itself, what we term the physical
+body, whatever may be the facts regarding a
+finer spiritual body within it all the time giving
+form to and animating and directing all
+its movements, is of material origin, and derives
+its sustenance from the food we take,
+from the air we breathe, the water we drink.
+In this sense it is from the earth, and when
+we are through with it, it will go back to the
+earth.</p>
+
+<p>The body, however, is not the Life; it is
+merely the material agency that enables the
+Life to manifest in a material universe for
+a certain, though not necessarily a given, period
+of time. It is the Life, or the Soul, or the
+Personality that uses, and that in using shapes
+and moulds, the body and that also determines
+its strength or its weakness. When this is
+separated from the body, the body at once becomes
+a cold, inert mass, commencing immediately
+to decompose into the constituent material
+elements that composed it&mdash;literally going
+back to the earth and the elements whence
+it came.</p>
+
+<p>It is through the instrumentality or the
+agency of thought that the Life, the Self, uses,
+and manifests through, the body. Again, while
+it is true that the food that is taken and assimilated
+nourishes, sustains and builds the
+body, it is also true that the condition and the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span>
+operation of the mind through the avenue of
+thought determines into what shape or form
+the body is so builded. So in this sense it is
+true that mind builds body; it is the agency, the
+force that determines the shaping of the material
+elements.</p>
+
+<p>Here is a wall being built. Bricks are the
+material used in its construction. We do not
+say that the bricks are building the wall; we
+say that the mason is building it, as is the case.
+He is using the material that is supplied him,
+in this case bricks, giving form and structure
+in a definite, methodical manner. Again, back
+of the mason is his mind, acting through the
+channel of his thought, that is directing his
+hands and all his movements. Without this
+guiding, directing <i>force</i> no wall could take
+shape, even if millions of bricks were delivered
+upon the scene.</p>
+
+<p>So it is with the body. We take the food,
+the water, we breathe the air; but this is all
+and always acted upon by a higher force. Thus
+it is that mind builds body, the same as in
+every department of our being it is the great
+builder. Our thoughts shape and determine
+our features, our walk, the posture of our
+bodies, our voices; they determine the effectiveness
+of our mental and our physical activities,
+as well as all our relations with and
+influence or effects upon others.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>You say: "I admit the operation of and even
+in certain cases the power of thought, also that
+at times it has an influence upon our general
+feelings, but I do not admit that it can have
+any direct influence upon the body." Here is
+one who has allowed herself to be long given
+to grief, abnormally so&mdash;notice her lowered
+physical condition, her lack of vitality. The
+New York papers within the past twelve
+months recorded the case of a young lady in
+New Jersey who, from <i>constant</i> grieving over
+the death of her mother, died, fell dead, within
+a week.</p>
+
+<p>A man is handed a telegram. He is eating
+and enjoying his dinner. He reads the contents
+of the message. Almost immediately
+afterward, his body is a-tremble, his face either
+reddens or grows "ashy white," his appetite is
+gone; such is the effect of the mind upon the
+stomach that it literally refuses the food; if
+forced upon it, it may reject it entirely.</p>
+
+<p>A message is delivered to a lady. She is in
+a genial, happy mood. Her face whitens; she
+trembles and her body falls to the ground in
+a faint, temporarily helpless, apparently lifeless.
+Such are the intimate relations between
+the mind and the body. Raise a cry of fire in
+a crowded theatre. It may be a false alarm.
+There are among the audience those who become
+seemingly palsied, powerless to move. It<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span>
+is the state of the mind, and within several
+seconds, that has determined the state of these
+bodies. Such are examples of the wonderfully
+quick influence of the mind on the body.</p>
+
+<p>Great stress, or anxiety, or fear, may in two
+weeks' or even in two days' time so work its
+ravages that the person looks ten years or even
+twenty years older. A person has been long
+given to worry, or perhaps to worry in extreme
+form though not so long&mdash;a well-defined case
+of indigestion and general stomach trouble,
+with a generally lowered and sluggish vitality,
+has become pronounced and fixed.</p>
+
+<p>Any type of thought that prevails in our
+mental lives will in time produce its correspondences
+in our physical lives. As we understand
+better these laws of correspondences, we
+will be more careful as to the types of thoughts
+and emotions we consciously, or unwittingly,
+entertain and live with. The great bulk of all
+diseases, we will find, as we are continually
+finding more and more, are in the mind before
+being in the body, or are generated in the body
+through certain states and conditions of mind.</p>
+
+<p>The present state and condition of the body
+have been produced primarily by the thoughts
+that have been taken by the conscious mind
+into the subconscious, that is so intimately
+related to and that directs all the subconscious
+and involuntary functions of the body. Says<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span>
+one: It may be true that the mind has had
+certain effects upon the body; but to be able
+<i>consciously</i> to affect the body through the mind
+is impossible and even unthinkable, for the
+body is a solid, fixed, material form.</p>
+
+<p>We must get over the idea, as we quickly
+will, if we study into the matter, that the
+body, in fact anything that we call material
+and solid, is really solid. Even in the case of a
+piece of material as "solid" as a bar of steel,
+the atoms forming the molecules are in continual
+action each in conjunction with its
+neighbour. In the last analysis the body is
+composed of cells&mdash;cells of bone, vital organ,
+flesh, sinew. In the body the cells are continually
+changing, forming and reforming.
+Death would quickly take place were this not
+true. Nature is giving us a new body practically
+every year.</p>
+
+<p>There are very few elements, cells, in the
+body of today that were there a year ago.
+The rapidity with which a cut or wound on
+the body is replaced by healthy tissue, the
+rapidity with which it heals, is an illustration
+of this. One "touches" himself in shaving.
+In a week, sometimes in less than a week, if the
+blood and the cell structure be particularly
+healthy, there is no trace of the cut, the formation
+of new cell tissue has completely repaired
+it. Through the formation of new<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span>
+cell structure the life-force within, acting
+through the blood, is able to rebuild and
+repair, if not too much interfered with, very
+rapidly. The reason, we may say almost the
+sole reason, that surgery has made such great
+advances during the past few years, so much
+greater correspondingly than medicine, is on
+account of a knowledge of the importance of
+and the use of antiseptics&mdash;keeping the wound
+clean and entirely free from all extraneous
+matter.</p>
+
+<p>So then, the greater portion of the body is
+really new, therefore young, in that it is almost
+entirely this year's growth. Newness of form
+is continually being produced in the body by
+virtue of this process of perpetual renewal that
+is continually going on, and the new cells and
+tissues are just as new as is the new leaf that
+comes forth in the springtime to take the place
+of and to perform the same functions as the
+one that was thrown off by the tree last
+autumn.</p>
+
+<p>The skin renews itself through the casting off
+of used cells (those that have already performed
+their functions) most rapidly, taking
+but a few weeks. The muscles, the vital organs,
+the entire arterial system, the brain and
+the nervous system all take longer, but all are
+practically renewed within a year, some in
+much less time. Then comes the bony structure,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span>
+taking the longest, varying, we are told,
+from seven and eight months to a year, in
+unusual cases fourteen months and longer.</p>
+
+<p>It is, then, through this process of cell formation
+that the physical body has been built up,
+and through the same process that it is continually
+renewing itself. It is not therefore
+at any time or at any age a solid fixed mass or
+material, but a structure in a continually
+changing fluid form. It is therefore easy to
+see how we have it in our power, when we are
+once awake to the relations between the conscious
+mind and the subconscious&mdash;and it in
+turn in its relations to the various involuntary
+and vital functions of the body&mdash;to determine
+to a great extent how the body shall be built
+or how it shall be rebuilt.</p>
+
+<p>Mentally to live in any state or attitude of
+mind is to take that state or condition into the
+subconscious. <i>The subconscious mind does and
+always will produce in the body after its own
+kind.</i> It is through this law that we externalise
+and become in body what we live in our
+minds. If we have predominating visions of
+and harbour thoughts of old age and weakness,
+this state, with all its attendant circumstances,
+will become externalised in our bodies far more
+quickly than if we entertain thoughts and
+visions of a different type. Said Archdeacon
+Wilberforce in a notable address in Westminster<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span>
+Abbey some time ago: "The recent researches
+of scientific men, endorsed by experiments
+in the Salpétrière in Paris, have drawn
+attention to the intensely creative power of
+suggestions made by the conscious mind to the
+subconscious mind."</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="IV" id="IV"></a><big>IV</big><br /><br />
+
+THE POWERFUL AID OF THE MIND IN
+REBUILDING BODY&mdash;HOW BODY
+HELPS MIND</h2>
+
+
+<p>"The body looks," some one has said, "as
+old as the mind feels." By virtue of a great
+mental law and at the same time chemical
+law we are well within the realm of truth
+when we say: The body ordinarily is as old
+as the mind feels.</p>
+
+<p>Every living organism is continually going
+through two processes: it is continually dying,
+and continually being renewed through the
+operation and the power of the Life Force
+within it. In the human body it is through the
+instrumentality of the cell that this process is
+going on. The cell is the ultimate constituent
+in the formation and in the life of tissue, fibre,
+tendon, bone, muscle, brain, nerve system,
+vital organ. It is the instrumentality that Nature,
+as we say, uses to do her work.</p>
+
+<p>The cell is formed; it does its work; it
+serves its purpose and dies; and all the while
+new cells are being formed to take its place.
+This process of new cell formation is going on
+in the body of each of us much more rapidly<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span>
+and uniformly than we think. Science has
+demonstrated the fact that there are very few
+cells in the body today that were there twelve
+months ago. The form of the body remains
+practically the same; but its constituent elements
+are in a constant state of change. The
+body, therefore, is continually changing; it is
+never in a fixed state in the sense of being a
+solid, but is always in a changing, fluid state.
+It is being continually remade.</p>
+
+<p>It is the Life, or the Life Force within, acting
+under the direction and guidance of the
+subconscious or subjective mind that is the
+agency through which this continually new cell-formation
+process is going on. The subconscious
+mind is, nevertheless, always subject to
+suggestions and impressions that are conveyed
+to it by the conscious or sense mind; and here
+lies the great fact, the one all-important fact
+for us so far as desirable or undesirable, so
+far as healthy or unhealthy, so far as normal or
+aging body-building is concerned.</p>
+
+<p>That we have it in our power to determine
+our physical and bodily conditions to a far
+greater extent than we do is an undeniable fact.
+That we have it in our power to determine and
+to dictate the conditions of "old age" to a
+marvellous degree is also an undeniable fact&mdash;if
+we are sufficiently keen and sufficiently
+awake to begin early enough.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>If any arbitrary divisions of the various
+periods of life were allowable, I should make
+the enumeration as follows: Youth, barring the
+period of babyhood, to forty-five; middle age,
+forty-five to sixty; approaching age, sixty to
+seventy-five; old age, seventy-five to ninety-five
+and a hundred.</p>
+
+<p>That great army of people who "age" long
+before their time, that likewise great army of
+both men and women who along about middle
+age, say from forty-five to sixty, break and, as
+we say, all of a sudden go to pieces, and many
+die, just at the period when they should be in
+the prime of life, in the full vigour of manhood
+and womanhood and of greatest value to themselves,
+to their families, and to the world, is
+something that is <i>contrary to nature</i>, and is
+one of the pitiable conditions of our time. A
+greater knowledge, a little foresight, a little
+care in <i>time</i> could prevent this in the great
+majority of cases, in ninety cases out of every
+hundred, without question.</p>
+
+<p>Abounding health and strength&mdash;wholeness&mdash;is
+the natural law of the body. The Life
+Force of the body, acting always under the
+direction of the subconscious mind, <i>will build,
+and always does build</i>, healthily and normally,
+unless too much interfered with. It is this
+that determines the type of the cell structure
+that is continually being built into the body<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span>
+from the available portions of the food that
+we take to give nourishment to the body. It
+is affected for good or for bad, helped or hindered,
+in its operation by the type of conscious
+thought that is directed toward it, and
+that it is always influenced by.</p>
+
+<p>Of great suggestive value is the following
+by an able writer and practitioner:</p>
+
+<p>"God has managed, and perpetually manages,
+to insert into our nature a tendency
+toward health, and against the unnatural condition
+which we call disease. When our flesh
+receives a wound, a strange nursing and healing
+process is immediately commenced to repair
+the injury. So in all diseases, organic or functional,
+this mysterious healing power sets itself
+to work at once to triumph over the morbid
+condition.... Cannot this healing process be
+greatly accelerated by a voluntary and conscious
+action of the mind, assisted, if need be,
+by some other person? I unhesitatingly affirm,
+from experience and observation, that it can.
+By some volitional, mental effort and process
+of thought, this sanative colatus, or healing
+power which God has given to our physiological
+organism, may be greatly quickened and
+intensified in its action upon the body. Here
+is the secret philosophy of the cures effected
+by Jesus Christ.... There is a law of the
+action of mind on the body that is no more an<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span>
+impenetrable mystery than the law of gravitation.
+It can be understood and acted upon
+in the cure of disease as well as any other law
+of nature."</p>
+
+<p>If, then, it be possible through this process
+to change physical conditions in the body even
+after they have taken form and have become
+fixed, as we say, isn't it possible even more
+easily to determine the type of cell structure
+that is grown in the first place?</p>
+
+<p>The ablest minds in the world have thought
+and are thinking that if we could find a way
+of preventing the hardening of the cells of the
+system, producing in turn hardened arteries
+and what is meant by the general term "ossification,"
+that the process of aging, growing
+old, could be greatly retarded, and that the
+condition of perpetual youth that we seem to
+catch glimpses of in rare individuals here and
+there could be made a more common occurrence
+than we find it today.</p>
+
+<p>The cause of ossification is partly mental,
+partly physical, and in connection with them
+both are hereditary influences and conditions
+that have to be taken into consideration.</p>
+
+<p>Shall we look for a moment to the first? The
+food that is taken into the system, or the available
+portions of the food, is the building material;
+but the mind is always the builder.</p>
+
+<p>There are, then, two realms of mind, the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span>
+conscious and the subconscious. Another way
+of expressing it would be to say that mind
+functions through two avenues&mdash;the avenue of
+the conscious and the avenue of the subconscious.
+The conscious is the thinking mind;
+the subconscious is the doing mind. The conscious
+is the sense mind, it comes in contact
+with and is acted upon through the avenue of
+the five senses. The subconscious is that
+quiet, finer, all-permeating inner mind or force
+that guides all the inner functions, the life
+functions of the body, and that watches over
+and keeps them going even when we are utterly
+unconscious in sleep. The conscious suggests
+and gives directions; the subconscious receives
+and carries into operation the suggestions that
+are received.</p>
+
+<p>The thoughts, ideas, and even beliefs and
+emotions of the conscious mind are the seeds
+that are taken in by the subconscious and that
+in this great <i>realm of causation</i> will germinate
+and produce of their own kind. The chemical
+activities that go on in the process of cell
+formation in the body are all under the influence,
+the domination of this great all-permeating
+subconscious, or subjective realm
+within us.</p>
+
+<p>In that able work, "The Laws of Psychic
+Phenomena," Dr. Thomas J. Hudson lays down
+this proposition: "That the subjective mind is<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span>
+constantly amenable to control by suggestion."
+It is easy, when we once understand and appreciate
+this great fact, to see how the body builds,
+or rather is built, for health and strength, or
+for disease and weakness; for youth and
+vigour, or for premature ossification and age.
+It is easy, then, to see how we can have a hand
+in, in brief can have the controlling hand in,
+building either the one or the other.</p>
+
+<p>It is in the province of the intelligent man or
+woman to take hold of the wheel, so to speak,
+and to determine as an intelligent human being
+should, what condition or conditions shall be
+given birth and form to and be externalised in
+the body.</p>
+
+<p>A noted thinker and writer has said: "Whatever
+the mind is set upon, or whatever it keeps
+most in view, that it is bringing to it, and the
+continual thought or imagining must at last
+take form and shape in the world of seen and
+tangible things."</p>
+
+<p>And now, to be as concrete as possible, we
+have these facts: The body is continually
+changing in that it is continually throwing out
+and off, used cells, and continually building
+new cells to take their places. This process,
+as well as all the inner functions of the body,
+is governed and guarded by the subconscious
+realm of our being. The subconscious can do
+and does do whatever it is <i>actually</i> directed to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span>
+do by the conscious, thinking mind. "We
+must be careful on what we allow our minds
+to dwell," said Sir John Lubbock, "the soul
+is dyed by its thoughts."</p>
+
+<p>If we believe ourselves subject to weakness,
+decay, infirmity, when we should be "whole,"
+the subconscious mind seizes upon the pattern
+that is sent it and builds cell structure accordingly.
+This is one great reason why one who
+is, as we say, chronically thinking and talking
+of his ailments and symptoms, who is complaining
+and fearing, is never well.</p>
+
+<p>To see one's self, to believe, and therefore
+to picture one's self in mind as strong, healthy,
+active, well, is to furnish a pattern, is to give
+suggestion and therefore direction to the subconscious
+so that it will build cell tissue having
+the stamp and the force of healthy, vital,
+active life, which in turn means abounding
+health and strength.</p>
+
+<p>So, likewise, at about the time that "old
+age" is supposed ordinarily to begin, when it is
+believed in and looked for by those about us
+and those who act in accordance with this
+thought, if we fall into this same mental drift,
+we furnish the subconscious the pattern that it
+will inevitably build bodily conditions in accordance
+with. We will then find the ordinarily
+understood marks and conditions of old
+age creeping upon us, and we will become subject<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span>
+to their influences in every department of
+our being. Whatever is thus pictured in the
+mind and lived in, the Life Force will produce.</p>
+
+<p>To remain young in mind, in spirit, in feeling,
+is to remain young in body. Growing old
+at the period or age at which so many grow old,
+is to a great extent a matter of habit.</p>
+
+<p>To think health and strength, to see ourselves
+continually growing in this condition,
+is to set into operation the subtlest dynamic
+force for the externalisation of these conditions
+in the body that can be even conceived of. If
+one's bodily condition, through abnormal, false
+mental and emotional habits, has become abnormal
+and diseased, this same attitude of
+mind, of spirit, of imagery, is to set into operation
+<i>a subtle and powerful corrective agency
+that, if persisted in, will inevitably tend to
+bring normal, healthy conditions to the front
+again</i>.</p>
+
+<p>True, if these abnormal, diseased conditions
+have been helped on or have been induced by
+wrong physical habits, by the violation of
+physical laws, this violation must cease. But
+combine the two, and then give the body the
+care that it requires in a moderate amount of
+simple, wholesome food, regular cleansing to
+assist it in the elimination of impurities and of
+used cell structure that is being regularly cast
+off, an abundance of pure air and of moderate<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span>
+exercise, and a change amounting almost to
+a miracle can be wrought&mdash;it may be, indeed,
+what many people of olden time would have
+termed a miracle.</p>
+
+<p>The mind thus becomes "a silent, transforming,
+sanative energy" of great potency and
+power. That it can be so used is attested by
+the fact of the large numbers, and the rapidly
+increasing numbers, all about us who are so
+using it. This is what many people all over
+our country are doing today, with the results
+that, by a great elemental law&mdash;Divine Law if
+you choose&mdash;<i>many</i> are curing themselves of
+various diseases, <i>many</i> are exchanging weakness
+and impotence for strength and power,
+<i>many</i> are ceasing, comparatively speaking, are
+politely refusing, to grow old.</p>
+
+<p>Thought is a force, subtle and powerful, and
+it tends inevitably to produce of its kind.</p>
+
+<p>In forestalling "old age," at least old age
+of the decrepit type, it is the period of middle
+life where the greatest care is to be employed.
+If, at about the time "old age" is supposed
+ordinarily to begin, the "turn" at middle life
+or a little later, we would stop to consider
+what this period really means, that it means
+with both men and women a period of life
+where some simple readjustments are to be
+made, a period of a little rest, a little letting
+up, a temporary getting back to the playtime<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span>
+of earlier years and a bringing of these characteristics
+back into life again, then a complete
+letting-up would not be demanded by nature
+a little later, as it is demanded in such a
+lamentably large number of cases at the
+present time.</p>
+
+<p>So in a definite, deliberate way, youth should
+be blended into the middle life, and the resultant
+should be a force that will stretch middle
+life for an indefinite period into the future.</p>
+
+<p>And what an opportunity is here for mothers,
+at about the time that the children have grown,
+and some or all even have "flown"! Of
+course, Mother shouldn't go and get foolish,
+she shouldn't go cavorting around in a sixteen-year-old
+hat, when the hat of the thirty-five-year-old
+would undoubtedly suit her better;
+but she should rejoice that the golden period
+of life is still before her. Now she has leisure
+to do many of those things <i>that she has so
+long wanted to do</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The world's rich field of literature is before
+her; the line of study or work she has longed to
+pursue, she bringing to it a better equipped
+mind and experience than she has ever had before.
+There is also an interest in the life and
+welfare of her community, in civic, public welfare
+lines that the present and the quick-coming
+time before us along women's enfranchisement
+lines, along women's commonsense<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span>
+equality lines, is making her a responsible and
+full sharer in. And how much more valuable
+she makes herself, also, to her children, as
+well as to her community, inspiring in them
+greater confidence, respect, and admiration
+than if she allows herself to be pushed into the
+background by her own weak and false
+thoughts of herself, or by the equally foolish
+thoughts of her children in that she is now, or
+is at any time, to become a back number.</p>
+
+<p>Life, as long as we are here, should mean
+continuous unfoldment, advancement, and this
+is undoubtedly the purpose of life; but age-producing
+forces and agencies mean deterioration,
+as opposed to growth and unfoldment.
+They ossify, weaken, stiffen, deaden, both mentally
+and physically. For him or her who
+yearns to stay young, the coming of the years
+does not mean or bring abandonment of hope
+or of happiness or of activity. It means comparative
+vigour combined with continually
+larger experience, and therefore even more
+usefulness, and hence pleasure and happiness.</p>
+
+<p>Praise also to those who do not allow any
+one or any number of occurrences in life to
+sour their nature, rob them of their faith, or
+cripple their energies for the enjoyment of the
+fullest in life while here. It's those people
+<i>who never allow themselves in spirit to be
+downed</i>, no matter what their individual problems,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span>
+surroundings, or conditions may be, but
+who chronically bob up serenely who, after all,
+<i>are the masters of life</i>, and who are likewise
+the strength-givers and the helpers of others.
+There are multitudes in the world today, there
+are readers of this volume, who could add a
+dozen or a score of years&mdash;teeming, healthy
+years&mdash;to their lives by a process of self-examination,
+a mental housecleaning, and a reconstructed,
+positive, commanding type of
+thought.</p>
+
+<p>Tennyson was prophet when he sang:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Cleave then to the sunnier side of doubt,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She reels not in the storm of warring words,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No,"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She sees the Best that glimmers through the Worst,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She feels the sun is hid but for a night,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She spies the summer through the winter bud,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She hears the lark within the songless egg,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She finds the fountain where they wailed "mirage."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="V" id="V"></a><big>V</big><br /><br />
+
+THOUGHT AS A FORCE IN DAILY LIVING</h2>
+
+
+<p>Some years ago an experience was told to
+me that has been the cause of many interesting
+observations since. It was related by a
+man living in one of our noted university
+towns in the Middle West. He was a well-known
+lecture manager, having had charge of
+many lecture tours for John B. Gough, Henry
+Ward Beecher, and others of like standing.
+He himself was a man of splendid character,
+was of a sensitive organism, as we say, and
+had always taken considerable interest in the
+powers and forces pertaining to the inner life.</p>
+
+<p>As a young man he had left home, and during
+a portion of his first year away he had
+found employment on a Mississippi steamboat.
+One day in going down the river, while he
+was crossing the deck, a sudden stinging sensation
+seized him in the head, and instantly
+vivid thoughts of his mother, back at the old
+home, flashed into his mind. This was followed
+by a feeling of depression during the
+remainder of the day. The occurrence was so<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span>
+unusual and the impression of it was so strong
+that he made an account of it in his diary.</p>
+
+<p>Some time later, on returning home, he was
+met in the yard by his mother. She was wearing
+a thin cap on her head which he had never
+seen her wear before. He remarked in regard
+to it. She raised the cap and doing so revealed
+the remains of a long ugly gash on the
+side of her head. She then said that some
+months before, naming the time, she had gone
+into the back yard and had picked up a heavy
+crooked stick having a sharp end, to throw
+it out of the way, and in throwing it, it had
+struck a wire clothesline immediately above
+her head and had rebounded with such force
+that it had given her the deep scalp wound
+of which she was speaking. On unpacking his
+bag he looked into his diary and found that
+the time she had mentioned corresponded exactly
+with the strange and unusual occurrence
+to himself as they were floating down the
+Mississippi.</p>
+
+<p>The mother and son were very near one to
+the other, close in their sympathies, and there
+can be but little doubt that the thoughts of
+the mother as she was struck went out, and
+perhaps <i>went strongly out</i>, to her boy who was
+now away from home. He, being sensitively
+organised and intimately related to her in
+thought, and alone at the time, undoubtedly<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span>
+got, if not her thought, at least the effects of
+her thought, as it went out to him under these
+peculiar and tense conditions.</p>
+
+<p>There are scores if not hundreds of occurrences
+of a more or less similar nature that
+have occurred in the lives of others, many of
+them well authenticated. How many of us,
+even, have had the experience of suddenly
+thinking of a friend of whom we have not
+thought for weeks or months, and then entirely
+unexpectedly meeting or hearing from this
+same friend. How many have had the experience
+of writing a friend, one who has not been
+written to or heard from for a long time, and
+within a day or two getting a letter from that
+friend&mdash;the letters "crossing," as we are accustomed
+to say. There are many other experiences
+or facts of a similar nature, and many
+of them exceedingly interesting, that could be
+related did space permit. These all indicate
+to me that thoughts are not mere indefinite
+things but that thoughts are forces, that they
+go out, and that every distinct, clear-cut
+thought has, or may have, an influence of
+some type.</p>
+
+<p>Thought transference, which is now unquestionably
+an established fact, notwithstanding
+much chicanery that is still to be found in connection
+with it, is undoubtedly to be explained
+through the fact that <i>thoughts are forces</i>. A<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span>
+positive mind through practice, at first with
+very simple beginnings, gives form to a
+thought that another mind open and receptive
+to it&mdash;and sufficiently attuned to the other
+mind&mdash;is able to receive.</p>
+
+<p>Wireless telegraphy, as a science, has been
+known but a comparatively short time. The
+laws underlying it have been in the universe
+perhaps, or undoubtedly, always. It is only
+lately that the mind of man has been able to
+apprehend them, and has been able to construct
+instruments in accordance with these
+laws. We are now able, through a knowledge
+of the laws of vibration and by using the right
+sending and receiving instruments, to send
+actual messages many hundreds of miles directly
+through the ether and without the more
+clumsy accessories of poles and wires. This
+much of it we know&mdash;<i>there is perhaps even
+more yet to be known</i>.</p>
+
+<p>We may find, as I am inclined to think we
+shall find, that thought is a form of vibration.
+When a thought is born in the brain, it goes
+out just as a sound wave goes out, and transmits
+itself through the ether, making its impressions
+upon other minds that are in a sufficiently
+sensitive state to receive it; this in
+addition to the effects that various types of
+thoughts have upon the various bodily functions
+of the one with whom they take origin.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>We are, by virtue of the laws of evolution,
+constantly apprehending the finer forces of
+nature&mdash;the tallow-dip, the candle, the oil
+lamp, years later a more refined type of oil,
+gas, electricity, the latest tungsten lights,
+radium&mdash;and we may be still only at the beginnings.
+Our finest electric lights of today may
+seem&mdash;will seem&mdash;crude and the quality of
+their light even more crude, twenty years
+hence, even less. Many other examples of our
+gradual passing from the coarser to the finer
+in connection with the laws and forces of nature
+occur readily to the minds of us all.</p>
+
+<p>The present great interest on the part of
+thinking men and women everywhere, in addition
+to the more particular studies, experiments,
+and observations of men such as Sir
+Oliver Lodge, Sir William Ramsay, and others,
+in the powers and forces pertaining to the
+inner life is an indication that we have reached
+a time when we are making great strides
+along these lines. Some of our greatest scientists
+are thinking that we are on the eve of
+some almost startling glimpses into these finer
+realms. My own belief is that we are likewise
+on the eve of apprehending the more
+precise <i>nature</i> of thought as a force, the
+methods of its workings, and the law underlying
+its more intimate and everyday uses.</p>
+
+<p>Of one thing we can rest assured; nothing<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span>
+in the universe, nothing in connection with
+human life is outside of the Realm of Law.
+The elemental law of Cause and Effect is absolute
+in its workings. One of the great laws
+pertaining to human life is: As is the inner,
+so always and inevitably is the outer&mdash;Cause,
+Effect. Our thoughts and emotions are the
+silent, subtle forces that are constantly externalising
+themselves in kindred forms in our
+outward material world. Like creates like,
+and like attracts like. As is our prevailing
+type of thought, so is our prevailing type and
+our condition of life.</p>
+
+<p>The type of thought we entertain has its effect
+upon our energies and to a great extent
+upon our bodily conditions and states. Strong,
+clear-cut, positive, hopeful thought has a
+stimulating and life-giving effect upon one's
+outlook, energies, and activities; and upon all
+bodily functions and powers. A falling state
+of the mind induces a chronically gloomy outlook
+and produces inevitably a falling condition
+of the body. The mind grows, moreover,
+into the likeness of the thoughts one most
+habitually entertains and lives with. Every
+thought reproduces of its kind.</p>
+
+<p>Says an authoritative writer in dealing more
+particularly with the effects of certain types of
+thoughts and emotions upon bodily conditions:
+"Out of our own experience we know that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span>
+anger, fear, worry, hate, revenge, avarice, grief,
+in fact all negative and low emotions, produce
+weakness and disturbance not only in the mind
+but in the body as well. It has been proved
+that they actually generate poisons in the body,
+they depress the circulation; they change the
+quality of the blood, making it less vital; they
+affect the great nerve centres and thus partially
+paralyse the very seat of the bodily activities.
+On the other hand, faith, hope, love,
+forgiveness, joy, and peace, all such emotions
+are positive and uplifting, and so act on the
+body as to restore and maintain harmony and
+actually to stimulate the circulation and nutrition."</p>
+
+<p>The one who does not allow himself to be influenced
+or controlled by fears or forebodings
+is the one who ordinarily does not yield to
+discouragements. He it is who is using the
+positive, success-bringing types of thought that
+are continually working for him for the accomplishment
+of his ends. The things that he sees
+in the ideal, his strong, positive, and therefore
+creative type of thought, is continually helping
+to actualise in the realm of the real.</p>
+
+<p>We sometimes speak lightly of ideas, but this
+world would be indeed a sorry place in which
+to live were it not for ideas&mdash;and were it not
+for ideals. Every piece of mechanism that has
+ever been built, if we trace back far enough,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span>
+was first merely an idea in some man's or
+woman's mind. Every structure or edifice that
+has ever been reared had form first in this
+same immaterial realm. So every great undertaking
+of whatever nature had its inception, its
+origin, in the realm of the immaterial&mdash;at least
+as we at present call it&mdash;before it was embodied
+and stood forth in material form.</p>
+
+<p>It is well, then, that we have our ideas and
+our ideals. It is well, even, to build castles in
+the air, if we follow these up and give them
+material clothing or structure, so that they
+become castles on the ground. Occasionally it
+is true that these may shrink or, rather, may
+change their form and become cabins; but
+many times we find that an expanded vision
+and an expanded experience lead us to a knowledge
+of the fact that, so far as happiness and
+satisfaction are concerned, the contents of a
+cabin may outweigh many times those of the
+castle.</p>
+
+<p>Successful men and women are almost invariably
+those possessing to a supreme degree
+the element of faith. Faith, absolute, unconquerable
+faith, is one of the essential concomitants,
+therefore one of the great secrets of
+success. We must realise, and especially valuable
+is it for young men and women to realise,
+that one carries his success or his failure with
+him, that it does not depend upon outside<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span>
+conditions. There are some that no circumstances
+or combinations of circumstances can
+thwart or keep down. Let circumstance seem
+to thwart or circumvent them in one direction,
+and almost instantly they are going forward
+along another direction. Circumstance is kept
+busy keeping up with them. When she meets
+such, after a few trials, she apparently decides
+to give up and turn her attention to those
+of the less positive, the less forceful, therefore
+the less determined, types of mind and of life.
+Circumstance has received some hard knocks
+from men and women of this type. She has
+grown naturally timid and will always back
+down whenever she recognises a mind, and
+therefore a life, of sufficient force.</p>
+
+<p>To make the best of whatever present conditions
+are, to form and clearly to see one's
+ideal, though it may seem far distant and almost
+impossible, to believe in it, and to believe
+in one's ability to actualise it&mdash;this is the first
+essential. Not, then, to sit and idly fold the
+hands, expecting it to actualise itself, but to
+take hold of the first thing that offers itself
+to do,&mdash;that lies sufficiently along the way,&mdash;to
+do this faithfully, believing, knowing, that it
+is but the step that will lead to the next best
+thing, and this to the next; this is the second
+and the completing stage of all accomplishment.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>We speak of fate many times as if it were
+something foreign to or outside of ourselves,
+forgetting that fate awaits always our own
+conditions. A man decides his own fate
+through the types of thoughts he entertains
+and gives a dominating influence in his life.
+He sits at the helm of his thought world and,
+guiding, decides his own fate, or, through negative,
+vacillating, and therefore weakening
+thought, he drifts, and fate decides him. Fate
+is not something that takes form and dominates
+us irrespective of any say on our own
+part. Through a knowledge and an intelligent
+and determined use of the silent but ever-working
+power of thought we either condition
+circumstances, or, lacking this knowledge or
+failing to apply it, we accept the rôle of a
+conditioned circumstance. It is a help sometimes
+to realise and to voice with Henley:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Out of the night that covers me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Black as the pit from pole to pole,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I thank whatever gods may be<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">For my unconquerable soul.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The thoughts that we entertain not only determine
+the conditions of our own immediate
+lives, but they influence, perhaps in a much
+more subtle manner than most of us realise,
+our relations with and our influence upon those<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span>
+with whom we associate or even come into
+contact. All are influenced, even though unconsciously,
+by them.</p>
+
+<p>Thoughts of good will, sympathy, magnanimity,
+good cheer&mdash;in brief, all thoughts
+emanating from a <i>spirit of love</i>&mdash;are felt in
+their positive, warming, and stimulating influences
+by others; they inspire in turn the same
+types of thoughts and feelings in them, and
+they come back to us laden with their ennobling,
+stimulating, pleasure-bringing influences.</p>
+
+<p>Thoughts of envy, or malice, or hatred, or ill
+will are likewise felt by others. They are influenced
+adversely by them. They inspire
+either the same types of thoughts and emotions
+in them; or they produce in them a certain
+type of antagonistic feeling that has the tendency
+to neutralise and, if continued for a
+sufficient length of time, deaden sympathy and
+thereby all friendly relations.</p>
+
+<p>We have heard much of "personal magnetism."
+Careful analysis will, I think, reveal
+the fact that the one who has to any marked
+degree the element of personal magnetism is
+one of the large-hearted, magnanimous, cheer-bringing,
+unself-centred types, whose positive
+thought forces are being continually felt by
+others, and are continually inspiring and calling
+forth from others these same splendid attributes.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span>
+I have yet to find any one, man or
+woman, of the opposite habits and, therefore,
+trend of mind and heart who has had or who
+has even to the slightest perceptible degree the
+quality that we ordinarily think of when we
+use the term "personal magnetism."</p>
+
+<p>If one would have friends he or she must be
+a friend, must radiate habitually friendly, helpful
+thoughts, good will, love. The one who
+doesn't cultivate the hopeful, cheerful, uncomplaining,
+good-will attitude toward life and
+toward others becomes a drag, making life
+harder for others as well as for one's self.</p>
+
+<p>Ordinarily we find in people the qualities we
+are mostly looking for, or the qualities that
+our own prevailing characteristics call forth.
+The larger the nature, the less critical and
+cynical it is, the more it is given to looking for
+the best and the highest in others, and the less,
+therefore, is it given to gossip.</p>
+
+<p>It was Jeremy Bentham who said: "In order
+to love mankind, we must not expect too much
+of them." And Goethe had a still deeper
+vision when he said: "Who is the happiest
+of men? He who values the merits of others,
+and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though
+it were his own."</p>
+
+<p>The chief characteristic of the gossip is that
+he or she prefers to live in the low-lying
+miasmic strata of life, revelling in the negatives<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span>
+of life and taking joy in finding and peddling
+about the findings that he or she naturally
+makes there. The larger natures see the
+good and sympathise with the weaknesses and
+the frailties of others. They realise also that it
+is so consummately inconsistent&mdash;many times
+even humorously inconsistent&mdash;for one also
+with weaknesses, frailties, and faults, though
+perhaps of a little different character, to sit
+in judgment of another. Gossip concerning
+the errors or shortcomings of another is judging
+another. The one who is himself perfect is
+the one who has the right to judge another.
+By a strange law, however, though by a natural
+law, we find, as we understand life in its fundamentals
+better, such a person is seldom if ever
+given to judging, much less to gossip.</p>
+
+<p>Life becomes rich and expansive through
+sympathy, good will, and good cheer; not
+through cynicism or criticism. That splendid
+little poem of but a single stanza by Edwin
+Markham, "Outwitted," points after all to one
+of life's fundamentals:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He drew a circle that shut me out&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But Love and I had the wit to win:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We drew a circle that took him in!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="VI" id="VI"></a><big>VI</big><br /><br />
+
+JESUS THE SUPREME EXPONENT OF THE
+INNER FORCES AND POWERS: HIS
+PEOPLE'S RELIGION AND THEIR
+CONDITION</h2>
+
+
+<p>In order to have any true or adequate understanding
+of what the real revelation and teachings
+of Jesus were, two things must be borne
+in mind. It is necessary in the first place,
+not only to have a knowledge of, but always
+to bear in mind the method, the medium
+through which the account of his life has come
+down to us. Again, before the real content
+and significance of Jesus' revelation and teachings
+can be intelligently understood, it is necessary
+that we have a knowledge of the conditions
+of the time in which he lived and of
+the people to whom he spoke, to whom his
+revelation was made.</p>
+
+<p>To any one who has even a rudimentary
+knowledge of the former, it becomes apparent
+at once that no single saying or statement of
+Jesus can be taken to indicate either his revelation
+or his purpose. These must be made
+to depend upon not any single statement or<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span>
+saying of his own, much less anything reported
+about him by another; but it must be
+made to depend rather upon the whole tenor
+of his teachings.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus put nothing in writing. There was
+no one immediately at hand to make a record
+of any of his teachings or any of his acts.
+It is now well known that no one of the gospels
+was written by an immediate hearer, by
+an eye-witness.</p>
+
+<p>The Gospel of Mark, the oldest gospel, or
+in other words the one written nearest to
+Jesus' time, was written some forty years
+after he had finished his work. Matthew and
+Luke, taken to a great extent from the Gospel
+of Mark, supplemented by one or two additional
+sources, were written many years after.
+The Gospel of John was not written until after
+the beginning of the second century after
+Christ. These four sets of chronicles, called
+the Gospels, written independently one of
+another, were then collected many years after
+their authors were dead, and still a great deal
+later were brought together into a single book.</p>
+
+<p>The following concise statement by Professor
+Henry Drummond throws much light
+upon the way the New Testament portions of
+our Bible took form: "The Bible is not a
+book; it is a library. It consists of sixty-six
+books. It is a great convenience, but in some<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span>
+respects a great misfortune, that these books
+have always been bound up together and given
+out as one book to the world, when they are
+not; because that has led to endless mistakes
+in theology and practical life. These books,
+which make up this library, written at intervals
+of hundreds of years, were collected after
+the last of the writers was dead&mdash;long after&mdash;by
+human hands. Where were the books?
+Take the New Testament. There were four
+lives of Christ. One was in Rome; one was
+in Southern Italy; one was in Palestine; one
+in Asia Minor. There were twenty-one letters.
+Five were in Greece and Macedonia; five in
+Asia; one in Rome. The rest were in the
+pockets of private individuals. Theophilus
+had Acts. They were collected undesignedly.
+In the third century the New Testament consisted
+of the following books: The four Gospels,
+Acts, thirteen letters of Paul, I John, I
+Peter; and, in addition, the Epistles of Barnabas
+and Hermas. This was not called the
+New Testament, but the Christian Library.
+Then these last books were discarded. They
+ceased to be regarded as upon the same level
+as the others. In the fourth century the canon
+was closed&mdash;that is to say, a list was made up
+of the books which were to be regarded as
+canonical. And then long after that they
+were stitched together and made up into one<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span>
+book&mdash;hundreds of years after that. Who made
+up the complete list? It was never formally
+made up. The bishops of the different
+churches would draw up a list each of the books
+that they thought ought to be put into this
+Testament. The churches also would give
+their opinions. Sometimes councils would
+meet and talk it over&mdash;discuss it. Scholars
+like Jerome would investigate the authenticity
+of the different documents, and there came to
+be a general consensus of the churches on the
+matter."</p>
+
+<p>Jesus spoke in his own native language, the
+Aramaic. His sayings were then rendered
+into Greek, and, as is well known by all well-versed
+Biblical scholars, it was not an especially
+high order of Greek. The New Testament
+scriptures including the four gospels,
+were then many hundreds of years afterwards
+translated from the Greek into our modern
+languages&mdash;English, German, French, Swedish,
+or whatever the language of the particular
+translation may be. Those who know
+anything of the matter of translation know
+how difficult it is to render the exact meanings
+of any statements or writing into another language.
+The rendering of a <i>single word</i> may
+sometimes mean, or rather may make a great
+difference in the thought of the one giving
+the utterance. How much greater is this liability<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span>
+when the thing thus rendered is twice
+removed from its original source and form!</p>
+
+<p>The original manuscripts had no punctuation
+and no verse divisions; these were all
+arbitrarily supplied by the translators later on.
+It is also a well-established fact on the part
+of leading Biblical scholars that through the
+centuries there have been various interpolations
+in the New Testament scriptures, both
+by way of omissions and additions.</p>
+
+<p>Reference is made to these various facts in
+connection with the sayings and the teachings
+of Jesus and the methods and the media
+through which they have come down to us,
+to show how impossible it would be to base
+Jesus' revelation or purpose upon any single
+utterance made or purported to be made by
+him&mdash;to indicate, in other words, that to get
+at his real message, his real teachings, and his
+real purpose, we must find the binding thread
+if possible, the reiterated statement, the repeated
+purpose that makes them throb with
+the living element.</p>
+
+<p>Again, no intelligent understanding of Jesus'
+revelation or ministry can be had without a
+knowledge of the conditions of the time, and
+of the people to whom his revelation was
+made, among whom he lived and worked; for
+his ministry had in connection with it both a
+time element and an eternal element. There<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span>
+are two things that must be noted, the moral
+and religious condition of the people; and,
+again, their economic and political status.</p>
+
+<p>The Jewish people had been preeminently
+a religious people. But a great change had
+taken place. Religion was at its lowest ebb.
+Its spirit was well-nigh dead, and in its place
+there had gradually come into being a Pharisaic
+legalism&mdash;a religion of form, ceremony.
+An extensive system of ecclesiastical tradition,
+ecclesiastical law and observances, which had
+gradually robbed the people of all their former
+spirit of religion, had been gradually built up
+by those in ecclesiastical authority.</p>
+
+<p>The voice of that illustrious line of Hebrew
+prophets had ceased to speak. It was close to
+two hundred years since the voice of a living
+prophet had been heard. Tradition had taken
+its place. It took the form: Moses hath said;
+It has been said of old; The prophet hath said.
+The scribe was the keeper of the ecclesiastical
+law. The lawyer was its interpreter.</p>
+
+<p>The Pharisees had gradually elevated themselves
+into an ecclesiastical hierarchy who were
+the custodians of the law and religion. They
+had come to regard themselves as especially
+favoured, a privileged class&mdash;not only the custodians
+but the dispensers of all religious
+knowledge&mdash;and therefore of religion. The
+people, in their estimation, were of a lower intellectual<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span>
+and religious order, possessing no
+capabilities in connection with religion or
+morals, dependent therefore upon their superiors
+in these matters.</p>
+
+<p>This state of affairs that had gradually come
+about was productive of two noticeable results:
+a religious starvation and stagnation on the
+part of the great mass of the people on the
+one hand, and the creation of a haughty, self-righteous
+and domineering ecclesiastical
+hierarchy on the other. In order for a clear
+understanding of some of Jesus' sayings and
+teachings, some of which constitute a very
+vital part of his ministry, it is necessary to
+understand clearly what this condition was.</p>
+
+<p>Another important fact that sheds much
+light upon the nature of the ministry of Jesus
+is to be found, as has already been intimated,
+in the political and the economic condition of
+the people of the time. The Jewish nation
+had been subjugated and were under the domination
+of Rome. Rome in connection with
+Israel, as in connection with all conquered
+peoples, was a hard master. Taxes and tribute,
+tribute and taxes, could almost be said to
+be descriptive of her administration of affairs.</p>
+
+<p>She was already in her degenerate stage.
+Never perhaps in the history of the world
+had men been so ruled by selfishness, greed,
+military power and domination, and the pomp<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span>
+and display of material wealth. Luxury, indulgence,
+over-indulgence, vice. The inevitable
+concomitant followed&mdash;a continually increasing
+moral and physical degeneration.
+An increasing luxury and indulgence called
+for an increasing means to satisfy them. Messengers
+were sent and additional tribute was
+levied. Pontius Pilate was the Roman administrative
+head or governor in Judea at the
+time. Tiberius Cæsar was the Roman Emperor.</p>
+
+<p>Rome at this time consisted of a few thousand
+nobles and people of station&mdash;freemen&mdash;and
+hundreds of thousands of slaves. Even
+her campaigns in time became virtual raids
+for plunder. She conquered&mdash;and she plundered
+those whom she conquered. Great numbers
+from among the conquered peoples were
+regularly taken to Rome and sold into slavery.
+Judea had not escaped this. Thousands of
+her best people had been transported to Rome
+and sold into slavery. It was never known
+where the blow would fall next; what homes
+would be desolated and both sons and daughters
+sent away into slavery. No section, no
+family could feel any sense of security. A
+feeling of fear, a sense of desolation pervaded
+everywhere.</p>
+
+<p>There was a tradition, which had grown
+into a well-defined belief, that a Deliverer<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span>
+would be sent them, that they would be delivered
+out of the hands of their enemies and
+that their oppressors would in turn be brought
+to grief. There was also in the section round
+about Judæa a belief, which had grown until
+it had become well-nigh universal, that the
+end of the world, or the end of the age, was
+speedily coming, that then there would be an
+end of all earthly government and that the
+reign of Jehovah&mdash;the kingdom of God&mdash;would
+be established. These two beliefs went hand
+in hand. They were kept continually before
+the people, and now and then received a fresh
+impetus by the appearance of a new prophet
+or a new teacher, whom the people went
+gladly out to hear. Of this kind was John,
+the son of a priest, later called John the
+Baptist.</p>
+
+<p>After his period of preparation, he came out
+of the wilderness of Judæa, and in the region
+about the Jordan with great power and persuasiveness,
+according to the accounts, he
+gave utterance to the message: Repent ye,
+for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Forsake
+all earthly things; they will be of avail
+but a very short time now, turn ye from them
+and prepare yourselves for the coming of the
+Kingdom of God. The old things will speedily
+pass away; all things will become new. Many
+went out to hear him and were powerfully<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span>
+appealed to by the earnest, rugged utterances
+of this new preacher of righteousness and repentance.</p>
+
+<p>His name and his message spread through
+all the land of Judea and the country around
+the Jordan. Many were baptised by him
+there, he making use of this symbolic service
+which had been long in use by certain branches
+of the Jewish people, especially the order of
+the Essenes.</p>
+
+<p>Among those who went out to hear John
+and who accepted baptism at his hands was
+Jesus, the son of Joseph and Mary, whose
+home was at Nazareth. It marks also the beginning
+of his own public ministry, for which
+he evidently had been in preparation for a
+considerable time.</p>
+
+<p>It seems strange that we know so little of
+the early life of one destined to exert such a
+powerful influence upon the thought and the
+life of the world. In the gospel of Mark,
+probably the most reliable, because the nearest
+to his time, there is no mention whatever
+of his early life. The first account is where
+he appears at John's meetings. Almost immediately
+thereafter begins his own public
+ministry.</p>
+
+<p>In the gospel of Luke we have a very
+meagre account of him. It is at the age of
+twelve. The brief account gives us a glimpse<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span>
+into the lives of his father and his mother,
+Joseph and Mary; showing that at that time
+they were not looked upon as in any way
+different from all of the inhabitants of their
+little community, Nazareth, the little town in
+Galilee&mdash;having a family of several sons and
+daughters, and that Jesus, the eldest of the
+family, grew in stature and in knowledge, as
+all the neighbouring children grew; but that
+he, even at an early age, showed that he had
+a wonderful aptitude for the things of the
+spirit. I reproduce Luke's brief account here:</p>
+
+<p>"Now, his parents went to Jerusalem every
+year at the feast of the passover. And when
+he was twelve years old, they went up to
+Jerusalem, after the custom of the feast. And
+when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned,
+the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem:
+and Joseph and his mother knew not
+of it. But they, supposing him to have been
+in the company, went a day's journey; and
+they sought him among their kinsfolk and
+acquaintances. And when they found him
+not, they turned back again to Jerusalem,
+seeking him. And it came to pass that after
+three days they found him in the temple, sitting
+in the midst of the doctors, both hearing
+them and asking them questions. And all
+that heard him were astonished at his understanding
+and answers.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"And when they saw him they were
+amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son,
+why hast thou thus dealt with us? Behold,
+thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
+And he said unto them, How is it that ye
+sought me? Wist ye not that I must be about
+my father's business? And they understood
+not the saying which he spake unto them.
+And he went down with them, and came to
+Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his
+mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
+And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature,
+and in favour with God and man."</p>
+
+<p>Nothing could be more interesting than to
+know the early life of Jesus. There are
+various theories as to how this was spent, that
+is, as to what his preparation was&mdash;the facts
+of his life, in addition to his working with his
+father at his trade, that of a carpenter; but we
+know nothing that has the stamp of historical
+accuracy upon it. Of his entire life, indeed,
+including the period of his active ministry,
+from thirty to nearly thirty-three, it is but fair
+to presume that we have at best but a fragmentary
+account in the Gospel narratives. It
+is probable that many things connected with
+his ministry, and many of his sayings and
+teachings, we have no record of at all.</p>
+
+<p>It is probable that in connection with his
+preparation he spent a great deal of time<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span>
+alone, in the quiet, in communion with his
+Divine Source, or as the term came so naturally
+to him, with God, his Father&mdash;God, our
+Father, for that was his teaching&mdash;my God
+and your God. The many times that we are
+told in the narratives that he went to the
+mountain alone, would seem to justify us in
+this conclusion. Anyway, it would be absolutely
+impossible for anyone to have such a
+vivid realisation of his essential oneness with
+the Divine, without much time spent in such a
+manner that the real life could evolve into its
+Divine likeness, and then mould the outer life
+according to this ideal or pattern.</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="VII" id="VII"></a><big>VII</big><br /><br />
+
+THE DIVINE RULE IN THE MIND AND
+HEART: THE UNESSENTIALS WE DROP&mdash;THE
+SPIRIT ABIDES</h2>
+
+
+<p>That Jesus had a supreme aptitude for the
+things of the spirit, there can be no question.
+That through desire and through will he followed
+the leadings of the spirit&mdash;that he
+gave himself completely to its leadings&mdash;is
+evident both from his utterances and his
+life. It was this combination undoubtedly
+that led him into that vivid sense of his life
+in God, which became so complete that he
+afterwards speaks&mdash;I and my Father are one.
+That he was always, however, far from identifying
+himself as equal with God is indicated
+by his constant declaration of his dependence
+upon God. Again and again we have these
+declarations: "My meat and drink is to do
+the will of God." "My doctrine is not mine,
+but his that sent me." "I can of myself do
+nothing: as I hear I judge; and my judgment
+is righteous; because I seek not mine own
+will, but the will of him that sent me."</p>
+
+<p>And even the very last acts and words of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span>
+his life proclaim this constant sense of dependence
+for guidance, for strength, and even
+for succour. With all his Divine self-realisation
+there was always, moreover, that sense
+of humility that is always a predominating
+characteristic of the really great. "Why callest
+thou me good? There is none good but
+one&mdash;that is God."</p>
+
+<p>It is not at all strange, therefore, that the
+very first utterance of his public ministry,
+according to the chronicler Mark was: The
+Kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and
+believe the gospel. And while this was the
+beginning utterance, it was the keynote that
+ran through his entire ministry. It is the
+basic fact of all his teachings. The realisation
+of his own life he sought to make the realisation
+of all others. It was, it is, a call to righteousness,
+and a call to righteousness through
+the only channel that any such call can be
+effective&mdash;through a realisation of the essential
+righteousness and goodness of the human
+soul.</p>
+
+<p>An unbiased study of Jesus' own words will
+reveal the fact that he taught only what he
+himself had first realised. It is this, moreover,
+that makes him the supreme teacher of all
+time&mdash;Counsellor, Friend, Saviour. It is the
+saving of men from their lower conceptions
+and selves, a lifting of them up to their higher<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span>
+selves, which, as he taught, is eternally one
+with God, the Father, and which, when realised,
+will inevitably, reflexly, one might say,
+lift a man's thoughts, acts, conduct&mdash;the entire
+life&mdash;up to that standard or pattern. It
+is thus that the Divine ideal, that the Christ
+becomes enthroned within. The Christ-consciousness
+is the universal Divine nature in
+us. It is the state of God-consciousness. It
+is the recognition of the indwelling Divine life
+as the source, and therefore the essence of our
+own lives.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus came as the revealer of a new truth,
+a new conception of man. Indeed, the Messiah.
+He came as the revealer of the only
+truth that could lead his people out of their
+trials and troubles&mdash;out of their bondage.
+They were looking for their Deliverer to come
+in the person of a worldly king and to set up
+his rule as such. He came in the person of a
+humble teacher, the revealer of a mighty truth,
+the revealer of the Way, the only way
+whereby real freedom and deliverance can
+come. For those who would receive him, he
+was indeed the Messiah. For those who
+would not, he was not, and the same holds
+today.</p>
+
+<p>He came as the revealer of a truth which
+had been glimpsed by many inspired teachers
+among the Jewish race and among those of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span>
+other races. The time waited, however, for
+one to come who would first embody this
+truth and then be able effectively to teach it.
+This was done in a supreme degree by the
+Judæan Teacher. He came not as the doer-away
+with the Law and the Prophets, but
+rather to regain and then to supplement them.
+Such was his own statement.</p>
+
+<p>It is time to ascend another round. I reveal
+God to you, not in the Tabernacle, but in the
+human heart&mdash;then in the Tabernacle in the
+degree that He is in the hearts of those who
+frequent the Tabernacle. Otherwise the Tabernacle
+becomes a whited sepulchre. The
+Church is not a building, an organisation, not
+a creed. The Church is the Spirit of Truth.
+It must have one supreme object and purpose&mdash;to
+lead men to the truth. I reveal what I
+have found&mdash;I in the Father and the Father
+in me. I seek not to do mine own will, but
+the will of the Father who sent me.</p>
+
+<p>Everything was subordinated to this Divine
+realisation and to his Divine purpose.</p>
+
+<p>The great purpose at which he laboured so
+incessantly was the teaching of the realisation
+of the Divine will in the hearts and minds,
+and through these in the lives of men&mdash;the
+finding and the realisation of the Kingdom of
+God. This is the supreme fact of life. Get
+right at the centre and the circumference will<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span>
+then care for itself. As is the inner, so always
+and invariably will be the outer. There is an
+inner guide that regulates the life when this
+inner guide is allowed to assume authority.
+Why be disconcerted, why in a heat concerning
+so many things? It is not the natural and
+the normal life. Life at its best is something
+infinitely beyond this. "Seek ye first the
+Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and
+all these things shall be added unto you."
+And if there is any doubt in regard to his real
+meaning in this here is his answer: "Neither
+shall they say, 'Lo here' or 'Lo there' for
+behold the Kingdom of God is within you."</p>
+
+<p>Again and again this is his call. Again and
+again this is his revelation. In the first three
+gospels alone he uses the expression "the
+Kingdom of God," or "the Kingdom of
+Heaven," upwards of thirty times. Any possible
+reference to any organisation that he
+might have had in mind, can be found in the
+entire four gospels but twice.</p>
+
+<p>It would almost seem that it would not be
+difficult to judge as to what was uppermost in
+his mind. I have made this revelation to you;
+you must raise yourselves, you must become
+<i>in reality</i> what <i>in essence</i> you really are. I in
+the Father, and the Father in me. I reveal
+only what I myself know. As I am, ye shall
+be. God is your Father. In your real nature<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span>
+you are Divine. Drop your ideas of the depravity
+of the human soul. To believe it depraves.
+To teach it depraves the one who
+teaches it, and the one who accepts it. Follow
+not the traditions of men. I reveal to you
+your Divine birthright. Accept it. It is best.
+Behold all things are become new. The Kingdom
+of God is the one all-inclusive thing.
+Find it and all else will follow.</p>
+
+<p>"Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of
+God? Or with what comparison shall we
+compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed,
+which, when it is sown in the earth, is less
+than all the seeds that be in the earth; but
+when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh
+greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great
+branches; so that the fowls of the air may
+lodge under the shadow of it." "Whereunto
+shall I liken the kingdom of God? Is it like
+leaven, which a woman took and hid in three
+measures of meal, till the whole was leavened?"
+Seek ye first the Kingdom, and the
+Holy Spirit, the channel of communion between
+God your source, and yourselves, will
+lead you, and will lead you into all truth. It
+will become as a lamp to your feet, a guide
+that is always reliable.</p>
+
+<p>To refuse allegiance to the Holy Spirit, the
+Spirit of Truth, is the real sin, the only sin
+that cannot be forgiven. Violation of all<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span>
+moral and natural law may be forgiven. It
+will bring its penalty, for the violation of law
+carries in itself its own penalty, its own punishment&mdash;<i>it
+is a part of law</i>; but cease the
+violation and the penalty ceases. The violation
+registers its ill effects in the illness,
+the sickness, of body and spirit. If the
+violation has been long continued, these
+effects may remain for some time; but the
+instant the violation ceases the repair will begin,
+and things will go the other way.</p>
+
+<p>Learn from this experience, however, that
+there can be no deliberate violation of, or
+blaspheming against any moral or natural law.
+But deliberately to refuse obedience to the
+inner guide, the Holy Spirit, constitutes a defiance
+that eventually puts out the lamp of
+life, and that can result only in confusion and
+darkness. It severs the ordained relationship,
+the connecting, the binding cord, between the
+soul&mdash;the self&mdash;and its Source. Stagnation,
+degeneracy, and eventual death is merely the
+natural sequence.</p>
+
+<p>With this Divine self-realisation the Spirit
+assumes control and mastery, and you are
+saved from the follies of error, and from the
+consequences of error. Repent ye&mdash;turn from
+your trespasses and sins, from your lower
+conceptions of life, of pleasure and of pain,
+and walk in this way. The lower propensities<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span>
+and desires will lose their hold and will in time
+fall away. You will be at first surprised, and
+then dumfounded, at what you formerly took
+for pleasure. True pleasure and satisfaction
+go hand in hand,&mdash;nor are there any bad after
+results.</p>
+
+<p>All genuine pleasures should lead to more
+perfect health, a greater accretion of power, a
+continually expanding sense of life and service.
+When God is uppermost in the heart, when
+the Divine rule under the direction of the
+Holy Spirit becomes the ruling power in the
+life of the individual, then the body and its
+senses are subordinated to this rule; the passions
+become functions to be used; license and
+perverted use give way to moderation and
+wise use; and there are then no penalties that
+outraged law exacts; satiety gives place to
+satisfaction. It was Edward Carpenter who
+said: "In order to enjoy life one must be a
+master of life&mdash;for to be a slave to its inconsistencies
+can only mean torment; and in order
+to enjoy the senses one must be master of
+them. To dominate the actual world you
+must, like Archimedes, base your fulcrum
+somewhere beyond."</p>
+
+<p>It is not the use, but the abuse of anything
+good in itself that brings satiety, disease, suffering,
+dissatisfaction. Nor is asceticism a
+true road of life. All things are for use; but<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span>
+all must be wisely, in most cases, moderately
+used, for true enjoyment. All functions and
+powers are for use; but all must be brought
+under the domination of the Spirit&mdash;the God-illumined
+spirit. This is the road that leads
+to heaven here and heaven hereafter&mdash;and we
+can rest assured that we will never find a
+heaven hereafter that we do not make while
+here. Through everything runs this teaching
+of the Master.</p>
+
+<p>How wonderfully and how masterfully and
+simply he sets forth his whole teaching of sin
+and the sinner and his relation to the Father in
+that marvellous parable, the Parable of the
+Prodigal Son. To bring it clearly to mind
+again it runs:</p>
+
+<p>"A certain man had two sons: and the
+younger of them said to his father, Father,
+give me the portion of goods that falleth <i>to
+me</i>. And he divided unto them his living.
+And not many days after the younger son
+gathered all together, and took his journey to
+a far country, and there wasted his substance
+with riotous living. And when he had spent
+all, there arose a mighty famine in that land;
+and he began to be in want. And he went and
+joined himself to a citizen of that country; and
+he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And
+he would fain have filled his belly with the
+husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span>
+unto him. And when he came to himself, he
+said, How many hired servants of my father's
+have bread enough and to spare, and I perish
+with hunger! I will arise and go to my father,
+and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned
+against heaven, and before thee, and am no
+more worthy to be called thy son: make me
+as one of thy hired servants. And he arose
+and came to his father.</p>
+
+<p>"But when he was yet a great way off, his
+father saw him, and had compassion, and ran,
+and fell upon his neck, and kissed him. And
+the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned
+against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no
+more worthy to be called thy son. But the
+father said to his servants, Bring forth the best
+robe and put it on him; and put a ring on his
+hand, and shoes on his feet: and bring hither
+the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and
+be merry; for this my son was dead, and is
+alive again; he was lost, and is found. And
+they began to be merry. Now his elder son
+was in the field: and as he came and drew
+nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.
+And he called one of the servants, and asked
+what these things meant. And he said unto
+him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath
+killed the fatted calf, because he hath received
+him safe and sound. And he was angry and
+would not go in: therefore came his father<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span>
+out, and entreated him, and he answering said
+to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve
+thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy
+commandment; and yet thou never gavest me
+a kid, that I might make merry with my
+friends: but as soon as this thy son was come,
+which hath devoured thy living with harlots,
+thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. And
+he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me,
+and all that I have is thine. It was meet that
+we should make merry, and be glad: for this
+thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and
+was lost, and is found."</p>
+
+<p>It does away forever in all thinking minds
+with any participation of Jesus in that perverted
+and perverting doctrine that man is by
+nature essentially depraved, degraded, fallen,
+in the sense as was given to the world long,
+long after his time in the doctrine of the Fall
+of Man, and the need of redemption through
+some external source outside of himself, in
+distinction from the truth that he revealed
+that was to make men free&mdash;the truth of their
+Divine nature, and this love of man by the
+Heavenly Father, and the love of the Heavenly
+Father by His children.</p>
+
+<p>To connect Jesus with any such thought or
+teaching would be to take the heart out of
+his supreme revelation. For his whole conception
+of God the Father, given in all his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span>
+utterances, was that of a Heavenly Father of
+love, of care, longing to exercise His protecting
+care and to give good gifts to His children&mdash;and
+this because it is the <i>essential nature</i>
+of God to be fatherly. His Fatherhood is not,
+therefore, accidental, not dependent upon any
+conditions or circumstances; it is essential.</p>
+
+<p>If it is the nature of a father to give good
+gifts to his children, so in a still greater degree
+is it the nature of the Heavenly Father
+to give good gifts to those who ask Him. As
+His words are recorded by Matthew: "Or
+what man is there of you, whom if his son ask
+bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he
+ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye
+then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
+unto your children, how much more shall your
+Father which is in heaven give good things to
+them that ask him?" So in the parable as
+presented by Jesus, the father's love was such
+that as soon as it was made known to him
+that his son who had been lost to him had
+returned, he went out to meet him; he granted
+him full pardon&mdash;and there were no conditions.</p>
+
+<p>Speaking of the fundamental teaching of
+the Master, and also in connection with this
+same parable, another has said: "It thus appears
+from this story, as elsewhere in the
+teaching of Jesus, that he did not call God our<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span>
+father because He created us, or because He
+rules over us, or because He made a covenant
+with Abraham, but simply and only because He
+loves us. This parable individualises the divine
+love, as did also the missionary activity of
+Jesus. The gospels know nothing of a national
+fatherhood, of a God whose love is confined
+to a particular people. It is the individual
+man who has a heavenly Father, and
+this individualised fatherhood is the only one
+of which Jesus speaks. As he had realised his
+own moral and spiritual life in the consciousness
+that God was his father, so he sought
+to give life to the world by a living revelation
+of the truth that God loves each separate soul.
+This is a prime factor in the religion and ethics
+of Jesus. It is seldom or vaguely apprehended
+in the Old Testament teaching; but in the
+teaching of Jesus it is central and normative."
+Again in the two allied parables of Jesus&mdash;the
+Parable of the Lost Sheep, and the Parable of
+the Lost Coin&mdash;it is his purpose to teach the
+great love of the Father for all, including those
+lost in their trespasses and sins, and His rejoicing
+in their return.</p>
+
+<p>This leads to Jesus' conception and teaching
+of sin and repentance. Although God is the
+Father, He demands filial obedience in the
+hearts and the minds of His children. Men
+by following the devices and desires of their<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span>
+own hearts, are not true to their real nature,
+their Divine pattern. By following their selfish
+desires they have brought sin, and thereby
+suffering, on themselves and others. The unclean,
+the selfish desires of mind and heart,
+keep them from their higher moral and spiritual
+ideal&mdash;although not necessarily giving
+themselves to gross sin. Therefore, they must
+become sons of God by repenting&mdash;by turning
+from the evil inclinations of their hearts and
+seeking to follow the higher inclinations of
+the heart as becomes children of God and those
+who are dwellers in the Heavenly Kingdom.
+Therefore, his opening utterance: "The time
+is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand;
+repent ye, and believe the gospel."</p>
+
+<p>Love of God with the whole heart, and love
+of the neighbour, leading to the higher peace
+and fulfilment, must take the place of these
+more selfish desires that lead to antagonisms
+and dissatisfactions both within and without.
+All men are to pray: Forgive us our sins. All
+men are to repent of their sins which are the
+results of following their own selfish desires,&mdash;those
+of the body, or their own selfish desires
+to the detriment of the welfare of the
+neighbour.</p>
+
+<p>All men are to seek the Divine rule, the rule
+of God in the heart, and thereby have the
+guidance of the Holy Spirit, which is the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span>
+Divine spirit of wisdom that tabernacles with
+man when through desire and through will he
+makes the conditions whereby it can make its
+abode with him. It is a manifestation of the
+force that is above man&mdash;it is the eternal heritage
+of the soul. "Now the Lord is the Spirit
+and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
+liberty." And therein lies salvation. It follows
+the seeking and the finding of the Kingdom
+of God and His righteousness that Jesus
+revealed to a waiting world.</p>
+
+<p>And so it was the spirit of religion that
+Jesus came to reveal&mdash;the real Fatherhood of
+God and the Divine Sonship of man. A better
+righteousness than that of the scribes and the
+Pharisees&mdash;not a slavish adherence to the
+Law, with its supposed profits and rewards.
+Get the motive of life right. Get the heart
+right and these things become of secondary
+importance. As his supreme revelation was
+the personal fatherhood of God, from which
+follows necessarily the Divine sonship of man,
+so there was a corollary to it, a portion of it
+almost as essential as the main truth itself&mdash;namely,
+that all men are brothers. Not merely
+those of one little group, or tribe or nation;
+not merely those of any one little set or religion;
+not merely those of this or that little
+compartment that we build and arbitrarily
+separate ourselves into&mdash;but all men the world<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span>
+over. If this is not true then Jesus' supreme
+revelation is false.</p>
+
+<p>In connection with this great truth he
+brought a new standard by virtue of the logic
+of his revelation. "Ye have heard that it hath
+been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and
+hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love
+your enemies, bless them that curse you, do
+good to them that hate you, and pray for them
+which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
+that ye may be the children of your Father
+which is in heaven." Struggling for recognition
+all through the Old Testament scriptures,
+and breaking through partially at least in
+places, was this conception which is at the
+very basis of all man's relationship with man.</p>
+
+<p>And finally through this supreme Master of
+life it did break through, with a wonderful
+newborn consciousness.</p>
+
+<p>The old dispensation, with its legal formalism,
+was an eye for an eye and a tooth for a
+tooth. The new dispensation was&mdash;"But I
+say unto you, Love your enemies." Enmity
+begets enmity. It is as senseless as it is godless.
+It runs through all his teachings and
+through every act of his life. If fundamentally
+you do not have the love of your fellow-man
+in your hearts, you do not have the love
+of God in your hearts and you cannot have.</p>
+
+<p>And that this fundamental revelation be not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span>
+misunderstood, near the close of his life he
+said: "A new commandment I give unto you,
+that ye love one another." No man could be,
+can be his disciple, his follower, and fail in
+the realisation of this fundamental teaching.
+"By this shall all men know that ye are my
+disciples, if ye love one another." And going
+back again to his ministry we find that it
+breathes through every teaching that he gave.
+It breathes through that short memorable
+prayer which we call the Lord's Prayer. It
+permeates the Sermon on the Mount. It is
+the very essence of his summing up of this
+discourse. We call it the Golden Rule.
+"Whatsoever ye would that men should do
+to you, do ye even so to them." Not that it
+was original with Jesus; other teachers sent
+of God had given it before to other peoples&mdash;God's
+other children; but he gave it a new
+emphasis, a new setting. <i>He made it fundamental.</i></p>
+
+<p>So a man who is gripped at all vitally by
+Jesus' teaching of the personal fatherhood of
+God, and the personal brotherhood of man,
+simply can't help but make this the basic rule
+of his life&mdash;and moreover find joy in so making
+it. A man who really comprehends this
+fundamental teaching can't be crafty, sneaking,
+dishonest, or dishonourable, in his business,
+or in any phase of his personal life. He<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span>
+never hogs the penny&mdash;in other words, he
+never seeks to gain his own advantage to the
+disadvantage of another. He may be long-headed;
+he may be able to size up and seize
+conditions; but he seeks no advantage for himself
+to the detriment of his fellow, to the detriment
+of his community, or to the detriment of
+his extended community, the nation or the
+world. He is thoughtful, considerate, open,
+frank; and, moreover, he finds great joy in
+being so.</p>
+
+<p>I have never seen any finer statement of the
+essential reasonableness, therefore, of the
+essential truth of the value and the practice
+of the Golden Rule than that given by a modern
+disciple of Jesus who left us but a few
+years ago. A poor boy, a successful business
+man, straight, square, considerate in all his
+dealings,&mdash;a power among his fellows, a lamp
+indeed to the feet of many&mdash;was Samuel Milton
+Jones, thrice mayor of Toledo. Simple,
+unassuming, friend of all, rich as well as poor,
+poor as well as rich, friend of the outcast,
+the thief, the criminal, looking beyond the exterior,
+he saw as did Jesus, the human soul
+always intact, though it erred in its judgment&mdash;as
+we all err in our judgments, each in his
+own peculiar way&mdash;and that by forbearance,
+consideration, and love, it could be touched
+and the life redeemed&mdash;redeemed to happiness,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span>
+to usefulness, to service. Notwithstanding his
+many duties, business and political, he thought
+much and he loved to talk of the things we
+are considering.</p>
+
+<p>His brief statement of the fundamental reasons
+and the comprehensive results of the
+actual practice of the Golden Rule are shot
+through with such fine insight, such abounding
+comprehension, that they deserve to become
+immortal. He was my friend and I
+would not see them die. I reproduce them
+here: "As I view it, the Golden Rule is the
+supreme law of life. It may be paraphrased
+this way: As you do unto others, others will
+do unto you. What I give, I get. If I love
+you, really and truly and actively love you,
+you are as sure to love me in return as the
+earth is sure to be warmed by the rays of the
+midsummer sun. If I hate you, ill-treat you
+and abuse you, I am equally certain to arouse
+the same kind of antagonism towards me, unless
+the Divine nature is so developed that it
+is dominant in you, and you have learned to
+love your enemies. What can be plainer?
+The Golden Rule is the law of action and
+reaction in the field of morals, just as definite,
+just as certain here as the law is definite and
+certain in the domain of physics.</p>
+
+<p>"I think the confusion with respect to the
+Golden Rule arises from the different conceptions<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span>
+that we have of the word love. I use
+the word love as synonymous with reason, and
+when I speak of doing the loving thing, I mean
+the reasonable thing. When I speak of dealing
+with my fellow-men in an unreasonable way,
+I mean an unloving way. The terms are interchangeable,
+absolutely. The reason why we
+know so little about the Golden Rule is because
+we have not practised it."</p>
+
+<p>Was Mayor Jones a Christian? you ask.
+He was a follower of the Christ&mdash;for it was he
+who said: "By this shall all men know ye
+are my disciples, if ye love one another." Was
+he a member of a religious organisation? I
+don't know&mdash;it never occurred to me to ask
+him. Thinking men the world over are making
+a sharp distinction in these days between
+organised Christianity and essential Christianity.</p>
+
+<p>The element of fear has lost its hold on the
+part of thinking men and women. It never
+opened up, it never can open up the springs
+of righteousness in the human heart. He believed
+and he acted upon the belief that it was
+the spirit that the Master taught&mdash;that God
+is a God of love and that He reveals Himself
+in terms of love to those who really know Him.
+He believed that there is joy to the human
+soul in following this inner guide and translating
+its impulses into deeds of love and service<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span>
+for one's fellow-men. If we could, if we
+would thus translate religion into terms of life,
+it would become a source of perennial joy.</p>
+
+<p>It is not with observation, said Jesus, that
+the supreme thing that he taught&mdash;the seeking
+and finding of the Kingdom of God&mdash;will
+come. Do not seek it at some other place,
+some other time. It is within, and if within
+it will show forth. Make no mistake about
+that,&mdash;it will show forth. It touches and it
+sensitises the inner springs of action in a man's
+or a woman's life. When a man realises his
+Divine sonship that Jesus taught, he will act
+as a son of God. Out of the heart spring
+either good or evil actions. Self-love, me,
+mine; let me get all I can for myself, or, thou
+shalt love thy neighbour as thyself&mdash;the
+Divine law of service, of mutuality&mdash;the highest
+source of ethics.</p>
+
+<p>You can trust any man whose heart is right.
+He will be straight, clean, reliable. His word
+will be as good as his bond. Personally you
+can't trust a man who is brought into any line
+of action, or into any institution through fear.
+The sore is there, liable to break out in corruption
+at any time. This opening up of the
+springs of the inner life frees him also from
+the letter of the law, which after all consists
+of the traditions of men, and makes him subject
+to that higher moral guide within. How<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span>
+clearly Jesus illustrated this in his conversations
+regarding the observance of the Sabbath&mdash;how
+the Sabbath was made for man and
+not man for the Sabbath, and how it was always
+right to do good on the Sabbath.</p>
+
+<p>I remember some years ago a friend in my
+native state telling me the following interesting
+incident in connection with his grandmother.
+It was in northern Illinois&mdash;it might
+have been in New England. "As a boy," said
+he, "I used to visit her on the farm. She loved
+her cup of coffee for breakfast. Ordinarily
+she would grind it fresh each morning in the
+kitchen; but when Sunday morning came she
+would take her coffee-grinder down into the
+far end of the cellar, where no one could see
+and no one could hear her grind it." He could
+never quite tell, he said, whether it was to
+ease her own conscience, or in order to give no
+offence to her neighbours.</p>
+
+<p>Now, I can imagine Jesus passing by and
+stopping at that home&mdash;it was a home known
+for its native kindly hospitality&mdash;and meeting
+her just as she was coming out of the cellar
+with her coffee-grinder&mdash;his quick and unerring
+perception enabling him to take in the
+whole situation at once, and saying: "In the
+name of the Father, Aunt Susan, what were
+you doing with your coffee-grinder down in
+the cellar on this beautiful Sabbath morning?<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span>
+You like your cup of coffee, and I also like
+the coffee that you make; thank God that you
+have it, and thank God that you have the good
+health to enjoy it. We can give praise to the
+Father through eating and drinking, if, as in
+everything else, these are done in moderation
+and we give value received for all the things
+that we use. So don't take your grinder down
+into the cellar on the Sabbath morning; but
+grind your coffee up here in God's sunshine,
+with a thankful heart that you have it to
+grind."</p>
+
+<p>And I can imagine him, as he passes out of
+the little front gate, turning and waving another
+good-bye and saying: "When I come
+again, Aunt Susan, be it week-day or Sabbath,
+remember God's sunshine and keep out of the
+cellar." And turning again in a half-joking
+manner: "And when you take those baskets of
+eggs to town, Aunt Susan, don't pick out too
+many of the large ones to keep for yourself,
+but take them just as the hens lay them. And,
+Aunt Susan, give good weight in your butter.
+This will do your soul infinitely more good
+than the few extra coins you would gain by
+too carefully calculating"&mdash;Aunt Susan with
+all her lovable qualities, had a little tendency
+to close dealing.</p>
+
+<p>I think we do incalculable harm by separating
+Jesus so completely from the more homely,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span>
+commonplace affairs of our daily lives. If we
+had a more adequate account of his discourses
+with the people and his associations with the
+people, we would perhaps find that he was not,
+after all, so busy in saving the world that he
+didn't have time for the simple, homely enjoyments
+and affairs of the everyday life. The
+little glimpses that we have of him along
+these lines indicate to me that he had. Unless
+we get his truths right into this phase of
+our lives, the chances are that we will miss
+them entirely.</p>
+
+<p>And I think that with all his earnestness,
+Jesus must have had an unusually keen sense
+of humour. With his unusual perceptions and
+his unusual powers in reading and in understanding
+human nature, it could not be otherwise.
+That he had a keen sense for beauty;
+that he saw it, that he valued it, that he loved
+it, especially beauty in all nature, many of
+his discourses so abundantly prove. Religion
+with him was not divorced from life. It was
+the power that permeated every thought and
+every act of the daily life.</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="VIII" id="VIII"></a><big>VIII</big><br /><br />
+
+IF WE SEEK THE ESSENCE OF HIS REVELATION,
+AND THE PURPOSE OF
+HIS LIFE</h2>
+
+
+<p>If we would seek the essence of Jesus'
+revelation, attested both by his words and his
+life, it was to bring a knowledge of the ineffable
+love of God to man, and by revealing
+this, to instil in the minds and hearts of men
+love for God, and a knowledge of and following
+of the ways of God. It was also then to
+bring a new emphasis of the Divine law of
+love&mdash;the love of man for man. Combined, it
+results, so to speak, in raising men to a higher
+power, to a higher life,&mdash;as individuals, as
+groups, as one great world group.</p>
+
+<p>It is a newly sensitised attitude of mind
+and heart that he brought and that he endeavoured
+to reveal in all its matchless beauty&mdash;a
+following not of the traditions of men, but
+fidelity to one's God, whereby the Divine rule
+in the mind and heart assumes supremacy and,
+as must inevitably follow, fidelity to one's fellow-men.
+These are the essentials of Jesus'
+revelation&mdash;the fundamental forces in his own<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span>
+life. His every teaching, his every act, comes
+back to them. I believe also that all efforts
+to mystify the minds of men and women by
+later theories <i>about</i> him are contrary to his own
+expressed teaching, and in exact degree that
+they would seek to substitute other things for
+these fundamentals.</p>
+
+<p>I call them fundamentals. I call them his
+fundamentals. What right have I to call them
+his fundamentals?</p>
+
+<p>An occasion arose one day in the form of a
+direct question for Jesus to state in well-considered
+and clear-cut terms the essence, the
+gist, of his entire teachings&mdash;therefore, by his
+authority, the fundamentals of essential Christianity.
+In the midst of one of the groups that
+he was speaking to one day, we are told that
+a certain lawyer arose&mdash;an interpreter of, an
+authority on, the existing ecclesiastical law.
+The reference to him is so brief, unfortunately,
+that we cannot tell whether his question was
+to confound Jesus, as was so often the case,
+or whether being a liberal Jew he longed for
+an honest and truly helpful answer. From
+Jesus' remark to him, after his primary answer,
+we are justified in believing it was the
+latter.</p>
+
+<p>His question was: "Master, which is the
+great commandment in the law?" Jesus said
+unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span>
+God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
+and with all thy mind. This is the first and
+great commandment. And the second is like
+unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
+thyself. On these two commandments hang
+all the law and the prophets."</p>
+
+<p>Here we have a wonderful statement from
+a wonderful source. So clear-cut is it that any
+wayfaring man, though a fool, cannot mistake
+it. Especially is this true when we couple
+with it this other statement of Jesus: "Think
+not that I am come to destroy the law, or the
+prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to
+fulfil." We must never forget that Jesus was
+born, lived, and died a Jew, the same as all
+of his disciples&mdash;and they never regarded
+themselves in any other light. The <i>basis</i> of
+his religion was the religion of Israel. It was
+this he taught and expounded, now in the
+synagogue, now out on the hillside and by the
+lake-side. It was this that he tried to teach
+in its purity, that he tried to free from the
+hedges that ecclesiasticism had built around
+it, this that he endeavoured to raise to a still
+higher standard.</p>
+
+<p>One cannot find the slightest reference in
+any of his sayings that would indicate that he
+looked upon himself in any other light&mdash;except
+the overwhelming sense that it was his
+mission to bring in the new dispensation by<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span>
+fulfilling the old, and then carrying it another
+great step forward, which he did in a wonderful
+way&mdash;both God-ward and man-ward.</p>
+
+<p>We must not forget, then, that Jesus said
+that he did not come to destroy the Law and
+the Prophets, but to fulfil them. We must
+not forget, however, that before fulfilling them
+he had to free them. The freedom-giving,
+God-illumined words spoken by free God-illumined
+men, had, in the hands of those not
+God-illumined, later on become institutionalised,
+made into a system, a code. The people
+were taught that only the priests had access
+to God. They were the custodians of God's
+favour and only through the institution could
+any man, or any woman, have access to God.
+This became the sacred thing, and as the years
+had passed this had become so hedged about
+by continually added laws and observances
+that all the spirit of religion had become
+crushed, stifled, beaten to the ground.</p>
+
+<p>The very scribes and Pharisees themselves,
+supposed to minister to the spiritual life and
+the welfare of the people, became enrobed in
+their fine millinery and arrogance, masters of
+the people, whose ministers they were supposed
+to be, as is so apt to be the case when
+an institution builds itself upon the free, all-embracing
+message of truth given by any
+prophet or any inspired teacher. It has<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span>
+occurred time and time again. Christianity
+knows it well. It is only by constant vigilance
+that religious freedom is preserved, from
+which alone comes any high degree of morality,
+or any degree of free and upward-moving
+life among the people.</p>
+
+<p>It was on account of this shameful robbing
+of the people of their Divine birthright that
+the just soul of Jesus, abhorring both casuistry
+and oppression under the cloak of religion,
+gave utterance to that fine invective that he
+used on several occasions, the only times that
+he spoke in a condemnatory or accusing manner:
+"Now do ye, Pharisee, make clean the
+outside of the cup and the platter; but your
+inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
+Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
+hypocrites! For ye are as graves which appear
+not, and the men that walk over them
+are not aware of them.... Woe unto you
+also, ye lawyers! For ye lade men with burdens
+grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves
+touch not the burdens with one of your fingers....
+Woe unto you, lawyers! For ye have
+taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered
+not in yourselves, and them that were entering
+in ye hindered."</p>
+
+<p>And here is the lesson for us. It is the
+spirit that must always be kept uppermost in
+religion. Otherwise even the revelation and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span>
+the religion of Jesus could be compressed into
+a code, with its self-appointed instruments of
+interpretation, the same as the Pharisees did
+the Law and the Prophets that he so bitterly
+condemned, with a bravery so intrepid and so
+fearless that it finally caused his death.</p>
+
+<p>No, if God is not in the human soul waiting
+to make Himself known to the believing,
+longing heart, accessible to all alike without
+money and without price, without any prescribed
+code, then the words of Jesus have not
+been correctly handed down to us. And then
+again, confirming us in the belief that a man's
+deepest soul relation is a matter between him
+and his God, are his unmistakable and explicit
+directions in regard to prayer.</p>
+
+<p>It is so easy to substitute the secondary
+thing for the fundamental, the by-thing for
+the essential, the container for the thing itself.
+You will recall that symbolic act of Jesus at
+the last meeting, the Last Supper with his disciples,
+the washing of the disciples' feet by
+the Master. The point that is intended to be
+brought out in the story is, of course, the
+extraordinary condescension of Jesus in doing
+this menial service for his disciples. "The
+feet-washing symbolises the attitude of humble
+service to others. Every follower of
+Jesus must experience it." One of the disciples
+is so astonished, even taken aback by<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span>
+this menial service on the part of Jesus, that
+he says: Thou shall never wash my feet.
+Jesus answered him, "If I wash thee not, thou
+hast no part with me."</p>
+
+<p>In Oriental countries where sandals are
+worn that cover merely the soles of the feet,
+it was, it is the custom of the host to offer
+his guest who comes water with which to wash
+his feet. There is no reason why this simple
+incident of humble service, or rather this
+symbolic act of humble service, could not be
+taken and made an essential condition of salvation
+by any council that saw fit to make it
+such. Things just as strange as this have
+happened; though any thinking man or woman
+<i>today</i> would deem it essentially foolish.</p>
+
+<p>It is an example of how the spirit of a
+beautiful act could be misrepresented to the
+people. For if you will look at them again,
+Jesus' words are very explicit: "If I wash
+thee not, thou hast no part with me." But
+hear Jesus' own comment as given in John:
+"So after he had washed their feet, and had
+taken his garments, and was set down again,
+he said unto them, Know ye what I have done
+to you? Ye call me Master and Lord: and
+ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord
+and Master, have washed your feet, ye also
+ought to wash one another's feet. For I have
+given you an example, that ye should do as I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span>
+have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto
+you, The servant is not greater than his lord;
+neither he that is sent greater than he that
+sent him. If ye know these things, happy are
+ye if ye do them." It is a means to an end
+and not an end in itself. The spirit that it
+typifies is essential; but not the act itself.</p>
+
+<p>The same could be rightly said of the Lord's
+Supper. It is an observance that can be made
+of great value, one very dear and valuable to
+many people. But it cannot, if Jesus is to be
+our authority, and if correctly reported, be
+by any means made a fundamental, an essential
+of salvation. From the rebuke administered
+by Jesus to his disciples in a number
+of cases where they were prone to drag down
+his meanings by their purely material interpretations,
+we should be saved from this.</p>
+
+<p>You will recall his teaching one day when
+he spoke of himself as the bread of life that
+a man may eat thereof and not die. Some of
+his Jewish hearers taking his words in a material
+sense and arguing in regard to them one
+with another said: "How can this man give
+us his flesh to eat?" Hearing them Jesus reaffirming
+his statement said: "Verily, verily, I
+say unto you, except ye eat of the flesh of the
+Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have not
+life in yourselves.... For my flesh is meat
+indeed, and my blood is drink indeed." His<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span>
+disciples, likewise, prone here as so often to
+make a literal and material interpretation of
+his statements, said one to another: "This is
+a hard saying; who can hear him?" Or
+according to our idiom&mdash;who can understand
+him? Jesus asked them squarely if what he
+had just said caused them to stumble, and in
+order to be sure that they might not miss his
+real meaning and therefore teaching, said: "It
+is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
+nothing: the words that I speak unto you, <i>they</i>
+are spirit, and <i>they</i> are life."</p>
+
+<p>Try as we will, we cannot get away from
+the fact that it was the words of truth that
+Jesus brought that were ever uppermost in
+his mind. He said, Follow me, not some one
+else, nor something else that would claim to
+represent me. And follow me merely because
+I lead you to the Father.</p>
+
+<p>So supremely had this young Jewish
+prophet, the son of a carpenter, made God's
+business his business, that he had come into
+the full realisation of the oneness of his life
+with the Father's life. He was able to realise
+and to say, "I and my Father are one." He
+was able to bring to the world a knowledge of
+the great fact of facts&mdash;the essential oneness
+of the human with the Divine&mdash;that God tabernacles
+with men, that He makes His abode
+in the minds and the hearts of those who<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span>
+through desire and through will open their
+hearts to His indwelling presence.</p>
+
+<p>The first of the race, he becomes the revealer
+of this great eternal truth&mdash;the mediator,
+therefore, between God and man&mdash;in very
+truth the Saviour of men. "If a man love me,"
+said he, "he will keep my words: and my
+Father will love him, and we will come unto
+him, and make our abode with him.... If
+ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in
+my love; even as I have kept my Father's
+commandments and abide in his love."</p>
+
+<p>It is our eternal refusal to follow Jesus by
+listening to the words of life that he brought,
+and our proneness to substitute something else
+in their place, that brings the barrenness that
+is so often evident in the everyday life of the
+Christian. We have been taught <i>to believe in</i>
+Jesus; we have not been taught <i>to believe</i>
+Jesus. This has resulted in a separation of
+Christianity from life. The predominating
+motive has been the saving of the soul. It has
+resulted too often in a selfish, negative, repressive,
+ineffective religion. As Jesus said: "And
+why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the
+things which I say?"</p>
+
+<p>We are just beginning to realise at all
+adequately that it was <i>the salvation of the life</i>
+that he taught. When the life is redeemed to
+righteousness through the power of the indwelling<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span>
+God and moves out in love and in
+service for one's fellow-men, the soul is then
+saved.</p>
+
+<p>A man may be a believer in Jesus for a million
+years and still be an outcast from the
+Kingdom of God and His righteousness. But
+a man can't believe Jesus, which means following
+his teachings, without coming at once into
+the Kingdom and enjoying its matchless
+blessings both here and hereafter. And if
+there is one clear-cut teaching of the Master,
+it is that the life here determines and with
+absolute precision the life to come.</p>
+
+<p>One need not then concern himself with this
+or that doctrine, whether it be true or false.
+Later speculations and theories are not for
+him. Jesus' own saying applies here: "If any
+man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine,
+whether it be of God." He enters into
+the Kingdom, the Kingdom of Heaven here
+and now; and when the time comes for him
+to pass out of this life, he goes as a joyous
+pilgrim, full of anticipation for the Kingdom
+that awaits him, and the Master's words go
+with him: "In my Father's house are many
+mansions."</p>
+
+<p>By thus becoming a follower of Jesus rather
+than merely a believer in Jesus, he gradually
+comes into possession of insights and powers
+that the Master taught would follow in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span>
+lives of those who became his followers. The
+Holy Spirit, the Divine Comforter, of which
+Jesus spoke, the Spirit of Truth, that awaits
+our bidding, will lead continually to the highest
+truth and wisdom and insight and power.
+Kant's statement, "The other world is not
+another locality, but only another way of seeing
+things," is closely allied to the Master's
+statement: "The Kingdom of God is within
+you." And closely allied to both is this
+statement of a modern prophet: "The principle
+of Christianity and of every true religion
+is within the soul&mdash;the realisation
+of the incarnation of God in every human
+being."</p>
+
+<p>When we turn to Jesus' own teachings we
+find that his insistence was not primarily upon
+the saving of the soul, but upon the saving of
+the life for usefulness, for service, here and
+now, for still higher growth and unfoldment,
+whereby the soul might be grown to a sufficient
+degree that it would be worth the saving.
+And this is one of the great facts that is now
+being recognised and preached by the forward-looking
+men and women in our churches and
+by many equally religious outside of our
+churches.</p>
+
+<p>And so all aspiring, all thinking, forward-looking
+men and women of our day are not
+interested any more in theories about, explanations<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span>
+of, or dogmas about Jesus. They are
+being won and enthralled by the wonderful
+personality and life of Jesus. They are being
+gripped by the power of his teachings. They
+do not want theories about God&mdash;they want
+God&mdash;and God is what Jesus brought&mdash;God
+as the moving, the predominating, the all-embracing
+force in the individual life. But
+he who finds the Kingdom of God, whose life
+becomes subject to the Divine rule and life
+within, realises at once also his true relations
+with the whole&mdash;with his neighbour, his
+fellow-men. He realises that his neighbour
+is not merely the man next door, the man
+around the corner, or even the man in the
+next town or city; but that his neighbour <i>is
+every man and every woman in the world</i>&mdash;because
+all children of the same infinite Father,
+all bound in the same direction, but over many
+different roads.</p>
+
+<p>The man who has come under the influence
+and the domination of the Divine rule, realises
+that his interests lie in the same direction as
+the interests of all, that he cannot gain for
+himself any good&mdash;that is, any essential good&mdash;at
+the expense of the good of all; but rather
+that his interests, his Welfare, and the interests
+and the welfare of all others are identical.
+God's rule, the Divine rule, becomes for him,
+therefore, the fundamental rule in the business<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span>
+world, the dominating rule in political life and
+action, the dominating rule in the law and
+relations of nations.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus did not look with much favour upon
+outward form, ceremony, or with much favour
+upon formulated, or formal religion; and he
+somehow or other seemed to avoid the company
+of those who did. We find him almost
+continually down among the people, the poor,
+the needy, the outcast, the sinner&mdash;wherever
+he could be of service to the Father, that is,
+wherever he could be of service to the Father's
+children. According to the accounts he was
+not always as careful in regard to those with
+whom he associated as the more respectable
+ones, the more respectable classes of his day
+thought he should be. They remarked it many
+times. Jesus noticed it and remarked in
+turn.</p>
+
+<p>We find him always where the work was
+to be done&mdash;friend equally of the poor and
+humble, and those of station&mdash;truly friend of
+man, teaching, helping, uplifting. And then
+we find him out on the mountain side&mdash;in the
+quiet, in communion&mdash;to keep his realisation of
+his oneness with the Father intact; and with
+this help he went down regularly to the people,
+trying to lift their minds and lives up to
+the Divine ideal that he revealed to them, that
+they in turn might realise their real relations<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span>
+one with another, that the Kingdom of God
+and His righteousness might grow and become
+the dominating law and force in the world&mdash;"Thy
+Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on
+earth as it is in Heaven."</p>
+
+<p>It is this Kingdom idea, the Divine rule, the
+rule of God in all of the relations and affairs of
+men on earth that is gripping earnest men and
+women in great numbers among us today.
+Under the leadership of these thinking, God-impelled
+men and women, many of our
+churches are pushing their endeavours out into
+social service activities along many different
+lines; and the result is they are calling into
+their ranks many able men and women,
+especially younger men and women, who
+are intensely religious, but to whom formal,
+inactive religion never made any appeal.</p>
+
+<p>When the Church begins actually to throw
+the Golden Rule onto its banner, not in theory
+but in actual practice, actually forgetting self
+in the Master's service, careless even of her
+own interests, her membership, she thereby
+calls into her ranks vast numbers of the best
+of the race, especially among the young, so
+that the actual result is a membership not only
+larger than she could ever hope to have otherwise,
+but a membership that commands such
+respect and that exercises such power, that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span>
+she is astounded at her former stupidity in
+being shackled so long by the traditions of the
+past. A new life is engendered. There is the
+joy of real accomplishment.</p>
+
+<p>We are in an age of great changes. Advancing
+knowledge necessitates changes. And
+may I say a word here to our Christian ministry,
+that splendid body of men for whom I
+have such supreme admiration? One of the
+most significant facts of our time is this widespread
+inclination and determination on the
+part of such great numbers of thinking men
+and women to go directly to Jesus for their
+information of, and their inspiration from him.
+The beliefs and the voice of the laymen, those
+in our churches and those out of our churches,
+must be taken into account and reckoned with.
+Jesus is too large and too universal a character
+to be longer the sole possession, the property
+of any organisation.</p>
+
+<p>There is a splendid body of young men and
+young women numbering into untold thousands,
+who are being captured by the personality
+and the simple direct message of Jesus.
+Many of these have caught his spirit and are
+going off into other lines of the Master's service.
+They are doing effective and telling
+work there. Remember that when the spirit
+of the Christ seizes a man, it is through the
+channel of present-day forms and present-day<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span>
+terms, not in those of fifteen hundred, or sixteen
+hundred, or even three hundred years ago.</p>
+
+<p>There is a spirit of intellectual honesty that
+prevents many men and women from subscribing
+to anything to which they cannot give
+their intellectual assent, as well as their moral
+and spiritual assent. They do not object to
+creeds. They know that a creed is but a statement,
+a statement of a man's or a woman's
+belief, whether it be in connection with religion,
+or in connection with anything else. But
+what they do object to is dogma, that unholy
+thing that lives on credulity, that is therefore
+destructive of the intellectual and the moral
+life of every man and every woman who allows
+it to lay its paralysing hand upon them,
+that can be held to if one is at all honest and
+given to thought, only through intellectual
+chicanery.</p>
+
+<p>We must not forget also that God is still at
+work, revealing Himself more fully to mankind
+through modern prophets, through modern
+agencies. His revelation is not closed.
+It is still going on. The silly presumption in
+the statement therefore&mdash;"the truth once delivered."</p>
+
+<p>It is well occasionally to call to mind these
+words by Robert Burns, singing free and with
+an untrammelled mind and soul from his
+heather-covered hills:<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Here's freedom to him that wad read,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Here's freedom to him that wad write;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There's nane ever feared that the truth should be heared<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">But them that the truth wad indict.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>It is essential to remember that we are in
+possession of knowledge, that we are face to
+face with conditions that are different from
+any in the previous history of Christendom.
+The Christian church must be sure that it
+moves fast enough so as not to alienate, but
+to draw into it that great body of intellectually
+alive, intellectually honest young men and
+women who have the Christ spirit of service
+and who are mastered by a great purpose of
+accomplishment. Remember that these young
+men and women are now merely standing
+where the entire church will stand in a few
+years. Remember that any man or woman
+who has the true spirit of service has the spirit
+of Christ&mdash;and more, has the religion of the
+Christ.</p>
+
+<p>Remember that Jesus formulated no organisation.
+His message of the Kingdom was so
+far-reaching that no organisation could ever
+possibly encompass it, though an organisation
+may be, and has been, a great aid in actualising
+it here on earth. He never made any
+conditions as to through whom, or what, his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span>
+truth should be spread, and he would condemn
+today any instrumentality that would abrogate
+to itself any monopoly of his truth, just as he
+condemned those ecclesiastical authorities of
+his day who presumed to do the same in
+connection with the truth of God's earlier
+prophets.</p>
+
+<p>And so I would say to the Church&mdash;beware
+and be wise. Make your conditions so that
+you can gain the allegiance and gain the help
+of this splendid body of young men and young
+women. Many of them are made of the stock
+that Jesus would choose as his own apostles.
+Among the young men will be our greatest
+teachers, our great financiers, our best legislators,
+our most valuable workers and organisers
+in various fields of social service, our
+most widely read authors, eminent and influential
+editorial and magazine writers as
+well as managers.</p>
+
+<p>Many of these young women will have high
+and responsible positions as educators. Some
+will be heads and others will be active workers
+in our widely extended and valuable women's
+clubs. Some will have a hand in political action,
+in lifting politics out of its many-times
+low condition into its rightful state in being
+an agent for the accomplishment of the people's
+best purposes and their highest good.
+Some will be editors of widely circulating and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span>
+influential women's magazines. Some will be
+mothers, true mothers of the children of
+others, denied their rights and their privileges.
+Make it possible for them, nay, make it incumbent
+upon them to come in, to work within
+the great Church organisation.</p>
+
+<p>It cannot afford that they stay out. It is
+suicidal to keep them out. Any other type of
+organisation that did not look constantly to
+commanding the services of the most capable
+and expert in its line would fall in a very few
+months into the ranks of the ineffectives. A
+business or a financial organisation that did
+not do the same would go into financial bankruptcy
+in even a shorter length of time. By
+attracting this class of men and women into
+its ranks it need fear neither moral nor financial
+bankruptcy.</p>
+
+<p>But remember, many men and women of
+large calibre are so busy doing God's work
+in the world that they have no time and no
+inclination to be attracted by anything that
+does not claim their intellectual as well as
+their moral assent. The Church must speak
+fully and unequivocally in terms of present-day
+thought and present-day knowledge, to win
+the allegiance or even to attract the attention
+of this type of men and women.</p>
+
+<p>And may I say here this word to those outside,
+and especially to this class of young men<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span>
+and young women outside of our churches?
+Changes, and therefore advances in matters
+of this kind come slowly. This is true from
+the very nature of human nature. Inherited
+beliefs, especially when it comes to matters
+of religion, take the deepest hold and are the
+slowest to change. Not in all cases, but this
+is the general rule.</p>
+
+<p>Those who hold on to the old are earnest,
+honest. They believe that these things are
+too sacred to be meddled with, or even sometimes,
+to be questioned. The ordinary mind
+is slow to distinguish between tradition and
+truth&mdash;especially where the two have been so
+fully and so adroitly mixed. Many are not in
+possession of the newer, the more advanced
+knowledge in various fields that you are in
+possession of. But remember this&mdash;in even a
+dozen years a mighty change has taken place&mdash;except
+in a church whose very foundation
+and whose sole purpose is dogma.</p>
+
+<p>In most of our churches, however, the great
+bulk of our ministers are just as forward-looking,
+just as earnest as you, and are deeply
+desirous of following and presenting the highest
+truth in so far as it lies within their power
+to do so. It is a splendid body of men, willing
+to welcome you on your own grounds, longing
+for your help. It is a mighty engine for good.
+Go into it. Work with it. Work through it.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span>
+The best men in the Church are longing for
+your help. They need it more than they need
+anything else. I can assure you of this&mdash;I
+have talked with many.</p>
+
+<p>They feel their handicaps. They are moving
+as rapidly as they find it possible to move.
+On the whole, they are doing splendid work
+and with a big, fine spirit of which you know
+but little. You will find a wonderful spirit of
+self-sacrifice, also. You will find a stimulating
+and precious comradeship on the part of many.
+You will find that you will get great good,
+even as you are able to give great good.</p>
+
+<p>The Church, as everything else, needs to
+keep its machinery in continual repair. Help
+take out the worn-out parts&mdash;but not too suddenly.
+The Church is not a depository, but
+an instrument and engine of truth and righteousness.
+Some of the older men do not
+realise this; but they will die off. Respect
+their beliefs. Honest men have honest respect
+for differences of opinion, for honest differences
+in thought. Sympathy is a great harmoniser.
+"Differences of opinion, intellectual
+distinctions, these must ever be&mdash;separation
+of mind, but unity of heart."</p>
+
+<p>I like these words of Lyman Abbott. You
+will like them. They are spoken out of a full
+life of rich experience and splendid service.
+They have, moreover, a sort of unifying effect.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span>
+They are more than a tonic: "Of all characters
+in history none so gathers into himself
+and reflects from himself all the varied virtues
+of a complete manhood as does Jesus of Nazareth.
+And the world is recognising it.... If
+you go back to the olden time and the old
+conflicts, the question was, 'What is the relation
+of Jesus Christ to the Eternal?' Wars
+have been fought over the question, 'Was he
+of one substance with the Father?' I do not
+know; I do not know of what substance the
+Father is; I do not know of what substance
+Jesus Christ is. What I do know is this&mdash;that
+when I look into the actual life that I
+know about, the men and women that are
+about me, the men and women in all the history
+of the past, of all the living beings that
+ever lived and walked the earth, there is no
+one that so fills my heart with reverence, with
+affection, with loyal love, with sincere desire
+to follow, as doth Jesus Christ....</p>
+
+<p>"I do not need to decide whether he was
+born of a virgin. I do not need to decide
+whether he rose from the dead. I do not
+need to decide whether he made water into
+wine, or fed five thousand with two loaves and
+five small fishes. Take all that away, and
+still he stands the one transcendent figure toward
+whom the world has been steadily growing,
+and whom the world has not yet overtaken<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span>
+even in his teachings.... I do not need
+to know what is his metaphysical relation to
+the Infinite. I say it reverently&mdash;I do not
+care. I know for me he is the great Teacher;
+I know for me he is the great Leader whose
+work I want to do; and I know for me he is
+the great Personality, whom I want to be like.
+That I know. Theology did not give that to
+me, and theology cannot get it away from
+me."</p>
+
+<p>And what a basis as a test of character is
+this twofold injunction&mdash;this great fundamental
+of Jesus! All religion that is genuine
+flowers in character. It was Benjamin Jowett
+who said, and most truly: "The value of a religion
+is in the ethical dividend that it pays."
+When the heart is right towards God we have
+the basis, the essence of religion&mdash;the consciousness
+of God in the soul of man. We
+have truth in the inward parts. When the
+heart is right towards the fellow-man we have
+the essential basis of ethics; for again we
+have truth in the inward parts.</p>
+
+<p>Out of the heart are the issues of life. When
+the heart is right all outward acts and relations
+are right. Love draws one to the very
+heart of God; and love attunes one to all the
+highest and most valued relationships in our
+human life.</p>
+
+<p>Fear can never be a basis of either religion<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span>
+or ethics. The one who is moved by fear
+makes his chief concern the avoidance of detection
+on the one hand, or the escape of punishment
+on the other. Men of large calibre
+have an unusual sagacity in sifting the unessential
+from the essential as also the false
+from the true. Lincoln, when replying to the
+question as to why he did not unite himself
+with some church organisation, said: "When
+any church will inscribe over its altar, as its
+sole qualification of membership, the Saviour's
+condensed statement of the substance of both
+law and gospel: Thou shalt love the Lord
+thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
+soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbour
+as thyself, that church shall I join with
+all my heart and soul."</p>
+
+<p>He was looked upon by many in his day as
+a non-Christian&mdash;by some as an infidel. His
+whole life had a profound religious basis, so
+deep and so all-absorbing that it gave him
+those wonderful elements of personality that
+were instantly and instinctively noticed by,
+and that moved all men who came in touch
+with him; and that sustained him so wonderfully,
+according to his own confession, through
+those long, dark periods of the great crisis,
+The fact that in yesterday's New York paper&mdash;Sunday
+paper&mdash;I saw the notice of a sermon
+in one of our Presbyterian pulpits&mdash;Lincoln,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span>
+the Christian&mdash;shows that we have moved up
+a round and are approaching more and more
+to an essential Christianity.</p>
+
+<p>Similar to this statement or rather belief
+was that of Emerson, Jefferson, Franklin, and
+a host of other men among us whose lives have
+been lives of accomplishment and service for
+their fellow-men. Emerson, who said: "A
+man should learn to detect and watch that
+gleam of light which flashes across his mind
+from within, more than the lustre of the firmament
+of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses
+without notice his thought, because it is his.
+In every work of genius we recognise our own
+rejected thoughts. They come back to us with
+a certain alienated majesty." Emerson, who
+also said: "I believe in the still, small voice,
+and that voice is the Christ within me." It was
+he of whom the famous Father Taylor in Boston
+said: "It may be that Emerson is going to
+hell, but of one thing I am certain: he will
+change the climate there and emigration will
+set that way."</p>
+
+<p>So thought Jefferson, who said: "I have
+sworn eternal hostility to every form of
+tyranny over the minds of men." And as he,
+great prophet, with his own hand penned that
+immortal document&mdash;the Declaration of American
+Independence&mdash;one can almost imagine
+the Galilean prophet standing at his shoulder<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span>
+and saying: Thomas, I think it well to write
+it so. Both had a burning indignation for that
+species of self-seeking either on the part of an
+individual or an organisation that would seek
+to enchain the minds and thereby the lives
+of men and women, and even lay claim to their
+children. Yet Jefferson in his time was frequently
+called an atheist&mdash;and merely because
+men in those days did not distinguish as clearly
+as we do today between ecclesiasticism and
+religion, between formulated and essential
+Christianity.</p>
+
+<p>So we are brought back each time to
+Jesus' two fundamentals&mdash;and these come out
+every time foursquare with the best thought
+of our time. The religion of Jesus is thereby
+prevented from being a mere tribal religion.
+It is prevented from being merely an organisation
+that could possibly have his sanction as
+such&mdash;that is, an organisation that would be
+able to say: This is his, and this only. It
+makes it have a world-wide and eternal content.
+The Kingdom that Jesus taught is infinitely
+broader in its scope and its inclusiveness
+than any organisation can be, or that all
+organisations combined can be.</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="IX" id="IX"></a><big>IX</big><br /><br />
+
+HIS PURPOSE OF LIFTING UP, ENERGISING,
+BEAUTIFYING, AND SAVING THE
+ENTIRE LIFE: THE SAVING OF
+THE SOUL IS SECONDARY;
+BUT FOLLOWS</h2>
+
+
+<p>We have made the statement that Jesus did
+unusual things, but that he did them on account
+of, or rather by virtue of, his unusual insight
+into and understanding of the laws
+whereby they could be done. His understanding
+of the powers of the mind and spirit was
+intuitive and very great. As an evidence of
+this were his numerous cases of healing the
+sick and the afflicted.</p>
+
+<p>Intuitively he perceived the existence and
+the nature of the subjective mind, and in connection
+with it the tremendous powers of suggestion.
+Intuitively he was able to read, to
+diagnose the particular ailment and the cause
+of the ailment before him. His thought was
+so poised that it was energised by a subtle and
+peculiar spiritual power. Such confidence did
+his personality and his power inspire in others
+that he was able to an unusual degree to reach
+and to arouse the slumbering subconscious mind<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span>
+of the sufferer and to arouse into action its
+own slumbering powers whereby the life force
+of the body could transcend and remould its
+error-ridden and error-stamped condition.</p>
+
+<p>In all these cases he worked through the
+operation of law&mdash;it is exactly what we know
+of the laws of suggestion today. The remarkable
+cases of healing that are being accomplished
+here and there among us today are
+done unquestionably through the understanding
+and use of the same laws that Jesus was
+the supreme master of.</p>
+
+<p>By virtue of his superior insight&mdash;his understanding
+of the laws of the mind and spirit&mdash;he
+was able to use them so fully and so
+effectively that he did in many cases eliminate
+the element of time in his healing
+ministrations. But even he was dependent in
+practically all cases, upon the mental cooperation
+of the one who would be healed. Where
+this was full and complete he succeeded; where
+it was not he failed. Such at least again and
+again is the statement in the accounts that
+we have of these facts in connection with his
+life and work. There were places where
+we are told he could do none of his mighty
+works on account of their unbelief, and he departed
+from these places and went elsewhere.
+Many times his question was: "Believe ye
+that I am able to do this?" Then: "According<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span>
+to your faith be it unto you," and the
+healing was accomplished.</p>
+
+<p>The laws of mental and spiritual therapeutics
+are identically the same today as they
+were in the days of Jesus and his disciples, who
+made the healing of sick bodies a part of their
+ministration. It is but fair to presume from
+the accounts that we have that in the early
+Church of the Disciples, and for well on to two
+hundred years after Jesus' time, the healing
+of the sick and the afflicted went hand in hand
+with the preaching and the teaching of the
+Kingdom. There are those who believe that
+it never should have been abandoned. As a
+well-known writer has said: "Healing is the
+outward and practical attestation of the power
+and genuineness of spiritual religion, and
+ought not to have dropped out of the Church."
+Recent sincere efforts to re-establish it in
+church practice, following thereby the Master's
+injunction, is indicative of the thought
+that is alive in connection with the matter today.<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a>
+From the accounts that we have Jesus<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span>
+seems to have engaged in works of healing
+more during his early than during his later
+ministry. He may have used it as a means to
+an end. On account of his great love and
+sympathy for the physical sufferer as well as
+for the moral sufferer, it is but reasonable to
+suppose that it was an integral part of his announced
+purpose&mdash;the saving of the life, of
+the entire life, for usefulness, for service, for
+happiness.</p>
+
+<p>And so we have this young Galilean prophet,
+coming from an hitherto unknown Jewish
+family in the obscure little village of Nazareth,
+giving obedience in common with his four
+brothers and his sisters to his father and his
+mother; but by virtue of a supreme aptitude
+for and an irresistible call to the things of
+the spirit&mdash;made irresistible through his overwhelming
+love for the things of the spirit&mdash;he
+is early absorbed by the realisation of the
+truth that God is his father and that all men
+are brothers.</p>
+
+<p>The thought that God is his father and that
+he bears a unique and filial relationship to God
+so possesses him that he is filled, permeated<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span>
+with the burning desire to make this newborn
+message of truth and thereby of righteousness
+known to the world.</p>
+
+<p>His own native religion, once vibrating
+through the souls of the prophets as the voice
+of God, has become so obscured, so hedged
+about, so killed by dogma, by ceremony, by
+outward observances, that it has become a
+mean and pitiable thing, and produces mean
+and pitiable conditions in the lives of his people.
+The institution has become so overgrown
+that the spirit has gone. But God finds another
+prophet, clearly and supremely open to
+His spirit, and Jesus comes as the Messiah, the
+Divine Son of God, the Divine Son of Man,
+bringing to the earth a new Dispensation. It
+is the message of the Divine Fatherhood of
+God, God whose controlling character is love,
+and with it the Divine sonship of man. An
+integral part of it is&mdash;all men are brothers.</p>
+
+<p>He comes as the teacher of a new, a higher
+righteousness. He brings the message and he
+expounds the message of the Kingdom of God.
+All men he teaches must repent and turn from
+their sins, and must henceforth live in this
+Kingdom. It is an inner kingdom. Men shall
+not say: Behold it is here or it is there; for,
+behold, it is within you. God is your father
+and God longs for your acknowledgment of
+Him as your father; He longs for your love<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span>
+even as He loves you. You are children of
+God, but you are not true Sons of God until
+through desire the Divine rule and life becomes
+supreme in your minds and hearts. It
+is thus that you will find the Kingdom of God.
+When you do, then your every act will show
+forth in accordance with this Divine ideal and
+guide, and the supreme law of conduct in your
+lives will be love for your neighbour, for all
+mankind. Through this there will then in
+time become actualised the Kingdom of
+Heaven on the earth.</p>
+
+<p>He comes in no special garb, no millinery,
+no brass bands, no formulas, no dogmas, no
+organisation other than the Kingdom, to uphold
+and become a slave to, and in turn be
+absorbed by, as was the organisation that he
+found strangling all religion in the lives of
+his people and which he so bitterly condemned.
+What he brought was something infinitely
+transcending this&mdash;the Kingdom of God and
+His righteousness, to which all men were heirs&mdash;equal
+heirs&mdash;and thereby redemption from
+their sins, therefore salvation, the saving of
+their lives, would be the inevitable result of
+their acknowledgment of and allegiance to the
+Divine rule.</p>
+
+<p>How he embraced all&mdash;such human sympathy&mdash;coming
+not to destroy but to fulfil; not
+to judge the world but to save the world.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span>
+How he loved the children! How he loved to
+have them about him! How he loved their
+simplicity, and native integrity of mind and
+heart! Hear him as he says: "Verily I say
+unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the
+Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not
+enter therein"; and again: "Suffer the little
+children to come unto me, and forbid them
+not; for of such is the Kingdom of God." The
+makers of dogma, in evolving some three hundred
+years later on the dogma of the inherent
+sinfulness and degradation of the human life
+and soul, could certainly find not the slightest
+trace of any basis for it again in these words
+and acts of Jesus.</p>
+
+<p>We find him sympathising with and mingling
+with and seeking to draw unto the way of
+his own life the poor, the outcast, the sinner,
+the same as the well-to-do and those of station
+and influence&mdash;seeking to draw all through
+love and knowledge to the Father.</p>
+
+<p>There is a sense of justice and righteousness
+in his soul, however, that balks at oppression,
+injustice, and hypocrisy. He therefore condemns
+and in scathing terms those and only
+those who would seek to place any barrier between
+the free soul of any man and his God,
+who would bind either the mind or the conscience
+of man to any prescribed formulas or
+dogmas. Honouring, therefore the forms that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span>
+his intelligence and his conscience allowed
+him to honour, he disregarded those that they
+did not.</p>
+
+<p>Like other good Jewish rabbis, for he was
+looked upon during his ministry and often addressed
+as Rabbi, he taught in the synagogues
+of his people; but oftener out on the hillsides
+and by the lake-side, under the blue sky and
+the stars of heaven. Giving due reverence to
+the Law and the Prophets&mdash;the religion of his
+people and his own early religion&mdash;but in
+spirit and in discriminating thought so far
+transcending them, that the people marvelled
+at his teachings and said&mdash;surely this a prophet
+come from God; no man ever spoke to us as
+he speaks. By the ineffable beauty of his life
+and the love and the winsomeness of his personality,
+and by the power of the truths that
+he taught, he won the hearts of the common
+people. They followed him and his following
+continually increased.</p>
+
+<p>Through it all, however, he incurred the increasing
+hostility and the increasing hatred
+of the leaders, the hierarchy of the existing
+religious organisation. They were animated
+by a double motive, that of protecting themselves,
+and that of protecting their established
+religion. But in their slavery to the organisation,
+and because unable to see that it was
+the spirit of true religion that he brought and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span>
+taught, they cruelly put him to death&mdash;the
+same as the organisation established later on
+in his name, put numbers of God's true prophets,
+Jesus' truest disciples to death, and essentially
+for the same reasons.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus' quick and almost unerring perception
+enabled him to foresee this. It did not deter
+him from going forward with his message,
+standing resolutely and superbly by his revelation,
+and at the last almost courting death&mdash;feeling
+undoubtedly that the sealing of his revelation
+and message with his very life blood
+would but serve to give it its greatest power
+and endurance. Heroically he met the fate
+that he perceived was conspiring to end his
+career, to wreck his teachings and his influence.
+He went forth to die clear-sighted and
+unafraid.</p>
+
+<p>He died for the sake of the truth of the message
+that he lived and so diligently and heroically
+laboured for&mdash;the message of the ineffable
+love of God for all His children and
+the bringing of them into the Father's Kingdom.
+And we must believe from his whole
+life's teaching, not to save their souls from
+some future punishment; not through any demand
+of satisfaction on the part of God; not
+as any substitutionary sacrifice to appease the
+demands of an angry God&mdash;for it was the exact
+opposite of this that his whole life teaching<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span>
+endeavoured to make known. It was supremely
+the love of the Father and His longing
+for the love and allegiance, therefore the complete
+life and service of His children. It was
+the beauty of holiness&mdash;the beauty of wholeness&mdash;the
+wholeness of life, the saving of the
+whole life from the sin and sordidness of self
+and thereby giving supreme satisfaction to
+God. It was love, not fear. If not, then almost
+in a moment he changed the entire purpose
+and content, the entire intent of all his
+previous life work. This is unthinkable.</p>
+
+<p>In his last act he did not abrogate his own
+expressed statement, that the very essence of
+his message was expressed, as love to God and
+love to one's neighbour. He did not abrogate
+his continually repeated declaration that it
+was the Kingdom of God and His righteousness,
+which brings man's life into right relations
+with God and into right relations with
+his fellow-men, that it was his purpose to reveal
+and to draw all men to, thereby aiding
+God's eternal purpose&mdash;to establish in this
+world a state which he designated the Kingdom
+of Heaven wherein a social order of
+brotherliness and justice, wrought and maintained
+through the potency of love, would prevail.
+In doing this he revealed the character
+of God by being himself an embodiment of it.</p>
+
+<p>It was the power of a truth that was to save<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span>
+the life that he was always concerned with.
+Therefore his statement that the Son of Man
+has come that men might have life and might
+have it more abundantly&mdash;to save men from
+sin and from failure, and secondarily from
+their consequences; to make them true Sons
+of God and fit subjects and fit workers in His
+Kingdom. Conversion according to Jesus is
+the fact of this Divine rule in the mind and
+heart whereby the life is saved&mdash;the saving
+of the soul follows. It is the direct concomitant
+of the saved life.</p>
+
+<p>In his death he sealed his own statement:
+"The law and the prophets were until John;
+since that time the Kingdom of God is
+preached, and every man presseth into it."
+Through his death he sealed the message of
+his life when putting it in another form he
+said: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that
+heareth my word and believeth on Him that
+sent me hath everlasting life, and shall not
+come into condemnation: but is passed from
+death unto life."</p>
+
+<p>In this majestic life divinity and humanity
+meet. Here is the incarnation. The first of
+the race consciously, vividly, and fully to
+realise that God incarnates Himself and has
+His abode in the hearts and the lives of men,
+the first therefore to realise his Divine Sonship
+and become able thereby to reveal and to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</a></span>
+teach the Divine Fatherhood of God and the
+Divine Sonship of Man.</p>
+
+<p>In this majestic life is the atonement, the
+realisation of the at-one-ment of the Divine in
+the human, made manifest in his own life and
+in the way that he taught, sealed then by his
+own blood.</p>
+
+<p>In this majestic life we have the mediator,
+the medium or connector of the Divine and the
+human. In it we have the Saviour, the very
+incarnation of the truth that he taught, and
+that lifts the minds and thereby the lives of
+men up to their Divine ideal and pattern, that
+redeems their lives from the sordidness and
+selfishness and sin of the hitherto purely material
+self, and that being thereby saved, makes
+them fit subjects for the Father's Kingdom.</p>
+
+<p>In this majestic life is the full embodiment
+of the beauty of holiness&mdash;whose words have
+gone forth and whose spirit is ceaselessly at
+work in the world, drawing men and women
+up to their divine ideal, and that will continue
+so to draw all in proportion as his words of
+truth and his life are lifted up throughout the
+world.</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="X" id="X"></a><big>X</big><br /><br />
+
+SOME METHODS OF ATTAINMENT</h2>
+
+
+<p>After this study of the teachings of the Divine
+Master let us know this. It is the material
+that is the transient, the temporary;
+and the mental and spiritual that is the real
+and the eternal. We must not become slaves
+to habit. The material alone can never bring
+happiness&mdash;much less satisfaction. These lie
+deeper. That conversation between Jesus and
+the rich young man is full of significance for
+us all, especially in this ambitious, striving,
+restless age.</p>
+
+<p>Abundance of life is determined not alone
+by one's material possessions, but primarily by
+one's riches of mind and spirit. A world of
+truth is contained in these words: "Life is
+what we are alive to. It is not a length, but
+breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure,
+mere luxury or idleness, pride or money-making,
+and not to goodness and kindness,
+purity and love, history, poetry, and music,
+flowers, God and eternal hopes, is to be all
+but dead."</p>
+
+<p>Why be so eager to gain possession of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span>
+hundred thousand or the half-million acres,
+of so many millions of dollars? Soon, and it
+may be before you realise it, all must be left.
+It is as if a man made it his ambition to accumulate
+a thousand or a hundred thousand
+automobiles. All soon will become junk. But
+so it is with all material things beyond
+what we can actually and profitably use for
+our good and the good of others&mdash;and that we
+actually do so use.</p>
+
+<p>A man can eat just so many meals during
+the year or during life. If he tries to eat more
+he suffers thereby. He can wear only so many
+suits of clothing; if he tries to wear more, he
+merely wears himself out taking off and putting
+on. Again it is as Jesus said: "For what
+shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole
+world and lose his own life?" And right there
+is the crux of the whole matter. All the time
+spent in accumulating these things beyond the
+reasonable amount, is so much taken from
+the life&mdash;from the things of the mind and the
+spirit. It is in the development and the pursuit
+of these that all true satisfaction lies.
+Elemental law has so decreed.</p>
+
+<p>We have made wonderful progress, or rather
+have developed wonderful skill in connection
+with things. We need now to go back and
+catch up the thread and develop like skill in
+making the life.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Little wonder that brains are addled, that
+nerves are depleted, that nervous dyspepsia,
+that chronic weariness, are not the exception
+but rather the rule. Little wonder that sanitariums
+are always full; that asylums are full
+and overflowing&mdash;and still more to be built.
+No wonder that so many men, so many good
+men break and go to pieces, and so many lose
+the life here at from fifty to sixty years, when
+they should be in the very prime of life, in the
+full vigour of manhood; at the very age when
+they are capable of enjoying life the most
+and are most capable of rendering the
+greatest service to their fellows, to their
+community, because of greater growth, experience,
+means, and therefore leisure. Jesus
+was right&mdash;What doth it profit? And think
+of the real riches that in the meantime are
+missed.</p>
+
+<p>It is like an addled-brain driver in making
+a trip across the continent. He is possessed,
+obsessed with the insane desire of making a
+record. He plunges on and on night and day,
+good weather and foul&mdash;and all the time he is
+missing all the beauties, all the benefits to
+health and spirit along the way. He has none
+of these when he arrives&mdash;he has missed them
+all. He has only the fact that he has made a
+record drive&mdash;or nearly made one. And those
+with him he has not only robbed of the beauties<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</a></span>
+along the way; but he has subjected
+them to all the discomforts along the way.
+And what really underlies the making of
+a record? It is primarily the spirit of
+vanity.</p>
+
+<p>When the mental beauties of life, when the
+spiritual verities are sacrificed by self-surrender
+to and domination by the material, one of
+the heavy penalties that inexorable law imposes
+is the drying up, so to speak, of the finer
+human perceptions&mdash;the very faculties of enjoyment.
+It presents to the world many times,
+and all unconscious to himself, a stunted,
+shrivelled human being&mdash;that eternal type that
+the Master had in mind when he said: "Thou
+fool, this night shall thy soul be required of
+thee." He whose sole employment or even
+whose primary employment becomes the building
+of bigger and still bigger barns to take
+care of his accumulated grain, becomes incapable
+of realising that life and the things
+that pertain to it are of infinitely more value
+than barns, or houses, or acres, or stocks, or
+bonds, or railroad ties. These all have their
+place, all are of value; but they can never be
+made the life. A recent poem by James Oppenheim
+presents a type that is known to
+nearly every one:<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[Pg 156]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I heard the preacher preaching at the funeral:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He moved the relatives to tears telling them of the father, husband, and friend that was dead:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the sweet memories left behind him:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of a life that was good and kind.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I happened to know the man,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And I wondered whether the relatives would have wept if the preacher had told the truth:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Let us say like this:<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"The only good thing this man ever did in his life,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was day before yesterday:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>He died</i>....<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But he didn't even do that of his own volition....<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He was the meanest man in business on Manhattan Island,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The most treacherous friend, the crudest and stingiest husband,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And a father so hard that his children left home as soon as they were old enough....<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of course he had divinity: everything human has:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But he kept it so carefully hidden away that he might just as well not have had it....<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Wife! good cheer! now you can go your own way and live your own life!<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Children, give praise! you have his money: the only good thing he ever gave you....<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Friends! you have one less traitor to deal with....<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">This is indeed a day of rejoicing and exultation!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thank God this man is dead!"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>An unknown enjoyment and profit to him
+is the world's great field of literature, the
+world's great thinkers, the inspirers of so
+many through all the ages. That splendid
+verse by Emily Dickinson means as much to
+him as it would to a dumb stolid ox:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He ate and drank the precious words,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">His spirit grew robust,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He knew no more that he was poor,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Nor that his frame was dust;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He danced along the dingy days,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And this bequest of wings<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was but a book! What liberty<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A loosened spirit brings!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Yes, life and its manifold possibilities of unfoldment
+and avenues of enjoyment&mdash;life, and
+the things that pertain to it&mdash;is an infinitely
+greater thing than the mere accessories of life.</p>
+
+<p>What infinite avenues of enjoyment, what
+peace of mind, what serenity of soul may be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span>
+the possession of all men and all women who
+are alive to the inner possibilities of life as portrayed
+by our own prophet, Emerson, when
+he said:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And when I am stretched beneath the pines,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the evening star so holy shines,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I laugh at the lore and pride of man,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At the Sophist schools and the learned clan;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For what are they all in their high conceit,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When man in the bush with God may meet?<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>It was he who has exerted such a world-wide
+influence upon the minds and lives of men and
+women who also said: "Great men are they
+who see that spirituality is stronger than any
+material force: that thoughts rule the world."
+And this is true not only of the world in general,
+but it is true likewise in regard to the
+individual life.</p>
+
+<p>One of the great secrets of all successful
+living is unquestionably the striking of the
+right balance in life. The material has its
+place&mdash;and a very important place. Fools indeed
+were we to ignore or to attempt to ignore
+this fact. We cannot, however, except
+to our detriment, put the cart before the
+horse. Things may contribute to happiness,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</a></span>
+but things cannot bring happiness&mdash;and sad
+indeed, and crippled and dwarfed and stunted
+becomes the life of every one who is not capable
+of realising this fact. Eternally true indeed
+is it that the life is more than meat and
+the body more than raiment.</p>
+
+<p>All life is from an inner centre outward.
+As within, so without. As we think we become.
+Which means simply this: our prevailing
+thoughts and emotions are never static,
+but dynamic. Thoughts are forces&mdash;like creates
+like, and like attracts like. It is therefore
+for us to choose whether we shall be interested
+primarily in the great spiritual forces
+and powers of life, or whether we shall be interested
+solely in the material things of life.</p>
+
+<p>But there is a wonderful law which we must
+not lose sight of. It is to the effect that when
+we become sufficiently alive to the inner powers
+and forces, to the inner springs of life, the
+material things of life will not only follow in a
+natural and healthy sequence, but they will
+also assume their right proportions. They will
+take their right places.</p>
+
+<p>It was the recognition of this great fundamental
+fact of life that Jesus had in mind when
+he said: "But rather seek ye the kingdom of
+God; and all these things shall be added unto
+you,"&mdash;meaning, as he so distinctly stated, the
+kingdom of the mind and spirit made open and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</a></span>
+translucent to the leading of the Divine Wisdom
+inherent in the human soul, when that
+leading is sought and when through the right
+ordering of the mind we make the conditions
+whereby it may become operative in the individual
+life.</p>
+
+<p>The great value of God as taught by Jesus
+is that God dwells in us. It is truly Emmanuel&mdash;God
+with us. The law must be observed&mdash;the
+conditions must be met. "The Lord is
+with you while ye be with him; and if ye will
+seek him, he will be found of you." "The
+spirit of the living God dwelleth in you." "If
+any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
+that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth
+not; and it shall be given him. But let him
+ask in faith, nothing wavering." That there
+is a Divine law underlying prayer that helps
+to release the inner springs of wisdom, which
+in turn leads to power, was well known to
+Jesus, for his life abundantly proved it.</p>
+
+<p>His great aptitude for the things of the spirit
+enabled him intuitively to realise this, to understand
+it, to use it. And there was no mystery,
+no secret, no subterfuge on the part of
+Jesus as to the source of his power. In clear
+and unmistakable words he made it known&mdash;and
+why should he not? It was the truth,
+the truth of this inner kingdom that would
+make men free that he came to reveal. "The<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</a></span>
+words that I speak unto you I speak not of
+myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me,
+he doeth the works." "My Father worketh
+hitherto and I work.... For as the Father
+hath life in himself; so hath he given to the
+Son to have life in himself.... I can of mine
+own self do nothing." As he followed the conditions
+whereby this higher illumination can
+come so must we.</p>
+
+<p>The injunction that Jesus gave in regard to
+prayer is unquestionably the method that he
+found so effective and that he himself used.
+How many times we are told that he withdrew
+to the mountain for his quiet period, for communion
+with the Father, that the realisation
+of his oneness with God might be preserved
+intact. In this continual realisation&mdash;I and my
+Father are one&mdash;lay his unusual insight and
+power. And his distinct statement which he
+made in speaking of his own powers&mdash;as I am
+ye shall be&mdash;shows clearly the possibilities of
+human unfoldment and attainment, since he
+realised and lived and then revealed the way.</p>
+
+<p>Were not this Divine source of wisdom and
+power the heritage of every human soul, distinctly
+untrue then would be Jesus' saying:
+"For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he
+that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh,
+it shall be opened." Infinitely better is it
+to know that one has this inner source of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</a></span>
+guidance and wisdom which as he opens himself
+to it becomes continually more distinct, more
+clear and more unerring in its guidance, than
+to be continually seeking advice from outside
+sources, and being confused in regard to the
+advice given. This is unquestionably the way
+of the natural and the normal life, made so
+simple and so plain by Jesus, and that was
+foreshadowed by Isaiah when he said: "Hast
+thou not known? Hast thou not heard that
+the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of
+the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is
+weary? He giveth power to the faint and to
+them that have no might he increaseth
+strength. Even the youths shall faint and be
+weary, and the young men shall utterly fall.
+But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew
+their strength; they shall mount up with
+wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be
+weary; they shall walk, and not faint."</p>
+
+<p>Not that problems and trials will not come.
+They will come. There never has been and
+there never will be a life free from them. Life
+isn't conceivable on any other terms. But the
+wonderful source of consolation and strength,
+the source that gives freedom from worry and
+freedom from fear is the realisation of the fact
+that the guiding force and the moulding power
+is within us. It becomes active and controlling
+in the degree that we realise and in the degree<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span>
+that we are able to open ourselves so
+that the Divine intelligence and power can
+speak to and can work through us.</p>
+
+<p>Judicious physical exercise induces greater
+bodily strength and vigour. An active and
+alert mental life, in other words mental activity,
+induces greater intellectual power. And
+under the same general law the same is true
+in regard to the development and the use of
+spiritual power. It, however, although the
+most important of all because it has to do more
+fundamentally with the life itself, we are most
+apt to neglect. The losses, moreover, resulting
+from this neglect are almost beyond calculation.</p>
+
+<p>To establish one's centre aright is to make
+all of life's activities and events and results
+flow from this centre in orderly sequence. A
+modern writer of great insight has said: "The
+understanding that God is, and <i>all there is</i>,
+will establish you upon a foundation from
+which you can never be moved." To know
+that the power that is God is the power that
+works in us is knowledge of transcendent import.</p>
+
+<p>To know that the spirit of Infinite wisdom
+and power which is the creating, the moving,
+and the sustaining force in all life, thinks and
+acts in and through us as our own very life,
+in the degree that we consciously and deliberately<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span>
+desire it to become the guiding and the
+animating force in our lives, and open ourselves
+fully to its leadings, and follow its leadings,
+is to attain to that state of conscious
+oneness with the Divine that Jesus realised,
+lived and revealed, and that he taught as the
+method of the natural and the normal life for
+all men.</p>
+
+<p>We are so occupied with the matters of the
+sense-life that all unconsciously we become
+dominated, ruled by the things of the senses.
+Now in the real life there is the recognition
+of the fact that the springs of life are all
+from within, and that the inner always leads
+and rules the outer. Under the elemental law
+of Cause and Effect this is always done&mdash;whether
+we are conscious of it or not. But
+the difference lies here: The master of life
+consciously and definitely allies himself in
+mind and spirit with the great central Force
+and rules his world from within. The creature
+of circumstances, through lack of desire or
+through weakness of will, fails to do this, and,
+lacking guiding and directing force, drifts and
+becomes thereby the creature of circumstance.</p>
+
+<p>One of deep insight has said: "That we do
+not spontaneously see and know God, as we
+see and know one another, and so manifest
+the God-nature as we do the sense-nature, is
+because that nature is yet latent, and in a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span>
+sense slumbering within us. Yet the God-nature
+within us connects us as directly and
+vitally with the Being and Kingdom of God
+within, behind, and above the world, as does
+the sense-nature with the world external to us.
+Hence as the sense-consciousness was awakened
+and established by the recognition of and
+communication with the outward world
+through the senses, so the God-consciousness
+must be awakened by the corresponding recognition
+of, and communication with the Being
+and Kingdom of God through intuition&mdash;the
+spiritual sense of the inner man.... The true
+prayer&mdash;the prayer of silence&mdash;is the only door
+that opens the soul to the direct revelation of
+God, and brings thereby the realisation of the
+God-nature in ourselves."</p>
+
+<p>As the keynote to the world of sense is
+activity, so the keynote to spiritual light and
+power is quiet. The individual consciousness
+must be brought into harmony with the Cosmic
+consciousness. Paul speaks of the "sons
+of God." And in a single sentence he describes
+what he means by the term&mdash;"For as many
+as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the
+sons of God." An older prophet has said:
+"The Lord in the midst of thee is mighty."
+Jesus with his deep insight perceived the identity
+of his real life with the Divine life, the indwelling
+Wisdom and Power,&mdash;the "Father<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</a></span>
+in me." The whole course of his ministry was
+his attempt "to show those who listened to
+him how he was related to the Father, and to
+teach them that they were related to the same
+Father in exactly the same way."</p>
+
+<p>There is that within man that is illumined
+and energised through the touch of His spirit.
+We can bring our minds into rapport, into such
+harmony and connection with the infinite Divine
+mind that it speaks in us, directs us, and
+therefore acts through us as our own selves.
+Through this connection we become illumined
+by Divine wisdom and we become energised
+by Divine power. It is ours, then, to act under
+the guidance of this higher wisdom and
+in all forms of expression to act and to work
+augmented by this higher power. The finite
+spirit, with all its limitations, becomes at its
+very centre in rapport with Infinite spirit, its
+Source. The finite thereby becomes the channel
+through which the Infinite can and does
+work.</p>
+
+<p>To use an apt figure, it is the moving of the
+switch whereby we connect our wires as it
+were with the central dynamo which is the
+force that animates, that gives and sustains
+life in the universe. It is making actual the
+proposition that was enunciated by Emerson
+when he said: "Every soul is not only the
+inlet, but may become the outlet of all there<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</a></span>
+is in God." Significant also in this connection
+is his statement: "The only sin is limitation."
+It is the actualising of the fact that in Him
+we live and move and have our being, with its
+inevitable resultant that we become "strong
+in the Lord and in the power of His might."
+There is perhaps no more valuable way of
+realising this end, than to adopt the practice
+of taking a period each day for being alone
+in the quiet, a half hour, even a quarter hour;
+stilling the bodily senses and making oneself
+receptive to the higher leadings of the spirit&mdash;receptive
+to the impulses of the soul. This
+is following the master's practice and example
+of communion with the Father. Things in
+this universe and in human life do not happen.
+All is law and sequence. The elemental law
+of cause and effect is universal and unvarying.
+In the realm of spirit law is as definite as
+in the realm of mechanics&mdash;in the realm of all
+material forces.</p>
+
+<p>If we would have the leading of the spirit,
+if we would perceive the higher intuitions and
+be led intuitively, bringing the affairs of the
+daily life thereby into the Divine sequence, we
+must observe the conditions whereby these
+leadings can come to us, and in time become
+habitual.</p>
+
+<p>The law of the spirit is quiet&mdash;to be followed
+by action&mdash;but quiet, the more readily<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</a></span>
+to come into a state of harmony with the Infinite
+Intelligence that works through us, and
+that leads us as our own intelligence when
+through desire and through will, we are able
+to bring our subconscious minds into such
+attunement that it can act through us, and we
+are able to catch its messages and follow its
+direction. But to listen and to observe the
+conditions whereby we can listen is essential.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus' own words as well as his practice
+apply here. After his admonition against
+public prayer, or prayer for show, or prayer
+of much speaking, he said: "But thou, when
+thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when
+thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father
+which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth
+in secret, shall reward thee openly." Now
+there are millions of men, women, and children
+in the world who have no closets. There
+are great numbers of others who have no
+access to them sometimes for days, or weeks,
+or months at a time. It is evident, therefore,
+that in the word that has been rendered closet
+he meant&mdash;enter into the quiet recesses of
+your own soul that you may thus hold communion
+with the Father.</p>
+
+<p>Now the value of prayer is not that God
+will change or order any laws or forces to
+suit the numerous and necessarily the diverse
+petitions of any. All things are through law,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</a></span>
+and law is fixed and inexorable. The value of
+prayer, of true prayer, is that through it one
+can so harmonise his life with the Divine
+order that intuitive perceptions of truth and
+a greater perception and knowledge of law
+becomes his possession. As has been said by
+an able contemporary thinker and writer:
+"We cannot form a passably thorough notion
+of man without saturating it through and
+through with the idea of a cosmic inflow from
+outside his world life&mdash;the inflow of God.
+Without a large consciousness of the universe
+beyond our knowledge, few men, if any, have
+done great things.<a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3" class="fnanchor">[C]</a></p>
+
+<p>I shall always remember with great pleasure
+and profit a call a few days ago from Dr.
+Edward Emerson of Concord, Emerson's
+eldest son. Happily I asked him in regard
+to his father's methods of work&mdash;if he had any
+regular methods. He replied in substance:
+"It was my father's custom to go daily to the
+woods&mdash;<i>to listen</i>. He would remain there an
+hour or more in order to get whatever there
+might be for him that day. He would then
+come home and write into a little book&mdash;his
+'day-book'&mdash;what he had gotten. Later on
+when it came time to write a book, he would
+transcribe from this, in their proper sequence
+and with their proper connections, these entrances<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</a></span>
+of the preceding weeks or months.
+The completed book became virtually a ledger
+formed or posted from his day-books."</p>
+
+<p>The prophet is he who so orders his life that
+he can adequately listen to the voice, the
+revelations of the over soul, and who truthfully
+transcribes what he hears or senses. He is
+not a follower of custom or of tradition. He
+can never become and can never be made the
+subservient tool of an organisation. His aim
+and his mission is rather to free men from
+ignorance, superstition, credulity, from half
+truths, by leading them into a continually
+larger understanding of truth, of law&mdash;and
+therefore of righteousness.</p>
+
+<p>It was more than a mere poetic idea that
+Lowell gave utterance to when he said:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The thing we long for, that we are<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For one transcendent moment.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>To establish this connection, to actualise
+this God-consciousness, that it may not be for
+one transcendent moment, but that it may become
+constant and habitual, so that every
+thought arises, and so that every act goes
+forth from this centre, is the greatest good that
+can come into the possession of man. There is
+nothing greater. It is none other than the
+realisation of Jesus' injunction&mdash;"Seek ye first<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</a></span>
+the Kingdom of God and His righteousness,
+and all these things shall be added unto you."
+It is then that he said&mdash;Do not worry about
+your life. Your mind and your will are under
+the guidance of the Divine mind; your every
+act goes out under this direction and all things
+pertaining to your life will fall into their proper
+places. Therefore do not worry about your
+life.</p>
+
+<p>When a man finds his centre, when he becomes
+centred in the Infinite, then redemption
+takes place. He is redeemed from the bondage
+of the senses. He lives thereafter under
+the guidance of the spirit, and this is salvation.
+It is a new life that he has entered into. He
+lives in a new world, because his outlook is
+entirely new. He is living now in the Kingdom
+of Heaven. Heaven means harmony.
+He has brought his own personal mind and
+life into harmony with the Divine mind and
+life. He becomes a coworker with God.</p>
+
+<p>It is through such men and women that
+God's plans and purposes are carried out.
+They not only hear but they interpret for
+others God's voice. They are the prophets of
+our time and the prophets of all time. They
+are doing God's work in the world, and in so
+doing they are finding their own supreme satisfaction
+and happiness. They are not looking
+forward to the Eternal life. They realise that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</a></span>
+they are now in the Eternal life, and that there
+is no such thing as eternal life if this life that
+we are now in is not it. When the time comes
+for them to stop their labours here, they look
+forward without fear and with anticipation to
+the change, the transition to the other form
+of life&mdash;but not to any other life. The words
+of Whitman embody a spirit of anticipation
+and of adventure for them:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i2">Joy, Shipmate, joy!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">(Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry)<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">One life is closed, one life begun,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The long, long anchorage we leave,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The ship is clear at last, she leaps.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Joy, Shipmate, joy!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>They have an abiding faith that they will
+take up the other form of life exactly where
+they left it off here. Being in heaven now
+they will be in heaven when they awake to the
+continuing beauties of the life subsequent to
+their transition. Such we might also say is
+the teaching of Jesus regarding the highest
+there is in life here and the best there is in the
+life hereafter.</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="XI" id="XI"></a><big>XI</big><br /><br />
+
+SOME METHODS OF EXPRESSION</h2>
+
+
+<p>The life of the Spirit, or, in other words,
+the true religious life, is not a life of mere
+contemplation or a life of inactivity. As
+Fichte, in "The Way Toward the Blessed
+Life," has said: "True religion, notwithstanding
+that it raises the view of those who are inspired
+by it to its own region, nevertheless,
+retains their Life firmly in the domain of action,
+and of right moral action.... Religion
+is not a business by and for itself which a
+man may practise apart from his other occupations,
+perhaps on certain fixed days and hours;
+but it is the inmost spirit that penetrates, inspires,
+and pervades all our Thought and Action,
+which in other respects pursue their appointed
+course without change or interruption.
+That the Divine Life and Energy actually lives
+in us is inseparable from Religion."</p>
+
+<p>How thoroughly this is in keeping with the
+thought of the highly illumined seer, Swedenborg,
+is indicated when he says: "The Lord's
+Kingdom is a Kingdom of ends and uses."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a></span>
+And again: "Forsaking the world means loving
+God and the neighbour; and God is loved
+when a man lives according to His commandments,
+and the neighbour is loved when a man
+performs uses." And still again: "To be of
+use means to desire the welfare of others for
+the sake of the common good; and not to be
+of use means to desire the welfare of others
+not for the sake of the common good but for
+one's own sake.... In order that man may
+receive heavenly life he must live in the world
+and engage in its business and occupations,
+and thus by a moral and civil life acquire spiritual
+life. In no other way can spiritual life
+be generated in man, or his spirit be prepared
+for heaven."</p>
+
+<p>We hear much today both in various writings
+and in public utterances of "the spiritual"
+and "the spiritual life." I am sure that to
+the great majority of men and women the term
+spiritual, or better, the spiritual life, means
+something, but something by no means fully
+tangible or clear-cut. I shall be glad indeed
+if I am able to suggest a more comprehensible
+concept of it, or putting it in another form
+and better perhaps, to present a more clear-cut
+portraiture of the spiritual life in expression&mdash;in
+action.</p>
+
+<p>And first let us note that in the mind and in
+the teachings of Jesus there is no such thing as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[Pg 175]</a></span>
+the secular life and the religious life. His
+ministry pertained to every phase of life. The
+truth that he taught was a truth that was to
+permeate every thought and every act of life.</p>
+
+<p>We make our arbitrary divisions. We are
+too apt to deny the fact that the Lord is the
+Lord of the week-day, the same as He is the
+Lord of the Sabbath. Jesus refused to be
+bound by any such consideration. He taught
+that every act that is a good act, every act
+that is of service to mankind is not only
+a legitimate act to be done on the Sabbath
+day, but an act that <i>should</i> be performed on
+the Sabbath day. And any act that is not
+right and legitimate for the Sabbath day is
+neither right nor legitimate for the week-day.
+In other words, it is the spirit of righteousness
+that must permeate and must govern every act
+of life and every moment of life.</p>
+
+<p>In seeking to define the spiritual life, it were
+better to regard the world as the expression
+of the Divine mind. The spirit is the life; the
+world and all things in it, the material to be
+moulded, raised, and transmuted from the
+lower to the higher. This is indeed the law of
+evolution, that has been through all the ages
+and that today is at work. It is the God-Power
+that is at work and every form of useful activity
+that helps on with this process of lifting
+and bettering is a form of Divine activity.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[Pg 176]</a></span>
+If therefore we recognise the one Divine
+life working in and through all, the animating
+force, therefore the Life of all, and if we are
+consciously helping in this process we are
+spiritual men.</p>
+
+<p>No man of intelligence can fail to recognise
+the fact that life is more important
+than things. Life is the chief thing, and
+material things are the elements that minister
+to, that serve the purposes of the life.
+Whoever does anything in the world to preserve
+life, to better its conditions, who, recognising
+the Divine force at work lifting life up
+always to better, finer conditions, is doing
+God's work in the world&mdash;because cooperating
+with the great Cosmic world plan.</p>
+
+<p>The ideal, then, is men and women of the
+spirit, open and responsive always to its guidance,
+recognising the Divine plan and the
+Divine ideal, working cooperatively in the
+world to make all conditions of life fairer,
+finer, more happy. He who lives and works
+not as an individual, that is not for his good
+alone, but who recognises the essential oneness
+of life&mdash;is carrying out his share of the Divine
+plan.</p>
+
+<p>A man may be unusually gifted; he may have
+unusual ability in business, in administration;
+he may be a giant in finance, in administration,
+but if for self alone, if lack of vision blinds<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[Pg 177]</a></span>
+him to the great Divine plan, if he does not
+recognise his relative place and value; if he
+gains his purposes by selfishness, by climbing
+over others, by indifference to human pain or
+suffering&mdash;oblivious to human welfare&mdash;his
+ways are the ways of the jungle. His mind
+and his life are purely sordid, grossly and
+blindly self-centred&mdash;wholly material. He
+gains his object, but by Divine law not happiness,
+not satisfaction, not peace. He is outside
+the Kingdom of Heaven&mdash;the kingdom of harmony.
+He is living and working out of harmony
+with the Divine mind that is evolving
+a higher order of life in the world. He is
+blind too, he is working against the Divine
+plan.</p>
+
+<p>Now what is the Divine call? Can he be
+made into a spiritual man? Yes. A different
+understanding, a different motive, a different
+object&mdash;then will follow a difference in
+methods. Instead of self alone he will have a
+sense of, he will have a call to service. And
+this man, formerly a hinderer in the Divine
+plan, becomes a spiritual giant. His splendid
+powers and his qualities do not need to be
+changed. Merely his motives and thereby his
+methods, and he is changed into a giant engine
+of righteousness. He is a part of the great
+world force and plan. He is doing his part
+in the great world work&mdash;he is a coworker<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[Pg 178]</a></span>
+with God. And here lies salvation. Saved
+from self and the dwarfed and stunted condition
+that will follow, his spiritual nature unfolds
+and envelops his entire life. His powers
+and his wealth are thereafter to bless mankind.
+But behold! by another great fundamental law
+of life in doing this he is blessed ten, a hundred,
+a millionfold.</p>
+
+<p>Material prosperity is or may become a true
+gain, a veritable blessing. But it can become
+a curse to the world and still more to its possessor
+when made an end in itself, and at the
+expense of all the higher attributes and powers
+of human life.</p>
+
+<p>We have reason to rejoice that a great
+change of estimate has not only begun but is
+now rapidly creeping over the world. He of
+even a generation ago who piled and piled, but
+who remained ignorant of the more fundamental
+laws of life, blind to the law of mutuality
+and service, would be regarded today
+as a low, beastly type. I speak advisedly. It
+is this obedience to the life of the spirit that
+Whitman had in mind when he said: "And
+whoever walks a furlong without sympathy
+walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
+It was the full flowering of the law of mutuality
+and service that he saw when he said:
+"I saw a city invincible to the attacks of
+the whole of the rest of the earth. I dream'd<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[Pg 179]</a></span>
+that it was the new City of Friends. Nothing
+was greater there than the quality of robust
+love; it led the rest. It was seen every hour
+in the actions of the men of that city and in
+all their looks and words." It is through
+obedience to this life of the spirit that order
+is brought out of chaos in the life of the
+individual and in the life of the community,
+in the business world, the labour world, and
+in our great world relations.</p>
+
+<p>But in either case, we men and women of
+Christendom, to be a Christian is not only to
+be good, but to be good for something. According
+to the teachings of the Master true
+religion is not only personal salvation, but it
+is giving one's self through all of one's best
+efforts to actualise the Kingdom of Heaven
+here on earth. The finding of the Kingdom
+is not only personal but social and world-affirming&mdash;and
+in the degree that it becomes
+fully and vitally personal will it become so.</p>
+
+<p>A man who is not right with his fellow-men
+is not right and cannot be right with God.
+This is coming to be the clear-cut realisation
+of all progressive religious thought today.
+Since men are free from the trammels of an
+enervating dogma that through fear made
+them seek, or rather that made them contented
+with religion as primarily a system of rewards
+and punishments, they are now awakening to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[Pg 180]</a></span>
+the fact that the logical carrying out of Jesus'
+teaching of the Kingdom is the establishing
+here on this earth of an order of life and hence
+of a society where greater love and cooperation
+and justice prevail. Our rapidly growing
+present-day conception of Christianity makes
+it not world-renouncing, but world-affirming.</p>
+
+<p>This modern conception of the function of a
+true and vital Christianity makes it the task
+of the immediate future to apply Christianity
+to trade, to commerce, to labour relations, to
+all social relations, to international relations.
+"And, in the wider field of religious thought,"
+says a writer in a great international religious
+paper, "what truer service can we render than
+to strip theology of all that is unreal or needlessly
+perplexing, and make it speak plainly
+and humanly to people who have their duty to
+do and their battle to fight?" It makes intelligent,
+sympathetic, and helpful living take
+the place of the tooth and the claw, the growl
+and the deadly hiss of the jungle&mdash;all right in
+their places, but with no place in human
+living.</p>
+
+<p>The growing realisation of the interdependence
+of all life is giving a new standard
+of action and attainment, and a new standard
+of estimate. Jesus' criterion is coming into
+more universal appreciation: He that is greatest
+among you shall be as he who serves.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[Pg 181]</a></span>
+Through this fundamental law of life there
+are responsibilities that cannot be evaded or
+shirked&mdash;and of him to whom much is given
+much is required.</p>
+
+<p>It was President Wilson who recently said:
+"It is to be hoped that these obvious truths
+will come to more general acceptance; that
+honest business will quit thinking that it is
+attacked when loaded-dice business is attacked;
+that the mutuality of interest between
+employer and employee will receive ungrudging
+admission; and, finally, that men of affairs
+will lend themselves more patriotically to the
+work of making democracy an efficient instrument
+for the promotion of human welfare. It
+cannot be said that they have done so in the
+past.... As a consequence, many necessary
+things have been done less perfectly without
+their assistance that could have been done
+more perfectly with their expert aid." He is
+by no means alone in recognising this fact.
+Nor is he at all blind to the great change that
+is already taking place.</p>
+
+<p>In a recent public address in New York, the
+head of one of the largest plants in the world,
+and who starting with nothing has accumulated
+a fortune of many millions, said: "The
+only thing I am proud of&mdash;prouder of than
+that I have amassed a great fortune&mdash;is that
+I established the first manual training school<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[Pg 182]</a></span>
+in Pennsylvania. The greatest delight of my
+life is to see the advancement of the young
+men who have come up about me."</p>
+
+<p>This growing sense of personal responsibility,
+and still better, of personal interest, this
+giving of one's abilities and one's time, <i>in
+addition to one's means</i>, is the beginning of the
+fulfilment of what I have long thought:
+namely, the great gain that will accrue to
+numberless communities and to the nation,
+when men of great means, men of great business
+and executive ability, give of their time
+and their abilities for the accomplishment of
+those things for the public welfare that otherwise
+would remain undone, or that would remain
+unduly delayed. What a gain will result
+also to those who so do in the joy and
+satisfaction resulting from this higher type of
+accomplishment hallowed by the undying element
+of human service!</p>
+
+<p>You keep silent too much. "Have great
+leaders, and the rest will follow," said Whitman.
+The gift of your abilities while you live
+would be of priceless worth for the establishing
+and the maintenance of a fairer, a healthier,
+and a sweeter life in your community, your
+city, your country. It were better to do this
+and to be contented with a smaller accumulation
+than to have it so large or even so excessive,
+and when the summons comes to leave<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span>
+it to two or three or to half a dozen who cannot
+possibly have good use for it all, and some
+of whom perchance would be far better off
+without it, or without so much. By so doing
+you would be leaving something still greater
+to them as well as to hundreds or thousands of
+others.</p>
+
+<p>Significant in this connection are these words
+by a man of wealth and of great public service:<a name="FNanchor_D_4" id="FNanchor_D_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_D_4" class="fnanchor">[D]</a></p>
+
+<p>"On the whole, the individualistic age has
+not been a success, either for the individual, or
+the community in which he has lived, or the
+nation. We are, beyond question, entering on
+a period where the welfare of the community
+takes precedence over the interests of the individual
+and where the liberty of the individual
+will be more and more circumscribed for
+the benefit of the community as a whole.
+Man's activities will hereafter be required to
+be not only for himself but for his fellow-men.
+To my mind there is nothing in the signs of
+the times so certain as this.</p>
+
+<p>"The man of exceptional ability, of more
+than ordinary talent, will hereafter look for
+his rewards, for his honours, not in one direction<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[Pg 184]</a></span>
+but in two&mdash;first, and foremost, in some
+public work accomplished, and, secondarily, in
+wealth acquired. In place of having it said of
+him at his death that he left so many hundred
+thousand dollars it will be said that he rendered
+a certain amount of public service, and,
+incidentally, left a certain amount of money.
+Such a goal will prove a far greater satisfaction
+to him, he will live a more rational, worthwhile
+life, and he will be doing his share to
+provide a better country in which to live. We
+face new conditions, and in order to survive
+and succeed we shall require a different spirit
+of public service."</p>
+
+<p>I am well aware of the fact that the mere
+accumulation of wealth is not, except in very
+rare cases, the controlling motive in the lives
+of our wealthy men of affairs. It is rather
+the joy and the satisfaction of achievement.
+But nevertheless it is possible, as has so often
+proved, to get so much into a habit and
+thereby into a rut, that one becomes a victim
+of habit; and the life with all its superb possibilities
+of human service, and therefore of true
+greatness, becomes side-tracked and abortive.</p>
+
+<p>There are so many different lines of activity
+for human betterment for children, for men
+and women, that those of great executive and
+financial ability have wonderful opportunities.
+Greatness comes always through human service.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[Pg 185]</a></span>
+As there is no such thing as finding
+happiness by searching for it directly, so there
+is no such thing as achieving greatness by
+seeking it directly. It comes not primarily
+through brilliant intellect, great talents, but
+primarily through the heart. It is determined
+by the way that brilliant intellect, great talents
+are used. It is accorded not to those who seek
+it directly. By an indirect law it is accorded
+to those who, forgetting self, give and thereby
+lose their lives in human service.</p>
+
+<p>Both poet and prophet is Edwin Markham
+when he says:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">We men of earth have here the stuff<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of Paradise&mdash;we have enough!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We need no other stones to build<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The stairs into the Unfulfilled&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No other ivory for the doors&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No other marble for the floors&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No other cedar for the beam<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And dome of man's immortal dream.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Here on the paths of every day&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Here on the common human way,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is all the stuff the gods would take<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To build a Heaven; to mould and make<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">New Edens. Ours the stuff sublime<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To build Eternity in time!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[Pg 186]</a></span></p>
+<p>This putting of divinity into life and raising
+thereby an otherwise sordid life up to higher
+levels and thereby to greater enjoyments, is
+the power that is possessed equally by those
+of station and means, and by those in the more
+humble or even more lowly walks of life.</p>
+
+<p>When your life is thus touched by the spirit
+of God, when it is ruled by this inner Kingdom,
+when your constant prayer, as the prayer
+of every truly religious man or woman will be&mdash;Lord,
+what wilt Thou have me to do? My
+one desire is that Thy will be my will, and
+therefore that Thy will be done in me and
+through me&mdash;then you are living the Divine
+life; you are a coworker with God. And
+whether your life according to accepted standards
+be noted or humble it makes no difference&mdash;you
+are fulfilling your Divine mission. You
+should be, you cannot help being fearless and
+happy. You are a part of the great creative
+force in the world.</p>
+
+<p>You are doing a man's or a woman's work
+in the world, and in so doing you are not unimportant;
+you are essential. The joy of true
+accomplishment is yours. You can look forward
+always with sublime courage and expectancy.
+The life of the most humble can
+thus become an exalted life. Mother, watching
+over, cleaning, feeding, training, and educating
+your brood; seamstress, working, with a touch<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</a></span>
+of the Divine in all you do&mdash;it must be done
+by some one&mdash;allow it to be done by none
+better than by you. Farmer, tilling your soil,
+gathering your crops, caring for your herds;
+you are helping feed the world. There is
+nothing more important.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Who digs a well, or plants a seed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A sacred pact he keeps with sun and sod;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With these he helps refresh and feed<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">The world, and enters partnership with God."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>If you do not allow yourself to become a
+slave to your work, and if you cooperate
+within the house and the home so that your
+wife and your daughters do not become slaves
+or near-slaves, what an opportunity is yours
+of high thinking and noble living! The more
+intelligent you become, the better read, the
+greater the interest you take in community and
+public affairs, the more effectively you become
+what in reality and jointly you are&mdash;the
+backbone of this and of every nation. Teacher,
+poet, dramatist, carpenter, ironworker, clerk,
+college head, Mayor, Governor, President,
+Ruler&mdash;the effectiveness of your work and the
+satisfaction in your work will be determined
+by the way in which you relate your thought
+and your work to the Divine plan, and coordinate<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[Pg 188]</a></span>
+your every activity in reference to the
+highest welfare of the greater whole.</p>
+
+<p>However dimly or clearly we may perceive
+it great changes are taking place. The simple,
+direct teachings of the Christ are reaching
+more and more the mind, are stirring the heart
+and through these are dominating the actions
+of increasing numbers of men and women.
+The realisation of the mutual interdependence
+of the human family, the realisation of its common
+source, and that when one part of it goes
+wrong all suffer thereby, the same as when
+any portion of it advances all are lifted and
+benefited thereby, makes us more eager for
+the more speedy actualising of the Kingdom
+that the Master revealed and portrayed.</p>
+
+<p>It was Sir Oliver Lodge who in this connection
+recently said: "Those who think that
+the day of the Messiah is over are strangely
+mistaken; it has hardly begun. In individual
+souls Christianity has flourished and borne
+fruit, but for the ills of the world itself it is
+an almost untried panacea. It will be strange
+if this ghastly war fosters and simplifies and
+improves a knowledge of Christ, and aids a
+perception of the ineffable beauty of his life
+and teaching; yet stranger things have happened,
+and whatever the churches may do, I
+believe that the call of Christ himself will be
+heard and attended to by a larger part of humanity<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</a></span>
+in the near future, as never yet it has
+been heard or attended to on earth."</p>
+
+<p>The simple message of the Christ, with its
+twofold injunction of Love, is, when sufficiently
+understood and sufficiently heeded, all
+that we men of earth need to lift up, to beautify,
+to make strong and Godlike individual
+lives and thereby and of necessity the life of
+the world. Jesus never taught that God incarnated
+Himself in him alone. I challenge
+any man living to find any such teaching
+by him. He did proclaim his own unique
+realisation of God. Intuitively and vividly he
+perceived the Divine life, the eternal Word, the
+eternal Christ, manifesting in his clean, strong,
+upright soul, so that the young Jewish rabbi
+and prophet, known in all his community as
+Jesus, the son of Joseph and Mary and whose
+brothers and sisters they knew so well,<a name="FNanchor_E_5" id="FNanchor_E_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_E_5" class="fnanchor">[E]</a> became
+the firstborn&mdash;fully born&mdash;of the Father.</p>
+
+<p>He then pleaded with all the energy and
+love and fervour of his splendid heart and
+vigorous manhood that all men should follow
+the Way that he revealed and realise their
+Divine Sonship, that their lives might be redeemed&mdash;redeemed
+from the bondage of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</a></span>
+bodily senses and the bondage of merely the
+things of the outer world, and saved as fit subjects
+of and workers in the Father's Kingdom.
+Otherwise for millions of splendid earnest men
+and women today his life-message would have
+no meaning.</p>
+
+<p>To make men awake to their real identity,
+and therefore to their possibilities and powers
+as true sons of God, the Father of all, and
+therefore that all men are brothers&mdash;for otherwise
+God is not Father of all&mdash;and to live together
+in brotherly love and mutual cooperation
+whereby the Divine will becomes done on
+earth as it is in heaven&mdash;this is his message to
+we men of earth. If we believe his message
+and accept his leadership, then he becomes indeed
+our elder brother who leads the way, the
+Word in us becomes flesh, the Christ becomes
+enthroned in our lives,&mdash;and we become co-workers
+with him in the Father's vineyard.</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[Pg 191]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="XII" id="XII"></a><big>XII</big><br /><br />
+
+THE WORLD WAR&mdash;ITS MEANING AND ITS
+LESSONS FOR US</h2>
+
+
+<p>Whatever differences of opinion&mdash;and honest
+differences of opinion&mdash;may have existed and
+may still exist in America in regard to the
+great world conflict, there is a wonderful
+unanimity of thought that has crystallised itself
+into the concrete form&mdash;<i>something must be
+done in order that it can never occur again</i>.
+The higher intelligence of the nation must
+assert itself. It must feel and think and act
+in terms of internationalism. Not that the
+feeling of nationalism in any country shall, or
+even can be eradicated or even abated. It
+must be made, however, to coordinate itself
+with the now rapidly growing sense of world-consciousness,
+that the growing intelligence
+of mankind, aided by some tremendously concrete
+forms of recent experience, is now recognising
+as a great reality.</p>
+
+<p>That there were very strong sympathies for
+both the Allied Nations and for the Central
+Powers in the beginning, goes without saying,
+How could it be otherwise, when we<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[Pg 192]</a></span>
+realise the diverse and complex types of our
+citizenship?</p>
+
+<p>One of the most distinctive, and in some
+ways one of the most significant, features of
+the American nation is that it is today composed
+of representatives, and in some cases, of
+enormous bodies of representatives, numbering
+into the millions, of practically every nation
+in the world.</p>
+
+<p>There are single cities where, in one case
+twenty-six, in another case twenty-nine, and
+in other cases a still larger number of what
+are today designated as hyphenated citizens
+are represented. The orderly removal of the
+hyphen, and the amalgamation of these splendid
+representatives of practically all nations
+into genuine American citizens, infused with
+American ideals and pushed on by true American
+ambitions, is one of the great problems
+that the war has brought in a most striking
+manner to our attention.</p>
+
+<p>Not that these representatives of many
+nations shall in any way lose their sense of
+sympathy for the nations of their birth, in
+times of either peace or of distress, although
+they have found it either advisable or greatly
+to their own personal advantage and welfare
+to leave the lands of their birth and to establish
+their homes here.</p>
+
+<p>The fact that in the vast majority of cases<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span>
+they find themselves better off here, and
+choose to remain and assume the responsibilities
+of citizenship in the Western Republic,
+involves a responsibility that some, if not indeed
+many, heretofore have apparently too
+lightly considered. There must be a more supreme
+sense of allegiance, and a continually
+growing sense of responsibility to the nation,
+that, guided by their own independent judgment
+and animated by their own free wills,
+they have chosen as their home.</p>
+
+<p>There is a difference between sympathy
+and allegiance; and unless a man has found
+conditions intolerable in the land of his birth,
+and this is the reason for his seeking a home
+in another land more to his liking and to his
+advantage, we cannot expect him to be devoid
+of sympathy for the land of his birth, especially
+in times of stress or of great need. We
+can expect him, however, and we have a right
+to demand his <i>absolute allegiance</i> to the land
+of his adoption. And if he cannot give this,
+then we should see to it that he return to his
+former home. If he is capable of clear thinking
+and right feeling, he also must realise the
+fundamental truth of this fact.</p>
+
+<p>There are public schools in America where
+as many as nineteen languages are spoken in
+a single room. Our public schools, so eagerly
+sought by the children of parents of foreign<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span>
+birth, in their intense eagerness for an education,
+that is offered freely and without cost
+to all, can and must be made greater instruments
+in converting what must in time become
+a great menace to our institutions, and
+even to the very life of the nation itself, into
+a real and genuine American citizenship. Our
+best educators, in addition to our clearest
+thinking citizens, are realising as never before,
+that our public-school system chiefly,
+among our educational institutions, must be
+made a great melting-pot through which this
+process of amalgamation must be carried on.</p>
+
+<p>We are also realising clearly now that, as a
+nation, we have been entirely too lax in connection
+with our immigration privileges, regulations
+and restrictions. We have been admitting
+foreigners to our shores in such enormous
+quantities each year that we have not
+been able at all adequately to assimilate them,
+nor have we used at all a sufficiently wise discrimination
+in the admission of desirables or
+undesirables.</p>
+
+<p>We have received, or we have allowed to
+be dumped upon our shores, great numbers
+of the latter whom we should know would inevitably
+become dependents, as well as great
+numbers of criminals. The result has been
+that they have been costing certain localities
+millions of dollars every year. But entirely<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span>
+aside from the latter, the last two or three
+years have brought home to us as never before
+the fact that those who come to our
+shores must come with the avowed and the
+settled purpose of becoming real American
+citizens, giving full and absolute allegiance to
+the institutions, the laws, the government of
+the land of their adoption.</p>
+
+<p>If any other government is not able so to
+manage as to make it more desirable for its
+subjects to remain in the land of their birth,
+rather than to seek homes in the land with
+institutions more to their liking, or with advantages
+more conducive to their welfare,
+that government then should not expect to
+retain, even in the slightest degree, the allegiance
+of such former subjects. A hyphenated
+citizenship may become as dangerous
+to a republic as a cancer is in the human
+body. A country with over a hundred hyphens
+cannot fulfil its highest destiny.</p>
+
+<p>We, as a nation, have been rudely shaken
+from our long dream of almost inevitable
+national security. We have been brought
+finally, and although as a nation we have no
+desire for conquest or empire, and no desire
+for military glory, and therefore no need of
+any great army or navy for offensive purposes,
+we have been brought finally to realise
+that we do, nevertheless, stand in need of a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span>
+national strengthening of our arm of defence.
+A land of a hundred million people, where
+one could travel many times for a sixmonth
+and never see the sign of a soldier, is brought,
+though reluctantly, to face a new state of affairs;
+but one, nevertheless, that must be
+faced&mdash;calmly faced and wisely acted upon.
+And while it is true that as a nation we
+have always had the tradition of non-militarism,
+it is not true that we have had the tradition
+of military or of naval impotence or
+weakness.</p>
+
+<p>Preparedness, therefore, has assumed a position
+of tremendous importance, in individual
+thought, in public discussion, and almost universally
+in the columns of the public press.
+One of the most vital questions among us
+then is, not so much as to how we shall prepare,
+but how shall we prepare adequately for
+defensive purposes, in case of any emergency
+arising, without being thrown too far along
+the road of militarism, and without an inordinate
+preparation that has been the scourge
+and the bane of many old-world countries for
+so many years, and that quite as much as
+anything has been provocative of the horrible
+conflict that has literally been devastating so
+many European countries.</p>
+
+<p>It is clearly apparent that the best thought
+in America today calls for an adequate preparation<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span>
+for purposes of defence, and calls
+for a recognition of facts as they are. It also
+clearly sees the danger of certain types of
+mind and certain interests combining to carry
+the matter much farther than is at all called
+for. The question is&mdash;How shall we then
+strike that happy balance that is the secret of
+all successful living in the lives of either individuals
+or in the lives of nations?</p>
+
+<p>All clear-seeing people realise that, as
+things are in the world today, there is a certain
+amount of preparedness that is necessary
+for influence and for insurance. As within
+the nation a police force is necessary for the
+enforcement of law, for the preservation of
+law and order, although it is not at all necessary
+that every second or third man be a
+policeman, so in the council of nations the individual
+nation must have a certain element
+of force that it can fall back upon if all other
+available agencies fail. In diplomacy the
+strong nations win out, the weaker lose out.
+Military and naval power, unless carried to a
+ridiculous excess does not, therefore, lie idle,
+even when not in actual use.</p>
+
+<p>Our power and influence as a nation will
+certainly not be in proportion to our weakness.
+Although righteousness exalteth a nation,
+it is nevertheless true that righteousness
+alone will not protect a nation&mdash;while<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span>
+other nations are fully armed. National weakness
+does not make for peace.</p>
+
+<p>Righteousness, combined with a spirit of
+forbearance, combined with a keen desire to
+give justice as well as to demand justice, if
+combined with the power to strike powerfully
+and sustainedly in defence of justice, and in
+defence of national integrity, is what protects
+a nation, and this it is that in the long run
+exalteth a nation&mdash;<i>while things are as they
+are</i>.</p>
+
+<p>While conditions have therefore brought
+prominently to the forefront in America the
+matter of military training and military service&mdash;an
+adequate military preparation for purposes
+of defence, for full and adequate defence,
+the best thought of the nation is almost
+a unit in the belief that, for us as a nation,
+an immense standing army is unnecessary as
+well as inadvisable.</p>
+
+<p>No amount of military preparation that is
+not combined definitely and completely with
+an enhanced citizenship, and therefore with
+an advance in real democracy, is at all worthy
+of consideration on the part of the American
+people, or indeed on the part of the people of
+any nation. Pre-eminently is this true in
+this day and age.</p>
+
+<p>Observing this principle we could then,
+while a certain degree of universal training<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span>
+under some system similar to the Swiss or
+Australian system is being carried on, and to
+serve <i>our immediate needs</i>, have an army of
+even a quarter of a million men without danger
+of militarism and without heavy financial
+burdens, and without subverting our American
+ideas&mdash;providing it is an industrial arm.
+There are great engineering projects that
+could be carried on, thereby developing many
+of our now latent resources; there is an immense
+amount of road-building that could be
+projected in many parts of, if not throughout
+the entire country; there are great irrigation
+projects that could be carried on in the far
+West and Southwest, reclaiming millions upon
+millions of acres of what are now unproductive
+desert lands; all these could be carried
+on and made even to pay, keeping busy
+a large number of men for half a dozen years
+to come.</p>
+
+<p>This army of this number of men could be
+recruited, trained to an adequate degree of
+military service, and at the same time could
+be engaged in profitable employment on these
+much-needed works. They could then be
+paid an adequate wage, ample to support a
+family, or ample to lay up savings if without
+family. Such men leaving the army service,
+would then have a degree of training and
+skill whereby they would be able to get positions<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span>
+or employment, all more remunerative
+than the bulk of them, perhaps, would ever
+be able to get without such training and experience.</p>
+
+<p>An army of this number of trained men,
+somewhat equally divided between the Atlantic
+and the Pacific seaboards, the bulk of
+them engaged in regular constructive work,
+<i>work that needs to be done and that, therefore,
+could be profitably done</i>, and ready to
+be called into service at a moment's notice,
+would constitute a tremendous insurance
+against any aggression from without, and
+would also give a tremendous sense of security
+for half a dozen years at least. This
+number could then be reduced, for by that
+time several million young men from eighteen
+years up would be partially trained and
+in first-class physical shape to be summoned
+to service should the emergency arise.</p>
+
+<p>In addition to the vast amount of good
+roads building, whose cost could be borne in
+equal proportions by nation, state and county&mdash;a
+most important factor in connection with
+military necessity as well as a great economic
+factor in the successful development and advancement
+of any community&mdash;the millions
+of acres of now arid lands in the West, awaiting
+only water to make them among the most
+valuable and productive in all the world,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span>
+could be used as a great solution of our immigration
+problem.</p>
+
+<p>Up to the year when the war began, there
+came to our shores upwards of one million
+immigrants every twelve months, seeking
+work, and most of them homes in this country.
+The great bulk of them got no farther
+than our cities, increasing congestion, already
+in many cases acute, and many of them becoming
+in time, from one cause or another,
+dependents, the annual cost of their maintenance
+aggregating many millions every
+year.</p>
+
+<p>With these vast acres ready for them large
+numbers could, under a wise system of distribution,
+be sent on to the great West and
+Southwest, and more easily and directly now
+since the Panama Canal is open for navigation.
+Allotments of these lands could be assigned
+them that they could in time become
+owners of, through a wisely established system
+of payments. Many of them would
+thereby be living lives similar to those they
+lived in their own countries, and for which
+their training and experience there have abundantly
+fitted them. They would thus become
+a far more valuable type of citizens&mdash;landowners&mdash;than
+they could ever possibly become
+otherwise, and especially through our
+present unorganised hit-or-miss system. They<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span>
+would in time also add annually hundreds
+of millions of productive work to the wealth
+of the country.</p>
+
+<p>The very wise system that was inaugurated
+some time ago in connection with the Coast
+Defence arm of our army is, under the wise
+direction of our present Secretary of War, to
+be extended to all branches of the service.
+For some time in the Coast Artillery Service
+the enlisted man under competent instruction
+has had the privilege of becoming a skilled
+machinist or a skilled electrician. Now the
+system is to be extended through all branches
+of the military service, and many additional
+trades are to be added to the curricula of the
+trade schools of the army. The young man
+can, therefore, make his own selection and
+become a trained artisan at the same time
+that he serves his time in the army, with all
+expenses for such training, as well as maintenance,
+borne by the Government. He can
+thereby leave the service fully equipped for
+profitable employment.</p>
+
+<p>This will have the tendency of calling a
+better class of young men into the service;
+it will also do away with the well-founded
+criticism that army life and its idleness, or
+partly-enforced idleness, unfits a man for
+useful industrial service after he quits the
+army. If this same system is extended through<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span>
+the navy, as it can be, both army and navy
+service will meet the American requirement&mdash;that
+neither military nor naval service take
+great numbers of men from productive employment,
+to be in turn supported by other
+workers. Instead of so much dead timber,
+they are all the time producing while in active
+service, and are being trained to be
+highly efficient as producers, when they leave
+the service.</p>
+
+<p>Under this system the Federal Government
+can build its own ordnance works and its own
+munition factories and become its own maker
+of whatever may be required in all lines of
+output. We will then be able to escape the
+perverse influence of gain on the part of large
+munition industries, and the danger that
+comes from that portion of a military party
+whose motives are actuated by personal gain.</p>
+
+<p>If the occasion arises, or if we permit the
+occasion to arise, Kruppism in America will
+become as dangerous and as sinister in its
+influences and its proportions, as it became
+in Germany.</p>
+
+<p>Another great service that the war has
+done us, is by way of bringing home to us
+the lesson that has been so prominently
+brought to the front in connection with the
+other nations at war, namely, the necessity of
+the speedy and thorough mobilisation of all<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span>
+lines of industries and business; for the
+thoroughness and the efficiency with which
+this can be done may mean success that
+otherwise would result in failure and disaster.
+We are now awake to the tremendous
+importance of this.</p>
+
+<p>It is at last becoming clearly understood
+among the peoples and the nations of the
+world that, as a nation, we have no desire for
+conquest, for territory, for empire&mdash;we have
+no purposes of aggression; we have quite
+enough to do to develop our resources and our
+as yet great undeveloped areas.</p>
+
+<p>A few months before the war broke, I had
+conversations with the heads or with the representatives
+of leading publishing houses in
+several European countries. It was at a
+time when our Mexican situation was beginning
+to be very acute. I remember at
+that time especially, the conversation with
+the head of one of the largest publishing
+houses in Italy, in Milan. I could see plainly
+his scepticism when, in reply to his questions,
+I endeavoured to persuade him that as a
+nation we had no motives of conquest or of
+aggression in Mexico, that we were interested
+solely in the restoration of a representative
+and stable government there. And since
+that time, I am glad to say that our acts<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span>
+as a nation have all been along the line of
+persuading him, and also many other like-minded
+ones in many countries abroad, of
+the truth of this assertion. By this general
+course we have been gaining the confidence
+and have been cementing the friendship of
+practically every South American republic,
+our immediate neighbours on the southern
+continent. This has been a source of increasing
+economic power with us, and an
+element of greatly added strength, and also
+a tremendous energy working all the time for
+the preservation of peace.</p>
+
+<p>One can say most confidently, even though
+recognising our many grave faults as a nation,
+that our course along this line has been
+such, especially of late years, as to inspire
+confidence on the part of all the fair-minded
+nations of the world.</p>
+
+<p>Our theory of the state, the theory of democracy,
+is not that the state is above all,
+and that the individual and his welfare are
+as nothing when compared to it, but rather
+that the state is the agency through which
+the highest welfare of all its subjects is to
+be evolved, expressed, maintained. No other
+theory to my mind, is at all compatible with
+the intelligence of any free-thinking people.</p>
+
+<p>Otherwise, there is always the danger and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span>
+also the likelihood, while human nature is
+as it is, for some ruler, some clique, or factions
+so to concentrate power into their own
+hands, that for their own ambitions, for
+aggrandisement, or for false or short-sighted
+and half-baked ideas of additions to their
+country, it is dragged into periodic wars with
+other nations.</p>
+
+<p>Nor do we share in the belief that the state
+is above morality, but rather that identically
+the same moral ideals, precepts and obligations
+that bind individuals must be held
+sacred by the state, otherwise it becomes a
+pirate among nations, and it will inevitably
+in time be hunted down and destroyed as
+such, however great its apparent power. Nor
+do we as a nation share in the belief that
+war is necessary and indeed good for a nation,
+to inspire and to preserve its manly
+qualities, its virility, and therefore its power.
+Were this the only way that this could be
+brought about, it might be well and good;
+but the price to be paid is a price that is too
+enormous and too frightful, and the results
+are too uncertain. We believe that these
+same ideals can be inculcated, that these
+same energies can be used along useful, conserving,
+constructive lines, rather than along
+lines of destruction.</p>
+
+<p>A nation may have the most colossal and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span>
+perfect military system in the world, and still
+may suffer defeat in any given while, because
+of those unseen things that pertain to the
+soul of another people, whereby powers and
+forces are engendered and materialised that
+make defeat for them impossible; and in
+the matter of big guns, it is well always to
+remember that no nation can build them so
+great that another nation may not build them
+still greater. National safety does not necessarily
+lie in that direction. Nor, on the
+other hand, along the lines of extreme pacificism&mdash;surely
+not as long as things are as
+they are. The argument of the lamb has
+small deterrent effect upon the wolf&mdash;as long
+as the wolf is a wolf. And sometimes wolves
+hunt in packs. The most preeminent lesson
+of the great war for us as a nation should be
+this&mdash;there should be constantly a degree of
+preparedness sufficient to hold until all the
+others, the various portions of the nation,
+thoroughly coordinated and ready, can be
+summoned into action. Thus are we prepared,
+thus are we safe, and there is no
+danger or fear of militarism.</p>
+
+<p>In a democracy it should, without question,
+be a fundamental fact that hand in hand
+with equal rights there should go a sense of
+equal duty. A call for defence should have a
+universal response. So it is merely good<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span>
+common-sense, good judgment, if you please,
+for all the young men of the nation to have
+a training sufficient to enable them to respond
+effectively if the nation's safety calls
+them to its defence. It is no crime, however
+we may deprecate war, to be thus prepared.</p>
+
+<p>For young men&mdash;and we must always remember
+that it is the young men who are
+called for this purpose&mdash;for young men to
+be called to the colours by the tens or the
+hundreds of thousands, unskilled and untrained,
+to be shot down, decimated by the
+thoroughly trained and skilled troops of another
+nation, or a combination of other nations,
+is indeed the crime. Never, moreover,
+was folly so great as that shown by him or
+by her who will not see. And to look at the
+matter without prejudice, we will realise that
+this is merely policing what we have. It is
+meeting force with adequate force, <i>if it becomes
+necessary</i>, so to meet it.</p>
+
+<p>This is necessary until such time as we have
+in operation among nations a thoroughly established
+machinery whereby force will give
+place to reason, whereby common sense will
+be used in adjusting all differences between
+nations, as it is now used in adjusting differences
+between individuals.</p>
+
+<p>Our period of isolation is over. We have
+become a world-nation. Equality of rights<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span>
+presupposes equality of duty. In our very
+souls we loathe militarism. Conquest and
+aggression are foreign to our spirit, and foreign
+to our thoughts and ambitions. But
+weakness will by no means assure us immunity
+from aggression from without. Universal
+military training up to a reasonable
+point, and the joint sense of responsibility of
+every man and every woman in the nation,
+and the right of the national government to
+expect and to demand that every man and
+woman stand ready to respond to the call to
+service, whatever form it may take&mdash;this is
+our armour.</p>
+
+<p>All intelligent people know that the national
+government has always had the power
+to draft every male citizen fit for service into
+military service. It is not therefore a question
+of universal military service. The real
+and only question is whether these or great
+numbers of these go out illy prepared and
+equipped as sheep to the shambles perchance,
+or whether they go out trained and equipped
+to do a man's work&mdash;more adequately prepared
+to protect themselves as well as the
+integrity of the nation. It is not to be done
+for the love or the purpose of militarism; but
+recognising the fact that militarism still persists,
+that with us it may not be triumphant
+should we at any time be forced to face it.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg 210]</a></span>
+There are certain facts that only to our peril
+as well as our moral degradation, we can be
+blind to. Said a noted historian but a few
+days ago:</p>
+
+<p>"I loathe war and militarism. I have fought
+them for twenty years. But I am a historian,
+and I know that bullies thrive best in an
+atmosphere of meekness. As long as this
+military system lasts you must discourage
+the mailed fist by showing that you will
+meet it with something harder than a boxing
+glove. We do not think it good to admit
+into the code of the twentieth century that
+a great national bully may still with impunity
+squeeze the blood out of its small neighbours
+and seize their goods."</p>
+
+<p>We need not fear militarism arising in
+America as long as the fundamental principles
+of democracy are preserved and continually
+extended, which can be done only
+through the feeling of the individual responsibility
+of every man and every woman to
+take a keen and constant interest in the matters
+of their own government&mdash;community,
+state, national, and now international. We
+must realise and ever more fully realise that
+in a government such as ours, the people are
+the government, and that when in it anything
+goes wrong, or wrongs and injustices are allowed
+to grow and hold sway, we are to
+blame.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg 211]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Universal military training has not militarised
+Switzerland nor has it Australia. It
+is rather the very essence of democracy and
+the very antithesis of militarism.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Let each son of Freedom bear<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">His portion of the burden. Should not each one do his share?<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To sacrifice the splendid few&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The strong of heart, the brave, the true,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Who live&mdash;or die&mdash;as heroes do,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">While cowards profit&mdash;is not fair!"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Many still recall that not a few well-meaning
+people at the close of the Civil War proclaimed
+that, with upwards of two million
+trained men behind him, General Grant would
+become a military dictator, and that this
+would be followed by the disappearance of
+democracy in the nation. But the mind, the
+temper, the traditions of our people are all a
+guarantee against militarism. The gospel, the
+hallucination of the shining armour, the will
+to power, has no attraction for us. We loathe
+it; nor do we fear its undermining and crushing
+our own liberties internally. Nevertheless,
+it is true that vigilance is always and always
+will be the price of liberty. There must be a
+constant education towards citizenship. There
+must be an alert democracy, so that any land<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span>
+and sea force is always the servant of the
+spirit; for only otherwise it can become its
+master&mdash;but otherwise it will become its
+master.</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[Pg 213]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="XIII" id="XIII"></a><big>XIII</big><br /><br />
+
+OUR SOLE AGENCY OF INTERNATIONAL
+PEACE, AND INTERNATIONAL
+CONCORD</h2>
+
+
+<p>The consensus of intelligent thought
+throughout the world is to the effect that just
+as we have established an orderly method for
+the settlement of disputes between individuals
+or groups of individuals in any particular
+nation, we must now move forward and
+establish such methods for the settlement of
+disputes among nations. There is no civilised
+country in the world that any longer permits
+the individual to take the law into his own
+hands.</p>
+
+<p>The intelligent thought of the world now
+demands the definite establishment of a World
+Federation for the enforcement of peace
+among nations. It demands likewise the definite
+establishment of a permanent World
+Court, backed by adequate force for the arbitrament
+of all disputes among nations&mdash;unable
+to be adjusted by the nations themselves
+in friendly conference. We have now
+reached the stage in world development and
+in world intercourse where peace must be
+internationalised. Our present chaotic condition,
+which exists simply because we haven't<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[Pg 214]</a></span>
+taken time as yet to establish a method, must
+be made to give place to an intelligently devised
+system of law and order. Anything
+short of this means a periodic destruction of
+the finest fruits of civilisation. It means also
+the periodic destruction of the finest young
+manhood of the world. This means, in turn,
+the speedy degeneration of the human race.
+The deification of force, augmented by all the
+products and engines of modern science, is
+simply the way of sublimated savagery.</p>
+
+<p>The world is in need of a new dispensation.
+Recent events show indisputably that we have
+reached the parting of the ways, the family of
+nations must now push on into the new day
+or the world will plunge on into a darker
+night. There is no other course in sight. I
+know of no finer words penned in any language&mdash;this
+time it was in French&mdash;to express
+an unvarying truth than these words
+by Victor Hugo: "There is one thing that
+is stronger than armies, and that is an idea
+whose time has come."</p>
+
+<p>Never before, after viewing the great havoc
+wrought, the enormous debts that will have
+to be paid for between fifty and a hundred
+years to come, the tremendous disruptions
+and losses in trade, the misery and degradation
+stalking broadcast over every land engaged
+in the war&mdash;scarcely a family untouched<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[Pg 215]</a></span>&mdash;never
+before have nations been in the state
+of mind to consider and to long to act upon
+some sensible and comprehensive method
+of international concord and adjustments.
+If this succeeds, the world, including ourselves,
+is the gainer. If this does not succeed,
+though the chances are overwhelmingly
+in its favour, then we can proclaim to the assembled
+nations that as long as a state of outlawry
+exists among nations, that then no
+longer by chance but by design, we as a nation
+will be in a state of preparedness broad and
+comprehensive enough to defend ourselves
+against the violation of any of the rights of
+a sovereign nation. It is only in this way
+that we can show a due appreciation of the
+struggles and the sacrifices of those who
+gave us our national existence; it is only in
+this way that we can, retain our self-respect,
+that we can command the respect of other
+nations <i>while things are as they are</i>; that
+we can hope to retain any degree of influence
+and authority for the diplomatic arm
+of our Government in the Council of Nations.</p>
+
+<p>Every neutral nation has suffered tremendously
+by the war. Every neutral nation will
+suffer until a new world-order among nations
+is projected and perfected.</p>
+
+<p>We owe a tremendous duty to the world in
+connection with this great world crisis and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span>
+upheaval. Diligently should our best men
+and women, those of insight and greatest influence,
+and with the expenditure of both
+time and means, seek to further the practical
+working out of a World Federation and a
+permanent World Court. Public opinion
+should be thus aroused and solidified so that
+the world knows that we stand as a united
+nation back of the idea and the plan.</p>
+
+<p>The divine right of kings has gone. It holds
+no more. We hear now and then, it is true,
+some silly statement in regard to it, but little
+attention is paid to it. The divine right of
+priests has gone except in the minds of the
+few remaining ignorant and herdable ones.
+The divine right of dynasties&mdash;or rather of
+dynasties to persist&mdash;seems to die a little
+harder, but it is well on the way. We are
+now realising that the only divine right is
+the right of the people&mdash;and all the people.</p>
+
+<p>Never again should it be possible for one
+man, or for one little group of men so to lead,
+or so to mislead a nation as to plunge it into
+war. The growth of democracy compelling
+the greater participation of all the people in
+government must prohibit this. So likewise
+the close relationship of the entire world now
+must make it forever impossible for a single
+nation or a group of nations for any cause to
+plunge a whole world or any part of it into<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg 217]</a></span>
+war. These are sound and clear-visioned
+words recently given utterance to by James
+Bryce: "However much we condemn reckless
+leaders and the ruthless caste that live for
+war, the real source of the mischief is the
+popular sentiment behind them. The lesson
+to be learned is that doctrines and deep-rooted
+passions, whence these evils spring, can only
+be removed by the slow and steady working
+of spiritual forces. What most is needed is
+the elimination of those feelings the teachings
+of which breed jealousy and hatred and
+prompt men to defiance and aggression."</p>
+
+<p>Humanity and civilisation is not headed
+towards Ab the cave-man, whatever appearances,
+in the minds of many, may indicate at
+the present time. Humanity will arise and
+will reconstruct itself. Great lessons will be
+learned. Good will result. But what a terrific
+price to pay! What a terrific price to
+pay to learn the lesson that "moral forces are
+the only invincible forces in the universe"!
+It has been slow, but steadily the world is advancing
+to that stage when the individual or
+the nation that does not know that the law
+of mutuality, of cooperation, and still more
+the law of sympathy and good will, is the
+supreme law in real civilisation, real advancement,
+and real gain&mdash;that does not know that
+its own welfare is always bound up with the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[Pg 218]</a></span>
+welfare of the greater whole&mdash;is still in the
+brute stage of life and the bestial propensities
+are still its guiding forces.</p>
+
+<p>Prejudice, suspicion, hatred, national big-headedness,
+must give way to respect, sympathy,
+the desire for mutual understanding
+and cooperation. The higher attributes must
+and will assert themselves. The former are
+the ways of periodic if not continuous destruction&mdash;the
+latter are the ways of the
+higher spiritual forces that must prevail.
+Significant are these words of one of our
+younger but clear-visioned American poets,
+Winter Bynner:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Whether the time be slow or fast,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Enemies, hand in hand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Must come together at the last<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And understand.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">No matter how the die is cast,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Or who may seem to win&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We know that we must love at last&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Why not begin?<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The teaching of hatred to children, the
+fostering of hatred in adults, can result only
+in harm to the people and the nation where
+it is fostered. The dragon's tooth will leave
+its marks upon the entire nation and the fair<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[Pg 219]</a></span>
+life of all the people will suffer by it. The
+holding in contempt of other people makes it
+sometimes necessary that one's own head be
+battered against the wall that he may be sufficiently
+aroused to recognise and to appreciate
+their sterling and enduring qualities.</p>
+
+<p>The use of a club is more spectacular for
+some at least than the use of intellectual and
+moral forces. The rattling of the machine-gun
+produces more commotion than the more
+quiet ways of peace. All of the powerful
+forces in nature, those of growth, germination,
+and conservation, the same as in human life
+are quiet forces. So in the preservation of
+peace. It consists rather in a high constructive
+policy. It requires always clear vision,
+a constantly progressive and cooperative
+method of life and action; frank and open
+dealing and a resolute purpose. It is won and
+maintained by nothing so much in the long
+run as when it makes the Golden Rule its law
+of conduct. Slowly we are realising that great
+armaments&mdash;militarism&mdash;do not insure peace.
+They may lead away from it&mdash;they are very
+apt to lead away from it.</p>
+
+<p>Peace is related rather to the great moral
+laws of conduct. It has to do with straight,
+clean, open dealing. It is fostered by sympathy,
+forbearance. This does not mean that
+it pertains to weakness. On the contrary it is<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg 220]</a></span>
+determined by resolute but high purpose, the
+actual and active desire of a nation to live on
+terms of peace with all other nations; and the
+world's; recognition of this fact is a most
+powerful factor in inducing and in actualising
+such living.</p>
+
+<p>Our own achievement of upwards of a hundred
+years in living in peaceable, sympathetic
+and mutually beneficial relations with Canada;
+Canada's achievement in so living with us,
+should be a distinct and clear-cut answer to
+the argument that nations need to fortify their
+boundaries one against another. This is true
+only where suspicion, mistrust, fear, secret
+diplomacy, and secret alliances hold instead of
+the great and eternally constructive forces&mdash;sympathy,
+good will, mutual understanding,
+induced and conserved by an International
+Joint Commission of able men whose business
+it is to investigate, to determine, and to adjust
+any differences that through the years
+may arise. Here we have a boundary line of
+upwards of three thousand miles and not a
+fort; vast areas of inland seas and not a war
+vessel; and for upwards of a hundred years
+not a difference that the High Joint Commission
+has not been able to settle amicably and
+to the mutual advantage of both countries.</p>
+
+<p>I know that in connection with this we
+have an advantage over the old-world nations<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span>
+because we are free from age-long prejudices,
+hatreds, and past scores. But if this
+great conflict does not lead along the lines
+of the constructive forces and the working out
+of a new world method, then the future of
+Europe and of the world is dark indeed. Surely
+it will lead to a new order&mdash;it is almost
+inconceivable that it will not.</p>
+
+<p>The Golden Rule is a wonderful developer
+in human life, a wonderful harmoniser in
+community life&mdash;with great profit it could be
+extended as the law of conduct in international
+relations. It must be so extended. Its
+very foundation is sympathy, good will, mutuality,
+love.</p>
+
+<p>The very essence of Jesus' entire revelation
+and teaching was love. It was not the teaching
+of weakness or supineness in the face of
+wrong, however. There was no failure on his
+part to smite wrong when he saw it&mdash;wrong
+taking the form of injustice or oppression.
+He had, as we have seen, infinite sympathy for
+and forbearance with the weak, the sinful;
+but he had always a righteous indignation
+and a scathing denunciation for oppression&mdash;for
+that spirit of hell that prompts men or
+organisations to seek, to study, to dominate
+the minds and thereby the lives of others. It
+was, moreover, that he would not keep silent
+regarding the deadly ecclesiasticism that bore<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[Pg 222]</a></span>
+so heavily upon his people and that had well-nigh
+crushed all their religious life whence
+are the very springs of life, that he aroused
+the deadly antagonism of the ruling hierarchy.
+And as he, witnessing for truth and freedom,
+steadfastly and defiantly opposed oppression,
+so those who catch his spirit today will do
+as he did and will realise as duty&mdash;"While
+wrong is wrong let no man prate of peace!"</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6">Peace? Peace? Peace?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While wrong is wrong let no man prate of peace!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He did not prate, the Master. Nay, he smote!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4">.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Hate wrong! Slay wrong! Else mercy, justice, truth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Freedom and faith, shall die for humankind.<a name="FNanchor_F_6" id="FNanchor_F_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_F_6" class="fnanchor">[F]</a><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Nor did the code and teachings of Jesus
+prevent him driving the money-changers from
+out the temple court. It was not for the purpose
+of doing them harm. It was rather to do
+them good by driving home to them in some
+tangible and concrete form, through the skin
+and flesh of their bodies, what the thick skins
+of their moral natures were unable to comprehend.
+The resistance of wrongdoing is not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg 223]</a></span>
+opposed to the law of love. As in community
+life there is the occasional bully who has
+sometimes to be knocked down in order that
+he may have a due appreciation of individual
+rights and community amenities, so among
+nations a similar lesson is sometimes necessary
+in order that it or its leaders may learn
+that there are certain things that do not pay,
+and, moreover, will not be allowed by the
+community of nations.</p>
+
+<p>Making might alone the basis of national
+policy and action, or making it the basis of
+settlement in international settlements, but
+arouses and intensifies hatred and the spirit
+of revenge. So in connection with this great
+world crisis&mdash;after it all then comes the great
+problem of reorganisation and rehabilitation,
+and unless there comes about an international
+concord strong and definite enough to prevent
+a recurrence of what has been, it would almost
+seem that restoration were futile; for
+things will be restored only in time to be destroyed
+again.</p>
+
+<p>No amount of armament we know now will
+prevent war. It can be prevented only by a
+definite concord of the nations brought finally
+to realise the futility of war. To deny the
+possibility of a World League and a World
+Court is to deny the ability of men to govern
+themselves. The history of the American Republic<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[Pg 224]</a></span>
+in its demonstration of the power and
+the genius of federation should disprove the
+truth of this. Here we have a nation composed
+of forty-eight sovereign states and with
+the most heterogeneous accumulation of people
+that ever came together in one country,
+let alone one nation, and great numbers of
+them from those nations that for upwards of
+a thousand years have been periodically
+springing at one another's throats. Enlightened
+self-government has done it. The real
+spirit and temper of democracy has done it.
+But it must be the preservation of the real
+spirit of democracy and constant vigilance
+that must preserve it.</p>
+
+<p>Prejudice, suspicion, hatred on the part of
+individuals or on the part of the people of one
+nation against the people of another nation,
+have never yet advanced the welfare of any
+individual or any nation and never can. The
+world war is but the direct result of the type
+of peace that preceded it. The militarist argument
+reduced to its lowest terms amounts
+merely to this: "For two nations to keep
+peace each must be stronger than the other."</p>
+
+<p>Representative men of other countries do
+not resent our part in pressing this matter and
+in taking the leadership in it. But even if they
+did they would have no just right to. There
+is, however, a very general feeling that the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[Pg 225]</a></span>
+American Republic, as the world's greatest
+example of <i>successful federation</i>, should take
+the lead in the World Federation.</p>
+
+<p>This is now going to be greatly fostered by
+virtue of one great good that the world war
+will eventually have accomplished&mdash;the doom
+and the end of autocracy. Dynasties and privileged
+orders that have lived and lived alone
+on militarism, will have been foreclosed on.
+The people in control, in an increasingly intelligent
+control of their own lives and their
+own governments, will be governed by a
+higher degree of self-enlightenment and mutual
+self-interest than under the domination
+or even the leadership of any type of hereditary
+ruling class or war-lord. In some countries
+autocracy in religion, through the free
+mingling and discussions of men of various
+nationalities and religious persuasions, will be
+again lessened, whereby the direct love and
+power of God in the hearts of men, as Jesus
+taught, will have a fuller sway and a more
+holy and a diviner moulding power in their
+lives.</p>
+
+<p>It was during those long, weary years
+coupled with the horrible crimes of the Thirty
+Years' War that the science of International
+Law began to take form, the result of that
+notable work, "De Jure Belli ac Pacis," by
+Grotius. It is ours to see that out of this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span>
+more intense and thereby even more horrible
+conflict a new epoch in human and international
+relations be born.</p>
+
+<p>As the higher powers of mind and spirit are
+realised and used, great primal instincts impelling
+men to expression and action that find
+their outlet many times in war, will be transmuted
+and turned from destruction into powerful
+engines of construction. When a moral
+equivalent for war of sufficient impelling
+power is placed before men, those same virile
+qualities and powers that are now marshalled
+so easily for purposes of fighting, will, under
+the guidance and in the service of the spirit,
+be used for the conserving of human life, and
+for the advancement and the increase of everything
+that administers to life, that makes it
+more abundant, more mutual, and more happy.
+And God knows that the call for such service
+is very great.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p>And even now comes the significant word
+that the long, the too long awaited world's
+Bill of Rights has taken form. The intelligence
+and the will of righteous men, duly appointed
+as the representatives of fourteen
+sovereign nations, has asserted itself, and the
+beginning has been made, without which
+there can be neither growth nor advancement.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg 227]</a></span>
+The Constitution of the World League has
+taken form. It is not a perfect instrument;
+but it will grow into as perfect an instrument
+as need be for its purpose. Changes
+and additions to it will be made as times and
+conditions indicate. Partisanship even with
+us may seek to defeat it. There is no question,
+however, but that the sober sense of the
+American people is behind it.</p>
+
+<p>One of the most fundamental results, we
+might say purposes of the great world war,
+was to end war. It means now that the
+world's unity and mutuality and its community
+of interests must be realised and that we
+build accordingly. It means that the world's
+peace must be fostered and preserved by the
+use of brains and guided by the heart; or that
+every brute force made ghastly and deadly to
+the n<i>th</i> degree that modern science can devise,
+be periodically called in to settle the
+disputes or curb the ambitions that will disrupt
+the peace of the world.</p>
+
+<p>The common people the world over are desiring
+as near as can be arrived at, some
+surety as to the preservation of the world's
+peace; and they will brook no interference
+with a plan that seems the most feasible way
+to that end. The whole world is in that temper
+that gives significance to the words of
+President Wilson when a day or two ago he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[Pg 228]</a></span>
+said: "Any man who resists the present tides
+that run in the world will find himself thrown
+upon a shore so high and barren that it will
+seem as if he had been separated from his
+human kind forever." Unless, he might
+have added&mdash;he has and can demonstrate a
+better plan. The two chief arguments against
+it, that it will take away from our individual
+rights and that it will lead us into entangling
+alliances, no longer hold&mdash;for we are entangled
+already. We are a part of the great
+world force and it were futile longer to seek
+to escape our duties as such. They are as
+essential as "our rights."</p>
+
+<p>It is with us now as a nation as it was
+with that immortal group that gathered to
+sign our Declaration of Independence, to
+whom Franklin said: "We must all hang
+together, or assuredly we shall all hang
+separately."</p>
+
+<p>It is well for Americans to recall that the
+first League of Nations was when thirteen
+distinct nationalities one day awoke to the
+fact that it were better to forget their differences
+and to a great extent their boundaries,
+and come together in a common union.
+They had their thirteen distinct armies to
+keep up, in order to defend themselves each
+against the other or against any combination
+of the others, to say nothing of any outside<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span>
+power that might move against them. Jealousies
+arose and misunderstandings were frequent.
+So zealous was each of its own rights
+that when the Constitutional Convention had
+completed its work, and the Constitution was
+ready for adoption, there were those who
+actually left the hall rather than sign it.
+They were good men but they were looking
+at stern facts and they wanted no idealism in
+theirs. Good men, some animated by the
+partisan spirit, it is true, earnest in their beliefs&mdash;but
+unequipped with the long vision.
+Their names are now recalled only through
+the search of the antiquarian.</p>
+
+<p>Infinitely better it has been found for the
+thirteen and eventually the forty-eight to
+stand together than to stand separately. The
+thirteen separate states were farther separated
+so far as means of communication and actual
+knowledge of one another were concerned,
+than are the nations of the world
+today.</p>
+
+<p>It took men of great insight as well as
+vision to formulate our own Constitution
+which made thirteen distinct and sovereign
+states the United States of America. The
+formulation of the Constitution of the World
+League has required such men. As a nation
+we may be proud that two representative
+Americans have had so large a share in its<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span>
+accomplishment&mdash;President Wilson, good
+Democrat, and Ex-President Taft, good Republican.</p>
+
+<p>The greatest international and therefore
+world document ever produced has been
+forged&mdash;it awaits the coming days, years, and
+even generations for its completion. And we
+accord great honour also to those statesmen
+of other nations who have combined keen insight
+born of experience, with a lofty idealism;
+for out of these in any realm of human activities
+and relations, whatever eventually becomes
+the practical, is born.</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg 231]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="XIV" id="XIV"></a><big>XIV</big><br /><br />
+
+THE WORLD'S BALANCE-WHEEL</h2>
+
+
+<p>It was Lincoln who gave us a wonderful
+summary when he said: "After all the one
+meaning of life is to be kind."</p>
+
+<p>Love, sympathy, fellowship is the very
+foundation of all civilised, happy, ideal life.
+It is the very balance-wheel of life itself. It
+gives that genuineness and simplicity in
+voice, in look, in spirit that is so instinctively
+felt by all, and to which all so universally
+respond. It is like the fragrance of the
+flower&mdash;the emanation of its soul.</p>
+
+<p>Interesting and containing a most vital
+truth is this little memoir by Christine Rossetti:
+"One whom I knew intimately, and
+whose memory I revere, once in my hearing
+remarked that, 'unless we love people, we
+cannot understand them.' This was a new
+light to me." It contains indeed a profound
+truth.</p>
+
+<p>Love, sympathy, fellowship, is what makes
+human life truly human. Cooperation, mutual
+service, is its fruitage. A clear-cut realisation
+of this and a resolute acting upon it
+would remove much of the cloudiness and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg 232]</a></span>
+the barrenness from many a life; and its mutual
+recognition&mdash;and action based upon it&mdash;would
+bring order and sweetness and mutual
+gain in vast numbers of instances in
+family, in business, in community life. It
+would solve many of the knotty problems in
+all lines of human relations and human endeavour,
+whose solution heretofore has seemed
+well-nigh impossible. It is the telling
+oil that will start to running smoothly and
+effectively many an otherwise clogged and
+grating system of human machinery.</p>
+
+<p>When men on both sides are long-headed
+enough, are sensible enough to see its practical
+element and make it the fundamental
+basis of all relationships, of all negotiations,
+and all following activities in the relations
+between capital and labour, employer and employee,
+literally a new era in the industrial
+world will spring into being. Both sides will
+be the gainer&mdash;the dividends flowing to each
+will be even surprising.</p>
+
+<p>There is really no labour problem outside
+of sympathy, mutuality, good-will, cooperation,
+brotherhood.</p>
+
+<p>Injustice always has been and always will
+be the cause of all labour troubles. But we
+must not forget that it is sometimes on one
+side and sometimes on the other. Misunderstanding
+is not infrequently its accompaniment.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg 233]</a></span>
+Imagination, sympathy, mutuality, cooperation,
+brotherhood are the hand-maidens
+of justice. No man is intelligent enough, is
+big enough to be the representative or the
+manager of capital, who is not intelligent
+enough to realise this. No man is fit to be
+the representative of, or fit to have anything
+to do with the councils of labour who has
+not brains, intelligence enough to realise this.
+These qualities are not synonyms of or in
+any way related to sentimentality or any
+weak-kneed ethics. They underlie the soundest
+business sense. In this day and age they
+are synonyms of the word practical. There
+was a time and it was not so many years
+ago, when heads and executives of large enterprises
+did not realise this as fully as they
+realise it today. A great change has already
+taken place. A new era has already begun,
+and the greater the ability and the genius
+the more eager is its possessor to make these
+his guiding principles, and to hasten the
+time when they will be universally recognised
+and built upon. The same is true of the
+more intelligent in the rank and file of labour,
+as also of the more intelligent and those
+who are bringing the best results as leaders
+of labour. There is no intelligent man or
+woman today who does not believe in organised
+labour. There is no intelligent employer<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg 234]</a></span>
+who does not believe in it and who
+does not welcome it.</p>
+
+<p>The bane of organised labour in the past has
+too often been the unscrupulous, the self-seeking,
+or the bull-headed labour leader. Organised
+labour must be constantly diligent to
+purge itself of these its worst enemies. Labour
+is entitled to the very highest wage, or to the
+best returns in cooperative management that it
+can get, and that are consistent with sound
+business management, as also to the best
+labour conditions that a sympathetic and wise
+management can bring about. It must not,
+however, be unreasonable in its demands,
+neither bull-headed, nor seek to travel too fast&mdash;otherwise
+it may lose more than it will gain.</p>
+
+<p>It must not allow itself to act as a shield
+for the ineffective worker, or the one without
+a sense of mutuality, whose aim is to get all
+he can get without any thought as to what
+he gives in return, or even with the deliberate
+purpose of giving the least that he can give
+and get away with it. Where there is a good
+and a full return, there should be not only the
+desire but an eagerness to give a full and
+honest service. Less than this is indicative
+of a lack of honest and staunch manhood
+or womanhood.</p>
+
+<p>It is incumbent upon organised labour
+also to remember that it represents but eight<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[Pg 235]</a></span>
+per cent of the actual working people of this
+nation. Whether one works with his brains,
+or his hands, or both, is immaterial. Nor
+does organised labour represent the great
+farming interests of the country&mdash;even more
+fundamentally the backbone of the nation.</p>
+
+<p>The desirable citizen of any nation is he or
+she who does not seek to prosper at the expense
+of his fellows, who does not seek the
+advancement of his group to the detriment
+of all other groups&mdash;who realises that none
+are independent, that all are interdependent.</p>
+
+<p>He who is a teacher or a preacher of class-consciousness,
+is either consciously or unconsciously&mdash;generally
+consciously and intentionally&mdash;a
+preacher of class-hatred. There is
+no more undesirable citizen in any nation
+than he. "Do you know why money is so
+scarce, brothers?" the soap box orator demanded,
+and a fair-sized section of the backbone
+of the nation waited in leisurely patience
+for the answer. A tired-looking woman had
+paused for a moment on the edge of the
+crowd. She spoke shortly. "It's because so
+many of you men spend your time telling
+each other why, 'stead of hustling to see that
+it ain't!" He is a fair representative of the
+class-consciousness, class-hatred type. Again
+he is represented by the theorist constitutionally
+and chronically too lazy to do honest<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[Pg 236]</a></span>
+and constructive work either physically or
+mentally. Again by the one who has the big-head
+affliction. Or again by the one afflicted
+with a species of insanity or criminality
+manifesting of late under the name of Bolshevism&mdash;a
+self-seeking tyranny infinitely
+worse than Czarism itself.</p>
+
+<p>Its representatives have proved themselves
+moral perverts, determined to carry out their
+theories and gain their own ends by treachery,
+theft, coersion, murder, and every foul
+method that will aid them in reducing order
+to chaos&mdash;through the slogan of rule or ruin.
+Through brigandage, coersion, murder, it gets
+the funds to send its agents into those countries
+whose governments are fully in the
+hands of the people, and where if at any time
+injustice prevails it is solely the fault of the
+people in not using in an intelligent and
+determined manner the possessions they already
+have. Or putting it in another way,
+on account of shirking the duties it is morally
+incumbent upon them as citizens of free governments
+to perform.</p>
+
+<p>In America, whose institutions have been
+built and maintained solely by the people,
+our duty is plain, for orderly procedure has
+been and ever must be our watch-word. Vigilance
+is moreover nowhere required more
+than in representative government. Whenever<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[Pg 237]</a></span>
+the red hand of anarchy, Bolshevism, terrorism
+raises itself it should be struck so instantly
+and so powerfully that it has not only
+no time to gain adherents, but has no time to
+make its escape. It should be the Federal
+prison for any American who allows himself
+to become so misguided as to seek to substitute
+terrorism and destruction for our orderly
+and lawful methods of procedure, or quick deportation
+for any foreigner who seeks our
+shores to carry out these purposes, or comes
+as an agent for those who would do the same.</p>
+
+<p>Organised labour has never occupied so
+high a position as it occupies today. That the
+rank and file will for an instant have commerce
+with these agencies, whatever any designing
+leader here and there may seek to do,
+is inconceivable. That its organisations will be
+sought to be used by them is just as probable.
+Its duty as to vigilance and determination is
+pronounced. And unless vigilant and determined
+the set-backs it may get and the losses it
+may suffer are just as pronounced. The spirit
+and temper of the American people is such that
+it will not stand for coersion, lawlessness, or
+any unfair demands. Public opinion is after
+all the court of last resort. No strike or no
+lockout can succeed with us that hasn't that
+tremendous weapon, public opinion, behind it.
+The necessity therefore of being fair in all<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[Pg 238]</a></span>
+demands and orderly in all procedure, and in
+view of this it is also well to remember that
+organised labour represents but eight per cent
+of the actual working people of this nation.</p>
+
+<p>The gains of organised labour in the past
+have been very great. It is also true that
+the demands of organised labour even today
+are very great. In true candor it must also
+be said that not only the impulse but the sincere
+desire of the great bulk of employers is
+in a conciliatory way to grant all demands of
+labour that are at all consistent with sound
+economic management, even in many cases
+to a great lessening of their own profits, as
+well as to maintain working conditions as
+befits their workers as valuable and honoured
+members of our body politic, as they naturally
+are and as they so richly deserve.</p>
+
+<p>For their own welfare, however, to say
+nothing of the welfare of the nation, labour
+unions must purge themselves of all anarchistic
+and destructive elements. Force is a two-edged
+sword, and the force of this nation
+when once its sense of justice and right is
+outraged and its temper is aroused, will be
+found to be infinitely superior to any particular
+class, whether it be capital or whether
+it be labour. Organised labour stands in the
+way to gain much by intelligent and honest
+work and orderly procedure. And to a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[Pg 239]</a></span>
+degree perhaps never before equalled, does it
+stand in a position to lose much if through
+self-deception on its own part or through unworthy
+leadership, it deceives itself in believing
+itself superior to the forces of law and
+order.</p>
+
+<p>In a nation where the people through their
+chosen representatives and by established
+systems of procedure determine their own
+institutions, when agitators get beyond law
+and reason and lose sight too completely of
+the law of mutuality, there is a power backed
+by a force that it is mere madness to defy.
+The rights as well as the power of all the
+people will be found to be infinitely superior
+to those of any one particular group or class&mdash;clear-seeing
+men and women in any democratic
+form of government realise that the
+words mutuality and self-interest bear a very
+close relationship.</p>
+
+<p>The greatest gains in the relations between
+capital and labour during the coming few
+years will undoubtedly be along the lines of
+profit-sharing. Some splendid beginnings are
+already in successful operation. There is the
+recognition that capital is entitled initially to
+a fair return; again that labour is entitled to
+a good and full living wage&mdash;when both these
+conditions are met then that there be an equal
+division of the profits that remain, between<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[Pg 240]</a></span>
+the capital and the skill and management
+back of the capital invested on the one hand,
+and labour on the other. Without the former
+labour would have no employment in the particular
+enterprise; without the workers the
+former could not carry on. Each is essential
+to the other.</p>
+
+<p>Labour being not a commodity, as some
+material thing merely to be bought and sold,
+but the human element, is entitled to more
+than a living wage. It has human aspirations,
+and desires and needs. It has not only
+its present but its own and its children's
+future to safeguard. When it is thus made
+a partner in the business it becomes more
+earnest and reliable and effective in its work,
+less inclined to condone the shiftless, the incompetent,
+the slacker; more eager and
+resolute in withstanding the ill-founded, reckless
+or sinister suggestions or efforts of an ill-advised
+leadership.</p>
+
+<p>Capital or employer is the gainer also, because
+it is insured that loyal and more intelligent
+cooperation in its enterprise that is
+as essential to its success as is the genius and
+skill of management.</p>
+
+<p>Taking a different form but proving most
+valuable alike for management and capital
+on the one hand, and its workers on the other,
+is the case of one of our great industrial<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[Pg 241]</a></span>
+plants, the largest of its kind in the world
+and employing many thousands of workers,
+where already a trifle over forty per cent. of
+its stock is in the hands of the workers. Their
+thrift and their good judgment have enabled
+them to take advantage of attractive prices
+and easy methods of payment made them by
+the company's management. There are already
+many other concerns where this is true
+in greater or less proportion.</p>
+
+<p>These are facts that certain types of labour
+agitators or even leaders as well as special
+pleaders for labour, find it convenient to forget,
+or at least not to mention. The same is
+true also of the millions that are every year
+being paid out to make all working conditions
+and surroundings cheerful, healthful, safe; in
+various forms of insurance, in retiring pensions.
+Through the initiative of this larger
+type of employer, or manager of capital, many
+hundreds of thousands both men and women
+and in continually increasing numbers, are
+being thus benefited&mdash;outside and above their
+yearly wage or salary.</p>
+
+<p>A new era in connection with capital and
+labour has for some time been coming into
+being; the era of democracy in industry has
+arrived. The day of the autocratic sway on the
+part of capital has passed; nor will we as a
+nation take kindly to the autocratic sway of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg 242]</a></span>
+labour. It is obtaining a continually fuller
+recognition; and cooperation leading in many
+lines to profit-sharing is the new era we are
+now passing into.</p>
+
+<p>Though there are very large numbers of men
+of great wealth, employers and heads of industrial
+enterprises, who have caught the spirit
+of the new industrial age upon which we have
+already begun to enter, and who are glad to see
+labour getting its fairer share of the profits of
+industry and a larger recognition as partners
+in industry, there are those who, lacking both
+imagination and vision, attempt to resist the
+tide that, already turned, is running in volume.
+They are our American Bourbons, our American
+Junkers. They are, considering the ominous
+undercurrents of change, unrest and discontent
+that are so apparent in the entire industrial
+and economic world today, our worst
+breeders and feeders of Bolshevism and lawlessness.</p>
+
+<p>If they had their way and their numbers
+were sufficiently large, the flames of Bolshevism
+and anarchy would be so fed that even
+in America we would have little hope of escaping
+a great conflagration. They are the ones
+who are determined to see that their immense
+profits are uncurtailled, whose homes must
+have ten bathrooms each; while great numbers
+of their workers without whom they would<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[Pg 243]</a></span>
+have to close up the industry&mdash;hence their
+essential partners in the industry though not
+in name&mdash;haven't even a single bath-room and
+with families as large and in many cases
+larger.</p>
+
+<p>They are they who must have three or four
+homes each, aggregating in the millions to
+build and to maintain. They are they who
+cannot see why workmen should discuss such
+things among themselves, or even question
+them, though in many cases they are scarcely
+able to make ends meet in the face of continually
+advancing or even soaring prices, who
+never enjoy a holiday, and are unable to lay up
+for the years to come, when they will no longer
+be "required" in industry. They are they
+therefore who have but little if any interest or
+care for even the physical well-being of their
+workers, say nothing of their mental and spiritual
+well-being and enjoyments&mdash;beyond the
+fact that they are well enough fed and housed
+for the next day's work.</p>
+
+<p>They are they who when it is suggested that,
+recognizing the change and the run of the tide,
+they be keen-minded enough to anticipate
+changing conditions and organize their business
+so that their workers have some joint
+share in its conditions and conduct, and some
+share in its profits beyond a mere living wage,
+reply&mdash;"I'll be damned if I do." It doesn't require<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[Pg 244]</a></span>
+much of a prophetic sense now however,
+to be able to tell them&mdash;they'll be damned if
+they don't.</p>
+
+<p>There is reason to rejoice also that for the
+welfare of American institutions, the number
+of this class is continually decreasing. Did
+they predominate, with the unmistakable undercurrents
+of unrest, born of a sense of injustice,
+there would be in time, and in a shorter
+time than we perhaps realize, but one outcome.
+Steeped in selfishness, making themselves impervious
+to all the higher leadings and impulses
+of the soul&mdash;less than men&mdash;they are not
+only enemies of their own better selves, but
+enemies of the nation itself.</p>
+
+<p>Bolshevism in Russia was born, or rather
+was able to get its hold, only through the long
+generations of Czarism and the almost universal
+state of ignorance in which its people
+were held, that preceded it. The great preponderance
+and the continually growing numbers
+of men with imagination, with a sense of
+care, mutuality, cooperation, brotherhood, in
+our various large enterprises is a force that will
+save this and other nations from a similar experience.</p>
+
+<p>I have great confidence in the Russian
+people. Its soul is sound; and after the forces
+of treachery, incompetence and terrorism have
+spent themselves, and the better elements are
+able to organize in sufficient force to drive the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg 245]</a></span>
+beasts from its borders, it will arise and assert
+itself. There will be builded a new Russia
+that will be one of the great and commanding
+nations of the world. In the meantime it
+affords a most concrete and valuable lesson
+to us and to all other nations&mdash;to strike on the
+one hand, the forces of treachery and lawlessness
+the moment they show themselves, and on
+the other hand, to see that the soil is made
+fertile for neither their entrance nor growth.</p>
+
+<p>The strong nation is that in which under
+the leadership of universal free education and
+equal opportunities, a due watch is maintained
+to see that the rights of all individuals
+and all classes are nurtured and carefully
+guarded. In such a government the nation
+and its interests is and must be supreme.
+Then if built upon high ethical and moral
+standards where mutuality is the watch-word
+and the governing principle of its life, its
+motto might through right, power through
+justice, it becomes a fit and effective member
+of the Society of Nations.</p>
+
+<p>Internationalism is higher than nationalism,
+humanity is above the nation. The stronger
+however the individual nation, the stronger
+necessarily will be the Society of Nations.</p>
+
+<p>Love, sympathy, fellowship, is not inconsistent
+with the use of force to restrain malignant
+evil, in the case of nations as in the case<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[Pg 246]</a></span>
+of individuals. Where goodness is weak it is
+exploited and becomes a victim of the
+stronger, when, devoid of a sense of mutuality,
+it is conscienceless. Strength without
+conscience, goodness, ungoverned by the law
+of mutuality, becomes tyranny. In seeking its
+own ends it violates every law of God and
+man.</p>
+
+<p>For the safety therefore of the better life
+of the world, for the very safety and welfare
+of the Society of Nations, those nations that
+combine strength with goodness, strength
+with good-will, strength with an ever-growing
+sense of mutuality, which is the only law of
+a happy, orderly, and advancing human life,
+must combine to check the power of any
+people or nation still devoid of the knowledge
+of this law, lest goodness, truth and all the
+higher instincts and potentialities of life, even
+freedom itself perish from the earth. This can
+be done and must be done not through malice
+or hatred, but through a sense of right and
+duty.</p>
+
+<p>There is no more diabolical, no more damnable
+ambition on the part of individuals,
+organizations or nations than to rule, to gain
+domination over the minds and the lives of
+others either for the sake of power and domination
+or for the material gain that can be
+made to flow therefrom. As a rule, however,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</a></span>
+it is both. There is nothing more destructive
+to the higher moral and ethical life of the
+individual or the organization controlled by
+this desire, nothing so destructive to the life
+of the one or ones so dominated, and as a consequence
+to the life of society itself as this
+evil and prostituting desire and purpose.</p>
+
+<p>Where this has become the clearly controlling
+motive, malignant and deep-seated, if in
+the case of a nation, then it is the duty of
+those nations that combine strength with
+character, strength with goodness, to combine
+to check the evil wrought by such a
+nation. If by persuasion and good-will, well
+and good. If not, then through the exercise
+of a restraining force. This is not contrary
+to the law of love, for the love of the good is
+the controlling motive. It is only thus that
+the higher moral law which for its growth
+and consummation is dependent upon individuals,
+can grow and gain supremacy in the
+world.</p>
+
+<p>Intellectual independence and acumen, combined
+with a love of truth, goodness, righteousness,
+love and service for others, is the
+greatest aid there can be in carrying out the
+Divine plan and purpose in the world. The
+sword of love therefore becomes the sword
+of righteousness that cuts out the cancerous
+growth that is given from to by malignant ill<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[Pg 248]</a></span>
+will; the sword of righteousness that strikes
+down slavery and oppression; the sword of
+righteousness therefore that becomes the
+sword of civilization.</p>
+
+<p>It is a weapon that does not have to be
+always used however; for when its power is
+once clearly understood it is feared. Its deterrent
+power becomes therefore infinitely more
+effective than in its actual use. So in any new
+world settlement, any nation or group that
+is not up to this moral world standard, that
+would seek to impose its will and its institutions
+upon any other nations for the sake of
+domination, or to rob them of their goods,
+must be restrained through the federated
+power of the other nations, not by forcing their
+own beliefs or codes or institutions upon it,
+but by restraining it and making ineffective
+any ambitions or purposes that it may plan,
+or until its people whatever its leadership
+may be, are brought clearly and concretely to
+see that such methods do not pay.</p>
+
+<p>That Jesus to whom we ultimately go for
+our moral leadership, not only sanctioned,
+but used and advocated the use of righteous
+force, when malignant evil in the form of self-seeking
+sought domination, either intellectual
+or physical, for its own selfish gain and aggrandizement,
+is clearly evidenced by many of his
+own sayings and his own acts.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[Pg 249]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>So within the nation during this great reconstruction
+period, these are times that call
+for heroic men and women. In a Democracy
+or in any representative form of government
+an alert citizenship is its only safety. With a
+vastly increased voting population, in that
+many millions of women citizens are now admitted
+to full citizenship, the need for intelligent
+action and attention to matters of government
+was never so great. Great numbers
+will be herded and voted by organizations as
+well as by machines. As these will comprise
+the most ignorant and therefore the herdable
+ones, it is especially incumbent upon the
+great rank and file of intelligent women to see
+that they take and maintain an active interest
+in public affairs.</p>
+
+<p>Politics is something that we cannot evade
+except to the detriment of our country and
+thereby to our own detriment. Politics is but
+another word for government. And in a sense
+we the individual voter are the government
+and unless we make matters of government
+our own concern, there are organizations and
+there are groups of designing men who will
+steal in and get possession for their own selfish
+aggrandizement and gain. This takes
+sometimes the form of power, to be traded
+for other power, or concessions; but always
+if you will trace far enough, eventual money<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[Pg 250]</a></span>
+gain. Or again it takes the form of
+graft and even direct loot. The losses that
+are sustained through a lowered citizenship,
+through inefficient service, through a general
+debauchery of public institutions, through increased
+taxation to make up for the amounts
+that are drawn off in graft and loot are well
+nigh incalculable&mdash;and for the sole reason that
+you and I, average citizens, do not take the
+active personal interest in our own matters of
+government that we should take.</p>
+
+<p>Clericalism, Tammanyism, Bolshevism, Syndicalism&mdash;and
+all in the guise of interest in
+the people&mdash;get their holds and their profits
+in this way. It is essential that we be locally
+wise and history wise. Any class or section
+or organization that is less than the nation
+itself must be watched and be made to keep
+its own place, or it becomes a menace to the
+free and larger life of the nation. Even in the
+case of a great national crisis a superior
+patriotism is affected and paraded in order
+that it may camouflage its other and real activities.</p>
+
+<p>When at times we forget ourselves and
+speak of rights rather than duties in connection
+with our country, it were well to recall
+and to repeat the words of Franklin: "The
+sun never repents of the good he does nor
+does he ever demand a recompense."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[Pg 251]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Not only is constant vigilance incumbent
+upon us, but realising the fact that the boys
+and the girls of today are the citizens of tomorrow&mdash;the
+nation's voters and law-makers&mdash;it
+is incumbent upon us to see that American
+free education through American free
+public schools, is advanced to and maintained
+at its highest possibilities, and kept free
+from any agencies that will make for a divided
+or anything less than a whole-hearted and intelligent
+citizenship. The motto on the Shakespeare
+statue at Leicester Square in London:
+"There is no darkness but ignorance," might
+well be reproduced in every city and every
+hamlet in the nation.</p>
+
+<p>Late revelations have shown how even
+education can be manipulated and prostituted
+for ulterior purposes. Parochial schools
+whether Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or
+Oriental, have no place in American institutions&mdash;and
+whether their work is carried on in
+English or in a foreign language. They are
+absolutely foreign to the spirit of our institutions.
+They are purely for the sake of something
+less than the nation itself. Blind indeed
+are we if we are not history-wise. Criminal
+indeed are we to allow any boys or girls to be
+diverted to them and to be deprived of the
+advantages of a better schooling and being
+brought under the influences of agencies that
+are thoroughly and wholly American.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[Pg 252]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>American education must be made for
+American institutions and for nothing less
+than this. The nation's children should be
+shielded from any power that seeks to get
+possession of them in order at an early and
+unaccountable age to fasten authority upon
+them, and to drive a wedge between them and
+all others of the nation.</p>
+
+<p>The nation has a duty to every child within
+its borders. To fail to recognize or to shirk
+that duty, will call for a price to be paid
+sometime as great as that that has been paid
+by every other nation that did not see until
+too late. Sectarianism in education stultifies
+and robs the child and nullifies the finest national
+instincts in education. It is for but one
+purpose&mdash;the use and the power of the organization
+that plans and that fosters it.</p>
+
+<p>Our government profiting by the long
+weary struggles of other countries, is founded
+upon the absolute separation of church and
+state. This does not mean the separation of
+religion in its true sense from the state; but
+keeping it free from every type of sectarian
+influence and domination. It is ours to see
+that no silent subtle influences are at work,
+that will eventually make the same trouble
+here as in other countries, or that will thrust
+out the same stifling hand to undermine and
+to throttle universal free public education, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[Pg 253]</a></span>
+the inalienable right that every child has to it.
+Our children are the wards of and accountable
+to the state&mdash;they are not the property of any
+organization, group or groups, less than the
+state.</p>
+
+<p>We need the creation of a strong Federal
+Department of Education of cabinet rank,
+with ample means and strong powers to be
+the guiding genius of all our state and local
+departments of education, with greater attention
+paid to a more thorough and concrete
+training in civics, in moral and ethical education,
+in addition to the other well recognized
+branches in public school education. It
+should have such powers also as will enable
+it to see that every child is in school up to a
+certain age, or until all the fundamentals of a
+prescribed standard of American education are
+acquired.</p>
+
+<p>A recent tabulation made public by a
+Federal Deputy Commissioner of Naturalization
+has shown that a little over one tenth, in
+round numbers, 11,000,000, of our population
+is composed of unnaturalized aliens. Even
+this however tells but a part of the story; for
+vast numbers of even those who have become
+naturalized, have in no sense become Americanized.</p>
+
+<p>Speaking of this class an able editorial in a
+recent number of one of our leading New
+York dailies has said:<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[Pg 254]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Of the millions of aliens who have gone
+through the legal forms of naturalization a
+very large proportion have not in any sense
+been Americanized, and, though citizens, they
+are still alien in habits of thought, in speech
+and in their general attitude toward the community.</p>
+
+<p>"There are industrial centres not far from
+New York City that are wholly foreign. There
+are sections of this city that&mdash;except as the
+children through the schools and association
+with others of their own age yield to change&mdash;are
+intensely alien.</p>
+
+<p>"To penetrate these barriers and open new
+avenues of communication with the people
+who live within them is no longer a task to
+be performed by individual effort. Americanization
+is a work that must be undertaken
+and directed on a scale so extensive that only
+through the cooperation of the States and
+the Federal Government can it be successfully
+carried out. It cannot longer be neglected
+without serious harm to the life and
+welfare of the Nation."</p>
+
+<p>Some even more startling facts are given
+out in figures by the Department of the Interior,
+figures supplied to it by the Surgeon
+General's Office of the Army. The War Department
+records show that 24.9 per cent. of
+the draft army examined by that department's<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[Pg 255]</a></span>
+agents were unable to read and understand a
+newspaper, or to write letters home. In one
+draft in New York State in May, 1918, 16.6
+per cent. were classed as illiterate. In one
+draft in connection with South Carolina troops
+in July, 1918, 49.5 per cent. where classed as
+illiterate. In one draft in connection with
+Minnesota troops in July of the same year,
+14.2 per cent. were classed as illiterate. In
+other words it means for example that in New
+York State we have in round numbers 700,000
+men between 21 and 31 years of age who are
+illiterate. The same source reveals the fact
+that in the nation in round numbers over 10,000,000
+are either illiterate or without a
+knowledge of our language. The South is the
+home of most of the wholly uneducated, the
+North of those of foreign speech. And in
+speaking of this class a recent editorial in
+another representative New York daily, after
+making mention of one industrial centre but
+a few miles out of New York City, in New
+Jersey, where nearly 16 out of every 100 cannot
+read English, has said:</p>
+
+<p>"Such people may enjoy the advantages
+America offers. Of its spirit and institutions
+they can comprehend nothing. They are the
+easy dupes of foreign agitators, unassimilable,
+an element of weakness in the social body that
+might easily be converted into an element of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[Pg 256]</a></span>
+strength. Many of them have the vote, controlled
+by leaders interested only in designs
+alien to America's welfare.</p>
+
+<p>"The problem is national in scope * * *.
+The best way to keep Bolshevism out of
+America is to reduce ignorance of our speech
+and everything else to a minimum. However
+alert our immigration officers may be, foreign
+agents of social disorder are sure to pass
+through our doors, and as long as we allow
+children to grow up among us who have no
+means of finding out the meaning of our laws
+and forms of government the seeds of discontent
+will be sown in congenial soil."</p>
+
+<p>Profoundly true also are the following
+words from an editorial in still another New
+York daily in dealing with that great army of
+700,000 illiterates within the State, or rather
+that portion of them who are adults of foreign
+birth:</p>
+
+<p>"The first thing to do is to teach them, and
+make them realize that a knowledge of the
+English language is a prerequisite of first
+class American citizenship. * * * The
+wiping out of illiteracy is a foundation stone
+in building up a strong population, able and
+worthy to hold its own in the world. With
+the disappearance of illiteracy and of the
+ignorance of the language of the country will
+also disappear many of the trouble-breeding<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[Pg 257]</a></span>
+problems which have held back immigrants in
+gaining their fair share of real prosperity, the
+intelligence and self-respect which are vital
+ingredients in any good citizenship. Real freedom
+of life and character cannot be enjoyed
+by the man or woman whose whole life is
+passed upon the inferior plane of ignorance
+and prejudice. Teach them all how to deserve
+the benefits of life in America, and they
+will soon learn how to gain and protect them."</p>
+
+<p>It is primarily among the ignorant and illiterate
+that Bolshevism, anarchy, political
+rings, and every agency that attempts through
+self-seeking to sow the seeds of discontent,
+treachery, and disloyalty, works to exploit
+them and to herd them for political ends. No
+man can have that respect for himself, or feel
+that he has the respect due him from others
+as an honest and diligent worker, whatever
+his line of work, who is handicapped by the
+lack of an ordinary education. The heart of
+the American nation is sound. Through universal
+free public education it must be on the
+alert and be able to see through Bourbonism
+and understand its methods on the one hand,
+and Bolshevism on the other; and be determined
+through intelligent action to see that
+American soil is made uncongenial to both.</p>
+
+<p>Our chief problem is to see that Democracy
+is made safe for and made of real service to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[Pg 258]</a></span>
+the world. Our American education must
+be made continually more keenly alive to the
+great moral, ethical and social needs of the
+time. Thereby it will be made religious without
+having any sectarian slant or bias; it will
+be made safe for and the hand-maid of
+Democracy and not a menace to it.</p>
+
+<p>Vast multitudes today are seeing as never
+before that the moral and ethical foundations
+of the nation's and the world's life is a matter
+of primal concern to all.</p>
+
+<p>We are finding more and more that the
+simple fundamentals of life and conduct as
+portrayed by the Christ of Nazareth not only
+constitutes a great idealism, but the only
+practical way of life. Compared to this and
+to the need that it come more speedily and
+more universally into operation in the life
+of the world today, truly "sectarian peculiarities
+are obsolete impertinences."</p>
+
+<p>Our time needs again more the prophet and
+less the priest. It needs the God-impelled life
+and voice of the prophet with his face to the
+future, both God-ward and man-ward, burning
+with an undivided devotion to truth and
+righteousness. It needs less the priest, too
+often with his back to the future and too often
+the pliant tool of the organisation whose
+chief concern is, and ever has been, the preservation
+of itself under the ostensible purpose<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[Pg 259]</a></span>
+of the preservation of the truth once delivered,
+the same that Jesus with his keen
+powers of penetration saw killed the Spirit as
+a high moral guide and as an inspirer to high
+and unself-centred endeavour, and that he
+characterised with such scathing scorn. There
+are splendid exceptions; but this is the rule
+now even as it was in his day.</p>
+
+<p>The prophet is concerned with truth, not
+a system; with righteousness, not custom;
+with justice, not expediency. Is there a man
+who would dare say that if Christianity&mdash;the
+Christianity of the Christ&mdash;had been actually
+in vogue, in practice in all the countries of
+Christendom during the last fifty years, during
+the last twenty-five years, that this colossal
+and gruesome war would ever have come
+about? No clear-thinking and honest man
+would or could say that it would. We need
+again the voice of the prophet, clear-seeing,
+high-purposed, and unafraid. We need again
+the touch of the prophet's hand to lead us
+back to those simple fundamental teachings
+of the Christ of Nazareth, that are life-giving
+to the individual, and that are world-saving.</p>
+
+<p>We speak of our Christian civilisation, and
+the common man, especially in times like
+these, asks what it is, where it is&mdash;and God
+knows that we have been for many hundred
+years wandering in the wilderness. He is<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[Pg 260]</a></span>
+thinking that the Kingdom of God on earth
+that the true teachings of Jesus predicated,
+and that he laboured so hard to actualise,
+needs some speeding up. There is a world-wide
+yearning for spiritual peace and righteousness
+on the part of the common man. He
+is finding it occasionally in established religion,
+but often, perhaps more often, independently
+of it. He is finding it more often
+through his own contact and relations with
+the Man of Nazareth&mdash;for him the God-man.
+There is no greater fact in our time, and there
+is no greater hope for the future than is to be
+found in this fact.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus gave the great principles, the animating
+spirit of life, not minute details of conduct.
+The real Church of Christ is not an
+hierarchy, an institution, it is a brotherhood&mdash;the
+actual establishing of the Kingdom of
+God in moral, ethical and social terms in the
+world.</p>
+
+<p>Among the last words penned by Dr. John
+Watson&mdash;Ian Maclaren&mdash;good churchman,
+splendid writer, but above all independent
+thinker and splendid man, were the following:
+"Was it not the chief mistake and also
+the hopeless futility of Pharisaism to meddle
+with the minute affairs of life, and to lay
+down what a man should do at every turn?
+It was not therefore an education of conscience,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[Pg 261]</a></span>
+but a bondage of conscience; it did
+not bring men to their full stature by teaching
+them to face their own problems of duty
+and to settle them, it kept them in a state of
+childhood, by forbidding and commanding in
+every particular of daily life. Pharisaism,
+therefore, whether Jewish or Gentile, ancient
+or modern, which replaces the moral law by
+casuistry, and the enlightened judgment of
+the individual by the confessional, creates a
+narrow character and mechanical morals.
+Freedom is the birthright of the soul, and it
+is by the discipline of life the soul finds itself.
+It were a poor business to be towed across
+the pathless ocean of this world to the next;
+by the will of God and for our good we must
+sail the ship ourselves, and steer our own
+course. It is the work of the Bible to show
+us the stars and instruct us how to take our
+reckoning * * *.</p>
+
+<p>"Jesus did not tell us what to do, for that
+were impossible, as every man has his own
+calling, and is set in by his own circumstances,
+but Jesus has told us how to carry
+ourselves in the things we have to do, and He
+has put the heart in us to live becomingly,
+not by pedantic rules, but by an instinct of
+nobility. Jesus is the supreme teacher of the
+Bible and He came not to forbid or to command,
+but to place the Kingdom of God as a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[Pg 262]</a></span>
+living force, and perpetual inspiration within
+the soul of man, and then, to leave him in
+freedom and in grace to fulfil himself."<a name="FNanchor_G_7" id="FNanchor_G_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_G_7" class="fnanchor">[G]</a></p>
+
+<p>We no longer admit that Christ is present
+and at work only when a minister is expounding
+the gospel or some theological precept or
+conducting some ordained observance in the
+pulpit; or that religion is only when it is
+labelled as such and is within the walls of a
+church. That belonged to the chapter in
+Christianity that is now rapidly closing, a
+chapter of good works and results&mdash;but so
+pitiably below its possibilities. So pitiably
+below because men had been taught and without
+sufficient thought accepted the teaching
+that to be a Christian was to hold certain beliefs
+about the Christ that had been formulated
+by early groups of men and that had
+come down through the centuries.</p>
+
+<p>The chapter that is now opening upon the
+world is the one that puts Christ's own teachings
+in the simple, frank, and direct manner
+in which he gave them, to the front. It
+makes life, character, conduct, human concern
+and human service of greater importance than
+mere matters of opinion. It makes eager and
+unremitting work for the establishing of the
+Kingdom of God, the kingdom of right relations
+between men, here on this earth, the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[Pg 263]</a></span>
+essential thing. It insists that the telling test
+as to whether a man is a Christian is how
+much of the Christ spirit is in evidence in his
+life&mdash;and in every phase of his life. Gripped
+by this idea which for a long time the forward-looking
+and therefore the big men in
+them have been striving for, our churches in
+the main are moving forward with a new, a
+dauntless, and a powerful appeal.</p>
+
+<p>Differences that have sometimes separated
+them on account of differences of opinion,
+whether in thought or interpretation,<a name="FNanchor_H_8" id="FNanchor_H_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_H_8" class="fnanchor">[H]</a> are now
+found to be so insignificant when compared
+to the actual simple fundamentals that the
+Master taught, and when compared to the
+work to be done, that a great Interallied
+Church Movement is now taking concrete and
+strong working form, that is equipping the
+church for a mighty and far-reaching Christian
+work. A new and great future lies immediately
+ahead. The good it is equipping itself
+to accomplish is beyond calculation&mdash;a work
+in which minister and layman will have equal
+voice and equal share.</p>
+
+<p>It will receive also great inspiration and it
+will eagerly strike hands with all allied movements<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[Pg 264]</a></span>
+that are following the same leader, but
+along different roads.</p>
+
+<p>Britain's apostle of brotherhood and leader
+of the Brotherhood Movement there, Rev.
+Tom Sykes, who has caught so clearly the
+Master's own basis of Christianity&mdash;love for
+and union with God, love for and union with
+the brother&mdash;has recently put so much stimulating
+truth into a single paragraph that I
+reproduce it here:</p>
+
+<p>"The emergence of the feeling of kinship
+with the Unseen is the most arresting and
+revealing fact of human history. * * *
+<i>The union with God</i> is not through
+the display of ritual, but the affiliation and conjunction
+of life. We do not believe we are in
+a universe that has screens and folds, where the
+spiritual commerce of man has to be conducted
+on the principle of secret diplomacy.
+The universe is frank and open, and God is
+straightforward and honourable. <i>In making
+the spirit and practice of brotherliness</i> the
+test of religious value, we are at one with
+Him who said: 'Inasmuch as ye do it unto
+one of the least&mdash;ye do it unto me.' <i>We
+touch the Father when we help His child.</i>
+Jesus taught us not to come to God asking,
+art Thou this or that? but to call Him
+Father and live upon it. Do not admit that
+many of our Brotherhood meetings are in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[Pg 265]</a></span>
+'neutral' or 'secular' halls and buildings!
+'Where two or three gather in My name, there
+am I.' Where He is, there is hallowed
+ground."</p>
+
+<p>We need a stock-taking and a mobilisation
+of our spiritual forces. But what, after all,
+does this mean? Search as we may we are
+brought back <i>every time</i> to this same Man of
+Nazareth, the God-man&mdash;Son of Man and Son
+of God. And gathering it into a few brief sentences
+it is this: Jesus' great revelation was
+this consciousness of God in the individual
+life, and to this he witnessed in a supreme and
+masterly way, because this he supremely realised
+and lived. Faith in him and following
+him does not mean acquiring some particular
+notion of God or some particular belief about
+him himself. It is the living in one's own life
+of this same consciousness of God as one's
+source and Father, and a living in these same
+filial relations with him of love and guidance
+and care that Jesus entered into and continuously
+lived.</p>
+
+<p>When this is done there is no problem and
+no condition in the individual life that it will
+not clarify, mould, and therefore take care of;
+for "&#956;&#8052; &#956;&#949;&#961;&#953;&#956;&#957;&#8118;&#964;&#949; &#964;&#8135; &#968;&#965;&#967;&#8135; &#8017;&#956;&#8182;&#957;"&mdash;do not
+worry about your life&mdash;was the Master's clear-cut
+command. Are we ready for this high
+type of spiritual adventure? Not only are we<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[Pg 266]</a></span>
+assured of this great and mighty truth that
+the Master revealed and going ahead of us
+lived, that under this supreme guidance we
+need not worry about the things of the life,
+but that under this Divine guidance we need
+not think <i>even of the life itself</i>, if for any
+reason it becomes our duty or our privilege
+to lay it down. Witnessing for truth and
+standing for truth he again preceded us in this.</p>
+
+<p>But this, this love for God or rather this
+state that becomes the natural and the normal
+life when we seek the Kingdom, and the Divine
+rule becomes dominant and operative in mind
+and heart, leads us directly back to his other
+fundamental: Thou shalt love thy neighbour
+as thyself. For if God is my Father and if he
+cares for me in this way&mdash;and every other man
+in the world is my brother and He cares for
+him in exactly the same way&mdash;then by the
+sanction of God his Father I haven't anything
+on my brother; and by the love of God my
+Father my brother hasn't anything on me. It
+is but the most rudimentary commonsense
+then, that we be considerate one of another,
+that we be square and decent one with another.
+We will do well as children of the
+same Father to sit down and talk matters over;
+and arise with the conclusion that the advice
+of Jesus, our elder brother, is sound: "Therefore
+all things whatsoever ye would that men
+should do to you, do ye even so to them."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[Pg 267]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>He gave it no label, but it has subsequently
+become known as the Golden Rule. There is
+no higher rule and no greater developer of the
+highest there is in the individual human life,
+and no greater adjuster and beautifier of the
+problems of our common human life. And
+when it becomes sufficiently strong in its action
+in this, the world awaits its projection
+into its international life. This is the truth
+that he revealed&mdash;the twofold truth of love to
+God and love for the neighbour, that shall
+make men free. The truth of the Man of
+Nazareth still holds and shall hold, and we
+must realise this adequately before we ask
+or can expect any other revelation.</p>
+
+<p>We are in a time of great changes. The
+discovery of new laws and therefore of new
+truth necessitates changes and necessitates
+advances. But whatever changes or advances
+may come, the Divine reality still survives, independent
+of Jesus it is true, but as the world
+knows him still better, it will give to him its
+supreme gratitude and praise, in that he was
+the most perfect revealer of God to man, of
+God in man, and the most concrete in that he
+embodied and lived this truth in his own
+matchless human-divine life; and stands as
+the God-man to which the world is gradually
+approaching. For as Goethe has said&mdash;"We
+can never get beyond the spirit of Jesus."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[Pg 268]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Love it is, he taught, that brings order out
+of chaos, that becomes the solvent of the riddle
+of life, and however cynical, skeptical, or
+practical we may think at times we may be,
+a little quiet clear-cut thought will bring us
+each time back to the truth that it is the
+essential force that leads away from the tooth
+and the claw of the jungle, that lifts life up
+from and above the clod. Love is the world's
+balance-wheel; and as the warming and ennobling
+element of sympathy, care and consideration
+radiates from it, increasing one's
+sense of mutuality, which in turn leads to
+fellowship, cooperation, brotherhood, a holy
+and diviner conception and purpose of life is
+born, that makes human life more as it
+should be, as it must be&mdash;as it will be.</p>
+
+<p>I love to feel that when one makes glad
+the heart of any man, woman, child, or animal,
+he makes glad the heart of God&mdash;and I
+somehow feel that it is true.</p>
+
+<p>As our household fires radiate their genial
+warmth, and make more joyous and more
+livable the lot of all within the household
+walls, so life in its larger scope and in all
+its human relations, becomes more genial and
+more livable and reveals more abundantly the
+deeper riches of its diviner nature, as it is
+made more open and more obedient to the
+higher powers of mind and spirit.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[Pg 269]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Do you know that incident in connection
+with the little Scottish girl? She was trudging
+along, carrying as best she could a boy
+younger, but it seemed almost as big as she
+herself, when one remarked to her how
+heavy he must be for her to carry, when instantly
+came the reply: "He's na heavy. He's
+mi brither." Simple is the incident; but there
+is in it a truth so fundamental that pondering
+upon it, it is enough to make many a man, to
+whom dogma or creed make no appeal, a
+Christian&mdash;and a mighty engine for good in
+the world. And more&mdash;there is in it a truth
+so fundamental and so fraught with potency
+and with power, that its wider recognition and
+projection into all human relations would reconstruct
+a world.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[Pg 270]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<i><span class="i0">I saw the mountains stand<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Silent, wonderful, and grand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Looking out across the land<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When the golden light was falling<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On distant dome and spire;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And I heard a low voice calling,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Come up higher, come up higher,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the lowland and the mire,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the mist of earth desire,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the vain pursuit of pelf.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the attitude of self:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Come up higher, come up higher."<br /></span>
+</i></div><div class="stanza"><div class="poet">
+<i>James G. Clark</i>
+</div></div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="FOOTNOTES" id="FOOTNOTES"></a>FOOTNOTES:</h2>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> The Emmanuel Movement in Boston in connection
+with Emmanuel Church, inaugurated some time
+ago under the leadership and direction of two well-known
+ministers, Dr. Worcester and Dr. McComb,
+and a well-known physician, Dr. Coriat, and similar
+movements in other cities is an attestation of this.
+</p><p>
+That most valuable book under the joint authorship
+of these three men: "Religion and Medicine,"
+Moffat, Yard and Company, New York, will be found
+of absorbing interest and of great practical value by
+many. The amount of valuable as well as interesting
+and reliable material that it contains is indeed
+remarkable.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> "War and Laughter," by James Oppenheim&mdash;The
+Century Company, New York.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">[C]</span></a> Henry Holt in "Cosmic Relations."</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_D_4" id="Footnote_D_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_D_4"><span class="label">[D]</span></a> From a notable article in the New York "Times
+Magazine," Sunday, April 1, 1917, by George W.
+Perkins, chairman Mayor's Food Supply Commission.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_E_5" id="Footnote_E_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_E_5"><span class="label">[E]</span></a> Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the
+brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and
+Simon? And are his sisters not here with us?&mdash;Mark 6:3.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_F_6" id="Footnote_F_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_F_6"><span class="label">[F]</span></a> From that strong, splendid poem "Buttadeus," by William
+Samuel Johnson.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_G_7" id="Footnote_G_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_G_7"><span class="label">[G]</span></a> "God's Message to the Human Soul"&mdash;<i>Revell</i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_H_8" id="Footnote_H_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_H_8"><span class="label">[H]</span></a> The thought of the layman in practically all of our churches
+is much the same as that of Mr. Lloyd George when he said:
+"The Church to which I belong is torn with a fierce dispute;
+one part says it is baptism <i>into</i> the name of the Father, and
+the other that it is baptism <i>in</i> the name of the Father. I belong
+to one of these parties. I feel most strongly about this.
+I would die for it, but I forget which it is."</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h3><a name="Transcribers_Notes" id="Transcribers_Notes"></a>Transcriber's Notes</h3>
+
+<p>Made minor punctuation, spelling, and hyphenation changes for
+consistency.</p>
+
+<p>Corrected the following typos:<br /><br />
+
+Page <a href="#Page_81">81</a>: Changed Pharasaic to Pharisaic.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(come into being a Pharisaic legalism)</span><br />
+<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_140">140</a>: Changed subconsious to subconscious.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(the slumbering subconsious mind)</span><br />
+<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_193">193</a>: Changed independant to independent.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(guided by their own independant judgment)</span><br />
+<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_217">217</a>: Changed terriffic to terrific.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(What a terriffic price to pay to learn the lesson)</span><br />
+<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_221">221</a>: Changed symathy to sympathy.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(He had, as we have seen, infinite symathy for and forbearance)</span><br />
+<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_232">232</a>: Changed accompaniament to accompaniment.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(Misunderstanding is not infrequently its accompaniament.)</span><br />
+<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_237">237</a>: Changed viligant to vigilant.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(And unless viligant and determined)</span><br />
+<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_245">245</a>: Changed tyrany to tyranny.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(ungoverned by the law of mutuality, becomes tyrany.)</span><br />
+<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_245">245</a>: Changed malignent to malignant.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(the use of force to restrain malignent evil,)</span><br />
+<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_253">253</a>: Changed inaliable to inalienable.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(the inaliable right that every child has)</span><br />
+<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_258">258</a>: Changed impertinances to impertinences.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">("sectarian peculiarities are obsolete impertinances.")</span><br />
+<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_259">259</a>: Changed Chrisitianity to Christianity.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(Chrisitianity of the Christ)</span><br />
+<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_260">260</a>: Changed heirarchy to hierarchy.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(The real Church of Christ is not an heirarchy,)</span><br />
+<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_262">262</a>: Changed that to than.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(human service of greater importance that mere matters of opinion.)</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+<pre>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit, by
+Ralph Waldo Trine
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+THE HIGHER POWERS
+OF
+MIND AND SPIRIT
+
+
+BY
+RALPH WALDO TRINE
+
+AUTHOR OF "IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE," ETC.
+
+
+LONDON
+G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.
+1933
+
+
+
+
+First published May 1918
+Reprinted November 1918.
+Reprinted 1919, 1923, 1927, 1933.
+
+PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
+THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW
+
+
+
+
+FOREWORD
+
+
+We are all dwellers in two kingdoms, the inner kingdom, the kingdom of
+the mind and spirit, and the outer kingdom, that of the body and the
+physical universe about us. In the former, the kingdom of the unseen,
+lie the silent, subtle forces that are continually determining, and with
+exact precision, the conditions of the latter.
+
+To strike the right balance in life is one of the supreme essentials of
+all successful living. We must work, for we must have bread. We require
+other things than bread. They are not only valuable, comfortable, but
+necessary. It is a dumb, stolid being, however, who does not realize
+that life consists of more than these. They spell mere existence, not
+abundance, fullness of life.
+
+We can become so absorbed in making a living that we have no time _for
+living_. To be capable and efficient in one's work is a splendid thing;
+but efficiency _can be made_ a great mechanical device that robs life of
+far more than it returns it. A nation can become so possessed, and even
+obsessed, with the idea of power and grandeur through efficiency and
+organisation, that it becomes a great machine and robs its people of the
+finer fruits of life that spring from a wisely subordinated and
+coordinated individuality. Here again it is the wise balance that
+determines all.
+
+Our prevailing thoughts and emotions determine, and with absolute
+accuracy, the prevailing conditions of our outward, material life, and
+likewise the prevailing conditions of our bodily life. Would we have any
+conditions different in the latter we must then make the necessary
+changes in the former. The silent, subtle forces of mind and spirit,
+ceaselessly at work, are continually moulding these outward and these
+bodily conditions.
+
+He makes a fundamental error who thinks that these are mere sentimental
+things in life, vague and intangible. They are, as great numbers are now
+realising, the great and elemental things in life, the only things that
+in the end really count. The normal man or woman can never find real and
+abiding satisfaction in the mere possessions, the mere accessories of
+life. There is an eternal something within that forbids it. That is the
+reason why, of late years, so many of our big men of affairs, so many in
+various public walks in life, likewise many women of splendid equipment
+and with large possessions, have been and are turning so eagerly to the
+very things we are considering. To be a mere huckster, many of our big
+men are finding, cannot bring satisfaction, even though his operations
+run into millions in the year.
+
+And happy is the young man or the young woman who, while the bulk of
+life still lies ahead, realises that it is the things of the mind and
+the spirit--the fundamental things in life--that really count; that here
+lie the forces that are to be understood and to be used in moulding the
+everyday conditions and affairs of life; that the springs of life are
+all from within, that as is the inner so always and inevitably will be
+the outer.
+
+To present certain facts that may be conducive to the realisation of
+this more abundant life is the author's purpose and plan.
+
+                                        R. W. T.
+
+_Sunnybrae Farm,
+Croton-on-Hudson,
+New York._
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+Chapter                                                           Page
+
+   I. The Silent, Subtle Building Forces of Mind and Spirit          9
+
+  II. Soul, Mind, Body--The Subconscious Mind That
+      Interrelates Them                                             19
+
+ III. The Way Mind Through the Subconscious Mind Builds Body        37
+
+  IV. The Powerful Aid of the Mind in Rebuilding Body--How
+      Body Helps Mind                                               50
+
+   V. Thought as a Force in Daily Living                            63
+
+  VI. Jesus the Supreme Exponent of the Inner Forces and
+      Powers: His People's Religion and Their Condition             76
+
+ VII. The Divine Rule in the Mind and Heart: The Unessentials
+      We Drop--The Spirit Abides                                    89
+
+VIII. If We Seek the Essence of His Revelation, and the
+      Purpose of His Life                                          113
+
+  IX. His Purpose of Lifting Up, Energising, Beautifying,
+      and Saving the Entire Life: The Saving of the Soul is
+      Secondary; but Follows                                       140
+
+   X. Some Methods of Attainment                                   152
+
+  XI. Some Methods of Expression                                   173
+
+ XII. The World War--Its Meaning and Its Lessons for Us            191
+
+XIII. Our Sole Agency of International Peace, and
+      International Concord                                        213
+
+ XIV. The World's Balance-wheel                                    231
+
+
+
+
+THE HIGHER POWERS
+
+OF
+
+MIND AND SPIRIT
+
+
+
+
+I
+
+THE SILENT, SUBTLE BUILDING FORCES OF MIND AND SPIRIT
+
+
+There are moments in the lives of all of us when we catch glimpses of a
+life--our life--that is infinitely beyond the life we are now living. We
+realise that we are living below our possibilities. We long for the
+realisation of the life that we feel should be.
+
+Instinctively we perceive that there are within us powers and forces
+that we are making but inadequate use of, and others that we are
+scarcely using at all. Practical metaphysics, a more simplified and
+concrete psychology, well-known laws of mental and spiritual science,
+confirm us in this conclusion.
+
+Our own William James, he who so splendidly related psychology,
+philosophy, and even religion, to life in a supreme degree, honoured his
+calling and did a tremendous service for all mankind, when he so
+clearly developed the fact that we have within us powers and forces that
+we are making all too little use of--that we have within us great
+reservoirs of power that we have as yet scarcely tapped.
+
+The men and the women who are awake to these inner helps--these
+directing, moulding, and sustaining powers and forces that belong to the
+realm of mind and spirit--are never to be found among those who ask: Is
+life worth the living? For them life has been multiplied two, ten, a
+hundred fold.
+
+It is not ordinarily because we are not interested in these things, for
+instinctively we feel them of value; and furthermore our observations
+and experiences confirm us in this thought. The pressing cares of the
+everyday life--in the great bulk of cases, the bread and butter problem
+of life, which is after all the problem of ninety-nine out of every
+hundred--all seem to conspire to keep us from giving the time and
+attention to them that we feel we should give them. But we lose thereby
+tremendous helps to the daily living.
+
+Through the body and its avenues of sense, we are intimately related to
+the physical universe about us. Through the soul and spirit we are
+related to the Infinite Power that is the animating, the sustaining
+force--the Life Force--of all objective material forms. It is through
+the medium of the mind that we are able consciously to relate the two.
+Through it we are able to realise the laws that underlie the workings of
+the spirit, and to open ourselves that they may become the dominating
+forces of our lives.
+
+There is a divine current that will bear us with peace and safety on its
+bosom if we are wise and diligent enough to find it and go with it.
+Battling against the current is always hard and uncertain. Going with
+the current lightens the labours of the journey. Instead of being
+continually uncertain and even exhausted in the mere efforts of getting
+through, we have time for the enjoyments along the way, as well as the
+ability to call a word of cheer or to lend a hand to the neighbour, also
+on the way.
+
+The _natural, normal life_ is by a law divine under the guidance of the
+spirit. It is only when we fail to seek and to follow this guidance, or
+when we deliberately take ourselves from under its influence, that
+uncertainties arise, legitimate longings go unfulfilled, and that
+violated laws bring their penalties.
+
+It is well that we remember always that violated law carries with it its
+own penalty. The Supreme Intelligence--God, if you please--does not
+punish. He works through the channel of great immutable systems of law.
+_It is ours to find these laws._ That is what mind, intelligence, is
+for. Knowing them we can then obey them and reap the beneficent results
+that are always a part of their fulfilment; knowingly or unknowingly,
+intentionally or unintentionally, we can fail to observe them, we can
+violate them, and suffer the results, or even be broken by them.
+
+Life is not so complex if we do not so continually persist in making it
+so. Supreme Intelligence, creative Power works only through law. Science
+and religion are but different approaches to our understanding of the
+law. When both are real, they supplement one another and their findings
+are identical.
+
+The old Hebrew prophets, through the channel of the spirit, perceived
+and enunciated some wonderful laws of the natural and normal life--that
+are now being confirmed by well-established laws of mental and spiritual
+science--and that are now producing these identical results in the lives
+of great numbers among us today, when they said: "And thine ears shall
+hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye
+turn to the right hand and when ye turn to the left."
+
+And again: "The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek
+him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake
+you." "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
+thee; because he trusteth in thee." "The Lord in the midst of thee is
+mighty." "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall
+abide under the shadow of the Almighty." "Thou shalt be in league with
+the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace
+with thee." "Commit thy way unto the Lord: trust also in him and he
+shall bring it to pass." Now these formulations all mean something of a
+_very definite nature_, or, they mean nothing at all. If they are actual
+expressions of fact, they are governed by certain definite and immutable
+laws.
+
+These men gave us, however, no knowledge of _the laws_ underlying the
+workings of these inner forces and powers; they perhaps had no such
+knowledge themselves. They were intuitive perceptions of truth on their
+part. The scientific spirit of this, our age, was entirely unknown to
+them. The growth of the race in the meantime, the development of the
+scientific spirit in the pursuit and the finding of truth, makes us
+infinitely beyond them in some things, while in others they were far
+ahead of us. But this fact remains, and this is the important fact: If
+these things were actual facts in the lives of these early Hebrew
+prophets, they are then actual facts in our lives right now, today; or,
+if not actual facts, then they are facts that still lie in the realm of
+the potential, only waiting to be brought into the realm of the actual.
+
+These were not unusual men in the sense that the Infinite Power, God, if
+you please, could or did speak to them alone. They are types, they are
+examples of how any man or any woman, through desire and through will,
+can open himself or herself to the leadings of Divine Wisdom, and have
+actualised in his or her life an ever-growing sense of Divine Power. For
+truly "God is the same yesterday, and today, and forever." His laws are
+unchanging as well as immutable.
+
+None of these men taught, then, how to recognise the Divine Voice
+within, nor how to become continually growing embodiments of the Divine
+Power. They gave us perhaps, though, all they were able to give. Then
+came Jesus, the successor of this long line of illustrious Hebrew
+prophets, with a greater aptitude for the things of the spirit--the
+supreme embodiment of Divine realisation and revelation. With a greater
+knowledge of truth than they, he did greater things than they.
+
+He not only did these works, but he showed how he did them. He not only
+revealed _the Way_, but so earnestly and so diligently he implored his
+hearers to follow _the Way_. He makes known the secret of his insight
+and his power: "The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself:
+but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." Again, "I can
+of my own self do nothing." And he then speaks of his purpose, his aim:
+"I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more
+abundantly." A little later he adds: "The works that I do ye shall do
+also." Now again, these things mean something of a very definite nature,
+or they mean nothing at all.
+
+The works done, the results achieved by Jesus' own immediate disciples
+and followers, and in turn their followers, as well as in the early
+church for close to two hundred years after his time, all attest the
+truth of his teaching and demonstrate unmistakably the results that
+follow.
+
+Down through the intervening centuries, the teachings, the lives and the
+works of various seers, sages, and mystics, within the church and out of
+the church, have likewise attested the truth of his teachings. The bulk
+of the Christian world, however, since the third century, has been so
+concerned with various theories and teachings _concerning_ Jesus, that
+it has missed almost completely the real vital and vitalising teachings
+_of_ Jesus.
+
+We have not been taught primarily to follow his injunctions, and to
+apply the truths that he revealed to the problems of our everyday
+living. Within the last two score of years or a little more, however,
+there has been a great going back directly to the teachings of Jesus,
+and a determination to prove their truth and to make effective their
+assurances. Also various laws in the realm of Mental and Spiritual
+Science have become clearly established and clearly formulated, that
+confirm all his fundamental teachings.
+
+There are now definite and well-defined laws in relation to thought as a
+force, and the methods as to how it determines our material and bodily
+conditions. There are now certain well-defined laws pertaining to the
+subconscious mind, its ceaseless building activities, how it always
+takes its direction from the active, thinking mind, and how through this
+channel we may connect ourselves with reservoirs of power, so to speak,
+in an intelligent and effective manner.
+
+There are now well-understood laws underlying mental suggestion, whereby
+it can be made a tremendous source of power in our own lives, and can
+likewise be made an effective agency in arousing the motive powers of
+another for his or her healing, habit-forming, character-building. There
+are likewise well-established facts not only as to the value, but the
+absolute need of periods of meditation and quiet, alone with the Source
+of our being, stilling the outer bodily senses, and fulfilling the
+conditions whereby the Voice of the Spirit can speak to us and through
+us, and the power of the Spirit can manifest in and through us.
+
+A nation is great only as its people are great. Its people are great in
+the degree that they strike the balance between the life of the mind and
+the spirit--all the finer forces and emotions of life--and their outer
+business organisation and activities. When the latter become excessive,
+when they grow at the expense of the former, then the inevitable decay
+sets in, that spells the doom of that nation, and its time is tolled off
+in exactly the same manner, and under the same law, as has that of all
+the other nations before it that sought to reverse the Divine order of
+life.
+
+The human soul and its welfare is the highest business that any state
+can give its attention to. To recognise or to fail to recognise the
+value of the human soul in other nations, determines its real greatness
+and grandeur, or its self-complacent but essential vacuity. It is
+possible for a nation, through subtle delusions, to get such an attack
+of the big head that it bends over backwards, and it is liable, in this
+exposed position, to get a thrust in its vitals.
+
+To be carried too far along the road of efficiency, big business,
+expansion, world power, domination, at the expense of the great
+spiritual verities, the fundamental humanities of national life, that
+make for the real life and welfare of its people, and that give also its
+true and just relations with other nations and their people, is both
+dangerous and in the end suicidal--it can end in nothing but loss and
+eventual disaster. A silent revolution of thought is taking place in the
+minds of the people of all nations at this time, and will continue for
+some years to come. A stock-taking period in which tremendous
+revaluations are under way, is on. It is becoming clear-cut and
+decisive.
+
+
+
+
+II
+
+SOUL, MIND, BODY--THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND THAT INTERRELATES THEM
+
+
+There is a notable twofold characteristic of this our age--we might
+almost say: of this our generation. It is on the one hand a tremendously
+far-reaching interest in the deeper spiritual realities of life, in the
+things of the mind and the Spirit. On the other hand, there is a
+materialism that is apparent to all, likewise far-reaching. We are
+witnessing the two moving along, apparently at least, side by side.
+
+There are those who believe that out of the latter the former is
+arising, that we are witnessing another great step forward on the part
+of the human race--a new era or age, so to speak. There are many things
+that would indicate this to be a fact. The fact that the _material
+alone_ does not satisfy, and that from the very constitution of the
+human mind and soul, it cannot satisfy, may be a fundamental reason for
+this.
+
+It may be also that as we are apprehending, to a degree never equalled
+in the world's history, the finer forces in nature, and are using them
+in a very practical and useful way in the affairs and the activities of
+the daily life, we are also and perhaps in a more pronounced degree,
+realising, understanding, and using the finer, the higher insights and
+forces, and therefore powers, of mind, of spirit, and of body.
+
+I think there is a twofold reason for this widespread and rapidly
+increasing interest. A new psychology, or perhaps it were better to say,
+some new and more fully established laws of psychology, pertaining to
+the realm of the subconscious mind, its nature, and its peculiar
+activities and powers, has brought us another agency in life of
+tremendous significance and of far-reaching practical use.
+
+Another reason is that the revelation and the religion of Jesus the
+Christ is witnessing a _new birth_, as it were. We are finding at last
+an entirely new content in his teachings, as well as in his life. We are
+dropping our interest in those phases of a Christianity that he probably
+never taught, and that we have many reasons now to believe he never even
+thought--things that were added long years after his time.
+
+We are conscious, however, as never before, that that wonderful
+revelation, those wonderful teachings, and above all that wonderful
+life, have a content that can, that does, inspire, lift up, and make
+more effective, more powerful, more successful, and more happy, the life
+of every man and every woman who will accept, who will appropriate, who
+will live his teachings.
+
+Look at it, however we will, this it is that accounts for the vast
+number of earnest, thoughtful, forward looking men and women who are
+passing over, and in many cases are passing from, traditional
+Christianity, and who either of their own initiative, or under other
+leadership, are going back to those simple, direct, God-impelling
+teachings of the Great Master. They are finding salvation in his
+teachings and his example, where they _never could_ find it in various
+phases of the traditional teachings _about_ him.
+
+It is interesting to realise, and it seems almost strange that this new
+finding in psychology, and that this new and vital content in
+Christianity, have come about at almost identically the same time. Yet
+it is not strange, for the one but serves to demonstrate in a concrete
+and understandable manner the fundamental and essential principles of
+the other. Many of the Master's teachings of the inner life, teachings
+of "the Kingdom," given so far ahead of his time that the people in
+general, and in many instances even his disciples, were incapable of
+fully comprehending and understanding them, are now being confirmed and
+further elucidated by clearly defined laws of psychology.
+
+Speculation and belief are giving way to a greater knowledge of law. The
+supernatural recedes into the background as we delve deeper into the
+supernormal. The unusual loses its miraculous element as we gain
+knowledge of the law whereby the thing is done. We are realising that no
+miracle has ever been performed in the world's history that was not
+through the understanding and the use of Law.
+
+Jesus did unusual things; but he did them because of his unusual
+understanding of the law through which they could be done. _He_ would
+not have us believe otherwise. To do so would be a distinct
+contradiction of the whole tenor of his teachings and his injunctions.
+Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free, was his own
+admonition. It was the great and passionate longing of his master heart
+that the people to whom he came, grasp the _interior meanings_ of his
+teachings. How many times he felt the necessity of rebuking even his
+disciples for dragging his teachings down through their material
+interpretations. As some of the very truths that he taught are now
+corroborated and more fully understood, and in some cases amplified by
+well-established laws of psychology, mystery recedes into the
+background.
+
+We are reconstructing a more natural, a more sane, a more common-sense
+portrait of the Master. "It is the spirit that quickeneth," said he;
+"the flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, _they_
+are spirit and _they_ are life." Shall we recall again in this
+connection: "I am come that ye might have life and that ye might have it
+more abundantly"? When, therefore, we take him at his word, and listen
+intently to _his_ words, and not so much to the words of others about
+him; when we place our emphasis upon the fundamental spiritual truths
+that he revealed and that he pleaded so earnestly to be taken in the
+simple, direct way in which he taught them, we are finding that the
+religion of the Christ means a clearer and healthier understanding of
+life and its problems through a greater knowledge of the elemental
+forces and laws of life.
+
+Ignorance enchains and enslaves. Truth--which is but another way of
+saying a clear and definite knowledge of Law, the elemental laws of
+soul, of mind, and body, and of the universe about us--brings freedom.
+Jesus revealed essentially a spiritual philosophy of life. His whole
+revelation pertained to the essential divinity of the human soul and
+the great gains that would follow the realisation of this fact. His
+whole teaching revolved continually around his own expression, used
+again and again, the Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom of Heaven, and which
+he so distinctly stated was an inner state or consciousness or
+realisation. Something not to be found outside of oneself but to be
+found _only within_.
+
+We make a great error to regard man as merely a duality--mind and body.
+Man is a trinity,--soul, mind, and body, each with its own
+functions,--and it is the right coordinating of these that makes the
+truly efficient and eventually the perfect life. Anything less is always
+one-sided and we may say, continually out of gear. It is essential to a
+correct understanding, and therefore for any adequate use of the
+potential powers and forces of the inner life, to realise this.
+
+It is the physical body that relates us to the physical universe about
+us, that in which we find ourselves in this present form of existence.
+But the body, wondrous as it is in its functions and its mechanism, is
+not the life. It has no life and no power in itself. It is of the earth,
+earthy. Every particle of it has come from the earth through the food we
+eat in combination with the air we breathe and the water we drink, and
+every part of it in time will go back to the earth. It is the house we
+inhabit while here.
+
+We can make it a hovel or a mansion; we can make it even a pig-sty or a
+temple, according as the soul, the real self, chooses to function
+through it. We should make it servant, but through ignorance of the real
+powers within, we can permit it to become master. "Know ye not," said
+the Great Apostle to the Gentiles, "that your body is the temple of the
+Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your
+own?"
+
+The soul is the self, the soul made in the image of Eternal Divine Life,
+which, as Jesus said, is Spirit. The essential reality of the soul is
+Spirit. Spirit--Being--is one and indivisible, manifesting itself,
+however, in individual forms in existence. Divine Being and the human
+soul are therefore in essence the same, the same in quality. Their
+difference, which, however, is very great--though less in some cases
+than in others--is a difference _in degree_.
+
+Divine Being is the cosmic force, the essential essence, the Life
+therefore of all there is in existence. The soul is individual personal
+existence. The soul while in this form of existence manifests, functions
+through the channel of a material body. _It is the mind that relates the
+two._ It is through the medium of the mind that the two must be
+coordinated. The soul, the self, while in this form of existence, must
+have a body through which to function. The body, on the other hand, to
+reach and to maintain its highest state, must be continually infused
+with the life force of the soul. The life force of the soul is Spirit.
+If spirit, then _essentially one_ with Infinite Divine Spirit, for
+spirit, Being, is one.
+
+The embodied soul finds itself the tenant of a material body in a
+material universe, and according to a plan as yet, at least, beyond our
+human understanding, whatever may be our thoughts, our theories
+regarding it. The whole order of life as we see it, all the world of
+Nature about us, and we must believe the order of human life, is a
+gradual evolving from the lower to the higher, from the cruder to the
+finer. The purpose of life is unquestionably unfoldment, growth,
+advancement--likewise the evolving from the lower and the coarser to the
+higher and the finer.
+
+The higher insights and powers of the soul, always potential within,
+become of value only as they are realised and used. Evolution implies
+always involution. The substance of all we shall ever attain or be, is
+within us now, waiting for realisation and thereby expression. The soul
+carries its own keys to all wisdom and to all valuable and usable
+power.
+
+It was that highly illumined seer, Emanuel Swedenborg, who said: "Every
+created thing is in itself inanimate and dead, but it is animated and
+caused to live by this, that the Divine is in it and that it exists in
+and from the Divine." Again: "The universal end of creation is that
+there should be an external union of the Creator with the created
+universe; and this would not be possible unless there were beings in
+whom His Divine might be present as if in itself; thus in whom it might
+dwell and abide. To be His abode, they must receive His love and wisdom
+by a power which seems to be their own; thus, must lift themselves up to
+the Creator as if by their own power, and unite themselves with Him.
+Without this mutual action no union would be possible." And again:
+"Every one who duly considers the matter may know that the body does not
+think, because it is material, but the soul, because it is spiritual.
+All the rational life, therefore, which appears in the body belongs to
+the spirit, for the matter of the body is annexed, and, as it were,
+joined to the spirit, in order that the latter may live and perform uses
+in the natural world.... Since everything which lives in the body, and
+acts and feels by virtue of that life, belongs to the spirit alone, it
+follows that the spirit is the real man; or, what comes to the same
+thing, man himself is a spirit, in a form similar to that of his body."
+
+Spirit being the real man, it follows that the great, central fact of
+all experience, of all human life, is the coming into a conscious, vital
+realisation of our source, of our real being, in other words, of our
+essential oneness with the spirit of Infinite Life and Power--the source
+of all life and all power. We need not look for outside help when we
+have within us waiting to be realised, and thereby actualised, this
+Divine birthright.
+
+Browning was prophet as well as poet when in "Paracelsus" he said:
+
+    Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
+    From outward things, whate'er you may believe.
+    There is an inmost centre in us all,
+    Where truth abides in fulness; and around
+    Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,
+    This perfect, clear perception--which is truth.
+    A baffling and perverting carnal mesh
+    Binds it, and makes all error: and, to know
+    Rather consists in opening out a way
+    Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape,
+    Than in effecting entry for a light
+    Supposed to be without.
+
+How strangely similar in meaning it seems to that saying of an earlier
+prophet, Isaiah: "And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying,
+This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand and when
+ye turn to the left."
+
+All great educators are men of great vision. It was Dr. Hiram Corson who
+said: "It is what man draws up from his sub-self which is of prime
+importance in his true education, not what is put into him. It is the
+occasional uprising of our sub-selves that causes us, at times, to feel
+that we are greater than we know." A new psychology, spiritual science,
+a more commonsense interpretation of the great revelation of the Christ
+of Nazareth, all combine to enable us to make this occasional uprising
+our natural and normal state.
+
+No man has probably influenced the educational thought and practice of
+the entire world more than Friedrich Froebel. In that great book of his,
+"The Education of Man," he bases his entire system upon the following,
+which constitutes the opening of its first chapter: "In all things there
+lives and reigns an eternal law. This all-controlling law is necessarily
+based on an all-pervading, energetic, living, self-conscious, and hence
+eternal, Unity.... _This Unity is God._ All things have come from the
+Divine Unity, from God, and have their origin in the Divine Unity, in
+God alone. God is the sole source of all things. All things live and
+have their being in and through the Divine Unity, in and through God.
+All things are only through the divine effluence that lives in them. The
+divine effluence that lives in each thing is the essence of each thing.
+
+"It is the destiny and life work of all things to unfold their essence,
+hence their divine being, and, therefore, the Divine Unity itself--to
+reveal God in their external and transient being. It is the special
+destiny and life work of man, as an intelligent and rational being, to
+become fully, vividly, conscious of this essence of the divine effluence
+in him, and therefore of God.
+
+"The precept for life in general and for every one is: _Exhibit only thy
+spiritual, thy life, in the external, and by means of the external in
+thy actions, and observe the requirements of thy inner being and its
+nature._"
+
+Here is not only an undying basis for all real education, but also the
+basis of all true religion, as well as the basis of all ideal
+philosophy. Yes, there could be no evolution, unless the essence of all
+to be evolved, unfolded, were already involved in the human soul. To
+follow the higher leadings of the soul, which is so constituted that it
+is the inlet, and as a consequence the outlet of Divine Spirit, Creative
+Energy, the real source of all wisdom and power; to project its leadings
+into every phase of material activity and endeavour, constitutes the
+ideal life. It was Emerson who said: "Every soul is not only the inlet,
+but may become the outlet of all there is in God." To keep this inlet
+open, so as not to shut out the Divine inflow, is the secret of all
+higher achievement, as well as attainment.
+
+There is a wood separated by a single open field from my house. In it,
+halfway down a little hillside, there was some years ago a spring. It
+was at one time walled up with rather large loose stone--some three feet
+across at the top. In following a vaguely defined trail through the wood
+one day in the early spring, a trail at one time evidently considerably
+used, it led me to this spot. I looked at the stone enclosure, partly
+moss-grown. I wondered why, although the ground was wet around it, there
+was no water in or running from what had evidently been at one time a
+well-used spring.
+
+A few days later when the early summer work was better under way, I took
+an implement or two over, and half scratching, half digging inside the
+little wall, I found layer after layer of dead leaves and sediment, dead
+leaves and sediment. Presently water became evident, and a little later
+it began to rise within the wall. In a short time there was nearly three
+feet of water. It was cloudy, no bottom could be seen. I sat down and
+waited for it to settle.
+
+Presently I discerned a ledge bottom and the side against the hill was
+also ledge. On this side, close to the bottom, I caught that peculiar
+movement of little particles of silvery sand, and looking more closely I
+could see a cleft in the rock where the water came gushing and bubbling
+in. Soon the entire spring became clear as crystal, and the water
+finding evidently its old outlet, made its way down the little hillside.
+I was soon able to trace and to uncover its course as it made its way to
+the level place below.
+
+As the summer went on I found myself going to the spot again and again.
+Flowers that I found in no other part of the wood, before the autumn
+came were blooming along the little watercourse. Birds in abundance came
+to drink and to bathe. Several times I have found the half-tame deer
+there. Twice we were but thirty to forty paces apart. They have watched
+my approach, and as I stopped, have gone on with their drinking,
+evidently unafraid--as if it were likewise their possession. And so it
+is.
+
+After spending a most valuable hour or two in the quiet there one
+afternoon, I could not help but wonder as I walked home whether
+perchance the spring may not be actually happy in being able to resume
+its life, to fulfil, so to speak, its destiny; happy also in the service
+it renders flowers and the living wild things--happy in the service it
+renders even me. I am doubly happy and a hundred times repaid in the
+little help I gave it. It needed help, to enable it effectively to keep
+connection with its source. As it became gradually shut off from this,
+it weakened, became then stagnant, and finally it ceased its active
+life.
+
+Containing a fundamental truth deeper perhaps than we realise, are these
+words of that gifted seer, Emanuel Swedenborg: "There is only one
+Fountain of Life, and the life of man is a stream therefrom, which if it
+were not continually replenished from its source would instantly cease
+to flow." And likewise these: "Those who think in the light of interior
+reason can see that all things are connected by intermediate links with
+the First Cause, and that whatever is not maintained in that connection
+must cease to exist."
+
+There is a mystic force that transcends any powers of the intellect or
+of the body, that becomes manifest and operative in the life of man when
+this God-consciousness becomes awakened and permeates his entire being.
+Failure to realise and to keep in constant communion with our Source is
+what causes fears, forebodings, worry, inharmony, conflict, conflict
+that downs us many times in mind, in spirit, in body--failure to follow
+that Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world, failure
+to hear and to heed that Voice of the soul, that speaks continually
+clearer as we accustom ourselves to listen to and to heed it, failure to
+follow those intuitions with which the soul, every soul, is endowed, and
+that lead us aright and that become clearer in their leadings as we
+follow them. It is this guidance and this sustaining power that all
+great souls fall back upon in times of great crises.
+
+This single stanza by Edwin Markham voices the poet's inspiration:
+
+    At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky,
+    And flinging the clouds and the towers by,
+        Is a place of central calm;
+    So, here in the roar of mortal things
+    I have a place where my spirit sings,
+        In the hollow of God's palm.
+
+"That the Divine Life and Energy _actually lives in us_," was the
+philosopher Fichte's reply to the proposition--"the profoundest
+knowledge that man can attain." And speaking of the man to whom this
+becomes a real, vital, conscious realisation, he said: "His whole
+existence flows forth, softly and gently, from his Inward Being, and
+issues out into Reality without difficulty or hindrance."
+
+There are certain faculties that we have that are not a part of the
+active thinking mind; they seem to be no part of what we might term our
+_conscious intelligence_. They transcend any possible activities of our
+regular mental processes, and they are in some ways independent of them.
+Through some avenue, suggestions, intuitions of truth, intuitions of
+occurrences of which through the thinking mind we could know nothing,
+are at times borne in upon us; they flash into our consciousness, as we
+say, quite independent of any mental action on our part, and sometimes
+when we are thinking of something quite foreign to that which comes to,
+that which "impresses" us.
+
+This seems to indicate a source of knowledge, a faculty that is distinct
+from, but that acts in various ways in conjunction with, the active
+thinking mind. It performs likewise certain very definite and distinct
+functions in connection with the body. It is this that is called the
+_subconscious mind_--by some the superconscious or the supernormal mind,
+by others the subliminal self.
+
+Just what the subconscious mind is no man knows. It is easier to define
+its functions and to describe its activities than it is to state in
+exact terms what it is. It is similar in this respect to the physical
+force--if it be a physical force--electricity. It is only of late years
+that we know anything of electricity at all. Today we know a great deal
+of its nature and the laws of its action. No man living can tell exactly
+what electricity is. We are nevertheless making wonderful _practical
+applications_ of it. We are learning more _about it_ continually. Some
+day we may know what it _actually is_.
+
+The fact that the subconscious mind seems to function in a realm apart
+from anything that has to do with our conscious mental processes, and
+also that it has some definite functions as both directing and building
+functions to perform in connection with the body, and that it is at the
+same time subject to suggestion and direction from the active thinking
+mind, would indicate that it may be the true connecting link, the medium
+of exchange, between the soul and the body, the connector of the
+spiritual and the material so far as man is concerned.
+
+
+
+
+III
+
+THE WAY MIND THROUGH THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND BUILDS BODY
+
+
+When one says that he numbers among his acquaintances some who are as
+old at sixty as some others are at eighty, he but gives expression to a
+fact that has become the common possession of many. I have known those
+who at fifty-five and sixty were to all intents and purposes really
+older, more decrepit, and rapidly growing still more decrepit both in
+mind and body, than many another at seventy and seventy-five and even at
+eighty.
+
+History, then, is replete with instances, memorable instances, of
+people, both men and women, who have accomplished things at an age--who
+have even begun and carried through to successful completion things at
+an age that would seem to thousands of others, in the captivity of age,
+with their backs to the future, ridiculous even to think of
+accomplishing, much less of beginning. On account of a certain law that
+has always seemed to me to exist and that I am now firmly convinced is
+very _exact_ in its workings, I have been interested in talking with
+various ones and in getting together various facts relative to this
+great discrepancy in the ages of these two classes of "old" people.
+
+Within the year I called upon a friend whom, on account of living in a
+different portion of the country, I hadn't seen for nearly ten years.
+Conversation revealed to me the fact that he was then in his
+eighty-eighth year. I could notice scarcely a change in his appearance,
+walk, voice, and spirit. We talked at length upon the various,
+so-called, periods of life. He told me that about the only difference
+that he noticed in himself as compared with his middle life was that now
+when he goes out to work in his garden, and among his trees, bushes, and
+vines--and he has had many for many years--he finds that he is quite
+ready to quit and to come in at the end of about two hours, and
+sometimes a little sooner, when formerly he could work regularly without
+fatigue for the entire half day. In other words, he has not the same
+degree of endurance that he once had.
+
+Among others, there comes to mind in this connection another who is a
+little under seventy. It chances to be a woman. She is bent and decrepit
+and growing more so by very fixed stages each twelvemonth. I have known
+her for over a dozen years. At the time when I first knew her she was
+scarcely fifty-eight, she was already bent and walked with an
+uncertain, almost faltering tread. The dominant note of her personality
+was then as now, but more so now, fear for the present, fear for the
+future, a dwelling continually on her ills, her misfortunes, her
+symptoms, her approaching and increasing helplessness.
+
+Such cases I have observed again and again; so have all who are at all
+interested in life and in its forces and its problems. What is the cause
+of this almost world-wide difference in these two lives? In this case it
+is as clear as day--the mental characteristics and the mental habits of
+each.
+
+In the first case, here was one who early got a little philosophy into
+his life and then more as the years passed. He early realised that in
+himself his good or his ill fortune lay; that the mental attitude we
+take toward anything determines to a great extent our power in
+connection with it, as well as its effects upon us. He grew to love his
+work and he did it daily, but never under high pressure. He was
+therefore benefited by it. His face was always to the future, even as it
+is today. This he made one of the fundamental rules of his life. He was
+helped in this, he told me in substance, by an early faith which with
+the passing of the years has ripened with him into a demonstrable
+conviction--that there is a Spirit of Infinite Life back of all,
+working in love in and through the lives of all, and that in the degree
+that we realise it as the one Supreme Source of our lives, and when
+through desire and will, which is through the channel of our thoughts,
+we open our lives so that this Higher Power can work definitely in and
+through us, and then go about and do our daily work without fears or
+forebodings, the passing of the years sees only the highest good
+entering into our lives.
+
+In the case of the other one whom we have mentioned, a repetition seems
+scarcely necessary. Suffice it to say that the common expression on the
+part of those who know her--I have heard it numbers of times--is: "What
+a blessing it will be to herself and to others when she has gone!"
+
+A very general rule with but few exceptions can be laid down as follows:
+The body ordinarily looks as old as the mind thinks and feels.
+
+Shakespeare anticipated by many years the best psychology of the times
+when he said: "It is the mind that makes the body rich."
+
+It seems to me that our great problem, or rather our chief concern,
+should not be so much how to stay young in the sense of possessing all
+the attributes of youth, _for the passing of the years does bring
+changes_, but how to pass gracefully, and even magnificently, and with
+undiminished vigour from youth to middle age, and then how to carry that
+middle age into approaching old age, with a great deal more of the
+vigour and the outlook of middle life than _we ordinarily do_.
+
+The mental as well as the physical helps that are now in the possession
+of this our generation, are capable of working a revolution in the lives
+of many who are or who may become sufficiently awake to them, so that
+with them there will not be that--shall we say--immature passing from
+middle life into a broken, purposeless, decrepit, and sunless, and one
+might almost say, soulless old age.
+
+It seems too bad that so many among us just at the time that they have
+become of most use to themselves, their families, and to the world,
+should suddenly halt and then continue in broken health, and in so many
+cases lie down and die. Increasing numbers of thinking people the world
+over are now, as never before, finding that this is not necessary, that
+something is at fault, that that fault is in ourselves. If so, then
+reversely, the remedy lies in ourselves, in our own hands, so to speak.
+
+In order to actualise and to live this better type of life we have got
+to live better from both sides, both the mental and the physical, this
+with all due respect to Shakespeare and to all modern mental
+scientists.
+
+The body itself, what we term the physical body, whatever may be the
+facts regarding a finer spiritual body within it all the time giving
+form to and animating and directing all its movements, is of material
+origin, and derives its sustenance from the food we take, from the air
+we breathe, the water we drink. In this sense it is from the earth, and
+when we are through with it, it will go back to the earth.
+
+The body, however, is not the Life; it is merely the material agency
+that enables the Life to manifest in a material universe for a certain,
+though not necessarily a given, period of time. It is the Life, or the
+Soul, or the Personality that uses, and that in using shapes and moulds,
+the body and that also determines its strength or its weakness. When
+this is separated from the body, the body at once becomes a cold, inert
+mass, commencing immediately to decompose into the constituent material
+elements that composed it--literally going back to the earth and the
+elements whence it came.
+
+It is through the instrumentality or the agency of thought that the
+Life, the Self, uses, and manifests through, the body. Again, while it
+is true that the food that is taken and assimilated nourishes, sustains
+and builds the body, it is also true that the condition and the
+operation of the mind through the avenue of thought determines into what
+shape or form the body is so builded. So in this sense it is true that
+mind builds body; it is the agency, the force that determines the
+shaping of the material elements.
+
+Here is a wall being built. Bricks are the material used in its
+construction. We do not say that the bricks are building the wall; we
+say that the mason is building it, as is the case. He is using the
+material that is supplied him, in this case bricks, giving form and
+structure in a definite, methodical manner. Again, back of the mason is
+his mind, acting through the channel of his thought, that is directing
+his hands and all his movements. Without this guiding, directing _force_
+no wall could take shape, even if millions of bricks were delivered upon
+the scene.
+
+So it is with the body. We take the food, the water, we breathe the air;
+but this is all and always acted upon by a higher force. Thus it is that
+mind builds body, the same as in every department of our being it is the
+great builder. Our thoughts shape and determine our features, our walk,
+the posture of our bodies, our voices; they determine the effectiveness
+of our mental and our physical activities, as well as all our relations
+with and influence or effects upon others.
+
+You say: "I admit the operation of and even in certain cases the power
+of thought, also that at times it has an influence upon our general
+feelings, but I do not admit that it can have any direct influence upon
+the body." Here is one who has allowed herself to be long given to
+grief, abnormally so--notice her lowered physical condition, her lack of
+vitality. The New York papers within the past twelve months recorded the
+case of a young lady in New Jersey who, from _constant_ grieving over
+the death of her mother, died, fell dead, within a week.
+
+A man is handed a telegram. He is eating and enjoying his dinner. He
+reads the contents of the message. Almost immediately afterward, his
+body is a-tremble, his face either reddens or grows "ashy white," his
+appetite is gone; such is the effect of the mind upon the stomach that
+it literally refuses the food; if forced upon it, it may reject it
+entirely.
+
+A message is delivered to a lady. She is in a genial, happy mood. Her
+face whitens; she trembles and her body falls to the ground in a faint,
+temporarily helpless, apparently lifeless. Such are the intimate
+relations between the mind and the body. Raise a cry of fire in a
+crowded theatre. It may be a false alarm. There are among the audience
+those who become seemingly palsied, powerless to move. It is the state
+of the mind, and within several seconds, that has determined the state
+of these bodies. Such are examples of the wonderfully quick influence of
+the mind on the body.
+
+Great stress, or anxiety, or fear, may in two weeks' or even in two
+days' time so work its ravages that the person looks ten years or even
+twenty years older. A person has been long given to worry, or perhaps to
+worry in extreme form though not so long--a well-defined case of
+indigestion and general stomach trouble, with a generally lowered and
+sluggish vitality, has become pronounced and fixed.
+
+Any type of thought that prevails in our mental lives will in time
+produce its correspondences in our physical lives. As we understand
+better these laws of correspondences, we will be more careful as to the
+types of thoughts and emotions we consciously, or unwittingly, entertain
+and live with. The great bulk of all diseases, we will find, as we are
+continually finding more and more, are in the mind before being in the
+body, or are generated in the body through certain states and conditions
+of mind.
+
+The present state and condition of the body have been produced primarily
+by the thoughts that have been taken by the conscious mind into the
+subconscious, that is so intimately related to and that directs all the
+subconscious and involuntary functions of the body. Says one: It may be
+true that the mind has had certain effects upon the body; but to be able
+_consciously_ to affect the body through the mind is impossible and even
+unthinkable, for the body is a solid, fixed, material form.
+
+We must get over the idea, as we quickly will, if we study into the
+matter, that the body, in fact anything that we call material and solid,
+is really solid. Even in the case of a piece of material as "solid" as a
+bar of steel, the atoms forming the molecules are in continual action
+each in conjunction with its neighbour. In the last analysis the body is
+composed of cells--cells of bone, vital organ, flesh, sinew. In the body
+the cells are continually changing, forming and reforming. Death would
+quickly take place were this not true. Nature is giving us a new body
+practically every year.
+
+There are very few elements, cells, in the body of today that were there
+a year ago. The rapidity with which a cut or wound on the body is
+replaced by healthy tissue, the rapidity with which it heals, is an
+illustration of this. One "touches" himself in shaving. In a week,
+sometimes in less than a week, if the blood and the cell structure be
+particularly healthy, there is no trace of the cut, the formation of new
+cell tissue has completely repaired it. Through the formation of new
+cell structure the life-force within, acting through the blood, is able
+to rebuild and repair, if not too much interfered with, very rapidly.
+The reason, we may say almost the sole reason, that surgery has made
+such great advances during the past few years, so much greater
+correspondingly than medicine, is on account of a knowledge of the
+importance of and the use of antiseptics--keeping the wound clean and
+entirely free from all extraneous matter.
+
+So then, the greater portion of the body is really new, therefore young,
+in that it is almost entirely this year's growth. Newness of form is
+continually being produced in the body by virtue of this process of
+perpetual renewal that is continually going on, and the new cells and
+tissues are just as new as is the new leaf that comes forth in the
+springtime to take the place of and to perform the same functions as the
+one that was thrown off by the tree last autumn.
+
+The skin renews itself through the casting off of used cells (those that
+have already performed their functions) most rapidly, taking but a few
+weeks. The muscles, the vital organs, the entire arterial system, the
+brain and the nervous system all take longer, but all are practically
+renewed within a year, some in much less time. Then comes the bony
+structure, taking the longest, varying, we are told, from seven and
+eight months to a year, in unusual cases fourteen months and longer.
+
+It is, then, through this process of cell formation that the physical
+body has been built up, and through the same process that it is
+continually renewing itself. It is not therefore at any time or at any
+age a solid fixed mass or material, but a structure in a continually
+changing fluid form. It is therefore easy to see how we have it in our
+power, when we are once awake to the relations between the conscious
+mind and the subconscious--and it in turn in its relations to the
+various involuntary and vital functions of the body--to determine to a
+great extent how the body shall be built or how it shall be rebuilt.
+
+Mentally to live in any state or attitude of mind is to take that state
+or condition into the subconscious. _The subconscious mind does and
+always will produce in the body after its own kind._ It is through this
+law that we externalise and become in body what we live in our minds. If
+we have predominating visions of and harbour thoughts of old age and
+weakness, this state, with all its attendant circumstances, will become
+externalised in our bodies far more quickly than if we entertain
+thoughts and visions of a different type. Said Archdeacon Wilberforce in
+a notable address in Westminster Abbey some time ago: "The recent
+researches of scientific men, endorsed by experiments in the Salpetriere
+in Paris, have drawn attention to the intensely creative power of
+suggestions made by the conscious mind to the subconscious mind."
+
+
+
+
+IV
+
+THE POWERFUL AID OF THE MIND IN REBUILDING BODY--HOW BODY HELPS MIND
+
+
+"The body looks," some one has said, "as old as the mind feels." By
+virtue of a great mental law and at the same time chemical law we are
+well within the realm of truth when we say: The body ordinarily is as
+old as the mind feels.
+
+Every living organism is continually going through two processes: it is
+continually dying, and continually being renewed through the operation
+and the power of the Life Force within it. In the human body it is
+through the instrumentality of the cell that this process is going on.
+The cell is the ultimate constituent in the formation and in the life of
+tissue, fibre, tendon, bone, muscle, brain, nerve system, vital organ.
+It is the instrumentality that Nature, as we say, uses to do her work.
+
+The cell is formed; it does its work; it serves its purpose and dies;
+and all the while new cells are being formed to take its place. This
+process of new cell formation is going on in the body of each of us much
+more rapidly and uniformly than we think. Science has demonstrated the
+fact that there are very few cells in the body today that were there
+twelve months ago. The form of the body remains practically the same;
+but its constituent elements are in a constant state of change. The
+body, therefore, is continually changing; it is never in a fixed state
+in the sense of being a solid, but is always in a changing, fluid state.
+It is being continually remade.
+
+It is the Life, or the Life Force within, acting under the direction and
+guidance of the subconscious or subjective mind that is the agency
+through which this continually new cell-formation process is going on.
+The subconscious mind is, nevertheless, always subject to suggestions
+and impressions that are conveyed to it by the conscious or sense mind;
+and here lies the great fact, the one all-important fact for us so far
+as desirable or undesirable, so far as healthy or unhealthy, so far as
+normal or aging body-building is concerned.
+
+That we have it in our power to determine our physical and bodily
+conditions to a far greater extent than we do is an undeniable fact.
+That we have it in our power to determine and to dictate the conditions
+of "old age" to a marvellous degree is also an undeniable fact--if we
+are sufficiently keen and sufficiently awake to begin early enough.
+
+If any arbitrary divisions of the various periods of life were
+allowable, I should make the enumeration as follows: Youth, barring the
+period of babyhood, to forty-five; middle age, forty-five to sixty;
+approaching age, sixty to seventy-five; old age, seventy-five to
+ninety-five and a hundred.
+
+That great army of people who "age" long before their time, that
+likewise great army of both men and women who along about middle age,
+say from forty-five to sixty, break and, as we say, all of a sudden go
+to pieces, and many die, just at the period when they should be in the
+prime of life, in the full vigour of manhood and womanhood and of
+greatest value to themselves, to their families, and to the world, is
+something that is _contrary to nature_, and is one of the pitiable
+conditions of our time. A greater knowledge, a little foresight, a
+little care in _time_ could prevent this in the great majority of cases,
+in ninety cases out of every hundred, without question.
+
+Abounding health and strength--wholeness--is the natural law of the
+body. The Life Force of the body, acting always under the direction of
+the subconscious mind, _will build, and always does build_, healthily
+and normally, unless too much interfered with. It is this that
+determines the type of the cell structure that is continually being
+built into the body from the available portions of the food that we
+take to give nourishment to the body. It is affected for good or for
+bad, helped or hindered, in its operation by the type of conscious
+thought that is directed toward it, and that it is always influenced by.
+
+Of great suggestive value is the following by an able writer and
+practitioner:
+
+"God has managed, and perpetually manages, to insert into our nature a
+tendency toward health, and against the unnatural condition which we
+call disease. When our flesh receives a wound, a strange nursing and
+healing process is immediately commenced to repair the injury. So in all
+diseases, organic or functional, this mysterious healing power sets
+itself to work at once to triumph over the morbid condition.... Cannot
+this healing process be greatly accelerated by a voluntary and conscious
+action of the mind, assisted, if need be, by some other person? I
+unhesitatingly affirm, from experience and observation, that it can. By
+some volitional, mental effort and process of thought, this sanative
+colatus, or healing power which God has given to our physiological
+organism, may be greatly quickened and intensified in its action upon
+the body. Here is the secret philosophy of the cures effected by Jesus
+Christ.... There is a law of the action of mind on the body that is no
+more an impenetrable mystery than the law of gravitation. It can be
+understood and acted upon in the cure of disease as well as any other
+law of nature."
+
+If, then, it be possible through this process to change physical
+conditions in the body even after they have taken form and have become
+fixed, as we say, isn't it possible even more easily to determine the
+type of cell structure that is grown in the first place?
+
+The ablest minds in the world have thought and are thinking that if we
+could find a way of preventing the hardening of the cells of the system,
+producing in turn hardened arteries and what is meant by the general
+term "ossification," that the process of aging, growing old, could be
+greatly retarded, and that the condition of perpetual youth that we seem
+to catch glimpses of in rare individuals here and there could be made a
+more common occurrence than we find it today.
+
+The cause of ossification is partly mental, partly physical, and in
+connection with them both are hereditary influences and conditions that
+have to be taken into consideration.
+
+Shall we look for a moment to the first? The food that is taken into the
+system, or the available portions of the food, is the building material;
+but the mind is always the builder.
+
+There are, then, two realms of mind, the conscious and the
+subconscious. Another way of expressing it would be to say that mind
+functions through two avenues--the avenue of the conscious and the
+avenue of the subconscious. The conscious is the thinking mind; the
+subconscious is the doing mind. The conscious is the sense mind, it
+comes in contact with and is acted upon through the avenue of the five
+senses. The subconscious is that quiet, finer, all-permeating inner mind
+or force that guides all the inner functions, the life functions of the
+body, and that watches over and keeps them going even when we are
+utterly unconscious in sleep. The conscious suggests and gives
+directions; the subconscious receives and carries into operation the
+suggestions that are received.
+
+The thoughts, ideas, and even beliefs and emotions of the conscious mind
+are the seeds that are taken in by the subconscious and that in this
+great _realm of causation_ will germinate and produce of their own kind.
+The chemical activities that go on in the process of cell formation in
+the body are all under the influence, the domination of this great
+all-permeating subconscious, or subjective realm within us.
+
+In that able work, "The Laws of Psychic Phenomena," Dr. Thomas J. Hudson
+lays down this proposition: "That the subjective mind is constantly
+amenable to control by suggestion." It is easy, when we once understand
+and appreciate this great fact, to see how the body builds, or rather is
+built, for health and strength, or for disease and weakness; for youth
+and vigour, or for premature ossification and age. It is easy, then, to
+see how we can have a hand in, in brief can have the controlling hand
+in, building either the one or the other.
+
+It is in the province of the intelligent man or woman to take hold of
+the wheel, so to speak, and to determine as an intelligent human being
+should, what condition or conditions shall be given birth and form to
+and be externalised in the body.
+
+A noted thinker and writer has said: "Whatever the mind is set upon, or
+whatever it keeps most in view, that it is bringing to it, and the
+continual thought or imagining must at last take form and shape in the
+world of seen and tangible things."
+
+And now, to be as concrete as possible, we have these facts: The body is
+continually changing in that it is continually throwing out and off,
+used cells, and continually building new cells to take their places.
+This process, as well as all the inner functions of the body, is
+governed and guarded by the subconscious realm of our being. The
+subconscious can do and does do whatever it is _actually_ directed to
+do by the conscious, thinking mind. "We must be careful on what we allow
+our minds to dwell," said Sir John Lubbock, "the soul is dyed by its
+thoughts."
+
+If we believe ourselves subject to weakness, decay, infirmity, when we
+should be "whole," the subconscious mind seizes upon the pattern that is
+sent it and builds cell structure accordingly. This is one great reason
+why one who is, as we say, chronically thinking and talking of his
+ailments and symptoms, who is complaining and fearing, is never well.
+
+To see one's self, to believe, and therefore to picture one's self in
+mind as strong, healthy, active, well, is to furnish a pattern, is to
+give suggestion and therefore direction to the subconscious so that it
+will build cell tissue having the stamp and the force of healthy, vital,
+active life, which in turn means abounding health and strength.
+
+So, likewise, at about the time that "old age" is supposed ordinarily to
+begin, when it is believed in and looked for by those about us and those
+who act in accordance with this thought, if we fall into this same
+mental drift, we furnish the subconscious the pattern that it will
+inevitably build bodily conditions in accordance with. We will then find
+the ordinarily understood marks and conditions of old age creeping upon
+us, and we will become subject to their influences in every department
+of our being. Whatever is thus pictured in the mind and lived in, the
+Life Force will produce.
+
+To remain young in mind, in spirit, in feeling, is to remain young in
+body. Growing old at the period or age at which so many grow old, is to
+a great extent a matter of habit.
+
+To think health and strength, to see ourselves continually growing in
+this condition, is to set into operation the subtlest dynamic force for
+the externalisation of these conditions in the body that can be even
+conceived of. If one's bodily condition, through abnormal, false mental
+and emotional habits, has become abnormal and diseased, this same
+attitude of mind, of spirit, of imagery, is to set into operation _a
+subtle and powerful corrective agency that, if persisted in, will
+inevitably tend to bring normal, healthy conditions to the front again_.
+
+True, if these abnormal, diseased conditions have been helped on or have
+been induced by wrong physical habits, by the violation of physical
+laws, this violation must cease. But combine the two, and then give the
+body the care that it requires in a moderate amount of simple, wholesome
+food, regular cleansing to assist it in the elimination of impurities
+and of used cell structure that is being regularly cast off, an
+abundance of pure air and of moderate exercise, and a change amounting
+almost to a miracle can be wrought--it may be, indeed, what many people
+of olden time would have termed a miracle.
+
+The mind thus becomes "a silent, transforming, sanative energy" of great
+potency and power. That it can be so used is attested by the fact of the
+large numbers, and the rapidly increasing numbers, all about us who are
+so using it. This is what many people all over our country are doing
+today, with the results that, by a great elemental law--Divine Law if
+you choose--_many_ are curing themselves of various diseases, _many_ are
+exchanging weakness and impotence for strength and power, _many_ are
+ceasing, comparatively speaking, are politely refusing, to grow old.
+
+Thought is a force, subtle and powerful, and it tends inevitably to
+produce of its kind.
+
+In forestalling "old age," at least old age of the decrepit type, it is
+the period of middle life where the greatest care is to be employed. If,
+at about the time "old age" is supposed ordinarily to begin, the "turn"
+at middle life or a little later, we would stop to consider what this
+period really means, that it means with both men and women a period of
+life where some simple readjustments are to be made, a period of a
+little rest, a little letting up, a temporary getting back to the
+playtime of earlier years and a bringing of these characteristics back
+into life again, then a complete letting-up would not be demanded by
+nature a little later, as it is demanded in such a lamentably large
+number of cases at the present time.
+
+So in a definite, deliberate way, youth should be blended into the
+middle life, and the resultant should be a force that will stretch
+middle life for an indefinite period into the future.
+
+And what an opportunity is here for mothers, at about the time that the
+children have grown, and some or all even have "flown"! Of course,
+Mother shouldn't go and get foolish, she shouldn't go cavorting around
+in a sixteen-year-old hat, when the hat of the thirty-five-year-old
+would undoubtedly suit her better; but she should rejoice that the
+golden period of life is still before her. Now she has leisure to do
+many of those things _that she has so long wanted to do_.
+
+The world's rich field of literature is before her; the line of study or
+work she has longed to pursue, she bringing to it a better equipped mind
+and experience than she has ever had before. There is also an interest
+in the life and welfare of her community, in civic, public welfare lines
+that the present and the quick-coming time before us along women's
+enfranchisement lines, along women's commonsense equality lines, is
+making her a responsible and full sharer in. And how much more valuable
+she makes herself, also, to her children, as well as to her community,
+inspiring in them greater confidence, respect, and admiration than if
+she allows herself to be pushed into the background by her own weak and
+false thoughts of herself, or by the equally foolish thoughts of her
+children in that she is now, or is at any time, to become a back number.
+
+Life, as long as we are here, should mean continuous unfoldment,
+advancement, and this is undoubtedly the purpose of life; but
+age-producing forces and agencies mean deterioration, as opposed to
+growth and unfoldment. They ossify, weaken, stiffen, deaden, both
+mentally and physically. For him or her who yearns to stay young, the
+coming of the years does not mean or bring abandonment of hope or of
+happiness or of activity. It means comparative vigour combined with
+continually larger experience, and therefore even more usefulness, and
+hence pleasure and happiness.
+
+Praise also to those who do not allow any one or any number of
+occurrences in life to sour their nature, rob them of their faith, or
+cripple their energies for the enjoyment of the fullest in life while
+here. It's those people _who never allow themselves in spirit to be
+downed_, no matter what their individual problems, surroundings, or
+conditions may be, but who chronically bob up serenely who, after all,
+_are the masters of life_, and who are likewise the strength-givers and
+the helpers of others. There are multitudes in the world today, there
+are readers of this volume, who could add a dozen or a score of
+years--teeming, healthy years--to their lives by a process of
+self-examination, a mental housecleaning, and a reconstructed, positive,
+commanding type of thought.
+
+Tennyson was prophet when he sang:
+
+    Cleave then to the sunnier side of doubt,
+    And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith!
+    She reels not in the storm of warring words,
+    She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No,"
+    She sees the Best that glimmers through the Worst,
+    She feels the sun is hid but for a night,
+    She spies the summer through the winter bud,
+    She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls,
+    She hears the lark within the songless egg,
+    She finds the fountain where they wailed "mirage."
+
+
+
+
+V
+
+THOUGHT AS A FORCE IN DAILY LIVING
+
+
+Some years ago an experience was told to me that has been the cause of
+many interesting observations since. It was related by a man living in
+one of our noted university towns in the Middle West. He was a
+well-known lecture manager, having had charge of many lecture tours for
+John B. Gough, Henry Ward Beecher, and others of like standing. He
+himself was a man of splendid character, was of a sensitive organism, as
+we say, and had always taken considerable interest in the powers and
+forces pertaining to the inner life.
+
+As a young man he had left home, and during a portion of his first year
+away he had found employment on a Mississippi steamboat. One day in
+going down the river, while he was crossing the deck, a sudden stinging
+sensation seized him in the head, and instantly vivid thoughts of his
+mother, back at the old home, flashed into his mind. This was followed
+by a feeling of depression during the remainder of the day. The
+occurrence was so unusual and the impression of it was so strong that
+he made an account of it in his diary.
+
+Some time later, on returning home, he was met in the yard by his
+mother. She was wearing a thin cap on her head which he had never seen
+her wear before. He remarked in regard to it. She raised the cap and
+doing so revealed the remains of a long ugly gash on the side of her
+head. She then said that some months before, naming the time, she had
+gone into the back yard and had picked up a heavy crooked stick having a
+sharp end, to throw it out of the way, and in throwing it, it had struck
+a wire clothesline immediately above her head and had rebounded with
+such force that it had given her the deep scalp wound of which she was
+speaking. On unpacking his bag he looked into his diary and found that
+the time she had mentioned corresponded exactly with the strange and
+unusual occurrence to himself as they were floating down the
+Mississippi.
+
+The mother and son were very near one to the other, close in their
+sympathies, and there can be but little doubt that the thoughts of the
+mother as she was struck went out, and perhaps _went strongly out_, to
+her boy who was now away from home. He, being sensitively organised and
+intimately related to her in thought, and alone at the time,
+undoubtedly got, if not her thought, at least the effects of her
+thought, as it went out to him under these peculiar and tense
+conditions.
+
+There are scores if not hundreds of occurrences of a more or less
+similar nature that have occurred in the lives of others, many of them
+well authenticated. How many of us, even, have had the experience of
+suddenly thinking of a friend of whom we have not thought for weeks or
+months, and then entirely unexpectedly meeting or hearing from this same
+friend. How many have had the experience of writing a friend, one who
+has not been written to or heard from for a long time, and within a day
+or two getting a letter from that friend--the letters "crossing," as we
+are accustomed to say. There are many other experiences or facts of a
+similar nature, and many of them exceedingly interesting, that could be
+related did space permit. These all indicate to me that thoughts are not
+mere indefinite things but that thoughts are forces, that they go out,
+and that every distinct, clear-cut thought has, or may have, an
+influence of some type.
+
+Thought transference, which is now unquestionably an established fact,
+notwithstanding much chicanery that is still to be found in connection
+with it, is undoubtedly to be explained through the fact that _thoughts
+are forces_. A positive mind through practice, at first with very
+simple beginnings, gives form to a thought that another mind open and
+receptive to it--and sufficiently attuned to the other mind--is able to
+receive.
+
+Wireless telegraphy, as a science, has been known but a comparatively
+short time. The laws underlying it have been in the universe perhaps, or
+undoubtedly, always. It is only lately that the mind of man has been
+able to apprehend them, and has been able to construct instruments in
+accordance with these laws. We are now able, through a knowledge of the
+laws of vibration and by using the right sending and receiving
+instruments, to send actual messages many hundreds of miles directly
+through the ether and without the more clumsy accessories of poles and
+wires. This much of it we know--_there is perhaps even more yet to be
+known_.
+
+We may find, as I am inclined to think we shall find, that thought is a
+form of vibration. When a thought is born in the brain, it goes out just
+as a sound wave goes out, and transmits itself through the ether, making
+its impressions upon other minds that are in a sufficiently sensitive
+state to receive it; this in addition to the effects that various types
+of thoughts have upon the various bodily functions of the one with whom
+they take origin.
+
+We are, by virtue of the laws of evolution, constantly apprehending the
+finer forces of nature--the tallow-dip, the candle, the oil lamp, years
+later a more refined type of oil, gas, electricity, the latest tungsten
+lights, radium--and we may be still only at the beginnings. Our finest
+electric lights of today may seem--will seem--crude and the quality of
+their light even more crude, twenty years hence, even less. Many other
+examples of our gradual passing from the coarser to the finer in
+connection with the laws and forces of nature occur readily to the minds
+of us all.
+
+The present great interest on the part of thinking men and women
+everywhere, in addition to the more particular studies, experiments, and
+observations of men such as Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Ramsay, and
+others, in the powers and forces pertaining to the inner life is an
+indication that we have reached a time when we are making great strides
+along these lines. Some of our greatest scientists are thinking that we
+are on the eve of some almost startling glimpses into these finer
+realms. My own belief is that we are likewise on the eve of apprehending
+the more precise _nature_ of thought as a force, the methods of its
+workings, and the law underlying its more intimate and everyday uses.
+
+Of one thing we can rest assured; nothing in the universe, nothing in
+connection with human life is outside of the Realm of Law. The elemental
+law of Cause and Effect is absolute in its workings. One of the great
+laws pertaining to human life is: As is the inner, so always and
+inevitably is the outer--Cause, Effect. Our thoughts and emotions are
+the silent, subtle forces that are constantly externalising themselves
+in kindred forms in our outward material world. Like creates like, and
+like attracts like. As is our prevailing type of thought, so is our
+prevailing type and our condition of life.
+
+The type of thought we entertain has its effect upon our energies and to
+a great extent upon our bodily conditions and states. Strong, clear-cut,
+positive, hopeful thought has a stimulating and life-giving effect upon
+one's outlook, energies, and activities; and upon all bodily functions
+and powers. A falling state of the mind induces a chronically gloomy
+outlook and produces inevitably a falling condition of the body. The
+mind grows, moreover, into the likeness of the thoughts one most
+habitually entertains and lives with. Every thought reproduces of its
+kind.
+
+Says an authoritative writer in dealing more particularly with the
+effects of certain types of thoughts and emotions upon bodily
+conditions: "Out of our own experience we know that anger, fear, worry,
+hate, revenge, avarice, grief, in fact all negative and low emotions,
+produce weakness and disturbance not only in the mind but in the body as
+well. It has been proved that they actually generate poisons in the
+body, they depress the circulation; they change the quality of the
+blood, making it less vital; they affect the great nerve centres and
+thus partially paralyse the very seat of the bodily activities. On the
+other hand, faith, hope, love, forgiveness, joy, and peace, all such
+emotions are positive and uplifting, and so act on the body as to
+restore and maintain harmony and actually to stimulate the circulation
+and nutrition."
+
+The one who does not allow himself to be influenced or controlled by
+fears or forebodings is the one who ordinarily does not yield to
+discouragements. He it is who is using the positive, success-bringing
+types of thought that are continually working for him for the
+accomplishment of his ends. The things that he sees in the ideal, his
+strong, positive, and therefore creative type of thought, is continually
+helping to actualise in the realm of the real.
+
+We sometimes speak lightly of ideas, but this world would be indeed a
+sorry place in which to live were it not for ideas--and were it not for
+ideals. Every piece of mechanism that has ever been built, if we trace
+back far enough, was first merely an idea in some man's or woman's
+mind. Every structure or edifice that has ever been reared had form
+first in this same immaterial realm. So every great undertaking of
+whatever nature had its inception, its origin, in the realm of the
+immaterial--at least as we at present call it--before it was embodied
+and stood forth in material form.
+
+It is well, then, that we have our ideas and our ideals. It is well,
+even, to build castles in the air, if we follow these up and give them
+material clothing or structure, so that they become castles on the
+ground. Occasionally it is true that these may shrink or, rather, may
+change their form and become cabins; but many times we find that an
+expanded vision and an expanded experience lead us to a knowledge of the
+fact that, so far as happiness and satisfaction are concerned, the
+contents of a cabin may outweigh many times those of the castle.
+
+Successful men and women are almost invariably those possessing to a
+supreme degree the element of faith. Faith, absolute, unconquerable
+faith, is one of the essential concomitants, therefore one of the great
+secrets of success. We must realise, and especially valuable is it for
+young men and women to realise, that one carries his success or his
+failure with him, that it does not depend upon outside conditions.
+There are some that no circumstances or combinations of circumstances
+can thwart or keep down. Let circumstance seem to thwart or circumvent
+them in one direction, and almost instantly they are going forward along
+another direction. Circumstance is kept busy keeping up with them. When
+she meets such, after a few trials, she apparently decides to give up
+and turn her attention to those of the less positive, the less forceful,
+therefore the less determined, types of mind and of life. Circumstance
+has received some hard knocks from men and women of this type. She has
+grown naturally timid and will always back down whenever she recognises
+a mind, and therefore a life, of sufficient force.
+
+To make the best of whatever present conditions are, to form and clearly
+to see one's ideal, though it may seem far distant and almost
+impossible, to believe in it, and to believe in one's ability to
+actualise it--this is the first essential. Not, then, to sit and idly
+fold the hands, expecting it to actualise itself, but to take hold of
+the first thing that offers itself to do,--that lies sufficiently along
+the way,--to do this faithfully, believing, knowing, that it is but the
+step that will lead to the next best thing, and this to the next; this
+is the second and the completing stage of all accomplishment.
+
+We speak of fate many times as if it were something foreign to or
+outside of ourselves, forgetting that fate awaits always our own
+conditions. A man decides his own fate through the types of thoughts he
+entertains and gives a dominating influence in his life. He sits at the
+helm of his thought world and, guiding, decides his own fate, or,
+through negative, vacillating, and therefore weakening thought, he
+drifts, and fate decides him. Fate is not something that takes form and
+dominates us irrespective of any say on our own part. Through a
+knowledge and an intelligent and determined use of the silent but
+ever-working power of thought we either condition circumstances, or,
+lacking this knowledge or failing to apply it, we accept the role of a
+conditioned circumstance. It is a help sometimes to realise and to voice
+with Henley:
+
+    Out of the night that covers me,
+      Black as the pit from pole to pole,
+    I thank whatever gods may be
+      For my unconquerable soul.
+
+The thoughts that we entertain not only determine the conditions of our
+own immediate lives, but they influence, perhaps in a much more subtle
+manner than most of us realise, our relations with and our influence
+upon those with whom we associate or even come into contact. All are
+influenced, even though unconsciously, by them.
+
+Thoughts of good will, sympathy, magnanimity, good cheer--in brief, all
+thoughts emanating from a _spirit of love_--are felt in their positive,
+warming, and stimulating influences by others; they inspire in turn the
+same types of thoughts and feelings in them, and they come back to us
+laden with their ennobling, stimulating, pleasure-bringing influences.
+
+Thoughts of envy, or malice, or hatred, or ill will are likewise felt by
+others. They are influenced adversely by them. They inspire either the
+same types of thoughts and emotions in them; or they produce in them a
+certain type of antagonistic feeling that has the tendency to neutralise
+and, if continued for a sufficient length of time, deaden sympathy and
+thereby all friendly relations.
+
+We have heard much of "personal magnetism." Careful analysis will, I
+think, reveal the fact that the one who has to any marked degree the
+element of personal magnetism is one of the large-hearted, magnanimous,
+cheer-bringing, unself-centred types, whose positive thought forces are
+being continually felt by others, and are continually inspiring and
+calling forth from others these same splendid attributes. I have yet to
+find any one, man or woman, of the opposite habits and, therefore, trend
+of mind and heart who has had or who has even to the slightest
+perceptible degree the quality that we ordinarily think of when we use
+the term "personal magnetism."
+
+If one would have friends he or she must be a friend, must radiate
+habitually friendly, helpful thoughts, good will, love. The one who
+doesn't cultivate the hopeful, cheerful, uncomplaining, good-will
+attitude toward life and toward others becomes a drag, making life
+harder for others as well as for one's self.
+
+Ordinarily we find in people the qualities we are mostly looking for, or
+the qualities that our own prevailing characteristics call forth. The
+larger the nature, the less critical and cynical it is, the more it is
+given to looking for the best and the highest in others, and the less,
+therefore, is it given to gossip.
+
+It was Jeremy Bentham who said: "In order to love mankind, we must not
+expect too much of them." And Goethe had a still deeper vision when he
+said: "Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
+and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own."
+
+The chief characteristic of the gossip is that he or she prefers to live
+in the low-lying miasmic strata of life, revelling in the negatives of
+life and taking joy in finding and peddling about the findings that he
+or she naturally makes there. The larger natures see the good and
+sympathise with the weaknesses and the frailties of others. They realise
+also that it is so consummately inconsistent--many times even humorously
+inconsistent--for one also with weaknesses, frailties, and faults,
+though perhaps of a little different character, to sit in judgment of
+another. Gossip concerning the errors or shortcomings of another is
+judging another. The one who is himself perfect is the one who has the
+right to judge another. By a strange law, however, though by a natural
+law, we find, as we understand life in its fundamentals better, such a
+person is seldom if ever given to judging, much less to gossip.
+
+Life becomes rich and expansive through sympathy, good will, and good
+cheer; not through cynicism or criticism. That splendid little poem of
+but a single stanza by Edwin Markham, "Outwitted," points after all to
+one of life's fundamentals:
+
+    He drew a circle that shut me out--
+    Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout,
+    But Love and I had the wit to win:
+    We drew a circle that took him in!
+
+
+
+
+VI
+
+JESUS THE SUPREME EXPONENT OF THE INNER FORCES AND POWERS: HIS PEOPLE'S
+RELIGION AND THEIR CONDITION
+
+
+In order to have any true or adequate understanding of what the real
+revelation and teachings of Jesus were, two things must be borne in
+mind. It is necessary in the first place, not only to have a knowledge
+of, but always to bear in mind the method, the medium through which the
+account of his life has come down to us. Again, before the real content
+and significance of Jesus' revelation and teachings can be intelligently
+understood, it is necessary that we have a knowledge of the conditions
+of the time in which he lived and of the people to whom he spoke, to
+whom his revelation was made.
+
+To any one who has even a rudimentary knowledge of the former, it
+becomes apparent at once that no single saying or statement of Jesus can
+be taken to indicate either his revelation or his purpose. These must be
+made to depend upon not any single statement or saying of his own, much
+less anything reported about him by another; but it must be made to
+depend rather upon the whole tenor of his teachings.
+
+Jesus put nothing in writing. There was no one immediately at hand to
+make a record of any of his teachings or any of his acts. It is now well
+known that no one of the gospels was written by an immediate hearer, by
+an eye-witness.
+
+The Gospel of Mark, the oldest gospel, or in other words the one written
+nearest to Jesus' time, was written some forty years after he had
+finished his work. Matthew and Luke, taken to a great extent from the
+Gospel of Mark, supplemented by one or two additional sources, were
+written many years after. The Gospel of John was not written until after
+the beginning of the second century after Christ. These four sets of
+chronicles, called the Gospels, written independently one of another,
+were then collected many years after their authors were dead, and still
+a great deal later were brought together into a single book.
+
+The following concise statement by Professor Henry Drummond throws much
+light upon the way the New Testament portions of our Bible took form:
+"The Bible is not a book; it is a library. It consists of sixty-six
+books. It is a great convenience, but in some respects a great
+misfortune, that these books have always been bound up together and
+given out as one book to the world, when they are not; because that has
+led to endless mistakes in theology and practical life. These books,
+which make up this library, written at intervals of hundreds of years,
+were collected after the last of the writers was dead--long after--by
+human hands. Where were the books? Take the New Testament. There were
+four lives of Christ. One was in Rome; one was in Southern Italy; one
+was in Palestine; one in Asia Minor. There were twenty-one letters. Five
+were in Greece and Macedonia; five in Asia; one in Rome. The rest were
+in the pockets of private individuals. Theophilus had Acts. They were
+collected undesignedly. In the third century the New Testament consisted
+of the following books: The four Gospels, Acts, thirteen letters of
+Paul, I John, I Peter; and, in addition, the Epistles of Barnabas and
+Hermas. This was not called the New Testament, but the Christian
+Library. Then these last books were discarded. They ceased to be
+regarded as upon the same level as the others. In the fourth century the
+canon was closed--that is to say, a list was made up of the books which
+were to be regarded as canonical. And then long after that they were
+stitched together and made up into one book--hundreds of years after
+that. Who made up the complete list? It was never formally made up. The
+bishops of the different churches would draw up a list each of the books
+that they thought ought to be put into this Testament. The churches also
+would give their opinions. Sometimes councils would meet and talk it
+over--discuss it. Scholars like Jerome would investigate the
+authenticity of the different documents, and there came to be a general
+consensus of the churches on the matter."
+
+Jesus spoke in his own native language, the Aramaic. His sayings were
+then rendered into Greek, and, as is well known by all well-versed
+Biblical scholars, it was not an especially high order of Greek. The New
+Testament scriptures including the four gospels, were then many hundreds
+of years afterwards translated from the Greek into our modern
+languages--English, German, French, Swedish, or whatever the language of
+the particular translation may be. Those who know anything of the matter
+of translation know how difficult it is to render the exact meanings of
+any statements or writing into another language. The rendering of a
+_single word_ may sometimes mean, or rather may make a great difference
+in the thought of the one giving the utterance. How much greater is this
+liability when the thing thus rendered is twice removed from its
+original source and form!
+
+The original manuscripts had no punctuation and no verse divisions;
+these were all arbitrarily supplied by the translators later on. It is
+also a well-established fact on the part of leading Biblical scholars
+that through the centuries there have been various interpolations in the
+New Testament scriptures, both by way of omissions and additions.
+
+Reference is made to these various facts in connection with the sayings
+and the teachings of Jesus and the methods and the media through which
+they have come down to us, to show how impossible it would be to base
+Jesus' revelation or purpose upon any single utterance made or purported
+to be made by him--to indicate, in other words, that to get at his real
+message, his real teachings, and his real purpose, we must find the
+binding thread if possible, the reiterated statement, the repeated
+purpose that makes them throb with the living element.
+
+Again, no intelligent understanding of Jesus' revelation or ministry can
+be had without a knowledge of the conditions of the time, and of the
+people to whom his revelation was made, among whom he lived and worked;
+for his ministry had in connection with it both a time element and an
+eternal element. There are two things that must be noted, the moral and
+religious condition of the people; and, again, their economic and
+political status.
+
+The Jewish people had been preeminently a religious people. But a great
+change had taken place. Religion was at its lowest ebb. Its spirit was
+well-nigh dead, and in its place there had gradually come into being a
+Pharisaic legalism--a religion of form, ceremony. An extensive system of
+ecclesiastical tradition, ecclesiastical law and observances, which had
+gradually robbed the people of all their former spirit of religion, had
+been gradually built up by those in ecclesiastical authority.
+
+The voice of that illustrious line of Hebrew prophets had ceased to
+speak. It was close to two hundred years since the voice of a living
+prophet had been heard. Tradition had taken its place. It took the form:
+Moses hath said; It has been said of old; The prophet hath said. The
+scribe was the keeper of the ecclesiastical law. The lawyer was its
+interpreter.
+
+The Pharisees had gradually elevated themselves into an ecclesiastical
+hierarchy who were the custodians of the law and religion. They had come
+to regard themselves as especially favoured, a privileged class--not
+only the custodians but the dispensers of all religious knowledge--and
+therefore of religion. The people, in their estimation, were of a lower
+intellectual and religious order, possessing no capabilities in
+connection with religion or morals, dependent therefore upon their
+superiors in these matters.
+
+This state of affairs that had gradually come about was productive of
+two noticeable results: a religious starvation and stagnation on the
+part of the great mass of the people on the one hand, and the creation
+of a haughty, self-righteous and domineering ecclesiastical hierarchy on
+the other. In order for a clear understanding of some of Jesus' sayings
+and teachings, some of which constitute a very vital part of his
+ministry, it is necessary to understand clearly what this condition was.
+
+Another important fact that sheds much light upon the nature of the
+ministry of Jesus is to be found, as has already been intimated, in the
+political and the economic condition of the people of the time. The
+Jewish nation had been subjugated and were under the domination of Rome.
+Rome in connection with Israel, as in connection with all conquered
+peoples, was a hard master. Taxes and tribute, tribute and taxes, could
+almost be said to be descriptive of her administration of affairs.
+
+She was already in her degenerate stage. Never perhaps in the history of
+the world had men been so ruled by selfishness, greed, military power
+and domination, and the pomp and display of material wealth. Luxury,
+indulgence, over-indulgence, vice. The inevitable concomitant
+followed--a continually increasing moral and physical degeneration. An
+increasing luxury and indulgence called for an increasing means to
+satisfy them. Messengers were sent and additional tribute was levied.
+Pontius Pilate was the Roman administrative head or governor in Judea at
+the time. Tiberius Caesar was the Roman Emperor.
+
+Rome at this time consisted of a few thousand nobles and people of
+station--freemen--and hundreds of thousands of slaves. Even her
+campaigns in time became virtual raids for plunder. She conquered--and
+she plundered those whom she conquered. Great numbers from among the
+conquered peoples were regularly taken to Rome and sold into slavery.
+Judea had not escaped this. Thousands of her best people had been
+transported to Rome and sold into slavery. It was never known where the
+blow would fall next; what homes would be desolated and both sons and
+daughters sent away into slavery. No section, no family could feel any
+sense of security. A feeling of fear, a sense of desolation pervaded
+everywhere.
+
+There was a tradition, which had grown into a well-defined belief, that
+a Deliverer would be sent them, that they would be delivered out of the
+hands of their enemies and that their oppressors would in turn be
+brought to grief. There was also in the section round about Judaea a
+belief, which had grown until it had become well-nigh universal, that
+the end of the world, or the end of the age, was speedily coming, that
+then there would be an end of all earthly government and that the reign
+of Jehovah--the kingdom of God--would be established. These two beliefs
+went hand in hand. They were kept continually before the people, and now
+and then received a fresh impetus by the appearance of a new prophet or
+a new teacher, whom the people went gladly out to hear. Of this kind was
+John, the son of a priest, later called John the Baptist.
+
+After his period of preparation, he came out of the wilderness of Judaea,
+and in the region about the Jordan with great power and persuasiveness,
+according to the accounts, he gave utterance to the message: Repent ye,
+for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Forsake all earthly things; they
+will be of avail but a very short time now, turn ye from them and
+prepare yourselves for the coming of the Kingdom of God. The old things
+will speedily pass away; all things will become new. Many went out to
+hear him and were powerfully appealed to by the earnest, rugged
+utterances of this new preacher of righteousness and repentance.
+
+His name and his message spread through all the land of Judea and the
+country around the Jordan. Many were baptised by him there, he making
+use of this symbolic service which had been long in use by certain
+branches of the Jewish people, especially the order of the Essenes.
+
+Among those who went out to hear John and who accepted baptism at his
+hands was Jesus, the son of Joseph and Mary, whose home was at Nazareth.
+It marks also the beginning of his own public ministry, for which he
+evidently had been in preparation for a considerable time.
+
+It seems strange that we know so little of the early life of one
+destined to exert such a powerful influence upon the thought and the
+life of the world. In the gospel of Mark, probably the most reliable,
+because the nearest to his time, there is no mention whatever of his
+early life. The first account is where he appears at John's meetings.
+Almost immediately thereafter begins his own public ministry.
+
+In the gospel of Luke we have a very meagre account of him. It is at the
+age of twelve. The brief account gives us a glimpse into the lives of
+his father and his mother, Joseph and Mary; showing that at that time
+they were not looked upon as in any way different from all of the
+inhabitants of their little community, Nazareth, the little town in
+Galilee--having a family of several sons and daughters, and that Jesus,
+the eldest of the family, grew in stature and in knowledge, as all the
+neighbouring children grew; but that he, even at an early age, showed
+that he had a wonderful aptitude for the things of the spirit. I
+reproduce Luke's brief account here:
+
+"Now, his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the
+passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem,
+after the custom of the feast. And when they had fulfilled the days, as
+they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem: and Joseph
+and his mother knew not of it. But they, supposing him to have been in
+the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their
+kinsfolk and acquaintances. And when they found him not, they turned
+back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. And it came to pass that after
+three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the
+doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions. And all that heard
+him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
+
+"And when they saw him they were amazed: and his mother said unto him,
+Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Behold, thy father and I have
+sought thee sorrowing. And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought
+me? Wist ye not that I must be about my father's business? And they
+understood not the saying which he spake unto them. And he went down
+with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his
+mother kept all these sayings in her heart. And Jesus increased in
+wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man."
+
+Nothing could be more interesting than to know the early life of Jesus.
+There are various theories as to how this was spent, that is, as to what
+his preparation was--the facts of his life, in addition to his working
+with his father at his trade, that of a carpenter; but we know nothing
+that has the stamp of historical accuracy upon it. Of his entire life,
+indeed, including the period of his active ministry, from thirty to
+nearly thirty-three, it is but fair to presume that we have at best but
+a fragmentary account in the Gospel narratives. It is probable that many
+things connected with his ministry, and many of his sayings and
+teachings, we have no record of at all.
+
+It is probable that in connection with his preparation he spent a great
+deal of time alone, in the quiet, in communion with his Divine Source,
+or as the term came so naturally to him, with God, his Father--God, our
+Father, for that was his teaching--my God and your God. The many times
+that we are told in the narratives that he went to the mountain alone,
+would seem to justify us in this conclusion. Anyway, it would be
+absolutely impossible for anyone to have such a vivid realisation of his
+essential oneness with the Divine, without much time spent in such a
+manner that the real life could evolve into its Divine likeness, and
+then mould the outer life according to this ideal or pattern.
+
+
+
+
+VII
+
+THE DIVINE RULE IN THE MIND AND HEART: THE UNESSENTIALS WE DROP--THE
+SPIRIT ABIDES
+
+
+That Jesus had a supreme aptitude for the things of the spirit, there
+can be no question. That through desire and through will he followed the
+leadings of the spirit--that he gave himself completely to its
+leadings--is evident both from his utterances and his life. It was this
+combination undoubtedly that led him into that vivid sense of his life
+in God, which became so complete that he afterwards speaks--I and my
+Father are one. That he was always, however, far from identifying
+himself as equal with God is indicated by his constant declaration of
+his dependence upon God. Again and again we have these declarations: "My
+meat and drink is to do the will of God." "My doctrine is not mine, but
+his that sent me." "I can of myself do nothing: as I hear I judge; and
+my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will
+of him that sent me."
+
+And even the very last acts and words of his life proclaim this
+constant sense of dependence for guidance, for strength, and even for
+succour. With all his Divine self-realisation there was always,
+moreover, that sense of humility that is always a predominating
+characteristic of the really great. "Why callest thou me good? There is
+none good but one--that is God."
+
+It is not at all strange, therefore, that the very first utterance of
+his public ministry, according to the chronicler Mark was: The Kingdom
+of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. And while this was
+the beginning utterance, it was the keynote that ran through his entire
+ministry. It is the basic fact of all his teachings. The realisation of
+his own life he sought to make the realisation of all others. It was, it
+is, a call to righteousness, and a call to righteousness through the
+only channel that any such call can be effective--through a realisation
+of the essential righteousness and goodness of the human soul.
+
+An unbiased study of Jesus' own words will reveal the fact that he
+taught only what he himself had first realised. It is this, moreover,
+that makes him the supreme teacher of all time--Counsellor, Friend,
+Saviour. It is the saving of men from their lower conceptions and
+selves, a lifting of them up to their higher selves, which, as he
+taught, is eternally one with God, the Father, and which, when realised,
+will inevitably, reflexly, one might say, lift a man's thoughts, acts,
+conduct--the entire life--up to that standard or pattern. It is thus
+that the Divine ideal, that the Christ becomes enthroned within. The
+Christ-consciousness is the universal Divine nature in us. It is the
+state of God-consciousness. It is the recognition of the indwelling
+Divine life as the source, and therefore the essence of our own lives.
+
+Jesus came as the revealer of a new truth, a new conception of man.
+Indeed, the Messiah. He came as the revealer of the only truth that
+could lead his people out of their trials and troubles--out of their
+bondage. They were looking for their Deliverer to come in the person of
+a worldly king and to set up his rule as such. He came in the person of
+a humble teacher, the revealer of a mighty truth, the revealer of the
+Way, the only way whereby real freedom and deliverance can come. For
+those who would receive him, he was indeed the Messiah. For those who
+would not, he was not, and the same holds today.
+
+He came as the revealer of a truth which had been glimpsed by many
+inspired teachers among the Jewish race and among those of other races.
+The time waited, however, for one to come who would first embody this
+truth and then be able effectively to teach it. This was done in a
+supreme degree by the Judaean Teacher. He came not as the doer-away with
+the Law and the Prophets, but rather to regain and then to supplement
+them. Such was his own statement.
+
+It is time to ascend another round. I reveal God to you, not in the
+Tabernacle, but in the human heart--then in the Tabernacle in the degree
+that He is in the hearts of those who frequent the Tabernacle. Otherwise
+the Tabernacle becomes a whited sepulchre. The Church is not a building,
+an organisation, not a creed. The Church is the Spirit of Truth. It must
+have one supreme object and purpose--to lead men to the truth. I reveal
+what I have found--I in the Father and the Father in me. I seek not to
+do mine own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.
+
+Everything was subordinated to this Divine realisation and to his Divine
+purpose.
+
+The great purpose at which he laboured so incessantly was the teaching
+of the realisation of the Divine will in the hearts and minds, and
+through these in the lives of men--the finding and the realisation of
+the Kingdom of God. This is the supreme fact of life. Get right at the
+centre and the circumference will then care for itself. As is the
+inner, so always and invariably will be the outer. There is an inner
+guide that regulates the life when this inner guide is allowed to assume
+authority. Why be disconcerted, why in a heat concerning so many things?
+It is not the natural and the normal life. Life at its best is something
+infinitely beyond this. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His
+righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." And if
+there is any doubt in regard to his real meaning in this here is his
+answer: "Neither shall they say, 'Lo here' or 'Lo there' for behold the
+Kingdom of God is within you."
+
+Again and again this is his call. Again and again this is his
+revelation. In the first three gospels alone he uses the expression "the
+Kingdom of God," or "the Kingdom of Heaven," upwards of thirty times.
+Any possible reference to any organisation that he might have had in
+mind, can be found in the entire four gospels but twice.
+
+It would almost seem that it would not be difficult to judge as to what
+was uppermost in his mind. I have made this revelation to you; you must
+raise yourselves, you must become _in reality_ what _in essence_ you
+really are. I in the Father, and the Father in me. I reveal only what I
+myself know. As I am, ye shall be. God is your Father. In your real
+nature you are Divine. Drop your ideas of the depravity of the human
+soul. To believe it depraves. To teach it depraves the one who teaches
+it, and the one who accepts it. Follow not the traditions of men. I
+reveal to you your Divine birthright. Accept it. It is best. Behold all
+things are become new. The Kingdom of God is the one all-inclusive
+thing. Find it and all else will follow.
+
+"Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison
+shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it
+is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth;
+but when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs,
+and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge
+under the shadow of it." "Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? Is
+it like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal,
+till the whole was leavened?" Seek ye first the Kingdom, and the Holy
+Spirit, the channel of communion between God your source, and
+yourselves, will lead you, and will lead you into all truth. It will
+become as a lamp to your feet, a guide that is always reliable.
+
+To refuse allegiance to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, is the
+real sin, the only sin that cannot be forgiven. Violation of all moral
+and natural law may be forgiven. It will bring its penalty, for the
+violation of law carries in itself its own penalty, its own
+punishment--_it is a part of law_; but cease the violation and the
+penalty ceases. The violation registers its ill effects in the illness,
+the sickness, of body and spirit. If the violation has been long
+continued, these effects may remain for some time; but the instant the
+violation ceases the repair will begin, and things will go the other
+way.
+
+Learn from this experience, however, that there can be no deliberate
+violation of, or blaspheming against any moral or natural law. But
+deliberately to refuse obedience to the inner guide, the Holy Spirit,
+constitutes a defiance that eventually puts out the lamp of life, and
+that can result only in confusion and darkness. It severs the ordained
+relationship, the connecting, the binding cord, between the soul--the
+self--and its Source. Stagnation, degeneracy, and eventual death is
+merely the natural sequence.
+
+With this Divine self-realisation the Spirit assumes control and
+mastery, and you are saved from the follies of error, and from the
+consequences of error. Repent ye--turn from your trespasses and sins,
+from your lower conceptions of life, of pleasure and of pain, and walk
+in this way. The lower propensities and desires will lose their hold
+and will in time fall away. You will be at first surprised, and then
+dumfounded, at what you formerly took for pleasure. True pleasure and
+satisfaction go hand in hand,--nor are there any bad after results.
+
+All genuine pleasures should lead to more perfect health, a greater
+accretion of power, a continually expanding sense of life and service.
+When God is uppermost in the heart, when the Divine rule under the
+direction of the Holy Spirit becomes the ruling power in the life of the
+individual, then the body and its senses are subordinated to this rule;
+the passions become functions to be used; license and perverted use give
+way to moderation and wise use; and there are then no penalties that
+outraged law exacts; satiety gives place to satisfaction. It was Edward
+Carpenter who said: "In order to enjoy life one must be a master of
+life--for to be a slave to its inconsistencies can only mean torment;
+and in order to enjoy the senses one must be master of them. To dominate
+the actual world you must, like Archimedes, base your fulcrum somewhere
+beyond."
+
+It is not the use, but the abuse of anything good in itself that brings
+satiety, disease, suffering, dissatisfaction. Nor is asceticism a true
+road of life. All things are for use; but all must be wisely, in most
+cases, moderately used, for true enjoyment. All functions and powers are
+for use; but all must be brought under the domination of the Spirit--the
+God-illumined spirit. This is the road that leads to heaven here and
+heaven hereafter--and we can rest assured that we will never find a
+heaven hereafter that we do not make while here. Through everything runs
+this teaching of the Master.
+
+How wonderfully and how masterfully and simply he sets forth his whole
+teaching of sin and the sinner and his relation to the Father in that
+marvellous parable, the Parable of the Prodigal Son. To bring it clearly
+to mind again it runs:
+
+"A certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father,
+Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth _to me_. And he
+divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son
+gathered all together, and took his journey to a far country, and there
+wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all,
+there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
+And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent
+him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his
+belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
+And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my
+father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I
+will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have
+sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be
+called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose and
+came to his father.
+
+"But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had
+compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and kissed him. And the son
+said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight,
+and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his
+servants, Bring forth the best robe and put it on him; and put a ring on
+his hand, and shoes on his feet: and bring hither the fatted calf, and
+kill it; and let us eat, and be merry; for this my son was dead, and is
+alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. Now
+his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the
+house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants,
+and asked what these things meant. And he said unto him, Thy brother is
+come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath
+received him safe and sound. And he was angry and would not go in:
+therefore came his father out, and entreated him, and he answering said
+to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither
+transgressed I at any time thy commandment; and yet thou never gavest me
+a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: but as soon as this thy
+son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast
+killed for him the fatted calf. And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever
+with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make
+merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again;
+and was lost, and is found."
+
+It does away forever in all thinking minds with any participation of
+Jesus in that perverted and perverting doctrine that man is by nature
+essentially depraved, degraded, fallen, in the sense as was given to the
+world long, long after his time in the doctrine of the Fall of Man, and
+the need of redemption through some external source outside of himself,
+in distinction from the truth that he revealed that was to make men
+free--the truth of their Divine nature, and this love of man by the
+Heavenly Father, and the love of the Heavenly Father by His children.
+
+To connect Jesus with any such thought or teaching would be to take the
+heart out of his supreme revelation. For his whole conception of God the
+Father, given in all his utterances, was that of a Heavenly Father of
+love, of care, longing to exercise His protecting care and to give good
+gifts to His children--and this because it is the _essential nature_ of
+God to be fatherly. His Fatherhood is not, therefore, accidental, not
+dependent upon any conditions or circumstances; it is essential.
+
+If it is the nature of a father to give good gifts to his children, so
+in a still greater degree is it the nature of the Heavenly Father to
+give good gifts to those who ask Him. As His words are recorded by
+Matthew: "Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will
+he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If
+ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how
+much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them
+that ask him?" So in the parable as presented by Jesus, the father's
+love was such that as soon as it was made known to him that his son who
+had been lost to him had returned, he went out to meet him; he granted
+him full pardon--and there were no conditions.
+
+Speaking of the fundamental teaching of the Master, and also in
+connection with this same parable, another has said: "It thus appears
+from this story, as elsewhere in the teaching of Jesus, that he did not
+call God our father because He created us, or because He rules over us,
+or because He made a covenant with Abraham, but simply and only because
+He loves us. This parable individualises the divine love, as did also
+the missionary activity of Jesus. The gospels know nothing of a national
+fatherhood, of a God whose love is confined to a particular people. It
+is the individual man who has a heavenly Father, and this individualised
+fatherhood is the only one of which Jesus speaks. As he had realised his
+own moral and spiritual life in the consciousness that God was his
+father, so he sought to give life to the world by a living revelation of
+the truth that God loves each separate soul. This is a prime factor in
+the religion and ethics of Jesus. It is seldom or vaguely apprehended in
+the Old Testament teaching; but in the teaching of Jesus it is central
+and normative." Again in the two allied parables of Jesus--the Parable
+of the Lost Sheep, and the Parable of the Lost Coin--it is his purpose
+to teach the great love of the Father for all, including those lost in
+their trespasses and sins, and His rejoicing in their return.
+
+This leads to Jesus' conception and teaching of sin and repentance.
+Although God is the Father, He demands filial obedience in the hearts
+and the minds of His children. Men by following the devices and desires
+of their own hearts, are not true to their real nature, their Divine
+pattern. By following their selfish desires they have brought sin, and
+thereby suffering, on themselves and others. The unclean, the selfish
+desires of mind and heart, keep them from their higher moral and
+spiritual ideal--although not necessarily giving themselves to gross
+sin. Therefore, they must become sons of God by repenting--by turning
+from the evil inclinations of their hearts and seeking to follow the
+higher inclinations of the heart as becomes children of God and those
+who are dwellers in the Heavenly Kingdom. Therefore, his opening
+utterance: "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand;
+repent ye, and believe the gospel."
+
+Love of God with the whole heart, and love of the neighbour, leading to
+the higher peace and fulfilment, must take the place of these more
+selfish desires that lead to antagonisms and dissatisfactions both
+within and without. All men are to pray: Forgive us our sins. All men
+are to repent of their sins which are the results of following their own
+selfish desires,--those of the body, or their own selfish desires to the
+detriment of the welfare of the neighbour.
+
+All men are to seek the Divine rule, the rule of God in the heart, and
+thereby have the guidance of the Holy Spirit, which is the Divine
+spirit of wisdom that tabernacles with man when through desire and
+through will he makes the conditions whereby it can make its abode with
+him. It is a manifestation of the force that is above man--it is the
+eternal heritage of the soul. "Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the
+Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." And therein lies salvation. It
+follows the seeking and the finding of the Kingdom of God and His
+righteousness that Jesus revealed to a waiting world.
+
+And so it was the spirit of religion that Jesus came to reveal--the real
+Fatherhood of God and the Divine Sonship of man. A better righteousness
+than that of the scribes and the Pharisees--not a slavish adherence to
+the Law, with its supposed profits and rewards. Get the motive of life
+right. Get the heart right and these things become of secondary
+importance. As his supreme revelation was the personal fatherhood of
+God, from which follows necessarily the Divine sonship of man, so there
+was a corollary to it, a portion of it almost as essential as the main
+truth itself--namely, that all men are brothers. Not merely those of one
+little group, or tribe or nation; not merely those of any one little set
+or religion; not merely those of this or that little compartment that we
+build and arbitrarily separate ourselves into--but all men the world
+over. If this is not true then Jesus' supreme revelation is false.
+
+In connection with this great truth he brought a new standard by virtue
+of the logic of his revelation. "Ye have heard that it hath been said,
+Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you,
+Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate
+you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
+that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven."
+Struggling for recognition all through the Old Testament scriptures, and
+breaking through partially at least in places, was this conception which
+is at the very basis of all man's relationship with man.
+
+And finally through this supreme Master of life it did break through,
+with a wonderful newborn consciousness.
+
+The old dispensation, with its legal formalism, was an eye for an eye
+and a tooth for a tooth. The new dispensation was--"But I say unto you,
+Love your enemies." Enmity begets enmity. It is as senseless as it is
+godless. It runs through all his teachings and through every act of his
+life. If fundamentally you do not have the love of your fellow-man in
+your hearts, you do not have the love of God in your hearts and you
+cannot have.
+
+And that this fundamental revelation be not misunderstood, near the
+close of his life he said: "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye
+love one another." No man could be, can be his disciple, his follower,
+and fail in the realisation of this fundamental teaching. "By this shall
+all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another." And
+going back again to his ministry we find that it breathes through every
+teaching that he gave. It breathes through that short memorable prayer
+which we call the Lord's Prayer. It permeates the Sermon on the Mount.
+It is the very essence of his summing up of this discourse. We call it
+the Golden Rule. "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye
+even so to them." Not that it was original with Jesus; other teachers
+sent of God had given it before to other peoples--God's other children;
+but he gave it a new emphasis, a new setting. _He made it fundamental._
+
+So a man who is gripped at all vitally by Jesus' teaching of the
+personal fatherhood of God, and the personal brotherhood of man, simply
+can't help but make this the basic rule of his life--and moreover find
+joy in so making it. A man who really comprehends this fundamental
+teaching can't be crafty, sneaking, dishonest, or dishonourable, in his
+business, or in any phase of his personal life. He never hogs the
+penny--in other words, he never seeks to gain his own advantage to the
+disadvantage of another. He may be long-headed; he may be able to size
+up and seize conditions; but he seeks no advantage for himself to the
+detriment of his fellow, to the detriment of his community, or to the
+detriment of his extended community, the nation or the world. He is
+thoughtful, considerate, open, frank; and, moreover, he finds great joy
+in being so.
+
+I have never seen any finer statement of the essential reasonableness,
+therefore, of the essential truth of the value and the practice of the
+Golden Rule than that given by a modern disciple of Jesus who left us
+but a few years ago. A poor boy, a successful business man, straight,
+square, considerate in all his dealings,--a power among his fellows, a
+lamp indeed to the feet of many--was Samuel Milton Jones, thrice mayor
+of Toledo. Simple, unassuming, friend of all, rich as well as poor, poor
+as well as rich, friend of the outcast, the thief, the criminal, looking
+beyond the exterior, he saw as did Jesus, the human soul always intact,
+though it erred in its judgment--as we all err in our judgments, each in
+his own peculiar way--and that by forbearance, consideration, and love,
+it could be touched and the life redeemed--redeemed to happiness, to
+usefulness, to service. Notwithstanding his many duties, business and
+political, he thought much and he loved to talk of the things we are
+considering.
+
+His brief statement of the fundamental reasons and the comprehensive
+results of the actual practice of the Golden Rule are shot through with
+such fine insight, such abounding comprehension, that they deserve to
+become immortal. He was my friend and I would not see them die. I
+reproduce them here: "As I view it, the Golden Rule is the supreme law
+of life. It may be paraphrased this way: As you do unto others, others
+will do unto you. What I give, I get. If I love you, really and truly
+and actively love you, you are as sure to love me in return as the earth
+is sure to be warmed by the rays of the midsummer sun. If I hate you,
+ill-treat you and abuse you, I am equally certain to arouse the same
+kind of antagonism towards me, unless the Divine nature is so developed
+that it is dominant in you, and you have learned to love your enemies.
+What can be plainer? The Golden Rule is the law of action and reaction
+in the field of morals, just as definite, just as certain here as the
+law is definite and certain in the domain of physics.
+
+"I think the confusion with respect to the Golden Rule arises from the
+different conceptions that we have of the word love. I use the word
+love as synonymous with reason, and when I speak of doing the loving
+thing, I mean the reasonable thing. When I speak of dealing with my
+fellow-men in an unreasonable way, I mean an unloving way. The terms are
+interchangeable, absolutely. The reason why we know so little about the
+Golden Rule is because we have not practised it."
+
+Was Mayor Jones a Christian? you ask. He was a follower of the
+Christ--for it was he who said: "By this shall all men know ye are my
+disciples, if ye love one another." Was he a member of a religious
+organisation? I don't know--it never occurred to me to ask him. Thinking
+men the world over are making a sharp distinction in these days between
+organised Christianity and essential Christianity.
+
+The element of fear has lost its hold on the part of thinking men and
+women. It never opened up, it never can open up the springs of
+righteousness in the human heart. He believed and he acted upon the
+belief that it was the spirit that the Master taught--that God is a God
+of love and that He reveals Himself in terms of love to those who really
+know Him. He believed that there is joy to the human soul in following
+this inner guide and translating its impulses into deeds of love and
+service for one's fellow-men. If we could, if we would thus translate
+religion into terms of life, it would become a source of perennial joy.
+
+It is not with observation, said Jesus, that the supreme thing that he
+taught--the seeking and finding of the Kingdom of God--will come. Do not
+seek it at some other place, some other time. It is within, and if
+within it will show forth. Make no mistake about that,--it will show
+forth. It touches and it sensitises the inner springs of action in a
+man's or a woman's life. When a man realises his Divine sonship that
+Jesus taught, he will act as a son of God. Out of the heart spring
+either good or evil actions. Self-love, me, mine; let me get all I can
+for myself, or, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself--the Divine law
+of service, of mutuality--the highest source of ethics.
+
+You can trust any man whose heart is right. He will be straight, clean,
+reliable. His word will be as good as his bond. Personally you can't
+trust a man who is brought into any line of action, or into any
+institution through fear. The sore is there, liable to break out in
+corruption at any time. This opening up of the springs of the inner life
+frees him also from the letter of the law, which after all consists of
+the traditions of men, and makes him subject to that higher moral guide
+within. How clearly Jesus illustrated this in his conversations
+regarding the observance of the Sabbath--how the Sabbath was made for
+man and not man for the Sabbath, and how it was always right to do good
+on the Sabbath.
+
+I remember some years ago a friend in my native state telling me the
+following interesting incident in connection with his grandmother. It
+was in northern Illinois--it might have been in New England. "As a boy,"
+said he, "I used to visit her on the farm. She loved her cup of coffee
+for breakfast. Ordinarily she would grind it fresh each morning in the
+kitchen; but when Sunday morning came she would take her coffee-grinder
+down into the far end of the cellar, where no one could see and no one
+could hear her grind it." He could never quite tell, he said, whether it
+was to ease her own conscience, or in order to give no offence to her
+neighbours.
+
+Now, I can imagine Jesus passing by and stopping at that home--it was a
+home known for its native kindly hospitality--and meeting her just as
+she was coming out of the cellar with her coffee-grinder--his quick and
+unerring perception enabling him to take in the whole situation at once,
+and saying: "In the name of the Father, Aunt Susan, what were you doing
+with your coffee-grinder down in the cellar on this beautiful Sabbath
+morning? You like your cup of coffee, and I also like the coffee that
+you make; thank God that you have it, and thank God that you have the
+good health to enjoy it. We can give praise to the Father through eating
+and drinking, if, as in everything else, these are done in moderation
+and we give value received for all the things that we use. So don't take
+your grinder down into the cellar on the Sabbath morning; but grind your
+coffee up here in God's sunshine, with a thankful heart that you have it
+to grind."
+
+And I can imagine him, as he passes out of the little front gate,
+turning and waving another good-bye and saying: "When I come again, Aunt
+Susan, be it week-day or Sabbath, remember God's sunshine and keep out
+of the cellar." And turning again in a half-joking manner: "And when you
+take those baskets of eggs to town, Aunt Susan, don't pick out too many
+of the large ones to keep for yourself, but take them just as the hens
+lay them. And, Aunt Susan, give good weight in your butter. This will do
+your soul infinitely more good than the few extra coins you would gain
+by too carefully calculating"--Aunt Susan with all her lovable
+qualities, had a little tendency to close dealing.
+
+I think we do incalculable harm by separating Jesus so completely from
+the more homely, commonplace affairs of our daily lives. If we had a
+more adequate account of his discourses with the people and his
+associations with the people, we would perhaps find that he was not,
+after all, so busy in saving the world that he didn't have time for the
+simple, homely enjoyments and affairs of the everyday life. The little
+glimpses that we have of him along these lines indicate to me that he
+had. Unless we get his truths right into this phase of our lives, the
+chances are that we will miss them entirely.
+
+And I think that with all his earnestness, Jesus must have had an
+unusually keen sense of humour. With his unusual perceptions and his
+unusual powers in reading and in understanding human nature, it could
+not be otherwise. That he had a keen sense for beauty; that he saw it,
+that he valued it, that he loved it, especially beauty in all nature,
+many of his discourses so abundantly prove. Religion with him was not
+divorced from life. It was the power that permeated every thought and
+every act of the daily life.
+
+
+
+
+VIII
+
+IF WE SEEK THE ESSENCE OF HIS REVELATION, AND THE PURPOSE OF HIS LIFE
+
+
+If we would seek the essence of Jesus' revelation, attested both by his
+words and his life, it was to bring a knowledge of the ineffable love of
+God to man, and by revealing this, to instil in the minds and hearts of
+men love for God, and a knowledge of and following of the ways of God.
+It was also then to bring a new emphasis of the Divine law of love--the
+love of man for man. Combined, it results, so to speak, in raising men
+to a higher power, to a higher life,--as individuals, as groups, as one
+great world group.
+
+It is a newly sensitised attitude of mind and heart that he brought and
+that he endeavoured to reveal in all its matchless beauty--a following
+not of the traditions of men, but fidelity to one's God, whereby the
+Divine rule in the mind and heart assumes supremacy and, as must
+inevitably follow, fidelity to one's fellow-men. These are the
+essentials of Jesus' revelation--the fundamental forces in his own
+life. His every teaching, his every act, comes back to them. I believe
+also that all efforts to mystify the minds of men and women by later
+theories _about_ him are contrary to his own expressed teaching, and in
+exact degree that they would seek to substitute other things for these
+fundamentals.
+
+I call them fundamentals. I call them his fundamentals. What right have
+I to call them his fundamentals?
+
+An occasion arose one day in the form of a direct question for Jesus to
+state in well-considered and clear-cut terms the essence, the gist, of
+his entire teachings--therefore, by his authority, the fundamentals of
+essential Christianity. In the midst of one of the groups that he was
+speaking to one day, we are told that a certain lawyer arose--an
+interpreter of, an authority on, the existing ecclesiastical law. The
+reference to him is so brief, unfortunately, that we cannot tell whether
+his question was to confound Jesus, as was so often the case, or whether
+being a liberal Jew he longed for an honest and truly helpful answer.
+From Jesus' remark to him, after his primary answer, we are justified in
+believing it was the latter.
+
+His question was: "Master, which is the great commandment in the law?"
+Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
+heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first
+and great commandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love
+thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and
+the prophets."
+
+Here we have a wonderful statement from a wonderful source. So clear-cut
+is it that any wayfaring man, though a fool, cannot mistake it.
+Especially is this true when we couple with it this other statement of
+Jesus: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I
+am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." We must never forget that Jesus
+was born, lived, and died a Jew, the same as all of his disciples--and
+they never regarded themselves in any other light. The _basis_ of his
+religion was the religion of Israel. It was this he taught and
+expounded, now in the synagogue, now out on the hillside and by the
+lake-side. It was this that he tried to teach in its purity, that he
+tried to free from the hedges that ecclesiasticism had built around it,
+this that he endeavoured to raise to a still higher standard.
+
+One cannot find the slightest reference in any of his sayings that would
+indicate that he looked upon himself in any other light--except the
+overwhelming sense that it was his mission to bring in the new
+dispensation by fulfilling the old, and then carrying it another great
+step forward, which he did in a wonderful way--both God-ward and
+man-ward.
+
+We must not forget, then, that Jesus said that he did not come to
+destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil them. We must not
+forget, however, that before fulfilling them he had to free them. The
+freedom-giving, God-illumined words spoken by free God-illumined men,
+had, in the hands of those not God-illumined, later on become
+institutionalised, made into a system, a code. The people were taught
+that only the priests had access to God. They were the custodians of
+God's favour and only through the institution could any man, or any
+woman, have access to God. This became the sacred thing, and as the
+years had passed this had become so hedged about by continually added
+laws and observances that all the spirit of religion had become crushed,
+stifled, beaten to the ground.
+
+The very scribes and Pharisees themselves, supposed to minister to the
+spiritual life and the welfare of the people, became enrobed in their
+fine millinery and arrogance, masters of the people, whose ministers
+they were supposed to be, as is so apt to be the case when an
+institution builds itself upon the free, all-embracing message of truth
+given by any prophet or any inspired teacher. It has occurred time and
+time again. Christianity knows it well. It is only by constant vigilance
+that religious freedom is preserved, from which alone comes any high
+degree of morality, or any degree of free and upward-moving life among
+the people.
+
+It was on account of this shameful robbing of the people of their Divine
+birthright that the just soul of Jesus, abhorring both casuistry and
+oppression under the cloak of religion, gave utterance to that fine
+invective that he used on several occasions, the only times that he
+spoke in a condemnatory or accusing manner: "Now do ye, Pharisee, make
+clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is
+full of ravening and wickedness. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
+hypocrites! For ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk
+over them are not aware of them.... Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! For
+ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch
+not the burdens with one of your fingers.... Woe unto you, lawyers! For
+ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves,
+and them that were entering in ye hindered."
+
+And here is the lesson for us. It is the spirit that must always be kept
+uppermost in religion. Otherwise even the revelation and the religion
+of Jesus could be compressed into a code, with its self-appointed
+instruments of interpretation, the same as the Pharisees did the Law and
+the Prophets that he so bitterly condemned, with a bravery so intrepid
+and so fearless that it finally caused his death.
+
+No, if God is not in the human soul waiting to make Himself known to the
+believing, longing heart, accessible to all alike without money and
+without price, without any prescribed code, then the words of Jesus have
+not been correctly handed down to us. And then again, confirming us in
+the belief that a man's deepest soul relation is a matter between him
+and his God, are his unmistakable and explicit directions in regard to
+prayer.
+
+It is so easy to substitute the secondary thing for the fundamental, the
+by-thing for the essential, the container for the thing itself. You will
+recall that symbolic act of Jesus at the last meeting, the Last Supper
+with his disciples, the washing of the disciples' feet by the Master.
+The point that is intended to be brought out in the story is, of course,
+the extraordinary condescension of Jesus in doing this menial service
+for his disciples. "The feet-washing symbolises the attitude of humble
+service to others. Every follower of Jesus must experience it." One of
+the disciples is so astonished, even taken aback by this menial service
+on the part of Jesus, that he says: Thou shall never wash my feet. Jesus
+answered him, "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me."
+
+In Oriental countries where sandals are worn that cover merely the soles
+of the feet, it was, it is the custom of the host to offer his guest who
+comes water with which to wash his feet. There is no reason why this
+simple incident of humble service, or rather this symbolic act of humble
+service, could not be taken and made an essential condition of salvation
+by any council that saw fit to make it such. Things just as strange as
+this have happened; though any thinking man or woman _today_ would deem
+it essentially foolish.
+
+It is an example of how the spirit of a beautiful act could be
+misrepresented to the people. For if you will look at them again, Jesus'
+words are very explicit: "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with
+me." But hear Jesus' own comment as given in John: "So after he had
+washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again,
+he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me Master
+and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master,
+have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I
+have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
+Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his
+lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know
+these things, happy are ye if ye do them." It is a means to an end and
+not an end in itself. The spirit that it typifies is essential; but not
+the act itself.
+
+The same could be rightly said of the Lord's Supper. It is an observance
+that can be made of great value, one very dear and valuable to many
+people. But it cannot, if Jesus is to be our authority, and if correctly
+reported, be by any means made a fundamental, an essential of salvation.
+From the rebuke administered by Jesus to his disciples in a number of
+cases where they were prone to drag down his meanings by their purely
+material interpretations, we should be saved from this.
+
+You will recall his teaching one day when he spoke of himself as the
+bread of life that a man may eat thereof and not die. Some of his Jewish
+hearers taking his words in a material sense and arguing in regard to
+them one with another said: "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
+Hearing them Jesus reaffirming his statement said: "Verily, verily, I
+say unto you, except ye eat of the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink
+his blood, ye have not life in yourselves.... For my flesh is meat
+indeed, and my blood is drink indeed." His disciples, likewise, prone
+here as so often to make a literal and material interpretation of his
+statements, said one to another: "This is a hard saying; who can hear
+him?" Or according to our idiom--who can understand him? Jesus asked
+them squarely if what he had just said caused them to stumble, and in
+order to be sure that they might not miss his real meaning and therefore
+teaching, said: "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
+nothing: the words that I speak unto you, _they_ are spirit, and _they_
+are life."
+
+Try as we will, we cannot get away from the fact that it was the words
+of truth that Jesus brought that were ever uppermost in his mind. He
+said, Follow me, not some one else, nor something else that would claim
+to represent me. And follow me merely because I lead you to the Father.
+
+So supremely had this young Jewish prophet, the son of a carpenter, made
+God's business his business, that he had come into the full realisation
+of the oneness of his life with the Father's life. He was able to
+realise and to say, "I and my Father are one." He was able to bring to
+the world a knowledge of the great fact of facts--the essential oneness
+of the human with the Divine--that God tabernacles with men, that He
+makes His abode in the minds and the hearts of those who through desire
+and through will open their hearts to His indwelling presence.
+
+The first of the race, he becomes the revealer of this great eternal
+truth--the mediator, therefore, between God and man--in very truth the
+Saviour of men. "If a man love me," said he, "he will keep my words: and
+my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode
+with him.... If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even
+as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love."
+
+It is our eternal refusal to follow Jesus by listening to the words of
+life that he brought, and our proneness to substitute something else in
+their place, that brings the barrenness that is so often evident in the
+everyday life of the Christian. We have been taught _to believe in_
+Jesus; we have not been taught _to believe_ Jesus. This has resulted in
+a separation of Christianity from life. The predominating motive has
+been the saving of the soul. It has resulted too often in a selfish,
+negative, repressive, ineffective religion. As Jesus said: "And why call
+ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"
+
+We are just beginning to realise at all adequately that it was _the
+salvation of the life_ that he taught. When the life is redeemed to
+righteousness through the power of the indwelling God and moves out in
+love and in service for one's fellow-men, the soul is then saved.
+
+A man may be a believer in Jesus for a million years and still be an
+outcast from the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. But a man can't
+believe Jesus, which means following his teachings, without coming at
+once into the Kingdom and enjoying its matchless blessings both here and
+hereafter. And if there is one clear-cut teaching of the Master, it is
+that the life here determines and with absolute precision the life to
+come.
+
+One need not then concern himself with this or that doctrine, whether it
+be true or false. Later speculations and theories are not for him.
+Jesus' own saying applies here: "If any man will do his will he shall
+know of the doctrine, whether it be of God." He enters into the Kingdom,
+the Kingdom of Heaven here and now; and when the time comes for him to
+pass out of this life, he goes as a joyous pilgrim, full of anticipation
+for the Kingdom that awaits him, and the Master's words go with him: "In
+my Father's house are many mansions."
+
+By thus becoming a follower of Jesus rather than merely a believer in
+Jesus, he gradually comes into possession of insights and powers that
+the Master taught would follow in the lives of those who became his
+followers. The Holy Spirit, the Divine Comforter, of which Jesus spoke,
+the Spirit of Truth, that awaits our bidding, will lead continually to
+the highest truth and wisdom and insight and power. Kant's statement,
+"The other world is not another locality, but only another way of seeing
+things," is closely allied to the Master's statement: "The Kingdom of
+God is within you." And closely allied to both is this statement of a
+modern prophet: "The principle of Christianity and of every true
+religion is within the soul--the realisation of the incarnation of God
+in every human being."
+
+When we turn to Jesus' own teachings we find that his insistence was not
+primarily upon the saving of the soul, but upon the saving of the life
+for usefulness, for service, here and now, for still higher growth and
+unfoldment, whereby the soul might be grown to a sufficient degree that
+it would be worth the saving. And this is one of the great facts that is
+now being recognised and preached by the forward-looking men and women
+in our churches and by many equally religious outside of our churches.
+
+And so all aspiring, all thinking, forward-looking men and women of our
+day are not interested any more in theories about, explanations of, or
+dogmas about Jesus. They are being won and enthralled by the wonderful
+personality and life of Jesus. They are being gripped by the power of
+his teachings. They do not want theories about God--they want God--and
+God is what Jesus brought--God as the moving, the predominating, the
+all-embracing force in the individual life. But he who finds the Kingdom
+of God, whose life becomes subject to the Divine rule and life within,
+realises at once also his true relations with the whole--with his
+neighbour, his fellow-men. He realises that his neighbour is not merely
+the man next door, the man around the corner, or even the man in the
+next town or city; but that his neighbour _is every man and every woman
+in the world_--because all children of the same infinite Father, all
+bound in the same direction, but over many different roads.
+
+The man who has come under the influence and the domination of the
+Divine rule, realises that his interests lie in the same direction as
+the interests of all, that he cannot gain for himself any good--that is,
+any essential good--at the expense of the good of all; but rather that
+his interests, his Welfare, and the interests and the welfare of all
+others are identical. God's rule, the Divine rule, becomes for him,
+therefore, the fundamental rule in the business world, the dominating
+rule in political life and action, the dominating rule in the law and
+relations of nations.
+
+Jesus did not look with much favour upon outward form, ceremony, or with
+much favour upon formulated, or formal religion; and he somehow or other
+seemed to avoid the company of those who did. We find him almost
+continually down among the people, the poor, the needy, the outcast, the
+sinner--wherever he could be of service to the Father, that is, wherever
+he could be of service to the Father's children. According to the
+accounts he was not always as careful in regard to those with whom he
+associated as the more respectable ones, the more respectable classes of
+his day thought he should be. They remarked it many times. Jesus noticed
+it and remarked in turn.
+
+We find him always where the work was to be done--friend equally of the
+poor and humble, and those of station--truly friend of man, teaching,
+helping, uplifting. And then we find him out on the mountain side--in
+the quiet, in communion--to keep his realisation of his oneness with the
+Father intact; and with this help he went down regularly to the people,
+trying to lift their minds and lives up to the Divine ideal that he
+revealed to them, that they in turn might realise their real relations
+one with another, that the Kingdom of God and His righteousness might
+grow and become the dominating law and force in the world--"Thy Kingdom
+come, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven."
+
+It is this Kingdom idea, the Divine rule, the rule of God in all of the
+relations and affairs of men on earth that is gripping earnest men and
+women in great numbers among us today. Under the leadership of these
+thinking, God-impelled men and women, many of our churches are pushing
+their endeavours out into social service activities along many different
+lines; and the result is they are calling into their ranks many able men
+and women, especially younger men and women, who are intensely
+religious, but to whom formal, inactive religion never made any appeal.
+
+When the Church begins actually to throw the Golden Rule onto its
+banner, not in theory but in actual practice, actually forgetting self
+in the Master's service, careless even of her own interests, her
+membership, she thereby calls into her ranks vast numbers of the best of
+the race, especially among the young, so that the actual result is a
+membership not only larger than she could ever hope to have otherwise,
+but a membership that commands such respect and that exercises such
+power, that she is astounded at her former stupidity in being shackled
+so long by the traditions of the past. A new life is engendered. There
+is the joy of real accomplishment.
+
+We are in an age of great changes. Advancing knowledge necessitates
+changes. And may I say a word here to our Christian ministry, that
+splendid body of men for whom I have such supreme admiration? One of the
+most significant facts of our time is this widespread inclination and
+determination on the part of such great numbers of thinking men and
+women to go directly to Jesus for their information of, and their
+inspiration from him. The beliefs and the voice of the laymen, those in
+our churches and those out of our churches, must be taken into account
+and reckoned with. Jesus is too large and too universal a character to
+be longer the sole possession, the property of any organisation.
+
+There is a splendid body of young men and young women numbering into
+untold thousands, who are being captured by the personality and the
+simple direct message of Jesus. Many of these have caught his spirit and
+are going off into other lines of the Master's service. They are doing
+effective and telling work there. Remember that when the spirit of the
+Christ seizes a man, it is through the channel of present-day forms and
+present-day terms, not in those of fifteen hundred, or sixteen hundred,
+or even three hundred years ago.
+
+There is a spirit of intellectual honesty that prevents many men and
+women from subscribing to anything to which they cannot give their
+intellectual assent, as well as their moral and spiritual assent. They
+do not object to creeds. They know that a creed is but a statement, a
+statement of a man's or a woman's belief, whether it be in connection
+with religion, or in connection with anything else. But what they do
+object to is dogma, that unholy thing that lives on credulity, that is
+therefore destructive of the intellectual and the moral life of every
+man and every woman who allows it to lay its paralysing hand upon them,
+that can be held to if one is at all honest and given to thought, only
+through intellectual chicanery.
+
+We must not forget also that God is still at work, revealing Himself
+more fully to mankind through modern prophets, through modern agencies.
+His revelation is not closed. It is still going on. The silly
+presumption in the statement therefore--"the truth once delivered."
+
+It is well occasionally to call to mind these words by Robert Burns,
+singing free and with an untrammelled mind and soul from his
+heather-covered hills:
+
+    Here's freedom to him that wad read,
+      Here's freedom to him that wad write;
+    There's nane ever feared that the truth should be heared
+      But them that the truth wad indict.
+
+It is essential to remember that we are in possession of knowledge, that
+we are face to face with conditions that are different from any in the
+previous history of Christendom. The Christian church must be sure that
+it moves fast enough so as not to alienate, but to draw into it that
+great body of intellectually alive, intellectually honest young men and
+women who have the Christ spirit of service and who are mastered by a
+great purpose of accomplishment. Remember that these young men and women
+are now merely standing where the entire church will stand in a few
+years. Remember that any man or woman who has the true spirit of service
+has the spirit of Christ--and more, has the religion of the Christ.
+
+Remember that Jesus formulated no organisation. His message of the
+Kingdom was so far-reaching that no organisation could ever possibly
+encompass it, though an organisation may be, and has been, a great aid
+in actualising it here on earth. He never made any conditions as to
+through whom, or what, his truth should be spread, and he would condemn
+today any instrumentality that would abrogate to itself any monopoly of
+his truth, just as he condemned those ecclesiastical authorities of his
+day who presumed to do the same in connection with the truth of God's
+earlier prophets.
+
+And so I would say to the Church--beware and be wise. Make your
+conditions so that you can gain the allegiance and gain the help of this
+splendid body of young men and young women. Many of them are made of the
+stock that Jesus would choose as his own apostles. Among the young men
+will be our greatest teachers, our great financiers, our best
+legislators, our most valuable workers and organisers in various fields
+of social service, our most widely read authors, eminent and influential
+editorial and magazine writers as well as managers.
+
+Many of these young women will have high and responsible positions as
+educators. Some will be heads and others will be active workers in our
+widely extended and valuable women's clubs. Some will have a hand in
+political action, in lifting politics out of its many-times low
+condition into its rightful state in being an agent for the
+accomplishment of the people's best purposes and their highest good.
+Some will be editors of widely circulating and influential women's
+magazines. Some will be mothers, true mothers of the children of others,
+denied their rights and their privileges. Make it possible for them,
+nay, make it incumbent upon them to come in, to work within the great
+Church organisation.
+
+It cannot afford that they stay out. It is suicidal to keep them out.
+Any other type of organisation that did not look constantly to
+commanding the services of the most capable and expert in its line would
+fall in a very few months into the ranks of the ineffectives. A business
+or a financial organisation that did not do the same would go into
+financial bankruptcy in even a shorter length of time. By attracting
+this class of men and women into its ranks it need fear neither moral
+nor financial bankruptcy.
+
+But remember, many men and women of large calibre are so busy doing
+God's work in the world that they have no time and no inclination to be
+attracted by anything that does not claim their intellectual as well as
+their moral assent. The Church must speak fully and unequivocally in
+terms of present-day thought and present-day knowledge, to win the
+allegiance or even to attract the attention of this type of men and
+women.
+
+And may I say here this word to those outside, and especially to this
+class of young men and young women outside of our churches? Changes,
+and therefore advances in matters of this kind come slowly. This is true
+from the very nature of human nature. Inherited beliefs, especially when
+it comes to matters of religion, take the deepest hold and are the
+slowest to change. Not in all cases, but this is the general rule.
+
+Those who hold on to the old are earnest, honest. They believe that
+these things are too sacred to be meddled with, or even sometimes, to be
+questioned. The ordinary mind is slow to distinguish between tradition
+and truth--especially where the two have been so fully and so adroitly
+mixed. Many are not in possession of the newer, the more advanced
+knowledge in various fields that you are in possession of. But remember
+this--in even a dozen years a mighty change has taken place--except in a
+church whose very foundation and whose sole purpose is dogma.
+
+In most of our churches, however, the great bulk of our ministers are
+just as forward-looking, just as earnest as you, and are deeply desirous
+of following and presenting the highest truth in so far as it lies
+within their power to do so. It is a splendid body of men, willing to
+welcome you on your own grounds, longing for your help. It is a mighty
+engine for good. Go into it. Work with it. Work through it. The best
+men in the Church are longing for your help. They need it more than they
+need anything else. I can assure you of this--I have talked with many.
+
+They feel their handicaps. They are moving as rapidly as they find it
+possible to move. On the whole, they are doing splendid work and with a
+big, fine spirit of which you know but little. You will find a wonderful
+spirit of self-sacrifice, also. You will find a stimulating and precious
+comradeship on the part of many. You will find that you will get great
+good, even as you are able to give great good.
+
+The Church, as everything else, needs to keep its machinery in continual
+repair. Help take out the worn-out parts--but not too suddenly. The
+Church is not a depository, but an instrument and engine of truth and
+righteousness. Some of the older men do not realise this; but they will
+die off. Respect their beliefs. Honest men have honest respect for
+differences of opinion, for honest differences in thought. Sympathy is a
+great harmoniser. "Differences of opinion, intellectual distinctions,
+these must ever be--separation of mind, but unity of heart."
+
+I like these words of Lyman Abbott. You will like them. They are spoken
+out of a full life of rich experience and splendid service. They have,
+moreover, a sort of unifying effect. They are more than a tonic: "Of
+all characters in history none so gathers into himself and reflects from
+himself all the varied virtues of a complete manhood as does Jesus of
+Nazareth. And the world is recognising it.... If you go back to the
+olden time and the old conflicts, the question was, 'What is the
+relation of Jesus Christ to the Eternal?' Wars have been fought over the
+question, 'Was he of one substance with the Father?' I do not know; I do
+not know of what substance the Father is; I do not know of what
+substance Jesus Christ is. What I do know is this--that when I look into
+the actual life that I know about, the men and women that are about me,
+the men and women in all the history of the past, of all the living
+beings that ever lived and walked the earth, there is no one that so
+fills my heart with reverence, with affection, with loyal love, with
+sincere desire to follow, as doth Jesus Christ....
+
+"I do not need to decide whether he was born of a virgin. I do not need
+to decide whether he rose from the dead. I do not need to decide whether
+he made water into wine, or fed five thousand with two loaves and five
+small fishes. Take all that away, and still he stands the one
+transcendent figure toward whom the world has been steadily growing, and
+whom the world has not yet overtaken even in his teachings.... I do not
+need to know what is his metaphysical relation to the Infinite. I say it
+reverently--I do not care. I know for me he is the great Teacher; I know
+for me he is the great Leader whose work I want to do; and I know for me
+he is the great Personality, whom I want to be like. That I know.
+Theology did not give that to me, and theology cannot get it away from
+me."
+
+And what a basis as a test of character is this twofold injunction--this
+great fundamental of Jesus! All religion that is genuine flowers in
+character. It was Benjamin Jowett who said, and most truly: "The value
+of a religion is in the ethical dividend that it pays." When the heart
+is right towards God we have the basis, the essence of religion--the
+consciousness of God in the soul of man. We have truth in the inward
+parts. When the heart is right towards the fellow-man we have the
+essential basis of ethics; for again we have truth in the inward parts.
+
+Out of the heart are the issues of life. When the heart is right all
+outward acts and relations are right. Love draws one to the very heart
+of God; and love attunes one to all the highest and most valued
+relationships in our human life.
+
+Fear can never be a basis of either religion or ethics. The one who is
+moved by fear makes his chief concern the avoidance of detection on the
+one hand, or the escape of punishment on the other. Men of large calibre
+have an unusual sagacity in sifting the unessential from the essential
+as also the false from the true. Lincoln, when replying to the question
+as to why he did not unite himself with some church organisation, said:
+"When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification
+of membership, the Saviour's condensed statement of the substance of
+both law and gospel: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
+heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbour
+as thyself, that church shall I join with all my heart and soul."
+
+He was looked upon by many in his day as a non-Christian--by some as an
+infidel. His whole life had a profound religious basis, so deep and so
+all-absorbing that it gave him those wonderful elements of personality
+that were instantly and instinctively noticed by, and that moved all men
+who came in touch with him; and that sustained him so wonderfully,
+according to his own confession, through those long, dark periods of the
+great crisis, The fact that in yesterday's New York paper--Sunday
+paper--I saw the notice of a sermon in one of our Presbyterian
+pulpits--Lincoln, the Christian--shows that we have moved up a round
+and are approaching more and more to an essential Christianity.
+
+Similar to this statement or rather belief was that of Emerson,
+Jefferson, Franklin, and a host of other men among us whose lives have
+been lives of accomplishment and service for their fellow-men. Emerson,
+who said: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light
+which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the
+firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his
+thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own
+rejected thoughts. They come back to us with a certain alienated
+majesty." Emerson, who also said: "I believe in the still, small voice,
+and that voice is the Christ within me." It was he of whom the famous
+Father Taylor in Boston said: "It may be that Emerson is going to hell,
+but of one thing I am certain: he will change the climate there and
+emigration will set that way."
+
+So thought Jefferson, who said: "I have sworn eternal hostility to every
+form of tyranny over the minds of men." And as he, great prophet, with
+his own hand penned that immortal document--the Declaration of American
+Independence--one can almost imagine the Galilean prophet standing at
+his shoulder and saying: Thomas, I think it well to write it so. Both
+had a burning indignation for that species of self-seeking either on the
+part of an individual or an organisation that would seek to enchain the
+minds and thereby the lives of men and women, and even lay claim to
+their children. Yet Jefferson in his time was frequently called an
+atheist--and merely because men in those days did not distinguish as
+clearly as we do today between ecclesiasticism and religion, between
+formulated and essential Christianity.
+
+So we are brought back each time to Jesus' two fundamentals--and these
+come out every time foursquare with the best thought of our time. The
+religion of Jesus is thereby prevented from being a mere tribal
+religion. It is prevented from being merely an organisation that could
+possibly have his sanction as such--that is, an organisation that would
+be able to say: This is his, and this only. It makes it have a
+world-wide and eternal content. The Kingdom that Jesus taught is
+infinitely broader in its scope and its inclusiveness than any
+organisation can be, or that all organisations combined can be.
+
+
+
+
+IX
+
+HIS PURPOSE OF LIFTING UP, ENERGISING, BEAUTIFYING, AND SAVING THE
+ENTIRE LIFE: THE SAVING OF THE SOUL IS SECONDARY; BUT FOLLOWS
+
+
+We have made the statement that Jesus did unusual things, but that he
+did them on account of, or rather by virtue of, his unusual insight into
+and understanding of the laws whereby they could be done. His
+understanding of the powers of the mind and spirit was intuitive and
+very great. As an evidence of this were his numerous cases of healing
+the sick and the afflicted.
+
+Intuitively he perceived the existence and the nature of the subjective
+mind, and in connection with it the tremendous powers of suggestion.
+Intuitively he was able to read, to diagnose the particular ailment and
+the cause of the ailment before him. His thought was so poised that it
+was energised by a subtle and peculiar spiritual power. Such confidence
+did his personality and his power inspire in others that he was able to
+an unusual degree to reach and to arouse the slumbering subconscious
+mind of the sufferer and to arouse into action its own slumbering
+powers whereby the life force of the body could transcend and remould
+its error-ridden and error-stamped condition.
+
+In all these cases he worked through the operation of law--it is exactly
+what we know of the laws of suggestion today. The remarkable cases of
+healing that are being accomplished here and there among us today are
+done unquestionably through the understanding and use of the same laws
+that Jesus was the supreme master of.
+
+By virtue of his superior insight--his understanding of the laws of the
+mind and spirit--he was able to use them so fully and so effectively
+that he did in many cases eliminate the element of time in his healing
+ministrations. But even he was dependent in practically all cases, upon
+the mental cooperation of the one who would be healed. Where this was
+full and complete he succeeded; where it was not he failed. Such at
+least again and again is the statement in the accounts that we have of
+these facts in connection with his life and work. There were places
+where we are told he could do none of his mighty works on account of
+their unbelief, and he departed from these places and went elsewhere.
+Many times his question was: "Believe ye that I am able to do this?"
+Then: "According to your faith be it unto you," and the healing was
+accomplished.
+
+The laws of mental and spiritual therapeutics are identically the same
+today as they were in the days of Jesus and his disciples, who made the
+healing of sick bodies a part of their ministration. It is but fair to
+presume from the accounts that we have that in the early Church of the
+Disciples, and for well on to two hundred years after Jesus' time, the
+healing of the sick and the afflicted went hand in hand with the
+preaching and the teaching of the Kingdom. There are those who believe
+that it never should have been abandoned. As a well-known writer has
+said: "Healing is the outward and practical attestation of the power and
+genuineness of spiritual religion, and ought not to have dropped out of
+the Church." Recent sincere efforts to re-establish it in church
+practice, following thereby the Master's injunction, is indicative of
+the thought that is alive in connection with the matter today.[A] From
+the accounts that we have Jesus seems to have engaged in works of
+healing more during his early than during his later ministry. He may
+have used it as a means to an end. On account of his great love and
+sympathy for the physical sufferer as well as for the moral sufferer, it
+is but reasonable to suppose that it was an integral part of his
+announced purpose--the saving of the life, of the entire life, for
+usefulness, for service, for happiness.
+
+And so we have this young Galilean prophet, coming from an hitherto
+unknown Jewish family in the obscure little village of Nazareth, giving
+obedience in common with his four brothers and his sisters to his father
+and his mother; but by virtue of a supreme aptitude for and an
+irresistible call to the things of the spirit--made irresistible through
+his overwhelming love for the things of the spirit--he is early absorbed
+by the realisation of the truth that God is his father and that all men
+are brothers.
+
+The thought that God is his father and that he bears a unique and filial
+relationship to God so possesses him that he is filled, permeated with
+the burning desire to make this newborn message of truth and thereby of
+righteousness known to the world.
+
+His own native religion, once vibrating through the souls of the
+prophets as the voice of God, has become so obscured, so hedged about,
+so killed by dogma, by ceremony, by outward observances, that it has
+become a mean and pitiable thing, and produces mean and pitiable
+conditions in the lives of his people. The institution has become so
+overgrown that the spirit has gone. But God finds another prophet,
+clearly and supremely open to His spirit, and Jesus comes as the
+Messiah, the Divine Son of God, the Divine Son of Man, bringing to the
+earth a new Dispensation. It is the message of the Divine Fatherhood of
+God, God whose controlling character is love, and with it the Divine
+sonship of man. An integral part of it is--all men are brothers.
+
+He comes as the teacher of a new, a higher righteousness. He brings the
+message and he expounds the message of the Kingdom of God. All men he
+teaches must repent and turn from their sins, and must henceforth live
+in this Kingdom. It is an inner kingdom. Men shall not say: Behold it is
+here or it is there; for, behold, it is within you. God is your father
+and God longs for your acknowledgment of Him as your father; He longs
+for your love even as He loves you. You are children of God, but you
+are not true Sons of God until through desire the Divine rule and life
+becomes supreme in your minds and hearts. It is thus that you will find
+the Kingdom of God. When you do, then your every act will show forth in
+accordance with this Divine ideal and guide, and the supreme law of
+conduct in your lives will be love for your neighbour, for all mankind.
+Through this there will then in time become actualised the Kingdom of
+Heaven on the earth.
+
+He comes in no special garb, no millinery, no brass bands, no formulas,
+no dogmas, no organisation other than the Kingdom, to uphold and become
+a slave to, and in turn be absorbed by, as was the organisation that he
+found strangling all religion in the lives of his people and which he so
+bitterly condemned. What he brought was something infinitely
+transcending this--the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, to which
+all men were heirs--equal heirs--and thereby redemption from their sins,
+therefore salvation, the saving of their lives, would be the inevitable
+result of their acknowledgment of and allegiance to the Divine rule.
+
+How he embraced all--such human sympathy--coming not to destroy but to
+fulfil; not to judge the world but to save the world. How he loved the
+children! How he loved to have them about him! How he loved their
+simplicity, and native integrity of mind and heart! Hear him as he says:
+"Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God
+as a little child, he shall not enter therein"; and again: "Suffer the
+little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the
+Kingdom of God." The makers of dogma, in evolving some three hundred
+years later on the dogma of the inherent sinfulness and degradation of
+the human life and soul, could certainly find not the slightest trace of
+any basis for it again in these words and acts of Jesus.
+
+We find him sympathising with and mingling with and seeking to draw unto
+the way of his own life the poor, the outcast, the sinner, the same as
+the well-to-do and those of station and influence--seeking to draw all
+through love and knowledge to the Father.
+
+There is a sense of justice and righteousness in his soul, however, that
+balks at oppression, injustice, and hypocrisy. He therefore condemns and
+in scathing terms those and only those who would seek to place any
+barrier between the free soul of any man and his God, who would bind
+either the mind or the conscience of man to any prescribed formulas or
+dogmas. Honouring, therefore the forms that his intelligence and his
+conscience allowed him to honour, he disregarded those that they did
+not.
+
+Like other good Jewish rabbis, for he was looked upon during his
+ministry and often addressed as Rabbi, he taught in the synagogues of
+his people; but oftener out on the hillsides and by the lake-side, under
+the blue sky and the stars of heaven. Giving due reverence to the Law
+and the Prophets--the religion of his people and his own early
+religion--but in spirit and in discriminating thought so far
+transcending them, that the people marvelled at his teachings and
+said--surely this a prophet come from God; no man ever spoke to us as he
+speaks. By the ineffable beauty of his life and the love and the
+winsomeness of his personality, and by the power of the truths that he
+taught, he won the hearts of the common people. They followed him and
+his following continually increased.
+
+Through it all, however, he incurred the increasing hostility and the
+increasing hatred of the leaders, the hierarchy of the existing
+religious organisation. They were animated by a double motive, that of
+protecting themselves, and that of protecting their established
+religion. But in their slavery to the organisation, and because unable
+to see that it was the spirit of true religion that he brought and
+taught, they cruelly put him to death--the same as the organisation
+established later on in his name, put numbers of God's true prophets,
+Jesus' truest disciples to death, and essentially for the same reasons.
+
+Jesus' quick and almost unerring perception enabled him to foresee this.
+It did not deter him from going forward with his message, standing
+resolutely and superbly by his revelation, and at the last almost
+courting death--feeling undoubtedly that the sealing of his revelation
+and message with his very life blood would but serve to give it its
+greatest power and endurance. Heroically he met the fate that he
+perceived was conspiring to end his career, to wreck his teachings and
+his influence. He went forth to die clear-sighted and unafraid.
+
+He died for the sake of the truth of the message that he lived and so
+diligently and heroically laboured for--the message of the ineffable
+love of God for all His children and the bringing of them into the
+Father's Kingdom. And we must believe from his whole life's teaching,
+not to save their souls from some future punishment; not through any
+demand of satisfaction on the part of God; not as any substitutionary
+sacrifice to appease the demands of an angry God--for it was the exact
+opposite of this that his whole life teaching endeavoured to make
+known. It was supremely the love of the Father and His longing for the
+love and allegiance, therefore the complete life and service of His
+children. It was the beauty of holiness--the beauty of wholeness--the
+wholeness of life, the saving of the whole life from the sin and
+sordidness of self and thereby giving supreme satisfaction to God. It
+was love, not fear. If not, then almost in a moment he changed the
+entire purpose and content, the entire intent of all his previous life
+work. This is unthinkable.
+
+In his last act he did not abrogate his own expressed statement, that
+the very essence of his message was expressed, as love to God and love
+to one's neighbour. He did not abrogate his continually repeated
+declaration that it was the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, which
+brings man's life into right relations with God and into right relations
+with his fellow-men, that it was his purpose to reveal and to draw all
+men to, thereby aiding God's eternal purpose--to establish in this world
+a state which he designated the Kingdom of Heaven wherein a social order
+of brotherliness and justice, wrought and maintained through the potency
+of love, would prevail. In doing this he revealed the character of God
+by being himself an embodiment of it.
+
+It was the power of a truth that was to save the life that he was
+always concerned with. Therefore his statement that the Son of Man has
+come that men might have life and might have it more abundantly--to save
+men from sin and from failure, and secondarily from their consequences;
+to make them true Sons of God and fit subjects and fit workers in His
+Kingdom. Conversion according to Jesus is the fact of this Divine rule
+in the mind and heart whereby the life is saved--the saving of the soul
+follows. It is the direct concomitant of the saved life.
+
+In his death he sealed his own statement: "The law and the prophets were
+until John; since that time the Kingdom of God is preached, and every
+man presseth into it." Through his death he sealed the message of his
+life when putting it in another form he said: "Verily, verily, I say
+unto you, He that heareth my word and believeth on Him that sent me hath
+everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation: but is passed
+from death unto life."
+
+In this majestic life divinity and humanity meet. Here is the
+incarnation. The first of the race consciously, vividly, and fully to
+realise that God incarnates Himself and has His abode in the hearts and
+the lives of men, the first therefore to realise his Divine Sonship and
+become able thereby to reveal and to teach the Divine Fatherhood of God
+and the Divine Sonship of Man.
+
+In this majestic life is the atonement, the realisation of the
+at-one-ment of the Divine in the human, made manifest in his own life
+and in the way that he taught, sealed then by his own blood.
+
+In this majestic life we have the mediator, the medium or connector of
+the Divine and the human. In it we have the Saviour, the very
+incarnation of the truth that he taught, and that lifts the minds and
+thereby the lives of men up to their Divine ideal and pattern, that
+redeems their lives from the sordidness and selfishness and sin of the
+hitherto purely material self, and that being thereby saved, makes them
+fit subjects for the Father's Kingdom.
+
+In this majestic life is the full embodiment of the beauty of
+holiness--whose words have gone forth and whose spirit is ceaselessly at
+work in the world, drawing men and women up to their divine ideal, and
+that will continue so to draw all in proportion as his words of truth
+and his life are lifted up throughout the world.
+
+
+
+
+X
+
+SOME METHODS OF ATTAINMENT
+
+
+After this study of the teachings of the Divine Master let us know this.
+It is the material that is the transient, the temporary; and the mental
+and spiritual that is the real and the eternal. We must not become
+slaves to habit. The material alone can never bring happiness--much less
+satisfaction. These lie deeper. That conversation between Jesus and the
+rich young man is full of significance for us all, especially in this
+ambitious, striving, restless age.
+
+Abundance of life is determined not alone by one's material possessions,
+but primarily by one's riches of mind and spirit. A world of truth is
+contained in these words: "Life is what we are alive to. It is not a
+length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, mere luxury
+or idleness, pride or money-making, and not to goodness and kindness,
+purity and love, history, poetry, and music, flowers, God and eternal
+hopes, is to be all but dead."
+
+Why be so eager to gain possession of the hundred thousand or the
+half-million acres, of so many millions of dollars? Soon, and it may be
+before you realise it, all must be left. It is as if a man made it his
+ambition to accumulate a thousand or a hundred thousand automobiles. All
+soon will become junk. But so it is with all material things beyond what
+we can actually and profitably use for our good and the good of
+others--and that we actually do so use.
+
+A man can eat just so many meals during the year or during life. If he
+tries to eat more he suffers thereby. He can wear only so many suits of
+clothing; if he tries to wear more, he merely wears himself out taking
+off and putting on. Again it is as Jesus said: "For what shall it profit
+a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own life?" And right
+there is the crux of the whole matter. All the time spent in
+accumulating these things beyond the reasonable amount, is so much taken
+from the life--from the things of the mind and the spirit. It is in the
+development and the pursuit of these that all true satisfaction lies.
+Elemental law has so decreed.
+
+We have made wonderful progress, or rather have developed wonderful
+skill in connection with things. We need now to go back and catch up the
+thread and develop like skill in making the life.
+
+Little wonder that brains are addled, that nerves are depleted, that
+nervous dyspepsia, that chronic weariness, are not the exception but
+rather the rule. Little wonder that sanitariums are always full; that
+asylums are full and overflowing--and still more to be built. No wonder
+that so many men, so many good men break and go to pieces, and so many
+lose the life here at from fifty to sixty years, when they should be in
+the very prime of life, in the full vigour of manhood; at the very age
+when they are capable of enjoying life the most and are most capable of
+rendering the greatest service to their fellows, to their community,
+because of greater growth, experience, means, and therefore leisure.
+Jesus was right--What doth it profit? And think of the real riches that
+in the meantime are missed.
+
+It is like an addled-brain driver in making a trip across the continent.
+He is possessed, obsessed with the insane desire of making a record. He
+plunges on and on night and day, good weather and foul--and all the time
+he is missing all the beauties, all the benefits to health and spirit
+along the way. He has none of these when he arrives--he has missed them
+all. He has only the fact that he has made a record drive--or nearly
+made one. And those with him he has not only robbed of the beauties
+along the way; but he has subjected them to all the discomforts along
+the way. And what really underlies the making of a record? It is
+primarily the spirit of vanity.
+
+When the mental beauties of life, when the spiritual verities are
+sacrificed by self-surrender to and domination by the material, one of
+the heavy penalties that inexorable law imposes is the drying up, so to
+speak, of the finer human perceptions--the very faculties of enjoyment.
+It presents to the world many times, and all unconscious to himself, a
+stunted, shrivelled human being--that eternal type that the Master had
+in mind when he said: "Thou fool, this night shall thy soul be required
+of thee." He whose sole employment or even whose primary employment
+becomes the building of bigger and still bigger barns to take care of
+his accumulated grain, becomes incapable of realising that life and the
+things that pertain to it are of infinitely more value than barns, or
+houses, or acres, or stocks, or bonds, or railroad ties. These all have
+their place, all are of value; but they can never be made the life. A
+recent poem by James Oppenheim presents a type that is known to nearly
+every one:[B]
+
+    I heard the preacher preaching at the funeral:
+    He moved the relatives to tears telling them of
+      the father, husband, and friend that was dead:
+    Of the sweet memories left behind him:
+    Of a life that was good and kind.
+
+    I happened to know the man,
+    And I wondered whether the relatives would
+      have wept if the preacher had told the truth:
+    Let us say like this:
+
+    "The only good thing this man ever did in his life,
+    Was day before yesterday:
+    _He died_....
+    But he didn't even do that of his own volition....
+    He was the meanest man in business on Manhattan Island,
+    The most treacherous friend, the crudest and stingiest husband,
+    And a father so hard that his children left home as soon as they were
+      old enough....
+    Of course he had divinity: everything human has:
+    But he kept it so carefully hidden away that he might just as well not
+      have had it....
+
+    "Wife! good cheer! now you can go your own way and live your own life!
+    Children, give praise! you have his money: the only good thing he ever
+      gave you....
+    Friends! you have one less traitor to deal with....
+    This is indeed a day of rejoicing and exultation!
+    Thank God this man is dead!"
+
+An unknown enjoyment and profit to him is the world's great field of
+literature, the world's great thinkers, the inspirers of so many through
+all the ages. That splendid verse by Emily Dickinson means as much to
+him as it would to a dumb stolid ox:
+
+    He ate and drank the precious words,
+      His spirit grew robust,
+    He knew no more that he was poor,
+      Nor that his frame was dust;
+    He danced along the dingy days,
+      And this bequest of wings
+    Was but a book! What liberty
+      A loosened spirit brings!
+
+Yes, life and its manifold possibilities of unfoldment and avenues of
+enjoyment--life, and the things that pertain to it--is an infinitely
+greater thing than the mere accessories of life.
+
+What infinite avenues of enjoyment, what peace of mind, what serenity of
+soul may be the possession of all men and all women who are alive to
+the inner possibilities of life as portrayed by our own prophet,
+Emerson, when he said:
+
+    Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home,
+    I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;
+    And when I am stretched beneath the pines,
+    Where the evening star so holy shines,
+    I laugh at the lore and pride of man,
+    At the Sophist schools and the learned clan;
+    For what are they all in their high conceit,
+    When man in the bush with God may meet?
+
+It was he who has exerted such a world-wide influence upon the minds and
+lives of men and women who also said: "Great men are they who see that
+spirituality is stronger than any material force: that thoughts rule the
+world." And this is true not only of the world in general, but it is
+true likewise in regard to the individual life.
+
+One of the great secrets of all successful living is unquestionably the
+striking of the right balance in life. The material has its place--and a
+very important place. Fools indeed were we to ignore or to attempt to
+ignore this fact. We cannot, however, except to our detriment, put the
+cart before the horse. Things may contribute to happiness, but things
+cannot bring happiness--and sad indeed, and crippled and dwarfed and
+stunted becomes the life of every one who is not capable of realising
+this fact. Eternally true indeed is it that the life is more than meat
+and the body more than raiment.
+
+All life is from an inner centre outward. As within, so without. As we
+think we become. Which means simply this: our prevailing thoughts and
+emotions are never static, but dynamic. Thoughts are forces--like
+creates like, and like attracts like. It is therefore for us to choose
+whether we shall be interested primarily in the great spiritual forces
+and powers of life, or whether we shall be interested solely in the
+material things of life.
+
+But there is a wonderful law which we must not lose sight of. It is to
+the effect that when we become sufficiently alive to the inner powers
+and forces, to the inner springs of life, the material things of life
+will not only follow in a natural and healthy sequence, but they will
+also assume their right proportions. They will take their right places.
+
+It was the recognition of this great fundamental fact of life that Jesus
+had in mind when he said: "But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and
+all these things shall be added unto you,"--meaning, as he so distinctly
+stated, the kingdom of the mind and spirit made open and translucent to
+the leading of the Divine Wisdom inherent in the human soul, when that
+leading is sought and when through the right ordering of the mind we
+make the conditions whereby it may become operative in the individual
+life.
+
+The great value of God as taught by Jesus is that God dwells in us. It
+is truly Emmanuel--God with us. The law must be observed--the conditions
+must be met. "The Lord is with you while ye be with him; and if ye will
+seek him, he will be found of you." "The spirit of the living God
+dwelleth in you." "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that
+giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given
+him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering." That there is a Divine
+law underlying prayer that helps to release the inner springs of wisdom,
+which in turn leads to power, was well known to Jesus, for his life
+abundantly proved it.
+
+His great aptitude for the things of the spirit enabled him intuitively
+to realise this, to understand it, to use it. And there was no mystery,
+no secret, no subterfuge on the part of Jesus as to the source of his
+power. In clear and unmistakable words he made it known--and why should
+he not? It was the truth, the truth of this inner kingdom that would
+make men free that he came to reveal. "The words that I speak unto you
+I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the
+works." "My Father worketh hitherto and I work.... For as the Father
+hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in
+himself.... I can of mine own self do nothing." As he followed the
+conditions whereby this higher illumination can come so must we.
+
+The injunction that Jesus gave in regard to prayer is unquestionably the
+method that he found so effective and that he himself used. How many
+times we are told that he withdrew to the mountain for his quiet period,
+for communion with the Father, that the realisation of his oneness with
+God might be preserved intact. In this continual realisation--I and my
+Father are one--lay his unusual insight and power. And his distinct
+statement which he made in speaking of his own powers--as I am ye shall
+be--shows clearly the possibilities of human unfoldment and attainment,
+since he realised and lived and then revealed the way.
+
+Were not this Divine source of wisdom and power the heritage of every
+human soul, distinctly untrue then would be Jesus' saying: "For every
+one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him
+that knocketh, it shall be opened." Infinitely better is it to know that
+one has this inner source of guidance and wisdom which as he opens
+himself to it becomes continually more distinct, more clear and more
+unerring in its guidance, than to be continually seeking advice from
+outside sources, and being confused in regard to the advice given. This
+is unquestionably the way of the natural and the normal life, made so
+simple and so plain by Jesus, and that was foreshadowed by Isaiah when
+he said: "Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard that the everlasting
+God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not,
+neither is weary? He giveth power to the faint and to them that have no
+might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
+and the young men shall utterly fall. But they that wait upon the Lord
+shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
+they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint."
+
+Not that problems and trials will not come. They will come. There never
+has been and there never will be a life free from them. Life isn't
+conceivable on any other terms. But the wonderful source of consolation
+and strength, the source that gives freedom from worry and freedom from
+fear is the realisation of the fact that the guiding force and the
+moulding power is within us. It becomes active and controlling in the
+degree that we realise and in the degree that we are able to open
+ourselves so that the Divine intelligence and power can speak to and can
+work through us.
+
+Judicious physical exercise induces greater bodily strength and vigour.
+An active and alert mental life, in other words mental activity, induces
+greater intellectual power. And under the same general law the same is
+true in regard to the development and the use of spiritual power. It,
+however, although the most important of all because it has to do more
+fundamentally with the life itself, we are most apt to neglect. The
+losses, moreover, resulting from this neglect are almost beyond
+calculation.
+
+To establish one's centre aright is to make all of life's activities and
+events and results flow from this centre in orderly sequence. A modern
+writer of great insight has said: "The understanding that God is, and
+_all there is_, will establish you upon a foundation from which you can
+never be moved." To know that the power that is God is the power that
+works in us is knowledge of transcendent import.
+
+To know that the spirit of Infinite wisdom and power which is the
+creating, the moving, and the sustaining force in all life, thinks and
+acts in and through us as our own very life, in the degree that we
+consciously and deliberately desire it to become the guiding and the
+animating force in our lives, and open ourselves fully to its leadings,
+and follow its leadings, is to attain to that state of conscious oneness
+with the Divine that Jesus realised, lived and revealed, and that he
+taught as the method of the natural and the normal life for all men.
+
+We are so occupied with the matters of the sense-life that all
+unconsciously we become dominated, ruled by the things of the senses.
+Now in the real life there is the recognition of the fact that the
+springs of life are all from within, and that the inner always leads and
+rules the outer. Under the elemental law of Cause and Effect this is
+always done--whether we are conscious of it or not. But the difference
+lies here: The master of life consciously and definitely allies himself
+in mind and spirit with the great central Force and rules his world from
+within. The creature of circumstances, through lack of desire or through
+weakness of will, fails to do this, and, lacking guiding and directing
+force, drifts and becomes thereby the creature of circumstance.
+
+One of deep insight has said: "That we do not spontaneously see and know
+God, as we see and know one another, and so manifest the God-nature as
+we do the sense-nature, is because that nature is yet latent, and in a
+sense slumbering within us. Yet the God-nature within us connects us as
+directly and vitally with the Being and Kingdom of God within, behind,
+and above the world, as does the sense-nature with the world external to
+us. Hence as the sense-consciousness was awakened and established by the
+recognition of and communication with the outward world through the
+senses, so the God-consciousness must be awakened by the corresponding
+recognition of, and communication with the Being and Kingdom of God
+through intuition--the spiritual sense of the inner man.... The true
+prayer--the prayer of silence--is the only door that opens the soul to
+the direct revelation of God, and brings thereby the realisation of the
+God-nature in ourselves."
+
+As the keynote to the world of sense is activity, so the keynote to
+spiritual light and power is quiet. The individual consciousness must be
+brought into harmony with the Cosmic consciousness. Paul speaks of the
+"sons of God." And in a single sentence he describes what he means by
+the term--"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the
+sons of God." An older prophet has said: "The Lord in the midst of thee
+is mighty." Jesus with his deep insight perceived the identity of his
+real life with the Divine life, the indwelling Wisdom and Power,--the
+"Father in me." The whole course of his ministry was his attempt "to
+show those who listened to him how he was related to the Father, and to
+teach them that they were related to the same Father in exactly the same
+way."
+
+There is that within man that is illumined and energised through the
+touch of His spirit. We can bring our minds into rapport, into such
+harmony and connection with the infinite Divine mind that it speaks in
+us, directs us, and therefore acts through us as our own selves. Through
+this connection we become illumined by Divine wisdom and we become
+energised by Divine power. It is ours, then, to act under the guidance
+of this higher wisdom and in all forms of expression to act and to work
+augmented by this higher power. The finite spirit, with all its
+limitations, becomes at its very centre in rapport with Infinite spirit,
+its Source. The finite thereby becomes the channel through which the
+Infinite can and does work.
+
+To use an apt figure, it is the moving of the switch whereby we connect
+our wires as it were with the central dynamo which is the force that
+animates, that gives and sustains life in the universe. It is making
+actual the proposition that was enunciated by Emerson when he said:
+"Every soul is not only the inlet, but may become the outlet of all
+there is in God." Significant also in this connection is his statement:
+"The only sin is limitation." It is the actualising of the fact that in
+Him we live and move and have our being, with its inevitable resultant
+that we become "strong in the Lord and in the power of His might." There
+is perhaps no more valuable way of realising this end, than to adopt the
+practice of taking a period each day for being alone in the quiet, a
+half hour, even a quarter hour; stilling the bodily senses and making
+oneself receptive to the higher leadings of the spirit--receptive to the
+impulses of the soul. This is following the master's practice and
+example of communion with the Father. Things in this universe and in
+human life do not happen. All is law and sequence. The elemental law of
+cause and effect is universal and unvarying. In the realm of spirit law
+is as definite as in the realm of mechanics--in the realm of all
+material forces.
+
+If we would have the leading of the spirit, if we would perceive the
+higher intuitions and be led intuitively, bringing the affairs of the
+daily life thereby into the Divine sequence, we must observe the
+conditions whereby these leadings can come to us, and in time become
+habitual.
+
+The law of the spirit is quiet--to be followed by action--but quiet, the
+more readily to come into a state of harmony with the Infinite
+Intelligence that works through us, and that leads us as our own
+intelligence when through desire and through will, we are able to bring
+our subconscious minds into such attunement that it can act through us,
+and we are able to catch its messages and follow its direction. But to
+listen and to observe the conditions whereby we can listen is essential.
+
+Jesus' own words as well as his practice apply here. After his
+admonition against public prayer, or prayer for show, or prayer of much
+speaking, he said: "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet,
+and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret;
+and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly." Now
+there are millions of men, women, and children in the world who have no
+closets. There are great numbers of others who have no access to them
+sometimes for days, or weeks, or months at a time. It is evident,
+therefore, that in the word that has been rendered closet he
+meant--enter into the quiet recesses of your own soul that you may thus
+hold communion with the Father.
+
+Now the value of prayer is not that God will change or order any laws or
+forces to suit the numerous and necessarily the diverse petitions of
+any. All things are through law, and law is fixed and inexorable. The
+value of prayer, of true prayer, is that through it one can so harmonise
+his life with the Divine order that intuitive perceptions of truth and a
+greater perception and knowledge of law becomes his possession. As has
+been said by an able contemporary thinker and writer: "We cannot form a
+passably thorough notion of man without saturating it through and
+through with the idea of a cosmic inflow from outside his world
+life--the inflow of God. Without a large consciousness of the universe
+beyond our knowledge, few men, if any, have done great things.[C]
+
+I shall always remember with great pleasure and profit a call a few days
+ago from Dr. Edward Emerson of Concord, Emerson's eldest son. Happily I
+asked him in regard to his father's methods of work--if he had any
+regular methods. He replied in substance: "It was my father's custom to
+go daily to the woods--_to listen_. He would remain there an hour or
+more in order to get whatever there might be for him that day. He would
+then come home and write into a little book--his 'day-book'--what he had
+gotten. Later on when it came time to write a book, he would transcribe
+from this, in their proper sequence and with their proper connections,
+these entrances of the preceding weeks or months. The completed book
+became virtually a ledger formed or posted from his day-books."
+
+The prophet is he who so orders his life that he can adequately listen
+to the voice, the revelations of the over soul, and who truthfully
+transcribes what he hears or senses. He is not a follower of custom or
+of tradition. He can never become and can never be made the subservient
+tool of an organisation. His aim and his mission is rather to free men
+from ignorance, superstition, credulity, from half truths, by leading
+them into a continually larger understanding of truth, of law--and
+therefore of righteousness.
+
+It was more than a mere poetic idea that Lowell gave utterance to when
+he said:
+
+    The thing we long for, that we are
+    For one transcendent moment.
+
+To establish this connection, to actualise this God-consciousness, that
+it may not be for one transcendent moment, but that it may become
+constant and habitual, so that every thought arises, and so that every
+act goes forth from this centre, is the greatest good that can come into
+the possession of man. There is nothing greater. It is none other than
+the realisation of Jesus' injunction--"Seek ye first the Kingdom of God
+and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." It
+is then that he said--Do not worry about your life. Your mind and your
+will are under the guidance of the Divine mind; your every act goes out
+under this direction and all things pertaining to your life will fall
+into their proper places. Therefore do not worry about your life.
+
+When a man finds his centre, when he becomes centred in the Infinite,
+then redemption takes place. He is redeemed from the bondage of the
+senses. He lives thereafter under the guidance of the spirit, and this
+is salvation. It is a new life that he has entered into. He lives in a
+new world, because his outlook is entirely new. He is living now in the
+Kingdom of Heaven. Heaven means harmony. He has brought his own personal
+mind and life into harmony with the Divine mind and life. He becomes a
+coworker with God.
+
+It is through such men and women that God's plans and purposes are
+carried out. They not only hear but they interpret for others God's
+voice. They are the prophets of our time and the prophets of all time.
+They are doing God's work in the world, and in so doing they are finding
+their own supreme satisfaction and happiness. They are not looking
+forward to the Eternal life. They realise that they are now in the
+Eternal life, and that there is no such thing as eternal life if this
+life that we are now in is not it. When the time comes for them to stop
+their labours here, they look forward without fear and with anticipation
+to the change, the transition to the other form of life--but not to any
+other life. The words of Whitman embody a spirit of anticipation and of
+adventure for them:
+
+      Joy, Shipmate, joy!
+    (Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry)
+    One life is closed, one life begun,
+    The long, long anchorage we leave,
+    The ship is clear at last, she leaps.
+      Joy, Shipmate, joy!
+
+They have an abiding faith that they will take up the other form of life
+exactly where they left it off here. Being in heaven now they will be in
+heaven when they awake to the continuing beauties of the life subsequent
+to their transition. Such we might also say is the teaching of Jesus
+regarding the highest there is in life here and the best there is in the
+life hereafter.
+
+
+
+
+XI
+
+SOME METHODS OF EXPRESSION
+
+
+The life of the Spirit, or, in other words, the true religious life, is
+not a life of mere contemplation or a life of inactivity. As Fichte, in
+"The Way Toward the Blessed Life," has said: "True religion,
+notwithstanding that it raises the view of those who are inspired by it
+to its own region, nevertheless, retains their Life firmly in the domain
+of action, and of right moral action.... Religion is not a business by
+and for itself which a man may practise apart from his other
+occupations, perhaps on certain fixed days and hours; but it is the
+inmost spirit that penetrates, inspires, and pervades all our Thought
+and Action, which in other respects pursue their appointed course
+without change or interruption. That the Divine Life and Energy actually
+lives in us is inseparable from Religion."
+
+How thoroughly this is in keeping with the thought of the highly
+illumined seer, Swedenborg, is indicated when he says: "The Lord's
+Kingdom is a Kingdom of ends and uses." And again: "Forsaking the world
+means loving God and the neighbour; and God is loved when a man lives
+according to His commandments, and the neighbour is loved when a man
+performs uses." And still again: "To be of use means to desire the
+welfare of others for the sake of the common good; and not to be of use
+means to desire the welfare of others not for the sake of the common
+good but for one's own sake.... In order that man may receive heavenly
+life he must live in the world and engage in its business and
+occupations, and thus by a moral and civil life acquire spiritual life.
+In no other way can spiritual life be generated in man, or his spirit be
+prepared for heaven."
+
+We hear much today both in various writings and in public utterances of
+"the spiritual" and "the spiritual life." I am sure that to the great
+majority of men and women the term spiritual, or better, the spiritual
+life, means something, but something by no means fully tangible or
+clear-cut. I shall be glad indeed if I am able to suggest a more
+comprehensible concept of it, or putting it in another form and better
+perhaps, to present a more clear-cut portraiture of the spiritual life
+in expression--in action.
+
+And first let us note that in the mind and in the teachings of Jesus
+there is no such thing as the secular life and the religious life. His
+ministry pertained to every phase of life. The truth that he taught was
+a truth that was to permeate every thought and every act of life.
+
+We make our arbitrary divisions. We are too apt to deny the fact that
+the Lord is the Lord of the week-day, the same as He is the Lord of the
+Sabbath. Jesus refused to be bound by any such consideration. He taught
+that every act that is a good act, every act that is of service to
+mankind is not only a legitimate act to be done on the Sabbath day, but
+an act that _should_ be performed on the Sabbath day. And any act that
+is not right and legitimate for the Sabbath day is neither right nor
+legitimate for the week-day. In other words, it is the spirit of
+righteousness that must permeate and must govern every act of life and
+every moment of life.
+
+In seeking to define the spiritual life, it were better to regard the
+world as the expression of the Divine mind. The spirit is the life; the
+world and all things in it, the material to be moulded, raised, and
+transmuted from the lower to the higher. This is indeed the law of
+evolution, that has been through all the ages and that today is at work.
+It is the God-Power that is at work and every form of useful activity
+that helps on with this process of lifting and bettering is a form of
+Divine activity. If therefore we recognise the one Divine life working
+in and through all, the animating force, therefore the Life of all, and
+if we are consciously helping in this process we are spiritual men.
+
+No man of intelligence can fail to recognise the fact that life is more
+important than things. Life is the chief thing, and material things are
+the elements that minister to, that serve the purposes of the life.
+Whoever does anything in the world to preserve life, to better its
+conditions, who, recognising the Divine force at work lifting life up
+always to better, finer conditions, is doing God's work in the
+world--because cooperating with the great Cosmic world plan.
+
+The ideal, then, is men and women of the spirit, open and responsive
+always to its guidance, recognising the Divine plan and the Divine
+ideal, working cooperatively in the world to make all conditions of life
+fairer, finer, more happy. He who lives and works not as an individual,
+that is not for his good alone, but who recognises the essential oneness
+of life--is carrying out his share of the Divine plan.
+
+A man may be unusually gifted; he may have unusual ability in business,
+in administration; he may be a giant in finance, in administration, but
+if for self alone, if lack of vision blinds him to the great Divine
+plan, if he does not recognise his relative place and value; if he gains
+his purposes by selfishness, by climbing over others, by indifference to
+human pain or suffering--oblivious to human welfare--his ways are the
+ways of the jungle. His mind and his life are purely sordid, grossly and
+blindly self-centred--wholly material. He gains his object, but by
+Divine law not happiness, not satisfaction, not peace. He is outside the
+Kingdom of Heaven--the kingdom of harmony. He is living and working out
+of harmony with the Divine mind that is evolving a higher order of life
+in the world. He is blind too, he is working against the Divine plan.
+
+Now what is the Divine call? Can he be made into a spiritual man? Yes. A
+different understanding, a different motive, a different object--then
+will follow a difference in methods. Instead of self alone he will have
+a sense of, he will have a call to service. And this man, formerly a
+hinderer in the Divine plan, becomes a spiritual giant. His splendid
+powers and his qualities do not need to be changed. Merely his motives
+and thereby his methods, and he is changed into a giant engine of
+righteousness. He is a part of the great world force and plan. He is
+doing his part in the great world work--he is a coworker with God. And
+here lies salvation. Saved from self and the dwarfed and stunted
+condition that will follow, his spiritual nature unfolds and envelops
+his entire life. His powers and his wealth are thereafter to bless
+mankind. But behold! by another great fundamental law of life in doing
+this he is blessed ten, a hundred, a millionfold.
+
+Material prosperity is or may become a true gain, a veritable blessing.
+But it can become a curse to the world and still more to its possessor
+when made an end in itself, and at the expense of all the higher
+attributes and powers of human life.
+
+We have reason to rejoice that a great change of estimate has not only
+begun but is now rapidly creeping over the world. He of even a
+generation ago who piled and piled, but who remained ignorant of the
+more fundamental laws of life, blind to the law of mutuality and
+service, would be regarded today as a low, beastly type. I speak
+advisedly. It is this obedience to the life of the spirit that Whitman
+had in mind when he said: "And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy
+walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud." It was the full flowering
+of the law of mutuality and service that he saw when he said: "I saw a
+city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth. I
+dream'd that it was the new City of Friends. Nothing was greater there
+than the quality of robust love; it led the rest. It was seen every hour
+in the actions of the men of that city and in all their looks and
+words." It is through obedience to this life of the spirit that order is
+brought out of chaos in the life of the individual and in the life of
+the community, in the business world, the labour world, and in our great
+world relations.
+
+But in either case, we men and women of Christendom, to be a Christian
+is not only to be good, but to be good for something. According to the
+teachings of the Master true religion is not only personal salvation,
+but it is giving one's self through all of one's best efforts to
+actualise the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. The finding of the
+Kingdom is not only personal but social and world-affirming--and in the
+degree that it becomes fully and vitally personal will it become so.
+
+A man who is not right with his fellow-men is not right and cannot be
+right with God. This is coming to be the clear-cut realisation of all
+progressive religious thought today. Since men are free from the
+trammels of an enervating dogma that through fear made them seek, or
+rather that made them contented with religion as primarily a system of
+rewards and punishments, they are now awakening to the fact that the
+logical carrying out of Jesus' teaching of the Kingdom is the
+establishing here on this earth of an order of life and hence of a
+society where greater love and cooperation and justice prevail. Our
+rapidly growing present-day conception of Christianity makes it not
+world-renouncing, but world-affirming.
+
+This modern conception of the function of a true and vital Christianity
+makes it the task of the immediate future to apply Christianity to
+trade, to commerce, to labour relations, to all social relations, to
+international relations. "And, in the wider field of religious thought,"
+says a writer in a great international religious paper, "what truer
+service can we render than to strip theology of all that is unreal or
+needlessly perplexing, and make it speak plainly and humanly to people
+who have their duty to do and their battle to fight?" It makes
+intelligent, sympathetic, and helpful living take the place of the tooth
+and the claw, the growl and the deadly hiss of the jungle--all right in
+their places, but with no place in human living.
+
+The growing realisation of the interdependence of all life is giving a
+new standard of action and attainment, and a new standard of estimate.
+Jesus' criterion is coming into more universal appreciation: He that is
+greatest among you shall be as he who serves. Through this fundamental
+law of life there are responsibilities that cannot be evaded or
+shirked--and of him to whom much is given much is required.
+
+It was President Wilson who recently said: "It is to be hoped that these
+obvious truths will come to more general acceptance; that honest
+business will quit thinking that it is attacked when loaded-dice
+business is attacked; that the mutuality of interest between employer
+and employee will receive ungrudging admission; and, finally, that men
+of affairs will lend themselves more patriotically to the work of making
+democracy an efficient instrument for the promotion of human welfare. It
+cannot be said that they have done so in the past.... As a consequence,
+many necessary things have been done less perfectly without their
+assistance that could have been done more perfectly with their expert
+aid." He is by no means alone in recognising this fact. Nor is he at all
+blind to the great change that is already taking place.
+
+In a recent public address in New York, the head of one of the largest
+plants in the world, and who starting with nothing has accumulated a
+fortune of many millions, said: "The only thing I am proud of--prouder
+of than that I have amassed a great fortune--is that I established the
+first manual training school in Pennsylvania. The greatest delight of
+my life is to see the advancement of the young men who have come up
+about me."
+
+This growing sense of personal responsibility, and still better, of
+personal interest, this giving of one's abilities and one's time, _in
+addition to one's means_, is the beginning of the fulfilment of what I
+have long thought: namely, the great gain that will accrue to numberless
+communities and to the nation, when men of great means, men of great
+business and executive ability, give of their time and their abilities
+for the accomplishment of those things for the public welfare that
+otherwise would remain undone, or that would remain unduly delayed. What
+a gain will result also to those who so do in the joy and satisfaction
+resulting from this higher type of accomplishment hallowed by the
+undying element of human service!
+
+You keep silent too much. "Have great leaders, and the rest will
+follow," said Whitman. The gift of your abilities while you live would
+be of priceless worth for the establishing and the maintenance of a
+fairer, a healthier, and a sweeter life in your community, your city,
+your country. It were better to do this and to be contented with a
+smaller accumulation than to have it so large or even so excessive, and
+when the summons comes to leave it to two or three or to half a dozen
+who cannot possibly have good use for it all, and some of whom perchance
+would be far better off without it, or without so much. By so doing you
+would be leaving something still greater to them as well as to hundreds
+or thousands of others.
+
+Significant in this connection are these words by a man of wealth and of
+great public service:[D]
+
+"On the whole, the individualistic age has not been a success, either
+for the individual, or the community in which he has lived, or the
+nation. We are, beyond question, entering on a period where the welfare
+of the community takes precedence over the interests of the individual
+and where the liberty of the individual will be more and more
+circumscribed for the benefit of the community as a whole. Man's
+activities will hereafter be required to be not only for himself but for
+his fellow-men. To my mind there is nothing in the signs of the times so
+certain as this.
+
+"The man of exceptional ability, of more than ordinary talent, will
+hereafter look for his rewards, for his honours, not in one direction
+but in two--first, and foremost, in some public work accomplished, and,
+secondarily, in wealth acquired. In place of having it said of him at
+his death that he left so many hundred thousand dollars it will be said
+that he rendered a certain amount of public service, and, incidentally,
+left a certain amount of money. Such a goal will prove a far greater
+satisfaction to him, he will live a more rational, worthwhile life, and
+he will be doing his share to provide a better country in which to live.
+We face new conditions, and in order to survive and succeed we shall
+require a different spirit of public service."
+
+I am well aware of the fact that the mere accumulation of wealth is not,
+except in very rare cases, the controlling motive in the lives of our
+wealthy men of affairs. It is rather the joy and the satisfaction of
+achievement. But nevertheless it is possible, as has so often proved, to
+get so much into a habit and thereby into a rut, that one becomes a
+victim of habit; and the life with all its superb possibilities of human
+service, and therefore of true greatness, becomes side-tracked and
+abortive.
+
+There are so many different lines of activity for human betterment for
+children, for men and women, that those of great executive and financial
+ability have wonderful opportunities. Greatness comes always through
+human service. As there is no such thing as finding happiness by
+searching for it directly, so there is no such thing as achieving
+greatness by seeking it directly. It comes not primarily through
+brilliant intellect, great talents, but primarily through the heart. It
+is determined by the way that brilliant intellect, great talents are
+used. It is accorded not to those who seek it directly. By an indirect
+law it is accorded to those who, forgetting self, give and thereby lose
+their lives in human service.
+
+Both poet and prophet is Edwin Markham when he says:
+
+    We men of earth have here the stuff
+    Of Paradise--we have enough!
+    We need no other stones to build
+    The stairs into the Unfulfilled--
+    No other ivory for the doors--
+    No other marble for the floors--
+    No other cedar for the beam
+    And dome of man's immortal dream.
+
+    Here on the paths of every day--
+    Here on the common human way,
+    Is all the stuff the gods would take
+    To build a Heaven; to mould and make
+    New Edens. Ours the stuff sublime
+    To build Eternity in time!
+
+This putting of divinity into life and raising thereby an otherwise
+sordid life up to higher levels and thereby to greater enjoyments, is
+the power that is possessed equally by those of station and means, and
+by those in the more humble or even more lowly walks of life.
+
+When your life is thus touched by the spirit of God, when it is ruled by
+this inner Kingdom, when your constant prayer, as the prayer of every
+truly religious man or woman will be--Lord, what wilt Thou have me to
+do? My one desire is that Thy will be my will, and therefore that Thy
+will be done in me and through me--then you are living the Divine life;
+you are a coworker with God. And whether your life according to accepted
+standards be noted or humble it makes no difference--you are fulfilling
+your Divine mission. You should be, you cannot help being fearless and
+happy. You are a part of the great creative force in the world.
+
+You are doing a man's or a woman's work in the world, and in so doing
+you are not unimportant; you are essential. The joy of true
+accomplishment is yours. You can look forward always with sublime
+courage and expectancy. The life of the most humble can thus become an
+exalted life. Mother, watching over, cleaning, feeding, training, and
+educating your brood; seamstress, working, with a touch of the Divine
+in all you do--it must be done by some one--allow it to be done by none
+better than by you. Farmer, tilling your soil, gathering your crops,
+caring for your herds; you are helping feed the world. There is nothing
+more important.
+
+    "Who digs a well, or plants a seed,
+      A sacred pact he keeps with sun and sod;
+    With these he helps refresh and feed
+      The world, and enters partnership with God."
+
+If you do not allow yourself to become a slave to your work, and if you
+cooperate within the house and the home so that your wife and your
+daughters do not become slaves or near-slaves, what an opportunity is
+yours of high thinking and noble living! The more intelligent you
+become, the better read, the greater the interest you take in community
+and public affairs, the more effectively you become what in reality and
+jointly you are--the backbone of this and of every nation. Teacher,
+poet, dramatist, carpenter, ironworker, clerk, college head, Mayor,
+Governor, President, Ruler--the effectiveness of your work and the
+satisfaction in your work will be determined by the way in which you
+relate your thought and your work to the Divine plan, and coordinate
+your every activity in reference to the highest welfare of the greater
+whole.
+
+However dimly or clearly we may perceive it great changes are taking
+place. The simple, direct teachings of the Christ are reaching more and
+more the mind, are stirring the heart and through these are dominating
+the actions of increasing numbers of men and women. The realisation of
+the mutual interdependence of the human family, the realisation of its
+common source, and that when one part of it goes wrong all suffer
+thereby, the same as when any portion of it advances all are lifted and
+benefited thereby, makes us more eager for the more speedy actualising
+of the Kingdom that the Master revealed and portrayed.
+
+It was Sir Oliver Lodge who in this connection recently said: "Those who
+think that the day of the Messiah is over are strangely mistaken; it has
+hardly begun. In individual souls Christianity has flourished and borne
+fruit, but for the ills of the world itself it is an almost untried
+panacea. It will be strange if this ghastly war fosters and simplifies
+and improves a knowledge of Christ, and aids a perception of the
+ineffable beauty of his life and teaching; yet stranger things have
+happened, and whatever the churches may do, I believe that the call of
+Christ himself will be heard and attended to by a larger part of
+humanity in the near future, as never yet it has been heard or attended
+to on earth."
+
+The simple message of the Christ, with its twofold injunction of Love,
+is, when sufficiently understood and sufficiently heeded, all that we
+men of earth need to lift up, to beautify, to make strong and Godlike
+individual lives and thereby and of necessity the life of the world.
+Jesus never taught that God incarnated Himself in him alone. I challenge
+any man living to find any such teaching by him. He did proclaim his own
+unique realisation of God. Intuitively and vividly he perceived the
+Divine life, the eternal Word, the eternal Christ, manifesting in his
+clean, strong, upright soul, so that the young Jewish rabbi and prophet,
+known in all his community as Jesus, the son of Joseph and Mary and
+whose brothers and sisters they knew so well,[E] became the
+firstborn--fully born--of the Father.
+
+He then pleaded with all the energy and love and fervour of his splendid
+heart and vigorous manhood that all men should follow the Way that he
+revealed and realise their Divine Sonship, that their lives might be
+redeemed--redeemed from the bondage of the bodily senses and the
+bondage of merely the things of the outer world, and saved as fit
+subjects of and workers in the Father's Kingdom. Otherwise for millions
+of splendid earnest men and women today his life-message would have no
+meaning.
+
+To make men awake to their real identity, and therefore to their
+possibilities and powers as true sons of God, the Father of all, and
+therefore that all men are brothers--for otherwise God is not Father of
+all--and to live together in brotherly love and mutual cooperation
+whereby the Divine will becomes done on earth as it is in heaven--this
+is his message to we men of earth. If we believe his message and accept
+his leadership, then he becomes indeed our elder brother who leads the
+way, the Word in us becomes flesh, the Christ becomes enthroned in our
+lives,--and we become co-workers with him in the Father's vineyard.
+
+
+
+
+XII
+
+THE WORLD WAR--ITS MEANING AND ITS LESSONS FOR US
+
+
+Whatever differences of opinion--and honest differences of opinion--may
+have existed and may still exist in America in regard to the great world
+conflict, there is a wonderful unanimity of thought that has
+crystallised itself into the concrete form--_something must be done in
+order that it can never occur again_. The higher intelligence of the
+nation must assert itself. It must feel and think and act in terms of
+internationalism. Not that the feeling of nationalism in any country
+shall, or even can be eradicated or even abated. It must be made,
+however, to coordinate itself with the now rapidly growing sense of
+world-consciousness, that the growing intelligence of mankind, aided by
+some tremendously concrete forms of recent experience, is now
+recognising as a great reality.
+
+That there were very strong sympathies for both the Allied Nations and
+for the Central Powers in the beginning, goes without saying, How could
+it be otherwise, when we realise the diverse and complex types of our
+citizenship?
+
+One of the most distinctive, and in some ways one of the most
+significant, features of the American nation is that it is today
+composed of representatives, and in some cases, of enormous bodies of
+representatives, numbering into the millions, of practically every
+nation in the world.
+
+There are single cities where, in one case twenty-six, in another case
+twenty-nine, and in other cases a still larger number of what are today
+designated as hyphenated citizens are represented. The orderly removal
+of the hyphen, and the amalgamation of these splendid representatives of
+practically all nations into genuine American citizens, infused with
+American ideals and pushed on by true American ambitions, is one of the
+great problems that the war has brought in a most striking manner to our
+attention.
+
+Not that these representatives of many nations shall in any way lose
+their sense of sympathy for the nations of their birth, in times of
+either peace or of distress, although they have found it either
+advisable or greatly to their own personal advantage and welfare to
+leave the lands of their birth and to establish their homes here.
+
+The fact that in the vast majority of cases they find themselves better
+off here, and choose to remain and assume the responsibilities of
+citizenship in the Western Republic, involves a responsibility that
+some, if not indeed many, heretofore have apparently too lightly
+considered. There must be a more supreme sense of allegiance, and a
+continually growing sense of responsibility to the nation, that, guided
+by their own independent judgment and animated by their own free wills,
+they have chosen as their home.
+
+There is a difference between sympathy and allegiance; and unless a man
+has found conditions intolerable in the land of his birth, and this is
+the reason for his seeking a home in another land more to his liking and
+to his advantage, we cannot expect him to be devoid of sympathy for the
+land of his birth, especially in times of stress or of great need. We
+can expect him, however, and we have a right to demand his _absolute
+allegiance_ to the land of his adoption. And if he cannot give this,
+then we should see to it that he return to his former home. If he is
+capable of clear thinking and right feeling, he also must realise the
+fundamental truth of this fact.
+
+There are public schools in America where as many as nineteen languages
+are spoken in a single room. Our public schools, so eagerly sought by
+the children of parents of foreign birth, in their intense eagerness
+for an education, that is offered freely and without cost to all, can
+and must be made greater instruments in converting what must in time
+become a great menace to our institutions, and even to the very life of
+the nation itself, into a real and genuine American citizenship. Our
+best educators, in addition to our clearest thinking citizens, are
+realising as never before, that our public-school system chiefly, among
+our educational institutions, must be made a great melting-pot through
+which this process of amalgamation must be carried on.
+
+We are also realising clearly now that, as a nation, we have been
+entirely too lax in connection with our immigration privileges,
+regulations and restrictions. We have been admitting foreigners to our
+shores in such enormous quantities each year that we have not been able
+at all adequately to assimilate them, nor have we used at all a
+sufficiently wise discrimination in the admission of desirables or
+undesirables.
+
+We have received, or we have allowed to be dumped upon our shores, great
+numbers of the latter whom we should know would inevitably become
+dependents, as well as great numbers of criminals. The result has been
+that they have been costing certain localities millions of dollars every
+year. But entirely aside from the latter, the last two or three years
+have brought home to us as never before the fact that those who come to
+our shores must come with the avowed and the settled purpose of becoming
+real American citizens, giving full and absolute allegiance to the
+institutions, the laws, the government of the land of their adoption.
+
+If any other government is not able so to manage as to make it more
+desirable for its subjects to remain in the land of their birth, rather
+than to seek homes in the land with institutions more to their liking,
+or with advantages more conducive to their welfare, that government then
+should not expect to retain, even in the slightest degree, the
+allegiance of such former subjects. A hyphenated citizenship may become
+as dangerous to a republic as a cancer is in the human body. A country
+with over a hundred hyphens cannot fulfil its highest destiny.
+
+We, as a nation, have been rudely shaken from our long dream of almost
+inevitable national security. We have been brought finally, and although
+as a nation we have no desire for conquest or empire, and no desire for
+military glory, and therefore no need of any great army or navy for
+offensive purposes, we have been brought finally to realise that we do,
+nevertheless, stand in need of a national strengthening of our arm of
+defence. A land of a hundred million people, where one could travel many
+times for a sixmonth and never see the sign of a soldier, is brought,
+though reluctantly, to face a new state of affairs; but one,
+nevertheless, that must be faced--calmly faced and wisely acted upon.
+And while it is true that as a nation we have always had the tradition
+of non-militarism, it is not true that we have had the tradition of
+military or of naval impotence or weakness.
+
+Preparedness, therefore, has assumed a position of tremendous
+importance, in individual thought, in public discussion, and almost
+universally in the columns of the public press. One of the most vital
+questions among us then is, not so much as to how we shall prepare, but
+how shall we prepare adequately for defensive purposes, in case of any
+emergency arising, without being thrown too far along the road of
+militarism, and without an inordinate preparation that has been the
+scourge and the bane of many old-world countries for so many years, and
+that quite as much as anything has been provocative of the horrible
+conflict that has literally been devastating so many European countries.
+
+It is clearly apparent that the best thought in America today calls for
+an adequate preparation for purposes of defence, and calls for a
+recognition of facts as they are. It also clearly sees the danger of
+certain types of mind and certain interests combining to carry the
+matter much farther than is at all called for. The question is--How
+shall we then strike that happy balance that is the secret of all
+successful living in the lives of either individuals or in the lives of
+nations?
+
+All clear-seeing people realise that, as things are in the world today,
+there is a certain amount of preparedness that is necessary for
+influence and for insurance. As within the nation a police force is
+necessary for the enforcement of law, for the preservation of law and
+order, although it is not at all necessary that every second or third
+man be a policeman, so in the council of nations the individual nation
+must have a certain element of force that it can fall back upon if all
+other available agencies fail. In diplomacy the strong nations win out,
+the weaker lose out. Military and naval power, unless carried to a
+ridiculous excess does not, therefore, lie idle, even when not in actual
+use.
+
+Our power and influence as a nation will certainly not be in proportion
+to our weakness. Although righteousness exalteth a nation, it is
+nevertheless true that righteousness alone will not protect a
+nation--while other nations are fully armed. National weakness does not
+make for peace.
+
+Righteousness, combined with a spirit of forbearance, combined with a
+keen desire to give justice as well as to demand justice, if combined
+with the power to strike powerfully and sustainedly in defence of
+justice, and in defence of national integrity, is what protects a
+nation, and this it is that in the long run exalteth a nation--_while
+things are as they are_.
+
+While conditions have therefore brought prominently to the forefront in
+America the matter of military training and military service--an
+adequate military preparation for purposes of defence, for full and
+adequate defence, the best thought of the nation is almost a unit in the
+belief that, for us as a nation, an immense standing army is unnecessary
+as well as inadvisable.
+
+No amount of military preparation that is not combined definitely and
+completely with an enhanced citizenship, and therefore with an advance
+in real democracy, is at all worthy of consideration on the part of the
+American people, or indeed on the part of the people of any nation.
+Pre-eminently is this true in this day and age.
+
+Observing this principle we could then, while a certain degree of
+universal training under some system similar to the Swiss or Australian
+system is being carried on, and to serve _our immediate needs_, have an
+army of even a quarter of a million men without danger of militarism and
+without heavy financial burdens, and without subverting our American
+ideas--providing it is an industrial arm. There are great engineering
+projects that could be carried on, thereby developing many of our now
+latent resources; there is an immense amount of road-building that could
+be projected in many parts of, if not throughout the entire country;
+there are great irrigation projects that could be carried on in the far
+West and Southwest, reclaiming millions upon millions of acres of what
+are now unproductive desert lands; all these could be carried on and
+made even to pay, keeping busy a large number of men for half a dozen
+years to come.
+
+This army of this number of men could be recruited, trained to an
+adequate degree of military service, and at the same time could be
+engaged in profitable employment on these much-needed works. They could
+then be paid an adequate wage, ample to support a family, or ample to
+lay up savings if without family. Such men leaving the army service,
+would then have a degree of training and skill whereby they would be
+able to get positions or employment, all more remunerative than the
+bulk of them, perhaps, would ever be able to get without such training
+and experience.
+
+An army of this number of trained men, somewhat equally divided between
+the Atlantic and the Pacific seaboards, the bulk of them engaged in
+regular constructive work, _work that needs to be done and that,
+therefore, could be profitably done_, and ready to be called into
+service at a moment's notice, would constitute a tremendous insurance
+against any aggression from without, and would also give a tremendous
+sense of security for half a dozen years at least. This number could
+then be reduced, for by that time several million young men from
+eighteen years up would be partially trained and in first-class physical
+shape to be summoned to service should the emergency arise.
+
+In addition to the vast amount of good roads building, whose cost could
+be borne in equal proportions by nation, state and county--a most
+important factor in connection with military necessity as well as a
+great economic factor in the successful development and advancement of
+any community--the millions of acres of now arid lands in the West,
+awaiting only water to make them among the most valuable and productive
+in all the world, could be used as a great solution of our immigration
+problem.
+
+Up to the year when the war began, there came to our shores upwards of
+one million immigrants every twelve months, seeking work, and most of
+them homes in this country. The great bulk of them got no farther than
+our cities, increasing congestion, already in many cases acute, and many
+of them becoming in time, from one cause or another, dependents, the
+annual cost of their maintenance aggregating many millions every year.
+
+With these vast acres ready for them large numbers could, under a wise
+system of distribution, be sent on to the great West and Southwest, and
+more easily and directly now since the Panama Canal is open for
+navigation. Allotments of these lands could be assigned them that they
+could in time become owners of, through a wisely established system of
+payments. Many of them would thereby be living lives similar to those
+they lived in their own countries, and for which their training and
+experience there have abundantly fitted them. They would thus become a
+far more valuable type of citizens--landowners--than they could ever
+possibly become otherwise, and especially through our present
+unorganised hit-or-miss system. They would in time also add annually
+hundreds of millions of productive work to the wealth of the country.
+
+The very wise system that was inaugurated some time ago in connection
+with the Coast Defence arm of our army is, under the wise direction of
+our present Secretary of War, to be extended to all branches of the
+service. For some time in the Coast Artillery Service the enlisted man
+under competent instruction has had the privilege of becoming a skilled
+machinist or a skilled electrician. Now the system is to be extended
+through all branches of the military service, and many additional trades
+are to be added to the curricula of the trade schools of the army. The
+young man can, therefore, make his own selection and become a trained
+artisan at the same time that he serves his time in the army, with all
+expenses for such training, as well as maintenance, borne by the
+Government. He can thereby leave the service fully equipped for
+profitable employment.
+
+This will have the tendency of calling a better class of young men into
+the service; it will also do away with the well-founded criticism that
+army life and its idleness, or partly-enforced idleness, unfits a man
+for useful industrial service after he quits the army. If this same
+system is extended through the navy, as it can be, both army and navy
+service will meet the American requirement--that neither military nor
+naval service take great numbers of men from productive employment, to
+be in turn supported by other workers. Instead of so much dead timber,
+they are all the time producing while in active service, and are being
+trained to be highly efficient as producers, when they leave the
+service.
+
+Under this system the Federal Government can build its own ordnance
+works and its own munition factories and become its own maker of
+whatever may be required in all lines of output. We will then be able to
+escape the perverse influence of gain on the part of large munition
+industries, and the danger that comes from that portion of a military
+party whose motives are actuated by personal gain.
+
+If the occasion arises, or if we permit the occasion to arise, Kruppism
+in America will become as dangerous and as sinister in its influences
+and its proportions, as it became in Germany.
+
+Another great service that the war has done us, is by way of bringing
+home to us the lesson that has been so prominently brought to the front
+in connection with the other nations at war, namely, the necessity of
+the speedy and thorough mobilisation of all lines of industries and
+business; for the thoroughness and the efficiency with which this can be
+done may mean success that otherwise would result in failure and
+disaster. We are now awake to the tremendous importance of this.
+
+It is at last becoming clearly understood among the peoples and the
+nations of the world that, as a nation, we have no desire for conquest,
+for territory, for empire--we have no purposes of aggression; we have
+quite enough to do to develop our resources and our as yet great
+undeveloped areas.
+
+A few months before the war broke, I had conversations with the heads or
+with the representatives of leading publishing houses in several
+European countries. It was at a time when our Mexican situation was
+beginning to be very acute. I remember at that time especially, the
+conversation with the head of one of the largest publishing houses in
+Italy, in Milan. I could see plainly his scepticism when, in reply to
+his questions, I endeavoured to persuade him that as a nation we had no
+motives of conquest or of aggression in Mexico, that we were interested
+solely in the restoration of a representative and stable government
+there. And since that time, I am glad to say that our acts as a nation
+have all been along the line of persuading him, and also many other
+like-minded ones in many countries abroad, of the truth of this
+assertion. By this general course we have been gaining the confidence
+and have been cementing the friendship of practically every South
+American republic, our immediate neighbours on the southern continent.
+This has been a source of increasing economic power with us, and an
+element of greatly added strength, and also a tremendous energy working
+all the time for the preservation of peace.
+
+One can say most confidently, even though recognising our many grave
+faults as a nation, that our course along this line has been such,
+especially of late years, as to inspire confidence on the part of all
+the fair-minded nations of the world.
+
+Our theory of the state, the theory of democracy, is not that the state
+is above all, and that the individual and his welfare are as nothing
+when compared to it, but rather that the state is the agency through
+which the highest welfare of all its subjects is to be evolved,
+expressed, maintained. No other theory to my mind, is at all compatible
+with the intelligence of any free-thinking people.
+
+Otherwise, there is always the danger and also the likelihood, while
+human nature is as it is, for some ruler, some clique, or factions so to
+concentrate power into their own hands, that for their own ambitions,
+for aggrandisement, or for false or short-sighted and half-baked ideas
+of additions to their country, it is dragged into periodic wars with
+other nations.
+
+Nor do we share in the belief that the state is above morality, but
+rather that identically the same moral ideals, precepts and obligations
+that bind individuals must be held sacred by the state, otherwise it
+becomes a pirate among nations, and it will inevitably in time be hunted
+down and destroyed as such, however great its apparent power. Nor do we
+as a nation share in the belief that war is necessary and indeed good
+for a nation, to inspire and to preserve its manly qualities, its
+virility, and therefore its power. Were this the only way that this
+could be brought about, it might be well and good; but the price to be
+paid is a price that is too enormous and too frightful, and the results
+are too uncertain. We believe that these same ideals can be inculcated,
+that these same energies can be used along useful, conserving,
+constructive lines, rather than along lines of destruction.
+
+A nation may have the most colossal and perfect military system in the
+world, and still may suffer defeat in any given while, because of those
+unseen things that pertain to the soul of another people, whereby powers
+and forces are engendered and materialised that make defeat for them
+impossible; and in the matter of big guns, it is well always to remember
+that no nation can build them so great that another nation may not build
+them still greater. National safety does not necessarily lie in that
+direction. Nor, on the other hand, along the lines of extreme
+pacificism--surely not as long as things are as they are. The argument
+of the lamb has small deterrent effect upon the wolf--as long as the
+wolf is a wolf. And sometimes wolves hunt in packs. The most preeminent
+lesson of the great war for us as a nation should be this--there should
+be constantly a degree of preparedness sufficient to hold until all the
+others, the various portions of the nation, thoroughly coordinated and
+ready, can be summoned into action. Thus are we prepared, thus are we
+safe, and there is no danger or fear of militarism.
+
+In a democracy it should, without question, be a fundamental fact that
+hand in hand with equal rights there should go a sense of equal duty. A
+call for defence should have a universal response. So it is merely good
+common-sense, good judgment, if you please, for all the young men of the
+nation to have a training sufficient to enable them to respond
+effectively if the nation's safety calls them to its defence. It is no
+crime, however we may deprecate war, to be thus prepared.
+
+For young men--and we must always remember that it is the young men who
+are called for this purpose--for young men to be called to the colours
+by the tens or the hundreds of thousands, unskilled and untrained, to be
+shot down, decimated by the thoroughly trained and skilled troops of
+another nation, or a combination of other nations, is indeed the crime.
+Never, moreover, was folly so great as that shown by him or by her who
+will not see. And to look at the matter without prejudice, we will
+realise that this is merely policing what we have. It is meeting force
+with adequate force, _if it becomes necessary_, so to meet it.
+
+This is necessary until such time as we have in operation among nations
+a thoroughly established machinery whereby force will give place to
+reason, whereby common sense will be used in adjusting all differences
+between nations, as it is now used in adjusting differences between
+individuals.
+
+Our period of isolation is over. We have become a world-nation. Equality
+of rights presupposes equality of duty. In our very souls we loathe
+militarism. Conquest and aggression are foreign to our spirit, and
+foreign to our thoughts and ambitions. But weakness will by no means
+assure us immunity from aggression from without. Universal military
+training up to a reasonable point, and the joint sense of responsibility
+of every man and every woman in the nation, and the right of the
+national government to expect and to demand that every man and woman
+stand ready to respond to the call to service, whatever form it may
+take--this is our armour.
+
+All intelligent people know that the national government has always had
+the power to draft every male citizen fit for service into military
+service. It is not therefore a question of universal military service.
+The real and only question is whether these or great numbers of these go
+out illy prepared and equipped as sheep to the shambles perchance, or
+whether they go out trained and equipped to do a man's work--more
+adequately prepared to protect themselves as well as the integrity of
+the nation. It is not to be done for the love or the purpose of
+militarism; but recognising the fact that militarism still persists,
+that with us it may not be triumphant should we at any time be forced to
+face it. There are certain facts that only to our peril as well as our
+moral degradation, we can be blind to. Said a noted historian but a few
+days ago:
+
+"I loathe war and militarism. I have fought them for twenty years. But I
+am a historian, and I know that bullies thrive best in an atmosphere of
+meekness. As long as this military system lasts you must discourage the
+mailed fist by showing that you will meet it with something harder than
+a boxing glove. We do not think it good to admit into the code of the
+twentieth century that a great national bully may still with impunity
+squeeze the blood out of its small neighbours and seize their goods."
+
+We need not fear militarism arising in America as long as the
+fundamental principles of democracy are preserved and continually
+extended, which can be done only through the feeling of the individual
+responsibility of every man and every woman to take a keen and constant
+interest in the matters of their own government--community, state,
+national, and now international. We must realise and ever more fully
+realise that in a government such as ours, the people are the
+government, and that when in it anything goes wrong, or wrongs and
+injustices are allowed to grow and hold sway, we are to blame.
+
+Universal military training has not militarised Switzerland nor has it
+Australia. It is rather the very essence of democracy and the very
+antithesis of militarism.
+
+    "Let each son of Freedom bear
+      His portion of the burden. Should not each one do his share?
+        To sacrifice the splendid few--
+        The strong of heart, the brave, the true,
+        Who live--or die--as heroes do,
+      While cowards profit--is not fair!"
+
+Many still recall that not a few well-meaning people at the close of the
+Civil War proclaimed that, with upwards of two million trained men
+behind him, General Grant would become a military dictator, and that
+this would be followed by the disappearance of democracy in the nation.
+But the mind, the temper, the traditions of our people are all a
+guarantee against militarism. The gospel, the hallucination of the
+shining armour, the will to power, has no attraction for us. We loathe
+it; nor do we fear its undermining and crushing our own liberties
+internally. Nevertheless, it is true that vigilance is always and always
+will be the price of liberty. There must be a constant education towards
+citizenship. There must be an alert democracy, so that any land and sea
+force is always the servant of the spirit; for only otherwise it can
+become its master--but otherwise it will become its master.
+
+
+
+
+XIII
+
+OUR SOLE AGENCY OF INTERNATIONAL PEACE, AND INTERNATIONAL CONCORD
+
+
+The consensus of intelligent thought throughout the world is to the
+effect that just as we have established an orderly method for the
+settlement of disputes between individuals or groups of individuals in
+any particular nation, we must now move forward and establish such
+methods for the settlement of disputes among nations. There is no
+civilised country in the world that any longer permits the individual to
+take the law into his own hands.
+
+The intelligent thought of the world now demands the definite
+establishment of a World Federation for the enforcement of peace among
+nations. It demands likewise the definite establishment of a permanent
+World Court, backed by adequate force for the arbitrament of all
+disputes among nations--unable to be adjusted by the nations themselves
+in friendly conference. We have now reached the stage in world
+development and in world intercourse where peace must be
+internationalised. Our present chaotic condition, which exists simply
+because we haven't taken time as yet to establish a method, must be
+made to give place to an intelligently devised system of law and order.
+Anything short of this means a periodic destruction of the finest fruits
+of civilisation. It means also the periodic destruction of the finest
+young manhood of the world. This means, in turn, the speedy degeneration
+of the human race. The deification of force, augmented by all the
+products and engines of modern science, is simply the way of sublimated
+savagery.
+
+The world is in need of a new dispensation. Recent events show
+indisputably that we have reached the parting of the ways, the family of
+nations must now push on into the new day or the world will plunge on
+into a darker night. There is no other course in sight. I know of no
+finer words penned in any language--this time it was in French--to
+express an unvarying truth than these words by Victor Hugo: "There is
+one thing that is stronger than armies, and that is an idea whose time
+has come."
+
+Never before, after viewing the great havoc wrought, the enormous debts
+that will have to be paid for between fifty and a hundred years to come,
+the tremendous disruptions and losses in trade, the misery and
+degradation stalking broadcast over every land engaged in the
+war--scarcely a family untouched--never before have nations been in the
+state of mind to consider and to long to act upon some sensible and
+comprehensive method of international concord and adjustments. If this
+succeeds, the world, including ourselves, is the gainer. If this does
+not succeed, though the chances are overwhelmingly in its favour, then
+we can proclaim to the assembled nations that as long as a state of
+outlawry exists among nations, that then no longer by chance but by
+design, we as a nation will be in a state of preparedness broad and
+comprehensive enough to defend ourselves against the violation of any of
+the rights of a sovereign nation. It is only in this way that we can
+show a due appreciation of the struggles and the sacrifices of those who
+gave us our national existence; it is only in this way that we can,
+retain our self-respect, that we can command the respect of other
+nations _while things are as they are_; that we can hope to retain any
+degree of influence and authority for the diplomatic arm of our
+Government in the Council of Nations.
+
+Every neutral nation has suffered tremendously by the war. Every neutral
+nation will suffer until a new world-order among nations is projected
+and perfected.
+
+We owe a tremendous duty to the world in connection with this great
+world crisis and upheaval. Diligently should our best men and women,
+those of insight and greatest influence, and with the expenditure of
+both time and means, seek to further the practical working out of a
+World Federation and a permanent World Court. Public opinion should be
+thus aroused and solidified so that the world knows that we stand as a
+united nation back of the idea and the plan.
+
+The divine right of kings has gone. It holds no more. We hear now and
+then, it is true, some silly statement in regard to it, but little
+attention is paid to it. The divine right of priests has gone except in
+the minds of the few remaining ignorant and herdable ones. The divine
+right of dynasties--or rather of dynasties to persist--seems to die a
+little harder, but it is well on the way. We are now realising that the
+only divine right is the right of the people--and all the people.
+
+Never again should it be possible for one man, or for one little group
+of men so to lead, or so to mislead a nation as to plunge it into war.
+The growth of democracy compelling the greater participation of all the
+people in government must prohibit this. So likewise the close
+relationship of the entire world now must make it forever impossible for
+a single nation or a group of nations for any cause to plunge a whole
+world or any part of it into war. These are sound and clear-visioned
+words recently given utterance to by James Bryce: "However much we
+condemn reckless leaders and the ruthless caste that live for war, the
+real source of the mischief is the popular sentiment behind them. The
+lesson to be learned is that doctrines and deep-rooted passions, whence
+these evils spring, can only be removed by the slow and steady working
+of spiritual forces. What most is needed is the elimination of those
+feelings the teachings of which breed jealousy and hatred and prompt men
+to defiance and aggression."
+
+Humanity and civilisation is not headed towards Ab the cave-man,
+whatever appearances, in the minds of many, may indicate at the present
+time. Humanity will arise and will reconstruct itself. Great lessons
+will be learned. Good will result. But what a terrific price to pay!
+What a terrific price to pay to learn the lesson that "moral forces are
+the only invincible forces in the universe"! It has been slow, but
+steadily the world is advancing to that stage when the individual or the
+nation that does not know that the law of mutuality, of cooperation, and
+still more the law of sympathy and good will, is the supreme law in real
+civilisation, real advancement, and real gain--that does not know that
+its own welfare is always bound up with the welfare of the greater
+whole--is still in the brute stage of life and the bestial propensities
+are still its guiding forces.
+
+Prejudice, suspicion, hatred, national big-headedness, must give way to
+respect, sympathy, the desire for mutual understanding and cooperation.
+The higher attributes must and will assert themselves. The former are
+the ways of periodic if not continuous destruction--the latter are the
+ways of the higher spiritual forces that must prevail. Significant are
+these words of one of our younger but clear-visioned American poets,
+Winter Bynner:
+
+    Whether the time be slow or fast,
+      Enemies, hand in hand,
+    Must come together at the last
+      And understand.
+
+    No matter how the die is cast,
+      Or who may seem to win--
+    We know that we must love at last--
+      Why not begin?
+
+The teaching of hatred to children, the fostering of hatred in adults,
+can result only in harm to the people and the nation where it is
+fostered. The dragon's tooth will leave its marks upon the entire nation
+and the fair life of all the people will suffer by it. The holding in
+contempt of other people makes it sometimes necessary that one's own
+head be battered against the wall that he may be sufficiently aroused to
+recognise and to appreciate their sterling and enduring qualities.
+
+The use of a club is more spectacular for some at least than the use of
+intellectual and moral forces. The rattling of the machine-gun produces
+more commotion than the more quiet ways of peace. All of the powerful
+forces in nature, those of growth, germination, and conservation, the
+same as in human life are quiet forces. So in the preservation of peace.
+It consists rather in a high constructive policy. It requires always
+clear vision, a constantly progressive and cooperative method of life
+and action; frank and open dealing and a resolute purpose. It is won and
+maintained by nothing so much in the long run as when it makes the
+Golden Rule its law of conduct. Slowly we are realising that great
+armaments--militarism--do not insure peace. They may lead away from
+it--they are very apt to lead away from it.
+
+Peace is related rather to the great moral laws of conduct. It has to do
+with straight, clean, open dealing. It is fostered by sympathy,
+forbearance. This does not mean that it pertains to weakness. On the
+contrary it is determined by resolute but high purpose, the actual and
+active desire of a nation to live on terms of peace with all other
+nations; and the world's; recognition of this fact is a most powerful
+factor in inducing and in actualising such living.
+
+Our own achievement of upwards of a hundred years in living in
+peaceable, sympathetic and mutually beneficial relations with Canada;
+Canada's achievement in so living with us, should be a distinct and
+clear-cut answer to the argument that nations need to fortify their
+boundaries one against another. This is true only where suspicion,
+mistrust, fear, secret diplomacy, and secret alliances hold instead of
+the great and eternally constructive forces--sympathy, good will, mutual
+understanding, induced and conserved by an International Joint
+Commission of able men whose business it is to investigate, to
+determine, and to adjust any differences that through the years may
+arise. Here we have a boundary line of upwards of three thousand miles
+and not a fort; vast areas of inland seas and not a war vessel; and for
+upwards of a hundred years not a difference that the High Joint
+Commission has not been able to settle amicably and to the mutual
+advantage of both countries.
+
+I know that in connection with this we have an advantage over the
+old-world nations because we are free from age-long prejudices,
+hatreds, and past scores. But if this great conflict does not lead along
+the lines of the constructive forces and the working out of a new world
+method, then the future of Europe and of the world is dark indeed.
+Surely it will lead to a new order--it is almost inconceivable that it
+will not.
+
+The Golden Rule is a wonderful developer in human life, a wonderful
+harmoniser in community life--with great profit it could be extended as
+the law of conduct in international relations. It must be so extended.
+Its very foundation is sympathy, good will, mutuality, love.
+
+The very essence of Jesus' entire revelation and teaching was love. It
+was not the teaching of weakness or supineness in the face of wrong,
+however. There was no failure on his part to smite wrong when he saw
+it--wrong taking the form of injustice or oppression. He had, as we have
+seen, infinite sympathy for and forbearance with the weak, the sinful;
+but he had always a righteous indignation and a scathing denunciation
+for oppression--for that spirit of hell that prompts men or
+organisations to seek, to study, to dominate the minds and thereby the
+lives of others. It was, moreover, that he would not keep silent
+regarding the deadly ecclesiasticism that bore so heavily upon his
+people and that had well-nigh crushed all their religious life whence
+are the very springs of life, that he aroused the deadly antagonism of
+the ruling hierarchy. And as he, witnessing for truth and freedom,
+steadfastly and defiantly opposed oppression, so those who catch his
+spirit today will do as he did and will realise as duty--"While wrong is
+wrong let no man prate of peace!"
+
+                    Peace? Peace? Peace?
+    While wrong is wrong let no man prate of peace!
+    He did not prate, the Master. Nay, he smote!
+
+           *       *       *       *       *
+
+    Hate wrong! Slay wrong! Else mercy, justice, truth,
+    Freedom and faith, shall die for humankind.[F]
+
+Nor did the code and teachings of Jesus prevent him driving the
+money-changers from out the temple court. It was not for the purpose of
+doing them harm. It was rather to do them good by driving home to them
+in some tangible and concrete form, through the skin and flesh of their
+bodies, what the thick skins of their moral natures were unable to
+comprehend. The resistance of wrongdoing is not opposed to the law of
+love. As in community life there is the occasional bully who has
+sometimes to be knocked down in order that he may have a due
+appreciation of individual rights and community amenities, so among
+nations a similar lesson is sometimes necessary in order that it or its
+leaders may learn that there are certain things that do not pay, and,
+moreover, will not be allowed by the community of nations.
+
+Making might alone the basis of national policy and action, or making it
+the basis of settlement in international settlements, but arouses and
+intensifies hatred and the spirit of revenge. So in connection with this
+great world crisis--after it all then comes the great problem of
+reorganisation and rehabilitation, and unless there comes about an
+international concord strong and definite enough to prevent a recurrence
+of what has been, it would almost seem that restoration were futile; for
+things will be restored only in time to be destroyed again.
+
+No amount of armament we know now will prevent war. It can be prevented
+only by a definite concord of the nations brought finally to realise the
+futility of war. To deny the possibility of a World League and a World
+Court is to deny the ability of men to govern themselves. The history of
+the American Republic in its demonstration of the power and the genius
+of federation should disprove the truth of this. Here we have a nation
+composed of forty-eight sovereign states and with the most heterogeneous
+accumulation of people that ever came together in one country, let alone
+one nation, and great numbers of them from those nations that for
+upwards of a thousand years have been periodically springing at one
+another's throats. Enlightened self-government has done it. The real
+spirit and temper of democracy has done it. But it must be the
+preservation of the real spirit of democracy and constant vigilance that
+must preserve it.
+
+Prejudice, suspicion, hatred on the part of individuals or on the part
+of the people of one nation against the people of another nation, have
+never yet advanced the welfare of any individual or any nation and never
+can. The world war is but the direct result of the type of peace that
+preceded it. The militarist argument reduced to its lowest terms amounts
+merely to this: "For two nations to keep peace each must be stronger
+than the other."
+
+Representative men of other countries do not resent our part in pressing
+this matter and in taking the leadership in it. But even if they did
+they would have no just right to. There is, however, a very general
+feeling that the American Republic, as the world's greatest example of
+_successful federation_, should take the lead in the World Federation.
+
+This is now going to be greatly fostered by virtue of one great good
+that the world war will eventually have accomplished--the doom and the
+end of autocracy. Dynasties and privileged orders that have lived and
+lived alone on militarism, will have been foreclosed on. The people in
+control, in an increasingly intelligent control of their own lives and
+their own governments, will be governed by a higher degree of
+self-enlightenment and mutual self-interest than under the domination or
+even the leadership of any type of hereditary ruling class or war-lord.
+In some countries autocracy in religion, through the free mingling and
+discussions of men of various nationalities and religious persuasions,
+will be again lessened, whereby the direct love and power of God in the
+hearts of men, as Jesus taught, will have a fuller sway and a more holy
+and a diviner moulding power in their lives.
+
+It was during those long, weary years coupled with the horrible crimes
+of the Thirty Years' War that the science of International Law began to
+take form, the result of that notable work, "De Jure Belli ac Pacis," by
+Grotius. It is ours to see that out of this more intense and thereby
+even more horrible conflict a new epoch in human and international
+relations be born.
+
+As the higher powers of mind and spirit are realised and used, great
+primal instincts impelling men to expression and action that find their
+outlet many times in war, will be transmuted and turned from destruction
+into powerful engines of construction. When a moral equivalent for war
+of sufficient impelling power is placed before men, those same virile
+qualities and powers that are now marshalled so easily for purposes of
+fighting, will, under the guidance and in the service of the spirit, be
+used for the conserving of human life, and for the advancement and the
+increase of everything that administers to life, that makes it more
+abundant, more mutual, and more happy. And God knows that the call for
+such service is very great.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+And even now comes the significant word that the long, the too long
+awaited world's Bill of Rights has taken form. The intelligence and the
+will of righteous men, duly appointed as the representatives of fourteen
+sovereign nations, has asserted itself, and the beginning has been made,
+without which there can be neither growth nor advancement. The
+Constitution of the World League has taken form. It is not a perfect
+instrument; but it will grow into as perfect an instrument as need be
+for its purpose. Changes and additions to it will be made as times and
+conditions indicate. Partisanship even with us may seek to defeat it.
+There is no question, however, but that the sober sense of the American
+people is behind it.
+
+One of the most fundamental results, we might say purposes of the great
+world war, was to end war. It means now that the world's unity and
+mutuality and its community of interests must be realised and that we
+build accordingly. It means that the world's peace must be fostered and
+preserved by the use of brains and guided by the heart; or that every
+brute force made ghastly and deadly to the n_th_ degree that modern
+science can devise, be periodically called in to settle the disputes or
+curb the ambitions that will disrupt the peace of the world.
+
+The common people the world over are desiring as near as can be arrived
+at, some surety as to the preservation of the world's peace; and they
+will brook no interference with a plan that seems the most feasible way
+to that end. The whole world is in that temper that gives significance
+to the words of President Wilson when a day or two ago he said: "Any
+man who resists the present tides that run in the world will find
+himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem as if
+he had been separated from his human kind forever." Unless, he might
+have added--he has and can demonstrate a better plan. The two chief
+arguments against it, that it will take away from our individual rights
+and that it will lead us into entangling alliances, no longer hold--for
+we are entangled already. We are a part of the great world force and it
+were futile longer to seek to escape our duties as such. They are as
+essential as "our rights."
+
+It is with us now as a nation as it was with that immortal group that
+gathered to sign our Declaration of Independence, to whom Franklin said:
+"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
+
+It is well for Americans to recall that the first League of Nations was
+when thirteen distinct nationalities one day awoke to the fact that it
+were better to forget their differences and to a great extent their
+boundaries, and come together in a common union. They had their thirteen
+distinct armies to keep up, in order to defend themselves each against
+the other or against any combination of the others, to say nothing of
+any outside power that might move against them. Jealousies arose and
+misunderstandings were frequent. So zealous was each of its own rights
+that when the Constitutional Convention had completed its work, and the
+Constitution was ready for adoption, there were those who actually left
+the hall rather than sign it. They were good men but they were looking
+at stern facts and they wanted no idealism in theirs. Good men, some
+animated by the partisan spirit, it is true, earnest in their
+beliefs--but unequipped with the long vision. Their names are now
+recalled only through the search of the antiquarian.
+
+Infinitely better it has been found for the thirteen and eventually the
+forty-eight to stand together than to stand separately. The thirteen
+separate states were farther separated so far as means of communication
+and actual knowledge of one another were concerned, than are the nations
+of the world today.
+
+It took men of great insight as well as vision to formulate our own
+Constitution which made thirteen distinct and sovereign states the
+United States of America. The formulation of the Constitution of the
+World League has required such men. As a nation we may be proud that two
+representative Americans have had so large a share in its
+accomplishment--President Wilson, good Democrat, and Ex-President Taft,
+good Republican.
+
+The greatest international and therefore world document ever produced
+has been forged--it awaits the coming days, years, and even generations
+for its completion. And we accord great honour also to those statesmen
+of other nations who have combined keen insight born of experience, with
+a lofty idealism; for out of these in any realm of human activities and
+relations, whatever eventually becomes the practical, is born.
+
+
+
+
+XIV
+
+THE WORLD'S BALANCE-WHEEL
+
+
+It was Lincoln who gave us a wonderful summary when he said: "After all
+the one meaning of life is to be kind."
+
+Love, sympathy, fellowship is the very foundation of all civilised,
+happy, ideal life. It is the very balance-wheel of life itself. It gives
+that genuineness and simplicity in voice, in look, in spirit that is so
+instinctively felt by all, and to which all so universally respond. It
+is like the fragrance of the flower--the emanation of its soul.
+
+Interesting and containing a most vital truth is this little memoir by
+Christine Rossetti: "One whom I knew intimately, and whose memory I
+revere, once in my hearing remarked that, 'unless we love people, we
+cannot understand them.' This was a new light to me." It contains indeed
+a profound truth.
+
+Love, sympathy, fellowship, is what makes human life truly human.
+Cooperation, mutual service, is its fruitage. A clear-cut realisation of
+this and a resolute acting upon it would remove much of the cloudiness
+and the barrenness from many a life; and its mutual recognition--and
+action based upon it--would bring order and sweetness and mutual gain in
+vast numbers of instances in family, in business, in community life. It
+would solve many of the knotty problems in all lines of human relations
+and human endeavour, whose solution heretofore has seemed well-nigh
+impossible. It is the telling oil that will start to running smoothly
+and effectively many an otherwise clogged and grating system of human
+machinery.
+
+When men on both sides are long-headed enough, are sensible enough to
+see its practical element and make it the fundamental basis of all
+relationships, of all negotiations, and all following activities in the
+relations between capital and labour, employer and employee, literally a
+new era in the industrial world will spring into being. Both sides will
+be the gainer--the dividends flowing to each will be even surprising.
+
+There is really no labour problem outside of sympathy, mutuality,
+good-will, cooperation, brotherhood.
+
+Injustice always has been and always will be the cause of all labour
+troubles. But we must not forget that it is sometimes on one side and
+sometimes on the other. Misunderstanding is not infrequently its
+accompaniment. Imagination, sympathy, mutuality, cooperation,
+brotherhood are the hand-maidens of justice. No man is intelligent
+enough, is big enough to be the representative or the manager of
+capital, who is not intelligent enough to realise this. No man is fit to
+be the representative of, or fit to have anything to do with the
+councils of labour who has not brains, intelligence enough to realise
+this. These qualities are not synonyms of or in any way related to
+sentimentality or any weak-kneed ethics. They underlie the soundest
+business sense. In this day and age they are synonyms of the word
+practical. There was a time and it was not so many years ago, when heads
+and executives of large enterprises did not realise this as fully as
+they realise it today. A great change has already taken place. A new era
+has already begun, and the greater the ability and the genius the more
+eager is its possessor to make these his guiding principles, and to
+hasten the time when they will be universally recognised and built upon.
+The same is true of the more intelligent in the rank and file of labour,
+as also of the more intelligent and those who are bringing the best
+results as leaders of labour. There is no intelligent man or woman today
+who does not believe in organised labour. There is no intelligent
+employer who does not believe in it and who does not welcome it.
+
+The bane of organised labour in the past has too often been the
+unscrupulous, the self-seeking, or the bull-headed labour leader.
+Organised labour must be constantly diligent to purge itself of these
+its worst enemies. Labour is entitled to the very highest wage, or to
+the best returns in cooperative management that it can get, and that are
+consistent with sound business management, as also to the best labour
+conditions that a sympathetic and wise management can bring about. It
+must not, however, be unreasonable in its demands, neither bull-headed,
+nor seek to travel too fast--otherwise it may lose more than it will
+gain.
+
+It must not allow itself to act as a shield for the ineffective worker,
+or the one without a sense of mutuality, whose aim is to get all he can
+get without any thought as to what he gives in return, or even with the
+deliberate purpose of giving the least that he can give and get away
+with it. Where there is a good and a full return, there should be not
+only the desire but an eagerness to give a full and honest service. Less
+than this is indicative of a lack of honest and staunch manhood or
+womanhood.
+
+It is incumbent upon organised labour also to remember that it
+represents but eight per cent of the actual working people of this
+nation. Whether one works with his brains, or his hands, or both, is
+immaterial. Nor does organised labour represent the great farming
+interests of the country--even more fundamentally the backbone of the
+nation.
+
+The desirable citizen of any nation is he or she who does not seek to
+prosper at the expense of his fellows, who does not seek the advancement
+of his group to the detriment of all other groups--who realises that
+none are independent, that all are interdependent.
+
+He who is a teacher or a preacher of class-consciousness, is either
+consciously or unconsciously--generally consciously and intentionally--a
+preacher of class-hatred. There is no more undesirable citizen in any
+nation than he. "Do you know why money is so scarce, brothers?" the soap
+box orator demanded, and a fair-sized section of the backbone of the
+nation waited in leisurely patience for the answer. A tired-looking
+woman had paused for a moment on the edge of the crowd. She spoke
+shortly. "It's because so many of you men spend your time telling each
+other why, 'stead of hustling to see that it ain't!" He is a fair
+representative of the class-consciousness, class-hatred type. Again he
+is represented by the theorist constitutionally and chronically too lazy
+to do honest and constructive work either physically or mentally. Again
+by the one who has the big-head affliction. Or again by the one
+afflicted with a species of insanity or criminality manifesting of late
+under the name of Bolshevism--a self-seeking tyranny infinitely worse
+than Czarism itself.
+
+Its representatives have proved themselves moral perverts, determined to
+carry out their theories and gain their own ends by treachery, theft,
+coersion, murder, and every foul method that will aid them in reducing
+order to chaos--through the slogan of rule or ruin. Through brigandage,
+coersion, murder, it gets the funds to send its agents into those
+countries whose governments are fully in the hands of the people, and
+where if at any time injustice prevails it is solely the fault of the
+people in not using in an intelligent and determined manner the
+possessions they already have. Or putting it in another way, on account
+of shirking the duties it is morally incumbent upon them as citizens of
+free governments to perform.
+
+In America, whose institutions have been built and maintained solely by
+the people, our duty is plain, for orderly procedure has been and ever
+must be our watch-word. Vigilance is moreover nowhere required more than
+in representative government. Whenever the red hand of anarchy,
+Bolshevism, terrorism raises itself it should be struck so instantly and
+so powerfully that it has not only no time to gain adherents, but has no
+time to make its escape. It should be the Federal prison for any
+American who allows himself to become so misguided as to seek to
+substitute terrorism and destruction for our orderly and lawful methods
+of procedure, or quick deportation for any foreigner who seeks our
+shores to carry out these purposes, or comes as an agent for those who
+would do the same.
+
+Organised labour has never occupied so high a position as it occupies
+today. That the rank and file will for an instant have commerce with
+these agencies, whatever any designing leader here and there may seek to
+do, is inconceivable. That its organisations will be sought to be used
+by them is just as probable. Its duty as to vigilance and determination
+is pronounced. And unless vigilant and determined the set-backs it may
+get and the losses it may suffer are just as pronounced. The spirit and
+temper of the American people is such that it will not stand for
+coersion, lawlessness, or any unfair demands. Public opinion is after
+all the court of last resort. No strike or no lockout can succeed with
+us that hasn't that tremendous weapon, public opinion, behind it. The
+necessity therefore of being fair in all demands and orderly in all
+procedure, and in view of this it is also well to remember that
+organised labour represents but eight per cent of the actual working
+people of this nation.
+
+The gains of organised labour in the past have been very great. It is
+also true that the demands of organised labour even today are very
+great. In true candor it must also be said that not only the impulse but
+the sincere desire of the great bulk of employers is in a conciliatory
+way to grant all demands of labour that are at all consistent with sound
+economic management, even in many cases to a great lessening of their
+own profits, as well as to maintain working conditions as befits their
+workers as valuable and honoured members of our body politic, as they
+naturally are and as they so richly deserve.
+
+For their own welfare, however, to say nothing of the welfare of the
+nation, labour unions must purge themselves of all anarchistic and
+destructive elements. Force is a two-edged sword, and the force of this
+nation when once its sense of justice and right is outraged and its
+temper is aroused, will be found to be infinitely superior to any
+particular class, whether it be capital or whether it be labour.
+Organised labour stands in the way to gain much by intelligent and
+honest work and orderly procedure. And to a degree perhaps never before
+equalled, does it stand in a position to lose much if through
+self-deception on its own part or through unworthy leadership, it
+deceives itself in believing itself superior to the forces of law and
+order.
+
+In a nation where the people through their chosen representatives and by
+established systems of procedure determine their own institutions, when
+agitators get beyond law and reason and lose sight too completely of the
+law of mutuality, there is a power backed by a force that it is mere
+madness to defy. The rights as well as the power of all the people will
+be found to be infinitely superior to those of any one particular group
+or class--clear-seeing men and women in any democratic form of
+government realise that the words mutuality and self-interest bear a
+very close relationship.
+
+The greatest gains in the relations between capital and labour during
+the coming few years will undoubtedly be along the lines of
+profit-sharing. Some splendid beginnings are already in successful
+operation. There is the recognition that capital is entitled initially
+to a fair return; again that labour is entitled to a good and full
+living wage--when both these conditions are met then that there be an
+equal division of the profits that remain, between the capital and the
+skill and management back of the capital invested on the one hand, and
+labour on the other. Without the former labour would have no employment
+in the particular enterprise; without the workers the former could not
+carry on. Each is essential to the other.
+
+Labour being not a commodity, as some material thing merely to be bought
+and sold, but the human element, is entitled to more than a living wage.
+It has human aspirations, and desires and needs. It has not only its
+present but its own and its children's future to safeguard. When it is
+thus made a partner in the business it becomes more earnest and reliable
+and effective in its work, less inclined to condone the shiftless, the
+incompetent, the slacker; more eager and resolute in withstanding the
+ill-founded, reckless or sinister suggestions or efforts of an
+ill-advised leadership.
+
+Capital or employer is the gainer also, because it is insured that loyal
+and more intelligent cooperation in its enterprise that is as essential
+to its success as is the genius and skill of management.
+
+Taking a different form but proving most valuable alike for management
+and capital on the one hand, and its workers on the other, is the case
+of one of our great industrial plants, the largest of its kind in the
+world and employing many thousands of workers, where already a trifle
+over forty per cent. of its stock is in the hands of the workers. Their
+thrift and their good judgment have enabled them to take advantage of
+attractive prices and easy methods of payment made them by the company's
+management. There are already many other concerns where this is true in
+greater or less proportion.
+
+These are facts that certain types of labour agitators or even leaders
+as well as special pleaders for labour, find it convenient to forget, or
+at least not to mention. The same is true also of the millions that are
+every year being paid out to make all working conditions and
+surroundings cheerful, healthful, safe; in various forms of insurance,
+in retiring pensions. Through the initiative of this larger type of
+employer, or manager of capital, many hundreds of thousands both men and
+women and in continually increasing numbers, are being thus
+benefited--outside and above their yearly wage or salary.
+
+A new era in connection with capital and labour has for some time been
+coming into being; the era of democracy in industry has arrived. The day
+of the autocratic sway on the part of capital has passed; nor will we as
+a nation take kindly to the autocratic sway of labour. It is obtaining
+a continually fuller recognition; and cooperation leading in many lines
+to profit-sharing is the new era we are now passing into.
+
+Though there are very large numbers of men of great wealth, employers
+and heads of industrial enterprises, who have caught the spirit of the
+new industrial age upon which we have already begun to enter, and who
+are glad to see labour getting its fairer share of the profits of
+industry and a larger recognition as partners in industry, there are
+those who, lacking both imagination and vision, attempt to resist the
+tide that, already turned, is running in volume. They are our American
+Bourbons, our American Junkers. They are, considering the ominous
+undercurrents of change, unrest and discontent that are so apparent in
+the entire industrial and economic world today, our worst breeders and
+feeders of Bolshevism and lawlessness.
+
+If they had their way and their numbers were sufficiently large, the
+flames of Bolshevism and anarchy would be so fed that even in America we
+would have little hope of escaping a great conflagration. They are the
+ones who are determined to see that their immense profits are
+uncurtailled, whose homes must have ten bathrooms each; while great
+numbers of their workers without whom they would have to close up the
+industry--hence their essential partners in the industry though not in
+name--haven't even a single bath-room and with families as large and in
+many cases larger.
+
+They are they who must have three or four homes each, aggregating in the
+millions to build and to maintain. They are they who cannot see why
+workmen should discuss such things among themselves, or even question
+them, though in many cases they are scarcely able to make ends meet in
+the face of continually advancing or even soaring prices, who never
+enjoy a holiday, and are unable to lay up for the years to come, when
+they will no longer be "required" in industry. They are they therefore
+who have but little if any interest or care for even the physical
+well-being of their workers, say nothing of their mental and spiritual
+well-being and enjoyments--beyond the fact that they are well enough fed
+and housed for the next day's work.
+
+They are they who when it is suggested that, recognizing the change and
+the run of the tide, they be keen-minded enough to anticipate changing
+conditions and organize their business so that their workers have some
+joint share in its conditions and conduct, and some share in its profits
+beyond a mere living wage, reply--"I'll be damned if I do." It doesn't
+require much of a prophetic sense now however, to be able to tell
+them--they'll be damned if they don't.
+
+There is reason to rejoice also that for the welfare of American
+institutions, the number of this class is continually decreasing. Did
+they predominate, with the unmistakable undercurrents of unrest, born of
+a sense of injustice, there would be in time, and in a shorter time than
+we perhaps realize, but one outcome. Steeped in selfishness, making
+themselves impervious to all the higher leadings and impulses of the
+soul--less than men--they are not only enemies of their own better
+selves, but enemies of the nation itself.
+
+Bolshevism in Russia was born, or rather was able to get its hold, only
+through the long generations of Czarism and the almost universal state
+of ignorance in which its people were held, that preceded it. The great
+preponderance and the continually growing numbers of men with
+imagination, with a sense of care, mutuality, cooperation, brotherhood,
+in our various large enterprises is a force that will save this and
+other nations from a similar experience.
+
+I have great confidence in the Russian people. Its soul is sound; and
+after the forces of treachery, incompetence and terrorism have spent
+themselves, and the better elements are able to organize in sufficient
+force to drive the beasts from its borders, it will arise and assert
+itself. There will be builded a new Russia that will be one of the great
+and commanding nations of the world. In the meantime it affords a most
+concrete and valuable lesson to us and to all other nations--to strike
+on the one hand, the forces of treachery and lawlessness the moment they
+show themselves, and on the other hand, to see that the soil is made
+fertile for neither their entrance nor growth.
+
+The strong nation is that in which under the leadership of universal
+free education and equal opportunities, a due watch is maintained to see
+that the rights of all individuals and all classes are nurtured and
+carefully guarded. In such a government the nation and its interests is
+and must be supreme. Then if built upon high ethical and moral standards
+where mutuality is the watch-word and the governing principle of its
+life, its motto might through right, power through justice, it becomes a
+fit and effective member of the Society of Nations.
+
+Internationalism is higher than nationalism, humanity is above the
+nation. The stronger however the individual nation, the stronger
+necessarily will be the Society of Nations.
+
+Love, sympathy, fellowship, is not inconsistent with the use of force to
+restrain malignant evil, in the case of nations as in the case of
+individuals. Where goodness is weak it is exploited and becomes a victim
+of the stronger, when, devoid of a sense of mutuality, it is
+conscienceless. Strength without conscience, goodness, ungoverned by the
+law of mutuality, becomes tyranny. In seeking its own ends it violates
+every law of God and man.
+
+For the safety therefore of the better life of the world, for the very
+safety and welfare of the Society of Nations, those nations that combine
+strength with goodness, strength with good-will, strength with an
+ever-growing sense of mutuality, which is the only law of a happy,
+orderly, and advancing human life, must combine to check the power of
+any people or nation still devoid of the knowledge of this law, lest
+goodness, truth and all the higher instincts and potentialities of life,
+even freedom itself perish from the earth. This can be done and must be
+done not through malice or hatred, but through a sense of right and
+duty.
+
+There is no more diabolical, no more damnable ambition on the part of
+individuals, organizations or nations than to rule, to gain domination
+over the minds and the lives of others either for the sake of power and
+domination or for the material gain that can be made to flow therefrom.
+As a rule, however, it is both. There is nothing more destructive to
+the higher moral and ethical life of the individual or the organization
+controlled by this desire, nothing so destructive to the life of the one
+or ones so dominated, and as a consequence to the life of society itself
+as this evil and prostituting desire and purpose.
+
+Where this has become the clearly controlling motive, malignant and
+deep-seated, if in the case of a nation, then it is the duty of those
+nations that combine strength with character, strength with goodness, to
+combine to check the evil wrought by such a nation. If by persuasion and
+good-will, well and good. If not, then through the exercise of a
+restraining force. This is not contrary to the law of love, for the love
+of the good is the controlling motive. It is only thus that the higher
+moral law which for its growth and consummation is dependent upon
+individuals, can grow and gain supremacy in the world.
+
+Intellectual independence and acumen, combined with a love of truth,
+goodness, righteousness, love and service for others, is the greatest
+aid there can be in carrying out the Divine plan and purpose in the
+world. The sword of love therefore becomes the sword of righteousness
+that cuts out the cancerous growth that is given from to by malignant
+ill will; the sword of righteousness that strikes down slavery and
+oppression; the sword of righteousness therefore that becomes the sword
+of civilization.
+
+It is a weapon that does not have to be always used however; for when
+its power is once clearly understood it is feared. Its deterrent power
+becomes therefore infinitely more effective than in its actual use. So
+in any new world settlement, any nation or group that is not up to this
+moral world standard, that would seek to impose its will and its
+institutions upon any other nations for the sake of domination, or to
+rob them of their goods, must be restrained through the federated power
+of the other nations, not by forcing their own beliefs or codes or
+institutions upon it, but by restraining it and making ineffective any
+ambitions or purposes that it may plan, or until its people whatever its
+leadership may be, are brought clearly and concretely to see that such
+methods do not pay.
+
+That Jesus to whom we ultimately go for our moral leadership, not only
+sanctioned, but used and advocated the use of righteous force, when
+malignant evil in the form of self-seeking sought domination, either
+intellectual or physical, for its own selfish gain and aggrandizement,
+is clearly evidenced by many of his own sayings and his own acts.
+
+So within the nation during this great reconstruction period, these are
+times that call for heroic men and women. In a Democracy or in any
+representative form of government an alert citizenship is its only
+safety. With a vastly increased voting population, in that many millions
+of women citizens are now admitted to full citizenship, the need for
+intelligent action and attention to matters of government was never so
+great. Great numbers will be herded and voted by organizations as well
+as by machines. As these will comprise the most ignorant and therefore
+the herdable ones, it is especially incumbent upon the great rank and
+file of intelligent women to see that they take and maintain an active
+interest in public affairs.
+
+Politics is something that we cannot evade except to the detriment of
+our country and thereby to our own detriment. Politics is but another
+word for government. And in a sense we the individual voter are the
+government and unless we make matters of government our own concern,
+there are organizations and there are groups of designing men who will
+steal in and get possession for their own selfish aggrandizement and
+gain. This takes sometimes the form of power, to be traded for other
+power, or concessions; but always if you will trace far enough, eventual
+money gain. Or again it takes the form of graft and even direct loot.
+The losses that are sustained through a lowered citizenship, through
+inefficient service, through a general debauchery of public
+institutions, through increased taxation to make up for the amounts that
+are drawn off in graft and loot are well nigh incalculable--and for the
+sole reason that you and I, average citizens, do not take the active
+personal interest in our own matters of government that we should take.
+
+Clericalism, Tammanyism, Bolshevism, Syndicalism--and all in the guise
+of interest in the people--get their holds and their profits in this
+way. It is essential that we be locally wise and history wise. Any class
+or section or organization that is less than the nation itself must be
+watched and be made to keep its own place, or it becomes a menace to the
+free and larger life of the nation. Even in the case of a great national
+crisis a superior patriotism is affected and paraded in order that it
+may camouflage its other and real activities.
+
+When at times we forget ourselves and speak of rights rather than duties
+in connection with our country, it were well to recall and to repeat the
+words of Franklin: "The sun never repents of the good he does nor does
+he ever demand a recompense."
+
+Not only is constant vigilance incumbent upon us, but realising the fact
+that the boys and the girls of today are the citizens of tomorrow--the
+nation's voters and law-makers--it is incumbent upon us to see that
+American free education through American free public schools, is
+advanced to and maintained at its highest possibilities, and kept free
+from any agencies that will make for a divided or anything less than a
+whole-hearted and intelligent citizenship. The motto on the Shakespeare
+statue at Leicester Square in London: "There is no darkness but
+ignorance," might well be reproduced in every city and every hamlet in
+the nation.
+
+Late revelations have shown how even education can be manipulated and
+prostituted for ulterior purposes. Parochial schools whether Protestant,
+Catholic, Jewish, or Oriental, have no place in American
+institutions--and whether their work is carried on in English or in a
+foreign language. They are absolutely foreign to the spirit of our
+institutions. They are purely for the sake of something less than the
+nation itself. Blind indeed are we if we are not history-wise. Criminal
+indeed are we to allow any boys or girls to be diverted to them and to
+be deprived of the advantages of a better schooling and being brought
+under the influences of agencies that are thoroughly and wholly
+American.
+
+American education must be made for American institutions and for
+nothing less than this. The nation's children should be shielded from
+any power that seeks to get possession of them in order at an early and
+unaccountable age to fasten authority upon them, and to drive a wedge
+between them and all others of the nation.
+
+The nation has a duty to every child within its borders. To fail to
+recognize or to shirk that duty, will call for a price to be paid
+sometime as great as that that has been paid by every other nation that
+did not see until too late. Sectarianism in education stultifies and
+robs the child and nullifies the finest national instincts in education.
+It is for but one purpose--the use and the power of the organization
+that plans and that fosters it.
+
+Our government profiting by the long weary struggles of other countries,
+is founded upon the absolute separation of church and state. This does
+not mean the separation of religion in its true sense from the state;
+but keeping it free from every type of sectarian influence and
+domination. It is ours to see that no silent subtle influences are at
+work, that will eventually make the same trouble here as in other
+countries, or that will thrust out the same stifling hand to undermine
+and to throttle universal free public education, and the inalienable
+right that every child has to it. Our children are the wards of and
+accountable to the state--they are not the property of any organization,
+group or groups, less than the state.
+
+We need the creation of a strong Federal Department of Education of
+cabinet rank, with ample means and strong powers to be the guiding
+genius of all our state and local departments of education, with greater
+attention paid to a more thorough and concrete training in civics, in
+moral and ethical education, in addition to the other well recognized
+branches in public school education. It should have such powers also as
+will enable it to see that every child is in school up to a certain age,
+or until all the fundamentals of a prescribed standard of American
+education are acquired.
+
+A recent tabulation made public by a Federal Deputy Commissioner of
+Naturalization has shown that a little over one tenth, in round numbers,
+11,000,000, of our population is composed of unnaturalized aliens. Even
+this however tells but a part of the story; for vast numbers of even
+those who have become naturalized, have in no sense become Americanized.
+
+Speaking of this class an able editorial in a recent number of one of
+our leading New York dailies has said:
+
+"Of the millions of aliens who have gone through the legal forms of
+naturalization a very large proportion have not in any sense been
+Americanized, and, though citizens, they are still alien in habits of
+thought, in speech and in their general attitude toward the community.
+
+"There are industrial centres not far from New York City that are wholly
+foreign. There are sections of this city that--except as the children
+through the schools and association with others of their own age yield
+to change--are intensely alien.
+
+"To penetrate these barriers and open new avenues of communication with
+the people who live within them is no longer a task to be performed by
+individual effort. Americanization is a work that must be undertaken and
+directed on a scale so extensive that only through the cooperation of
+the States and the Federal Government can it be successfully carried
+out. It cannot longer be neglected without serious harm to the life and
+welfare of the Nation."
+
+Some even more startling facts are given out in figures by the
+Department of the Interior, figures supplied to it by the Surgeon
+General's Office of the Army. The War Department records show that 24.9
+per cent. of the draft army examined by that department's agents were
+unable to read and understand a newspaper, or to write letters home. In
+one draft in New York State in May, 1918, 16.6 per cent. were classed as
+illiterate. In one draft in connection with South Carolina troops in
+July, 1918, 49.5 per cent. where classed as illiterate. In one draft in
+connection with Minnesota troops in July of the same year, 14.2 per
+cent. were classed as illiterate. In other words it means for example
+that in New York State we have in round numbers 700,000 men between 21
+and 31 years of age who are illiterate. The same source reveals the fact
+that in the nation in round numbers over 10,000,000 are either
+illiterate or without a knowledge of our language. The South is the home
+of most of the wholly uneducated, the North of those of foreign speech.
+And in speaking of this class a recent editorial in another
+representative New York daily, after making mention of one industrial
+centre but a few miles out of New York City, in New Jersey, where nearly
+16 out of every 100 cannot read English, has said:
+
+"Such people may enjoy the advantages America offers. Of its spirit and
+institutions they can comprehend nothing. They are the easy dupes of
+foreign agitators, unassimilable, an element of weakness in the social
+body that might easily be converted into an element of strength. Many
+of them have the vote, controlled by leaders interested only in designs
+alien to America's welfare.
+
+"The problem is national in scope * * *. The best way to keep Bolshevism
+out of America is to reduce ignorance of our speech and everything else
+to a minimum. However alert our immigration officers may be, foreign
+agents of social disorder are sure to pass through our doors, and as
+long as we allow children to grow up among us who have no means of
+finding out the meaning of our laws and forms of government the seeds of
+discontent will be sown in congenial soil."
+
+Profoundly true also are the following words from an editorial in still
+another New York daily in dealing with that great army of 700,000
+illiterates within the State, or rather that portion of them who are
+adults of foreign birth:
+
+"The first thing to do is to teach them, and make them realize that a
+knowledge of the English language is a prerequisite of first class
+American citizenship. * * * The wiping out of illiteracy is a foundation
+stone in building up a strong population, able and worthy to hold its
+own in the world. With the disappearance of illiteracy and of the
+ignorance of the language of the country will also disappear many of the
+trouble-breeding problems which have held back immigrants in gaining
+their fair share of real prosperity, the intelligence and self-respect
+which are vital ingredients in any good citizenship. Real freedom of
+life and character cannot be enjoyed by the man or woman whose whole
+life is passed upon the inferior plane of ignorance and prejudice. Teach
+them all how to deserve the benefits of life in America, and they will
+soon learn how to gain and protect them."
+
+It is primarily among the ignorant and illiterate that Bolshevism,
+anarchy, political rings, and every agency that attempts through
+self-seeking to sow the seeds of discontent, treachery, and disloyalty,
+works to exploit them and to herd them for political ends. No man can
+have that respect for himself, or feel that he has the respect due him
+from others as an honest and diligent worker, whatever his line of work,
+who is handicapped by the lack of an ordinary education. The heart of
+the American nation is sound. Through universal free public education it
+must be on the alert and be able to see through Bourbonism and
+understand its methods on the one hand, and Bolshevism on the other; and
+be determined through intelligent action to see that American soil is
+made uncongenial to both.
+
+Our chief problem is to see that Democracy is made safe for and made of
+real service to the world. Our American education must be made
+continually more keenly alive to the great moral, ethical and social
+needs of the time. Thereby it will be made religious without having any
+sectarian slant or bias; it will be made safe for and the hand-maid of
+Democracy and not a menace to it.
+
+Vast multitudes today are seeing as never before that the moral and
+ethical foundations of the nation's and the world's life is a matter of
+primal concern to all.
+
+We are finding more and more that the simple fundamentals of life and
+conduct as portrayed by the Christ of Nazareth not only constitutes a
+great idealism, but the only practical way of life. Compared to this and
+to the need that it come more speedily and more universally into
+operation in the life of the world today, truly "sectarian peculiarities
+are obsolete impertinences."
+
+Our time needs again more the prophet and less the priest. It needs the
+God-impelled life and voice of the prophet with his face to the future,
+both God-ward and man-ward, burning with an undivided devotion to truth
+and righteousness. It needs less the priest, too often with his back to
+the future and too often the pliant tool of the organisation whose chief
+concern is, and ever has been, the preservation of itself under the
+ostensible purpose of the preservation of the truth once delivered, the
+same that Jesus with his keen powers of penetration saw killed the
+Spirit as a high moral guide and as an inspirer to high and
+unself-centred endeavour, and that he characterised with such scathing
+scorn. There are splendid exceptions; but this is the rule now even as
+it was in his day.
+
+The prophet is concerned with truth, not a system; with righteousness,
+not custom; with justice, not expediency. Is there a man who would dare
+say that if Christianity--the Christianity of the Christ--had been
+actually in vogue, in practice in all the countries of Christendom
+during the last fifty years, during the last twenty-five years, that
+this colossal and gruesome war would ever have come about? No
+clear-thinking and honest man would or could say that it would. We need
+again the voice of the prophet, clear-seeing, high-purposed, and
+unafraid. We need again the touch of the prophet's hand to lead us back
+to those simple fundamental teachings of the Christ of Nazareth, that
+are life-giving to the individual, and that are world-saving.
+
+We speak of our Christian civilisation, and the common man, especially
+in times like these, asks what it is, where it is--and God knows that we
+have been for many hundred years wandering in the wilderness. He is
+thinking that the Kingdom of God on earth that the true teachings of
+Jesus predicated, and that he laboured so hard to actualise, needs some
+speeding up. There is a world-wide yearning for spiritual peace and
+righteousness on the part of the common man. He is finding it
+occasionally in established religion, but often, perhaps more often,
+independently of it. He is finding it more often through his own contact
+and relations with the Man of Nazareth--for him the God-man. There is no
+greater fact in our time, and there is no greater hope for the future
+than is to be found in this fact.
+
+Jesus gave the great principles, the animating spirit of life, not
+minute details of conduct. The real Church of Christ is not an
+hierarchy, an institution, it is a brotherhood--the actual establishing
+of the Kingdom of God in moral, ethical and social terms in the world.
+
+Among the last words penned by Dr. John Watson--Ian Maclaren--good
+churchman, splendid writer, but above all independent thinker and
+splendid man, were the following: "Was it not the chief mistake and also
+the hopeless futility of Pharisaism to meddle with the minute affairs of
+life, and to lay down what a man should do at every turn? It was not
+therefore an education of conscience, but a bondage of conscience; it
+did not bring men to their full stature by teaching them to face their
+own problems of duty and to settle them, it kept them in a state of
+childhood, by forbidding and commanding in every particular of daily
+life. Pharisaism, therefore, whether Jewish or Gentile, ancient or
+modern, which replaces the moral law by casuistry, and the enlightened
+judgment of the individual by the confessional, creates a narrow
+character and mechanical morals. Freedom is the birthright of the soul,
+and it is by the discipline of life the soul finds itself. It were a
+poor business to be towed across the pathless ocean of this world to the
+next; by the will of God and for our good we must sail the ship
+ourselves, and steer our own course. It is the work of the Bible to show
+us the stars and instruct us how to take our reckoning * * *.
+
+"Jesus did not tell us what to do, for that were impossible, as every
+man has his own calling, and is set in by his own circumstances, but
+Jesus has told us how to carry ourselves in the things we have to do,
+and He has put the heart in us to live becomingly, not by pedantic
+rules, but by an instinct of nobility. Jesus is the supreme teacher of
+the Bible and He came not to forbid or to command, but to place the
+Kingdom of God as a living force, and perpetual inspiration within the
+soul of man, and then, to leave him in freedom and in grace to fulfil
+himself."[G]
+
+We no longer admit that Christ is present and at work only when a
+minister is expounding the gospel or some theological precept or
+conducting some ordained observance in the pulpit; or that religion is
+only when it is labelled as such and is within the walls of a church.
+That belonged to the chapter in Christianity that is now rapidly
+closing, a chapter of good works and results--but so pitiably below its
+possibilities. So pitiably below because men had been taught and without
+sufficient thought accepted the teaching that to be a Christian was to
+hold certain beliefs about the Christ that had been formulated by early
+groups of men and that had come down through the centuries.
+
+The chapter that is now opening upon the world is the one that puts
+Christ's own teachings in the simple, frank, and direct manner in which
+he gave them, to the front. It makes life, character, conduct, human
+concern and human service of greater importance than mere matters of
+opinion. It makes eager and unremitting work for the establishing of the
+Kingdom of God, the kingdom of right relations between men, here on this
+earth, the essential thing. It insists that the telling test as to
+whether a man is a Christian is how much of the Christ spirit is in
+evidence in his life--and in every phase of his life. Gripped by this
+idea which for a long time the forward-looking and therefore the big men
+in them have been striving for, our churches in the main are moving
+forward with a new, a dauntless, and a powerful appeal.
+
+Differences that have sometimes separated them on account of differences
+of opinion, whether in thought or interpretation,[H] are now found to be
+so insignificant when compared to the actual simple fundamentals that
+the Master taught, and when compared to the work to be done, that a
+great Interallied Church Movement is now taking concrete and strong
+working form, that is equipping the church for a mighty and far-reaching
+Christian work. A new and great future lies immediately ahead. The good
+it is equipping itself to accomplish is beyond calculation--a work in
+which minister and layman will have equal voice and equal share.
+
+It will receive also great inspiration and it will eagerly strike hands
+with all allied movements that are following the same leader, but along
+different roads.
+
+Britain's apostle of brotherhood and leader of the Brotherhood Movement
+there, Rev. Tom Sykes, who has caught so clearly the Master's own basis
+of Christianity--love for and union with God, love for and union with
+the brother--has recently put so much stimulating truth into a single
+paragraph that I reproduce it here:
+
+"The emergence of the feeling of kinship with the Unseen is the most
+arresting and revealing fact of human history. * * * _The union
+with God_ is not through the display of ritual, but the affiliation and
+conjunction of life. We do not believe we are in a universe that has
+screens and folds, where the spiritual commerce of man has to be
+conducted on the principle of secret diplomacy. The universe is frank
+and open, and God is straightforward and honourable. _In making the
+spirit and practice of brotherliness_ the test of religious value, we
+are at one with Him who said: 'Inasmuch as ye do it unto one of the
+least--ye do it unto me.' _We touch the Father when we help His child._
+Jesus taught us not to come to God asking, art Thou this or that? but to
+call Him Father and live upon it. Do not admit that many of our
+Brotherhood meetings are in 'neutral' or 'secular' halls and buildings!
+'Where two or three gather in My name, there am I.' Where He is, there
+is hallowed ground."
+
+We need a stock-taking and a mobilisation of our spiritual forces. But
+what, after all, does this mean? Search as we may we are brought back
+_every time_ to this same Man of Nazareth, the God-man--Son of Man and
+Son of God. And gathering it into a few brief sentences it is this:
+Jesus' great revelation was this consciousness of God in the individual
+life, and to this he witnessed in a supreme and masterly way, because
+this he supremely realised and lived. Faith in him and following him
+does not mean acquiring some particular notion of God or some particular
+belief about him himself. It is the living in one's own life of this
+same consciousness of God as one's source and Father, and a living in
+these same filial relations with him of love and guidance and care that
+Jesus entered into and continuously lived.
+
+When this is done there is no problem and no condition in the individual
+life that it will not clarify, mould, and therefore take care of; for
+"[Greek transliteration: me merimnate te psyche hymon]"--do not worry about your
+life--was the Master's clear-cut command. Are we ready for this high
+type of spiritual adventure? Not only are we assured of this great and
+mighty truth that the Master revealed and going ahead of us lived, that
+under this supreme guidance we need not worry about the things of the
+life, but that under this Divine guidance we need not think _even of the
+life itself_, if for any reason it becomes our duty or our privilege to
+lay it down. Witnessing for truth and standing for truth he again
+preceded us in this.
+
+But this, this love for God or rather this state that becomes the
+natural and the normal life when we seek the Kingdom, and the Divine
+rule becomes dominant and operative in mind and heart, leads us directly
+back to his other fundamental: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
+For if God is my Father and if he cares for me in this way--and every
+other man in the world is my brother and He cares for him in exactly the
+same way--then by the sanction of God his Father I haven't anything on
+my brother; and by the love of God my Father my brother hasn't anything
+on me. It is but the most rudimentary commonsense then, that we be
+considerate one of another, that we be square and decent one with
+another. We will do well as children of the same Father to sit down and
+talk matters over; and arise with the conclusion that the advice of
+Jesus, our elder brother, is sound: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye
+would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."
+
+He gave it no label, but it has subsequently become known as the Golden
+Rule. There is no higher rule and no greater developer of the highest
+there is in the individual human life, and no greater adjuster and
+beautifier of the problems of our common human life. And when it becomes
+sufficiently strong in its action in this, the world awaits its
+projection into its international life. This is the truth that he
+revealed--the twofold truth of love to God and love for the neighbour,
+that shall make men free. The truth of the Man of Nazareth still holds
+and shall hold, and we must realise this adequately before we ask or can
+expect any other revelation.
+
+We are in a time of great changes. The discovery of new laws and
+therefore of new truth necessitates changes and necessitates advances.
+But whatever changes or advances may come, the Divine reality still
+survives, independent of Jesus it is true, but as the world knows him
+still better, it will give to him its supreme gratitude and praise, in
+that he was the most perfect revealer of God to man, of God in man, and
+the most concrete in that he embodied and lived this truth in his own
+matchless human-divine life; and stands as the God-man to which the
+world is gradually approaching. For as Goethe has said--"We can never
+get beyond the spirit of Jesus."
+
+Love it is, he taught, that brings order out of chaos, that becomes the
+solvent of the riddle of life, and however cynical, skeptical, or
+practical we may think at times we may be, a little quiet clear-cut
+thought will bring us each time back to the truth that it is the
+essential force that leads away from the tooth and the claw of the
+jungle, that lifts life up from and above the clod. Love is the world's
+balance-wheel; and as the warming and ennobling element of sympathy,
+care and consideration radiates from it, increasing one's sense of
+mutuality, which in turn leads to fellowship, cooperation, brotherhood,
+a holy and diviner conception and purpose of life is born, that makes
+human life more as it should be, as it must be--as it will be.
+
+I love to feel that when one makes glad the heart of any man, woman,
+child, or animal, he makes glad the heart of God--and I somehow feel
+that it is true.
+
+As our household fires radiate their genial warmth, and make more joyous
+and more livable the lot of all within the household walls, so life in
+its larger scope and in all its human relations, becomes more genial and
+more livable and reveals more abundantly the deeper riches of its
+diviner nature, as it is made more open and more obedient to the higher
+powers of mind and spirit.
+
+Do you know that incident in connection with the little Scottish girl?
+She was trudging along, carrying as best she could a boy younger, but it
+seemed almost as big as she herself, when one remarked to her how heavy
+he must be for her to carry, when instantly came the reply: "He's na
+heavy. He's mi brither." Simple is the incident; but there is in it a
+truth so fundamental that pondering upon it, it is enough to make many a
+man, to whom dogma or creed make no appeal, a Christian--and a mighty
+engine for good in the world. And more--there is in it a truth so
+fundamental and so fraught with potency and with power, that its wider
+recognition and projection into all human relations would reconstruct a
+world.
+
+    _I saw the mountains stand
+    Silent, wonderful, and grand,
+    Looking out across the land
+    When the golden light was falling
+    On distant dome and spire;
+    And I heard a low voice calling,
+    "Come up higher, come up higher,
+    From the lowland and the mire,
+    From the mist of earth desire,
+    From the vain pursuit of pelf.
+    From the attitude of self:
+    Come up higher, come up higher."_
+
+                       _James G. Clark_
+
+
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote A: The Emmanuel Movement in Boston in connection with Emmanuel
+Church, inaugurated some time ago under the leadership and direction of
+two well-known ministers, Dr. Worcester and Dr. McComb, and a well-known
+physician, Dr. Coriat, and similar movements in other cities is an
+attestation of this.
+
+That most valuable book under the joint authorship of these three men:
+"Religion and Medicine," Moffat, Yard and Company, New York, will be
+found of absorbing interest and of great practical value by many. The
+amount of valuable as well as interesting and reliable material that it
+contains is indeed remarkable.]
+
+[Footnote B: "War and Laughter," by James Oppenheim--The Century
+Company, New York.]
+
+[Footnote C: Henry Holt in "Cosmic Relations."]
+
+[Footnote D: From a notable article in the New York "Times Magazine,"
+Sunday, April 1, 1917, by George W. Perkins, chairman Mayor's Food
+Supply Commission.]
+
+[Footnote E: Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of
+James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? And are his sisters not here
+with us?--Mark 6:3.]
+
+[Footnote F: From that strong, splendid poem "Buttadeus," by William
+Samuel Johnson.]
+
+[Footnote G: "God's Message to the Human Soul"--_Revell_.]
+
+[Footnote H: The thought of the layman in practically all of our
+churches is much the same as that of Mr. Lloyd George when he said: "The
+Church to which I belong is torn with a fierce dispute; one part says it
+is baptism _into_ the name of the Father, and the other that it is
+baptism _in_ the name of the Father. I belong to one of these parties. I
+feel most strongly about this. I would die for it, but I forget which it
+is."]
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Notes
+
+
+Made minor punctuation, spelling, and hyphenation changes for
+consistency.
+
+Corrected the following typos:
+
+Page 81: Changed Pharasaic to Pharisaic.
+  (come into being a Pharisaic legalism)
+
+Page 140: Changed subconsious to subconscious.
+  (the slumbering subconsious mind)
+
+Page 193: Changed independant to independent.
+  (guided by their own independant judgment)
+
+Page 217: Changed terriffic to terrific.
+  (What a terriffic price to pay to learn the lesson)
+
+Page 221: Changed symathy to sympathy.
+  (He had, as we have seen, infinite symathy for and forbearance)
+
+Page 232: Changed accompaniament to accompaniment.
+  (Misunderstanding is not infrequently its accompaniament.)
+
+Page 237: Changed viligant to vigilant.
+  (And unless viligant and determined)
+
+Page 245: Changed tyrany to tyranny.
+  (ungoverned by the law of mutuality, becomes tyrany.)
+
+Page 245: Changed malignent to malignant.
+  (the use of force to restrain malignent evil,)
+
+Page 253: Changed inaliable to inalienable.
+  (the inaliable right that every child has)
+
+Page 258: Changed impertinances to impertinences.
+  ("sectarian peculiarities are obsolete impertinances.")
+
+Page 259: Changed Chrisitianity to Christianity.
+  (Chrisitianity of the Christ)
+
+Page 260: Changed heirarchy to hierarchy.
+  (The real Church of Christ is not an heirarchy,)
+
+Page 262: Changed that to than.
+  (human service of greater importance that mere matters of opinion.)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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