I received the first lesson, studied it, and cannot express how much good it did me. I would not accept any amount of money, were it offered me, in exchange for what I have received in the way of enlightenment recently.-L. B. M.

I have had great pleasure and profit from studying lesson one, which I herewith return, and I am awaiting with interest the questions belonging to this lesson. I am sure this study will be one of the most helpful things of my life, and I already feel a nearer and closer understanding of God. -E. D. B.

I want to thank you for the help you have given me. I am very much better of constipation since I last wrote you, and I feel most grateful for the aid you have given me. I enjoy Mr. Fillmore's book very much, and find it most helpful.-H. M. S,

ABOUT

"LESSONS IN CHRISTIAN

HEALING"

I have read many authors along these lines, but think Mr. Fillmore's "Christian Healing," the strongest I have seen.-Mrs. H. O. T.

Received your letter, and as usual received great strength. I am studying Mr. Fillmore's lessons and find them wonderfully helpful. I am improving in health, for which I am very thankful, not so much for health as the fact that I am learning the art of living.-Mrs. W. S. B.

I have read the whole book, "Lessons in Christian Healing," now except some three chapters, and have found a wonderful clearness and logic throughout, which are like rays of light to the soul seeking for truth, and no person, whether they be new or old students of these truths can hardly fail to clearly conprehend what is intended to be conveyed to the mind of the reader.-G. A.

I have tried to give whatever was in my hand and put the "good feeling" in every gift, realizing that it was not I but the "Father in me." I never before could put so much good feeling in the gift as I can since reading Mr. Fillmore's Bible Lesson, “Paul on the Grace of giving." Oh, it meant so much to me to just relax and know that the Father has plenty for all, and not to give grudgingly, or with any expectation of return. -W. M. R.

VOL. KANSAS CITY, MO., MARCH, 1910

XXXII.

No. 3

GOD'S MAN

Man is not dust, man is not dust, I say!

A lightning substance thro' his being runs;
A flame he knows not of illumines his clay—
The cosmic fire that feeds the swarming suns.
As giant worlds sent spinning into space,

Hold in their center still the parted flame;
So man, within that undiscovered place-

His center-stores the light from which he came.

Think of the radiant energy that lies

Hoarded in secret chambers of the earth;
Think of the marvels drawn from out the skies—
Sight, beauty, power, of electric birth.
Then what of man, who is himself a world?
Into whose being conscious forces pour?
Since from the central sun his soul was hurled,
What of the glory kindling at the core?

Man is not flesh, man is not flesh, but fire!
His senses cheat him and his vision lies.
Swifter and keener than his soul's desires,
The flame that mothers him eludes his eyes.
Pulsing beneath all bodies, ere begun;

Flashing and thrilling close behind the screen,
A sacred substance, blinding as the sun,
Yearns for man's recognition in the seen.

We walk blidfolded in a world of light—
We could touch hands with angels, if we would;
Could, with a single utterance of might,

Commune with a celestial brotherhood.

So sheer the veil, one thrust of faith could rend
The vast illusion of our erring sense;
The facts we fear, the shapes we comprehend,
Are but the flimsiest tissues of pretense.

The times are anguished, for man feels the press
Of his divinity; through travail pains
The urge is goading him till he confess

The splendor that is crying through his veins.
Uncover, man! Thy heaven self is gold!

Gladden the eyes of Him who made thee good
In that first morning when the worlds were told
And Primal world pronounced thine angelhood.

Dust! Why the future laughs at our dull sight;
Laughs at the judgment linking man to sod-
Damning him ever with decay and blight,

When at his center burns the blaze of God!
The force that flung the far suns into space
Pushes and throbs through an eternal plan;
The Mind that chains the singing stars in place
Implores fulfillment in the mind of man.

O, God, give us the whirlwind vision! Let us see
Clear-eyed, that flame creation we call earth,
And man, the shining image, like to Thee.
Let the new age come swiftly to the birth,
When this Thy world shall know itself divine;
And mortals waking from their dream of sense,
Shall ask no proof, no message and no sign-

Man's larger sight, the unanswerable evidence!

-Angela Morgan, in Collier's Weekly.

Joy is the prize unbought, and is freest, purest in its flow when it comes unsought. No getting into heaven, as a place, will compass it. You must carry it with you, else it is not there. You must have it in you, as the music of a well-ordered soul, the fire of a happy purpose, the welling up out of the central depths of eternal springs that hide their waters there.-H. Bushnell.

I believe in gettin' as much good outen life as I kin—not that I ever set out to look for happiness; seems like the folks that does never finds it. I jes' do the best I kin where the good Lord put me at, an' it looks like I got a happy feelin' in me 'most all the time.—Mrs. Wiggs.

SPIRITUAL HOUSEKEEPING

CONCENTRATION IN THE BUSY LIFE

by

Annie Rix Militz.

THE SECOND DAY.

MONDAY---FREEDOM DAY

Monday is the day of the moon, shown in the derivation of the word, not only in the English language, but also in the French, Lundi, and in the German, Montag. It therefore belongs to the traditions of our ancestors that this day being devoted to the goddess who presided over the moon and thence over the waters of the earth, is the lucky day upon which to engage in the employments associated with water. Hence, Monday, the world around, is "wash day." It is a scientific fact that the waters of the great oceans are governed by the moon, demonstrated in the tides, and the alchemists held that the very moisture of the human body came under its influence.

And now we come to the significance of water, and to that of which we can be reminded every Monday in our concentration practice.

Water symbolizes the great negative power of the Spirit, the power of annulling and destroying evil. Water has had an important part in the rites of all the great religions, witness the baptisms, holy water and feet-washings of the Christians, the lustrations of the Essenes, the sacred baths of the Hindus, the purification waters of the Hebrews.

Water stands for the loosening, cleansing and freeing power of Truth. The denials of Christian metaphysics have this effect and mental washing is accomplished by the free use of the word of denial.

The affirmations of Truth, such as "God the Good is all there is" and "I am one with God, therefore I am

spiritual and immortal, pure and perfect Being" and "All the presence and power there is, is Health, Love, Life, Wisdom, Peace and Prosperity," have the effect of establishing and confirming our consciousness in and of Truth. But sometimes false beliefs are in the way and it is needful that they be removed in order to make room for the grand affirmations of Spirit.

An old untrue supposition about life is like an old building that stands upon the ground where we desire to construct a new one. To attempt to realize these new true statements of life while still clinging to our old views is like trying to erect a new building over the old. Certain students of Truth have attempted this and then they wonder why their affirmations do not heal and bring them their desires.

Let us learn to clear out the old accumulations of false thoughts by the right use of denials. Good judgment must be exercised with the words of denial, just as the good laundress has common sense in the use of water. Some denial statements are strong, such as "There is no evil," "There is no personality," "There is no matter,” and the effect is often quick and there also seems a great stir and dust, and the appearance for the time being is that evil is more real than ever, selfishness is rife, and materiality rampant. So it is when an old structure is being torn down; if quick and strong ways and means are used, the ground, covered with debris, looks hopeless except to the builder. "And they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend" said that Master-Builder, Jesus the Christ.

Certain denials are tempered in their expression such as "There is no reality in evil" and "sin has no real power," "Nothing is material, all is mind." "God never made disease, therefore it is not an entity." "In heaven there is no sorrow, no pain, no poverty and heaven is here." And the wise practitioner will apply them to the states of mind where the more drastic forms