in the Constitution; but not the God of any creed or
ism, but of the great moral principles, the ethical philosophy taught
by Jesus, the Christ.

MISERLINESS.

There is such a thing as being miserly of thoughts and ideas as well as
of lucre. One is as foolish as the other. Circulation is necessary to
health and comfortable living. Cast off the leading strings of other
minds. Out of the abundance of thine own heart speak thine own truest,
highest thoughts. Think not thy supply will fail, or that by
withholding thou shalt increase thy store. It is not possible to make
a corner in this realm, or to take out a mortgage on God's gifts.
Freely ye have received, freely give and thy "measure shall be pressed
down and running over."

SPECIAL PROVIDENCE.

If the absolute homogeneity of the race were once understood and
established in the minds of men, it would put an end to the varying
modes and methods of thought which now only tend to separate their
minds and hearts. To know, to feel the unity of soul with souls, and
of the minds of men with the Infinite would forever wipe out the
discord and inharmony which now prevail everywhere. Not my erring, and
human will, but thy Will of Wisdom and Love be done on earth as it is
in heaven, must be, finally, the attitude of every aspiring soul.

Too long the Christian world has accepted the legendary Hebraic God, in
the place of our real "Father who art in heaven." The teachings of
Jesus--the testimony he gave of the love of God, if taken to the
heart--must dispose forever of the perception of God as a Being of
cruelty and revenge, and given over to low attributes. The Creator of
the universe--"without whom was nothing made"--manifests to us through
the action of eternal and unchangeable law. This is demonstrated to us
by and through his vice-gerents, the angels of his who do his pleasure.
Down, down from the supernal regions, from the supernal plane of being,
comes the Divine Mandate which is made known to the human soul through
the instrumentality that can penetrate the surroundings, and best make
manifest the inspiration, the warning, or the perception of the
undeviating law which holds all human experience and its sure results
in its care and keeping. And those who dwell upon the threshold of the
door which opens upon the life eternal are those who have loved and who
still do love the children of earth--fathers, mothers, children,
friends who have walked