Lessons in Truth, By H. Emilie Cady. Twelve Lessons, written in fascinating manner, which appeal to every denomination of religion. The easy and logical steps with which she takes you along the road hunting your God are not only charming but glorious in their simplicity and clearness. Spiritual Gifts. II. Unity of the Spirit. 12. Bondage or Liberty- Which? Three booklets; 138 pages; 75 cents. One volume, Vellum d' Luxe, new edition, stamped in gold, $1.25. "For thirteen years I groped in the darkness, and the light did not come till I read LESSONS IN TRUTH, by H. Emilie Cady. Words cannot tell the blessings her lessons have brought me." "They are the clearest, most practical, most comforting lessons I have ever read. I now understand my attitude as explained, and it rests with me to put the rules into practice." UNITY TRACT SOCIETY. 1315 McGee St., Kansas City, Mo. UNITY is a hand-book of Practical Christianity and Christian Healing It sets forth the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ direct from the fountain-head, "The Holy Spirit, who will lead you into all Truth" It is not the organ of any sect, but stands independent as an exponent of Practical Christianity, teaching the practical application in all the affairs of life of the doctrine of Jesus Christ; explaining the action of mind, and how it is the connecting link between God and man; how mind action affects the body, producing discord or harmony, sickness or health, and brings man into the understanding of Divine Law, harmony, health and peace, here and now Subscribers who fail to receive UNITY by the 20th of the month, should so notify this office. If you have subscribed for any other magazine in connection with UNITY, and should miss any number of that magazine, do not write us about it, but write directly to its publisher. DISCONTINUANCES.-All subscriptions are continued until requested stopped, when all arrears should be paid in full. The label shows date of expiration. CHANGE OF ADDRESS.-In changing address the exact postoffice address where you have been receiving UNITY must always be given as well as the new address. REMITTANCES.- Send all money by postoffice order, express order or registered letter; or bills will carry safely if carefully wrapped. Postage stamps received for only sums less than $1.00. In sending checks or Canadian bills, add 10 cents for collection. We cannot accept Canadian stamps or Canadian silver money of any denomination. Unity publications are on sale by or may be ordered at the following places among others: NEW YORK CITY: The Alliance Pub. Co., 569 Fifth Ave. WASHINGTON, D. C. : Woodward & Lothrop, 10th, 11th & F., NW CLEVELAND, OHIO: J. H. Taylor, Free Reading Room, 29 Euclid Ave., Suite 20. ST. PAUL, MINN.: W. L. Beekman, 55 East 5th Street. CHICAGO: Coolidge & Waterloo, 87 Washington St.; Purdy Pub. Co., McVicker's Theater Bldg.; A. C. McClurg & Co., 215 Wabash. ST. LOUIS: H. H. Schroeder, 2622 South 12th Street, and Prof. LeRoy Moore, 3003 Locust Street. DENVER: Colorado College Divine Science, 730 Clarkson St.; Universal Home of Truth, 1616 Washington Ave; Truth Center, 622 Kittredge Bldg. PUEBLO: Mrs. Lydia M. Keeling, 108 West 10th Street. SAN FRANCISCO: Home of Truth, 1231 Pine St.; Metaphysical Library, 1519 Polk St; Harmony Pub. Co., 3360 17th St.; Philosophical Pub. Co., 1429 Market St. LOS ANGELES: Home of Truth, 1327 Georgia St. SAN JOSE: Wm. Farwell, 375 North Third St. Shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall Practical Christianity. VOL. XVIII. make you free KANSAS CITY, MO., APRIL, 1903. No. 4. "I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE." HORATIO W. DRESSER. [Read at the Church of the Higher Life, Boston, January 25, 1903.] It is said that we must reach this point before The natural man in all the we are fit to be Christians. fulness of enthusiasm for individual life, would rather believe the contrary. Such a man would readily admit that there is truth in the saying when applied to some people. Yet when reference is made to men of genius, the saying is indeed hard. And he who above all others seemed to be great in his own right was most emphatic in uttering this principle. In John 5:19 Jesus says: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do." Both in Mark and in Matthew, Jesus almost rebukingly asks, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is God." What is ' the meaning of this surprising declaration? Jesus makes a fuller statement (John 5:30) when he says, "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of my Father which hath sent me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true." In many passages Jesus declares that he is true to the will of the Father, that all his works are what the Father has bidden him do. "I live by the Father." (John 6:57.) He said to Pilate, (John 19:11), "Thou couldst have no power at all against me except it were given thee from above." Evidently the meaning of all these passages is that there is but one power, and that is God's. There is no room to doubt that Jesus means the statement literally, namely, that even he, "the son of man," can do nothing" without the Father, is "not good" without the Father. But it is no less true that with the Father Jesus is good, is a mighty power, so that he can say with unqualified conviction, "I and my Father are one." Now there are those who take this passage to mean that Jesus and the Father are one and the same person. But there is scarcely a passage in the Gospels which would not be sadly marred by reading this interpretation into them. In the earliest of the Gospels (Mark 1:35) as well as in the latest and most mystical, it is reported that Jesus prayed to the Father in a very human sort of way. He felt the need of going apart from the throng, sometimes on a mountain-top. The prayer to the Father in the garden is an expression of human agony. He sought if possible to avoid the agony, and even cried out as if forsaken. In Mark 10:6, Jesus speaks of God as "Creator." He confesses his inability to grant the privilege of sitting on his right hand (Mark 10:40). He admits other limitations when he says, "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the son, but the Father." (Mark 13:32). Jesus gave thanks unto the Father, and frequently acknowledged the wisdom of the Father's all-wise insight. Yet it is noticeable that Jesus acknowledges that he is the Christ, as freely he admits the limitations of his human self, the man Jesus. What is the essence of Christianity, then, as Jesus taught and lived it? Is it the becoming as nothing? No, this is only the first stage, the negative side. It is the fact that each time an opportunity is presented to him to win power or to do that which benefits the merely personal self, he does that which is for the Father, for all humanity, It is unselfishness, devotion, service, love. (1) There are three stages in this great process. First, the discovery that "There is no power but of |