changed in the twinkling of an eye. For the trumpet will sound, To arms! And the moment will be struck when the long-prophesied, universal war will be declared. The nations are hanging in the balance, and a hair's weight will turn the scale in either direction. Such momentous epochs have been seized by the great souls of the past ages, an opportunity is given for their advance on true evolutionary lines, and they take with them the nation that has given the opportunity by preparing conditions and by demanding of the law of compensation its fulfillment. When all the desolation, the sacrifice and suffering that follow in the train of war are focused on the physical and mental planes, the downward arc of the cycle is passed, and on the real plane of life the fruits of that suffering and sacrifice begin to manifest, and these will return with added power and potency in the new cycle for the evolving of the new humanity. The long, throbbing sigh from the heart of the great world-mother will then have awakened a new vibration, the last expulsive pain of her travail will have changed the moan of the sufferer into a cry of joy that a child is born-a new race-that will join with the angels of heaven in singing, "Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, good-will toward men." If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence,-that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.-Thoreau. THE INVENTIVE MIND OF MAN. By Eli. To the scientific mind, this era of the world's history will be known as the Electrical Age. Electricity is a power in nature of which we know very little, yet it is used in a multiplicity of ways for lighting, heating, and motive power. Although we can control it to a certain extent, still, if we come in contact with a strong current it means certain death. Some think that the dynamo is a machine to produce an electric current, but it is simply a machine for gathering or pumping the current from the atmosphere in much the same manner as a water pump. What is electricity? has often been asked, but never answered, although we know something of its properties: we know that it is a life force, encircling the entire globe, that the earth is a great magnet, and that our bodies are also conductors of this fluid. The writer once visited an X ray laboratory in San Francisco. After viewing the various electrical appliances, he was asked to hold in his hand a little glass globe about two inches in diameter, with a small tube attached connected with electric wires, and was told that it contained a volume of one hundred thousand volts, which is sufficient to drive sixty-seven electric street cars filled with people, and yet this enormous power was held in the hand with only a little glass, about one-eighth of an inch thick, intervening, and with no sensation other than the sight of bluish sparks occasioned by contact with the hand. With this enormous power, the mind of man has dared to experiment. As we view the wonderful inventive progress of the nineteenth century, together with the New Thought movement which has encircled the globe, we may well ask the question: How much further will the Creative Mind allow the inventive mind of man to proceed? Does it not seem that we are nearing a new period of life on this planet? After we have considered all the wonderful things that the mind of man has conceived, still the world knows little of the grandeur and power of the mind of God, who controls all the enormous forces in nature. Research proves that the world has always had inventive genius. In the Adamic age Tubal-cain was an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron. And man has made great effort to discover what is known as the "lost arts." In the erection of the pyramids of Egypt, those immense stones could not have been put into place without some great lifting crane. But we find that as man has progressed on the material plane he has not made the same progress on the spiritual plane, and in the early Bible times as man advanced in civilization he became so corrupt that God destroyed what was then known as the whole world. And so it will be again, when this old and sinful world will be done away with, and the kingdom of heaven shall be established upon earth; and we who have entered into eternal life, shall be as guides and servants to the new Adamic race. All The unawakened man cannot help but fret and worry. the teachings and books in the world on "Don't Worry" amount to nothing to the unawakened or unspiritualized man. It is love for God and man, and faith and trust in God and man that will stop a man's worries and apprehensions-nothing else can. So the simple and quick way to unload our worries, troubles, and perplexities, is to take them all direct to God, and he will point the direct way out of them all.-Frank Harrison. RECOMPENSE. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Straight through my heart this fact to-day God never takes one thing away, I did not know in earlier years And ever following each regret I thought it only happened so, But Time this truth has taught me, No least thing from my life has gone, But something else is brought me. It is a law, complete, sublime, And now with faith unshaken, In patience I but bide my time. When any joy is taken. No matter if the crushing blow May for the moment down me; Still back of it waits Love, I know, With some new gift to crown me. BOOK REVIEWS. Sree Krishna, The Lord of Love. By Baba Premanand Bharati. Cloth; 535 pages. Price $2.00. Address, John Lane, Publisher, 67 Fifth Ave., New York City. This book is written in an open, liberal style, free of all technicalities,— very different from other Hindu works; it is designed more for the general reader, and contains no obscure phrases, nor does it enter into any of the rationale or drill for the attainment of powers: the great, pervading spirit being that of pure devotion. It is presented in three parts. First is a general survey of creation, its spiritual evolvement. Many of the statements in this connection are to us new, and, while given as truths, are not substantiated in any way, and so, may not be accepted as authoritative. Following this are other interesting subjects, wherein are found some deep philosophy, simply told, namely, Physical and Astral Bodies; Karma; Reincarnation; How to Destroy Karma; Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, etc. Part iii. Part ii. is devoted wholly to the consideration of the life of Krishna, his embodiment as the essence of infinite love and other divine attributes. contains his "Messages and Revelations." Perhaps, in conclusion, the author's own words may assist the reader to estimate the book. He says: "The book embodies true Hinduism. If read with an open mind, it will serve the reader with illumination, and solve many a riddle of life, untie many a tangle of thought. My object has been to impress my readers with the substance of Hindu thought in all its purity. This has not been done before, even by Hindu writers on Hindu religion and philosophy. The first part of the book contains the food, the kernel of the Soulcocoanut; the second part its Sweet Milk. The third part is from Krishna Himself. It is the purest nectar of spiritual Love. The soulful reader will thrill with the joyous vibrations of every sentence of the 'Messages and Revelations'". We agree with him, that this is the best of the book; and we must add that, in our opinion, the main value of this work is to endue the reader with its sweet spirit of love. How to Heal Yourself. By James R. Kern. 30 pages; paper; price 25 cents. Address, William E. Towne, Holyoke, Mass. This little book is so brief, so simply told, so clearly presented in style, arrangement and print, and so true in its application of mind-as cause-to all conditions, and the results to be derived by speaking to and directing it as separate from the true self, that we consider it well worth its price to all, and much more to many. |