now permitting Him (your Higher Self) to take full charge of all your concerns, repeat that you know He is cutting away all error chains that have held you, disintegrating all false belief combinations, sweeping off illusions of ignorance, and rapidly reforming all into manifestations of love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith; against which there is no law. Allow your spoken word to do its work by ceasing to doubt. Remember, that no matter how spiritual you are, physical rates of vibration take physical time of their own to manifest, and though the spiritual is complete and finished the moment it is uttered, it has to come through psychic and work its way out into the physical before your senses can know anything about it. "It is finished" the moment you breathe it with the knowledge that you are God, and God is everywhere, in this your desire as in everything else. In a back number of UNITY you will find the following lines. Repeat them three times as often as you can, and you will indeed find them a "Divine Charm." THE ASSERTION. I am good, and I am noble, I am powerful, I am wise; I am strong, I know that hope will All the virtues, king, queen, son or I am kindness, grace, and patience; I myself am life of nations, I am knowledge, I am wealth; I am all that is and can be, I am one with all; I move Worlds by thinking; all I can see Taranaki, New Zealand. - WORDAH. -F. S. V. In following the should observe not THE LAW OF THE leading of the inner voice one only what to do, but how and when to do. The voice of God follows the law of the Divine, the I AM. There being neither past nor future, only the present in eternity, the answer, "Yes" to the questions, Shall I do this or that?" means do it, but the time may be days or months hence, according to human reckoning. To do the thing at once. might be then a sadly untimely act, and the time. should be definitely stated. Then to act carelessly, without due regard to the feelings and opinions of others, is often more harmful than not to act at all. One should always ask, "When?" from the point of time, and "How?" from the point of love and tact. Study to make haste quietly. A feeling of hurry and mental pressure that drives one to exclaim, "I am driven to death!" is as the ringing of the electric signal that the train is three blocks off, and there is plenty of time to be at the station before it. As a gauge of action, take the words of the wise Isaiah, "The work of righteousness is peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever." MRS. G. M. NAYLOR. It is well to cultivate the spirit of music, for many messages come to our inward ear to speak to the soul THE SPIRIT OF MUSIC. and lift us out of self to a richer, fuller self, and we are able to go back to our daily work and duties with refreshed, cleansed mind and activities. However beautiful may be the soul's upliftings we must not let it carry us away from our ordinary life, but adjust ourselves to the melodies, and make our life a glad song, a joyful song, not a dull or sad one, for joy, health and happiness are life, life of the Spirit, that is ever seeking to express itself to its fullest. Did you ever hear the grand song in the roar of the sea or the gentle sighing and whispering of the breeze in the trees, or the great armies of strength in the wind as it sweeps and rushes across the wide plains? Sometime, again the wind is so great a force in the trees that you would almost fancy it was the roar of the ocean in all its majesty. Listen again to the more gentle, peaceful lap of the tiny waves, as they coil in little ripples on the sandy shore, telling us of that sweet peace that can be ours. Music can come in exultant melodies, lifting us to heights almost beyond those of which we can live at all times, yet we all may have felt it once in our lives. And then again, the beautiful, gentle harmonies may bring to us a quieter realization of that peace which passeth understanding, and it is right and good that we should try to live in that perfect peace, for it means rest to the brain, health to the body, and life to the soul. And then if we cannot always have the opportunity of having music created by the masters, by man, for instrumental use, we can go into the woods, over the hills and by the seashore and listen to the melodies Nature can give us, and perhaps learn even more of real harmony, for it comes straight from God. Let us listen, let us keep wide awake, and all these beautiful strains will come to our ears and into our lives. Oh, keep awake, ever alert to hear them, and they will fill your life with a joy you yet know not, and a peace eternal. -MRS. ROSE L. AMOS. The first moment upon awakening, no matter what your mood may be, say to yourself, "I will get all the comfort and pleasure possible out of this day, and I will do something to add to the measure of the world's happiness or well-being. I will control myself when tempted to be irritable or unhappy; I will look for the bright side of every event. — ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. "Tolerance is the charity of the intelligence." POWER. A RESPONSIVE SERVICE. Speaker: Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. (Acts 1:8.) Congregation: In the name of Jesus Christ, all power is given unto me in my heaven and my earth. I deny the weak and lazy belief that I lack the power to dissolve the mental states which I have formed. That which I made I can unmake. CHORUS: All power is given unto me, All power is given unto me; Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel, And lo, I am with you alway. Speaker: Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. (Luke 10:19.) Congregation: I fully and freely deny the human belief in matter, and hereby cleanse my consciousness of its puny limitations. Speaker: Spirit-Substance is everywhere present. Speaker: Spirit-Substance is energized with God-power. Congregation: Matter is powerless. Speaker: Spirit-Substance is guided by GodIntelligence. Congregation: Matter is human ignorance. Speaker: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also. (John 14:12.) Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. (Matt. 10:8.) Congregation: I know that Thy Spirit-Substance omnipresent is fulness of supply and support; I know that all power of supply and support is in Thy here present Spirit-Substance; I know that all understanding is in Thy Spirit-Substance. CHORUS: All power is given unto me, etc. Speaker: Unto you that love my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings. (Mal. 4:2.) Congregation: I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds. (Jer. 30:17.) Speaker: Almighty Father, God: Thou art everywhere present as vigorous Health, Life and Strength. Congregation: Therefore there is no presence of sickness or weakness. Speaker: Thou art everywhere present as Peace, Love and Harmony. Congregation: fear or inharmony. Therefore there is no discord, Speaker: Thou art everywhere present as Wisdom and Understanding. Congregation: Therefore there is no ignorance of Thy all-pervading law of Health, Harmony and Everlasting Life. CHORUS: All power is given unto me, etc. Speaker: He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. (Psalms 107:20.) Congregation: I deny and dissolve all consciousness of sin and evil in all its forms. Speaker: I know, Father, that Thou art All Good, and everywhere present. Congregation: Therefore there is no presence of sin or evil. Speaker: I know that Thou art the only Power. Congregation: Therefore there is no power of sin or evil. Speaker: I know that Thou art Omniscient, everywhere present as Wisdom. Congregation: Therefore there is no knowledge of sin or evil. All: Thou art Good, and Thou art All. |