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. 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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. 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. I have chosen you and ordained you, that ye shall go and bring forth fruit.- John 15:16. In a recent sermon Rev. Lyman Abbott said: "What is heresy? I will tell you. When a man separates himself from God's witness and testimony to the divine life in the church, and goes out, not from its creed, not from its ritual, not from its order, but from its common spiritual experience, to speak, not the things which God has spoken to him, but the things which he has got in his own brain, he is a heretic. And what is schism? It is not separation from a historic episcopate or a traditional theology of any kind; it is breaking away in self-will from the common consciousness of the spiritual life, and undertaking to set up one's self separately and apart from men. And one may do that either as a Congregationalist or as a Roman Catholic; for the one common testimony of all spiritual experience, reaching down through the ages from the days of Moses to the days of this present, is one testimony that there is one God, the Father of us all, a righteous person, demanding righteousness and nothing but righteousness of His children, and loving them with more than a father's love, and pouring righteousness into their hearts and into their lives, if they are but willing to receive it." In orthodox church circles this would be considered an heretical declaration, but in the true church of Jesus Christ it is received as a statement of doctrine in every particular harmonious with the fundamental principles of Christianity. There has been in the church as it is in the world today a wide departure from primitive methods and experiences. This is true in so many particulars that to enumerate them would be a gigantic task; it is sufficient to note the one vital departure from which all the others have sprung. It is plain to any reasonable unprejudiced mind that Jesus of Nazareth was a religious reformer with a mission from on high; that he had an insight into those things which are ever mysteries to men immersed in the sense consciousness, and that through that knowledge, and in harmony with his mission, he sat in motion spiritual currents that now are, and ever since his ministry have been, operative in the world. It is evident to even a cursory reader of his life and teachings that he was the representative of a thoroughly organized plan to help men into a higher realization of God and their relation to Him. In the furtherance of this plan Jesus of Nazareth not only demonstrated in his own life what was in man, but he pointed out the way by and through which all men might do the same. "The things which I do shall ye do, but greater." He also played an important part in making know n more fully that only guide for every man, the Holy Spirit. This Guide had always been known to men, but they had not considered it of vital importanceit had no specific place in their lives. Although it had been the divine agent leading men back to the Father throughout the ages, it was not given with the universality, fulness or power that Jesus gave it. Men had regarded it as a mighty executioner of God's law in which vengeance played an important part, while Jesus presented it as Helper, Counselor, Comforter, to those who truly desired to do the will of God. Jesus promised his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion that this Holy Spirit should come upon them and lead them into all Truth, and after the resurrection he appeared unto them and said, "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." With confidence in his word and childlike obedience, these faithful disciples "with the women and Mary the mother of of Jesus went to that upper room in Jerusalem and "'continued with one accord in prayer and supplication until the day of Pentecost came." Then the Holy Ghost came upon them as a "rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." From this time on these disciples were moved under the direct inspiration of this Holy Spirit. It was not an intellectual abstraction nor a scientific postulate, but a living reality, which they used in so-called miracle working, healing diseases, casting out demons, preaching the gospel and raising the dead. They were not only moved by this divine power but they could impart it to others, and it was the one factor in the early Christian church that gave it supremacy, and it was only through this Spirit that men could understand Scripture, as Paul testifies in I. Corinthians, second chapter. The failure by the orthodox Christian church of today to recognize this Holy Spirit as the one and only Guide and Inspirer, is the fatal departure from the teachings of Jesus Christ which has made possible all the worldly methods and spiritual atrophy so painfully manifest in the so-called followers of the true church. But what is the status of our ministrythe rebirth of the primitive church? What is our attitude toward this Holy Spirit, this sent of God for the guidance of men? Is there not a tendency in many of the schools of Mental Science, Divine Science, and the New Thought in general, to ignore this "Spirit of Truth who will lead you into all Truth"? When spiritual information is wanted, does the |