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Thomas E. Witherspoon, Editor Stahr A. Pope, Art Director Janna Russell, Associate Editor Pamela Yearsley, Editorial Assistant Roy J. Howard, Circulation Manager Claborn Brants, Production Manager NOVEMBER 1977 VOL. 157 No. 11 CONTENTS View from Unity Village Thomas E. Witherspoon The Cat That Cried for the Sun R. H. Grenville . Shall Find It Edith E. Cutting The Lowell Fillmore Garden Dedication The Dynamics of Faith Eric Butterworth 1 Windows to Heaven Gertrude Naugler 1 Divine Appointment Peter Bradley 2 God First Charles Roth 2 Good Is There Foster McClellan 2 The Woman Who Made a Molehill Out of a Mountain (1) Stella Terrill Mann 2 Prayer Power 3 A Message from Silent Unity James Dillet Freeman 3 Eternal Life Debra Woo/ard Bender 3 Questions on the Quest Marcus Bach 3 Ideal Security Mark S. Werne 4 The Bridge of Yesterday Ora Capetii 4 Steps in Self-knowledge Leddy and Randolph S ch m elig 4 To Have or to Have Not? Mary Anzaletta Long 5 Effective Thanksgiving Charles Fillmore 5 Unlimited Abundance on a Limited Income Mildred M. Fredricks 6 Letters to the Editor 6 Book Mark Janna Russell 6( Leaf Language Joh n D. Engle, Jr. Back Cove CREDITS: Cover, Josef Muench (autumn in Owens Valley, California); Ann Bregach, staff artist, (5, 7); T om R osb orou gh (20); T he C ostas (43). UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY, Charles R. Fillmore, President; James Dillet Freeman, First Vice-President; Otto Arni, Secretary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Charles R. Fillmore, Chairman; Otto Arni Louis Ven£ Bass, Claborn Brants, Zelma Cook, William B. Dale, Robert L. Drescher, James Dillet Freeman, Roy Howard, Foster C. McClellan, Charles McGill, Keith McKay, J. Sig Paulson, Peter L. Rhea, Ralph Rhea, Rosemary Rhea, Martha Smock, Harold Whaley, Philip White, T h om as E. W itherspoon. Published monthly by UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY, Unity Village, Mo. 64065. Subscription price (United States and possessions, and Canada), 1 year, $3; 2 years, $5; 3 years, $7; additional subscriptions on same order, $2 each. (Foreign add $1 extra per year or subscrip­ tion.) Single copy, 35 cents. Second-class postage paid at L e e ’s Sum m it, Mo. © 1977 by Unity School of Christianity. (Unity School also publishes the following periodicals: Daily Word, $2 a year; La Palabra Diaria, $2 a year; Wee Wisdom, $4 a year [10 issues]. Foreign add SI extra per year or subscriDtion.) -IEW FROM UNITY VILLAGE .. .with the editor November is a special month for praise and we at UNITY Magazine are particularly thankful for the many wonderful contributors to our publi­ cation and the hundreds of thousands of receptive readers. This m on th ’s magazine gets off to a delightful start with a human interest story that will have you sm iling—“The Cat That Cried for the Sun.” R. H. G renville’s name appears frequently in our magazine with her poetry, but this is the first article that she has done for us for some time. D on ’t miss it! Peter Bradley shares a beautifully-told true story entitled, “Divine Appointment.” It begins on page 21 and it is sure to hold your attention and give you insights into intuitive spiritual guidance. Eric Butterworth makes a fine contribution on a vital subject—“The Dynamics of Faith”—which can be found on page 12. The minister of the Unity Center of Practical Christianity in New York City shares new and valuable information on how to put faith to work for your highest good and for those you hold dear. We honor in this issue, in a four-page layout beginning on page 8, one of U n ity’s great leaders—Lowell Page Fillmore. He served the Unity move­ ment for more than seventy-five years and was president of Unity School from 1948 until 1972. He made his transition in 1975. A wonderful life-filled memorial garden has been dedicated in his name at Unity Village. We invite you to read the article about the dedication— and especially a letter written to him by his niece, Frances Fillmore Lakin. We are sure it will touch your heart, as it did the hundreds who gathered for the dedication. The magazine includes many other top-notch articles, poetry, and beautiful illustrations this month, and we are delighted that we can present such material to our ever-increasing audience of readers. God bless you all! The Cat That Cried for the Sun BY R. H. GRENVILLE LIKE MOST CATS, Miss Penny Into the density of the human has been a sun-worshiper through­ thought process flashed a ray of out her twenty-year lifetime, and light: the realization that Penny like most cats she has her favorite never behaved this way when the spots for basking and dozing sun was shining—only on days of around the house. cloudy indecision. Then aware­ One of these, in an upstairs ness dawned. She wanted us to room facing south, is the top of an turn on the sun! And why, from a old-fashioned sewing machine ca t’s point of view, did this not ideally situated for feline medita­ seem reasonable? tion. If the door to this room Did we, or did we not, with the happens to be closed, her “please flick of a switch, illumine various help me” voice will be heard in rooms, the sun deck, the front continuous replay until someone porch, the driveway, and the goes to her assistance. This is garage? So what about that big understandable but what puzzled outdoor lantern so essential to a us was why she would sometimes windowsill or tabletop siesta? cry at the threshold when the How could we explain to Miss door already was open. Penny that the sun was not a light “Will someone please open the fixture on the household circuit door for Penny? S h e’s crying up­ but a star of awesome dimensions stairs.” some 93 million miles out in “The door is open.” space? “Then why is she crying?” We found that it is true that Why, indeed? Even when Miss instruction reaches the heart Penny came downstairs to deliver through varied channels—through her reproach in person, we failed stones and brooks and cats that to understand. From a c a t’s point cry for the sun. On pondering the of view humans must be, on occa­ matter we saw a humbling parallel sion, most exasperating. to our own behavior. How often, Finally, someone did catch on. as a metaphysical concept, have we affirmed God, the limitless, from expectation per se—rather divine, creative Principle, as the from misplaced expectation. Source of all good, then pinned A person we rely on proves un­ our expectation to some lesser, trustworthy; a career hope fails to totally inadequate supply and materialize; a desired objective support? slips from our grasp; a financial or None of us gets through life health problem evades solution. without some disappointment. Each case is a wrenching dis­ And what disappoints us? People. appointment to the faith pinned Things. Situations. Our own exclusively to such things. shortcomings and inadequacies. If, on the other hand, we hold The times. The place in which we calmly and sincerely to God as the live. “Blessed are they that expect supreme Source of all good, we nothing, for they shall not be dis­ find ample proof that lif e ’s self- appointed,” quipped one wit. But renewing vitality has inexhaust­ disappointment does not result ible avenues and channels of ex- pression and that the failure of organic substances. Electricity, one, or a few, or thousands cannot natural gas, and oil, so crucial to cancel or diminish the power of our current life-style and methods the Source or prevent its light of production, were unknown in from reaching us. some o f the most vital and cre­ As I write this, a worldwide ative periods of human history, “energy crisis” is making head­ but the materials and principles lines. The President has revealed on which their present use is his energy policy to the nation founded existed in potential from and has urged conservation and the time of Adam. restraint. No doubt many persons It is true that some things, in a are worried, especially by the oft- specific material form, may be repeated media use of the phrase non-renewable. Some animals “non-renewable resource” with have been hunted to extinction, respect to certain materials we some materials exploited to the have taken for granted and upon point o f scarcity, but the divine which our civilization seems to creative Source, God, is infinite in rely. power and diversity. In God there Those of us who grew up in the is always another—and better- electronic age, and those growing idea. up in the space age, seem to forget In his book Prosperity, Charles that oil, natural gas, and elec­ Fillmore gives a message strikingly tricity are comparatively new applicable to our time: forms of energy. Before their use “The world goes through people relied, and in some areas to periods of seeming lack because this day rely, upon wood, tallow, the people have refused to build whale oil, coal, peat, and other their prosperity on the inner, omnipresent, enduring substance, and on the contrary have tried to base it on the substance that they Unity Churches, Centers, see in the outer. This outer sub­ and Teachers stance, formed by the imaging power of men in past ages, seems If you would like to know the location to be limited, and men struggle for o f you r nearest Unity church or center, and cannot find it listed in it, forgetting their own divine your telephone directory, please write power to form their own sub­ to The Association o f Unity Churches, stance from the limitless supply Unity Village, Mo.

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