Devoted to Practical Christianity. a Magazine Issued the 1St of Each Month by UNITY SCHOOL of CHRISTIANITY 917 Tracy, Kansas
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Devoted to practical Christianity. A magazine issued the 1st of each month by UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY 917 Tracy, Kansas City, Missouri Charles F illmore and Myrtle F illmore, Editors George E. Carpenter, Associate Editor Entered a* gccond-clu*» mutter, July 15, 1891, nt the post office at Kansas City, Missouri, under the act of Murch 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postuRe, provided for in section 1103, act of October 3, 1917. authorized October 28, 1922. V ql. 69 KANSAS CITY, MO., OCTOBER, 1928 No. 4 MEASURE FOR MEASURE B y Evelyn Gage Browne Wouldst thou be loved? Then love. Wouldst thou be blessed? Then bless. W hateer ye measure shall be thine, An equal share—no less. Wouldst thou have wealth? Then give. Wouldst thou be poor? Withhold. For what ye mete to others shall Be measured—gold for gold. Wouldst thou have rest and peace? Fret none, a tempest still. W hate er ye sow, that shall ye reap— Be it of good or ill. Wouldst smile? Dry some one’s tears. Wouldst reach the heights? Go hence And help some other heart to climb— And thine the recompense. A HEALING TREATMENT By F ran ces W. F o u lk s h is b o d y —which i have called my body and have held in sense limitation and hu manT weakness—I now release from all bond age to error thought. My body is the temple of the living God. His power created me and it sustains me every moment of the day; it now works without hindrance to cleanse and renew His holy temple. I lift my vision from things earthy, from human errors and unreal appearances, from pronouncements of the senses and of people, from race beliefs, and I see only the image and likeness which was the Creator s picture of me when I came into being. I become a door keeper to my thought realm, that only the good and the pure and the true may pass the portals of my mind and become creative in my life. I hold fast to the Father's will for me. His will that I have power and dominion over all error, disease, accident, poverty, and death. I am lifted from the sense consciousness of fear and inharmony into the Christ consciousness of freedom and peace, and my whole outer world expresses the likeness of that which is within. I breathe the breath of God, and every error appearance in my body is dissolved in the purity of the God breath which fills me. I am one with the great omnipresent spirit of life, and this life, intelligent and powerful, cleanses and renews, strengthens and vitalizes all the muscles and nerves, the flesh and bones, the organs and glands of my body, recreating every part according to its perfection in the pattern in Divine Mind. I drink of the life, I eat of the substance, of the mystical Christ body within, and every part of my fleshly body coordinates with all the other parts; the whole coordinates with Spirit, and peace and joy rule supreme in the temple of the living God. There is no beauty, no harmony, like the beauty and harmony of my Father. I inherit this beauty, I enter this harmony, and that which is the Father s becomes mine because I am His son. I hold to my birthright of His glorious being in my body until the very glory of it radiates as a halo of protection, radiates as a sun illumining my path and shining out to bless all others in my world. I now rest in the omnipresent love of. God, and ever enlarging faith and power and love and wisdom abide m my mind ; ever continuing health and youth and beauty and strength manifest in my body; ever increasing success and harmony unfold in my world. To Thee, beloved of my soul, creator of my body, redeemer of my world, I give thanks now and forevermore. I give thanks for manifold blessings manifest and yet unmanifest, for the good that Thou dost continually pour out in overflowing measure to fill all the needs and desires of my life. I give thanks to Thee, Thou holy One within me. Thou great physician, because Thou art expressing Thyself in my body, making of it a radiant, holy, beautiful, and harmonious dwelling place for my spirit and my soul. I thank Thee for Thy redeeming love, which is expressing in my body, making it incorruptible, immortal, diseaseless, death less, eternally young, a body resurrected into a continuous manifestation of Thy livingness. NOTES AND COMMENTS B y Charles Fillmore Is Unity a branch of the Society of Friends, pop ularly known as the Quaker church?—Extract from a letter received by Unity School. NITY is not a branch of the Quaker church. Unity is a school of religious inquiry, investigation, and demonstration. We study and apply Christianity in its broadest mean ing. Our research has convinced us that Chris tianity combines in a practical way more truth of man’s spiritual being than does any other reli gion. In fact Christianity is the youngest and most up-to-date religion that has been evolved by mankind. The Quaker church stands very high among the sects of Christianity. It has maintained a unique and impregnable place in the Christian religion, because of its reliance on the “Inner Light,” instead of on written authority, for the guidance of its adherents. Quakers are universally credited with honesty, justice, and peaceableness. No religion of modern times has so stamped its tenets upon its people as has the Quaker religion. Quakers seem to have an ingrained spirituality. With most persons religion is one thing and daily life is quite another. Usually in modern Christian civilization a man’s religion cannot be detected by his costume or his conduct. Quakers are the exception. By this we mean orthodox Quakers. Reformed Quakers have their up-to-date churches and are hardly dis tinguishable from other Christians. But old-time Quakers, who silently seek the “Inner Light” and are moved by the Spirit within in all their ways, are a “peculiar people.” They are peculiar because they are so steadfast in their reliance on the indwelling God as the moving factor of their lives. They are noted as a dependable people because they rely on the immanent God for inspir ation and conduct. This reliance develops individ uality and poise. It sometimes tends to too much self-sufficiency, but never to intolerance. A Quaker is often blunt in stating his opinions, but he allows others the same privilege. The practice of silent prayer is fundamental in the Quaker religion. In this respect Jesus was a Quaker. He told His disciples that when they prayed they should enter into the inner closet, close the door, and pray to the Father in secret. He said, “The words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works.” Jesus told His followers that they would be tempted to follow false spiritual lights from outer sources. “Neither shall they say, Lo, here! or, There! for lo, the kingdom of God is within you.” Jesus taught that the Scriptures are not authority for man but that they tell of the Christ within man. He said to the Pharisees, “Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.” George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, once rose in one of the prin cipal English churches and rebuked the minister in his sermon for declaring the Scriptures to be the source of divine truth. “No,” cried Fox, “it is not the Scriptures; it is the Spirit of God.” He was immediately imprisoned for his audacity. Unity's interpretation of Christianity is much like that of George Fox, which is not original but quite in harmony with the teaching of Jesus. There is a very pronounced revival of interest in the Quaker religion since the nomination of Herbert Hoover for President. In this connec tion The Kansas City Star recently printed the following editorial, “The Inner Light” : Herbert Hoover is a Quaker. He was born of Quaker stock. He regularly attends services at the little ivy-covered meeting house of the Friends on I street in Washington. The Quaker doctrine, which he drank in throughout his boyhood, is evident in the social and political philosophy of Hoover the states man. That doctrine centers about the teaching of the “Inner Light.” George Fox, who established the Society of Friends in England in the seventeenth cen tury, was the promulgator of this teaching. “I saw,” he wrote, “that the grace of God which brings salva tion had appeared to all men and that the manifesta tion of the Spirit was given to every man to profit withal.” Again Fox wrote, “The Lord opened to me how every man was enlightened by the divine light of Christ.” The Quaker needs no intermediary to approach the throne of grace. He approaches it through the wit ness of the Inner Light. So in the Quaker service there is a period of silence while each worshiper is communing with the Unseen. Then various members testify as they are “moved by the spirit.” Here is the very essence of individualism. The soul has its own revelation from on high. It is not dependent on church or minister.