Love's beneficent and transcendent power, because that is what I Will to Be.

But the I AM of being is only a seedless plant, a passionate thought floating around in the void of space, unless its existence becomes transformed into life through the transmuting power of activity.

Now if I am Love, then Love is doer as well as seer; and in activity Love loves and through the power of this love-action it draws and attracts unto itself an answering love. If manifested through man for woman it is Wisdom seeking an answering love; in woman for man, Love searching for matehood in reply.

What am I?

I am the music of the spheres, the Harmony of harmonies, the ego of man or woman, the individuality, as manifested in the life-essence of persons, states, communities, nations, races, creeds and civilizations. It is the Be-All and the Do-All that permeates and saturates the universe with the Living Thought of Creative Action.

Where am I?

I am in the bosom of a living Love, in the tempestuous ocean of a never-dying Love where wondrous waves of creative thought rising and falling in changing colors of iridescent beauty break upon the shores of material circumstance, upon the hard ground of past follies and past habits. My home is in Love for my character is there and all my environments are formed and fashioned according to the character and intensity of my Love. Love Love as manifested in Beauty with a single concentration of purpose which nothing can deny, and we will draw all things beautiful to us, and all things around us will be beautiful, bright and harmonious. Love Love as manifested in Powerpower in art, in literature, in church or state, and we will draw power to us as sure as the sun shines; and the particular form of power we love with that intensity of concentration that is

necessary to success will be ours if we work and strive and live for it. Thus Love is Beauty! Love is Power! Love is, in fact, all things in the universe, though Power, Beauty, Intelligence, Wealth, Success, et cetera, are but branches or manifestations of the I AM of Love, the vine or Great Love-Power. I love you!

What is Love?

It is the Creative Passion of Divinity that always has been, is now and forever shall be in some form or other; and permeates and saturates the universe with its waters of beauty and glory, and all other phenomena and manifestations that we see so plentiful around us.

I am Love; and as Love I love! I must love, for it is the nature of Love to love, and it must love something-some one or more of the many manifestations or material expressions of Love's multiform activities or created forms of utility.

Love in its perversions may rule as passion, in its inverted form as hate; but nevertheless contrary to the appearance of things or outward seeming, Love reigns and lives and beautifies this world of matter.

Man as a personified expression of Love may and often does love things injurious to himself, not of the highest order of expression, or at least not used in the highest and most perfect sense; but this fact stands uncontested and uncontradicted that Man loves. Why? Because he is Love-and as Love it is his nature to love; and he loves that the most toward which he has developed his mind the most, and he becomes the manifestation of that of which he is the thought-creator or love-developer. I love you!

If I am Love, so are you; and in this Love you are a part of me and I a part of you. I love that part of you which is most attractive unto me, be it in body or in mind or both. I, the masculine manifestation of Love Predominant, love that Love in Woman which makes for beauty of person and excellence of

mind, which ultimates itself in the world in the trinity of Sweetheart, Wife and Mother to the race of Man.

If I am Love and you are Love, in our two loves coming together and fusing into one grand chemicalization of forces we see love responding to love, love seeking harmony in Love's sweet melody, Love loving Love! It is the love in me that is in love with the loveliness in you!

For I as one form or manifestation of Love, love another form or manifestation of Love; hence, friendship, courtship, marriage. Hence, lovers and sweethearts, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers.

These three little words "I love you!" are the grandest and greatest in the English language to-day. Because of the I-loveyou thought worlds, planets and stars have been created; art has been enriched; music has been made divine; sculpture and painting have been a power for truth and beauty in the world; and oratory has been breathed forth in words of fire upon the fragrant air-oratory such as will live as long as words themselves are known to men. Some of the grandest poems of the ages have been written through the inspiration of the lovepower; and some of the most heroic deeds that history chronicles, of brave men for fair women, have been done in the allpervading, all-inclusive name of Love. "Greater Love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for another," said Christ. Saviors have been created by it and revolutions born of it! "I love you!" are the words the lover uses to his sweetheart in the courting-time and so great is his love that oftimes he thinks he would be willing to lay a world in ruins at her feet, if such he could for her sweet sake; but this is also the language of the dramatist, musician, poet, painter, sculptor, author, actor, orator, scientist, savior and revolutionist. They are wedded to their art, to their religion, to their sacred cause of redeeming a world from lower thoughts and a too great immersion in material things, of revolutionizing society by changing

the ideas of the age in which they live regarding a higher justice than then exists; and each and all of these say to their sweetheart-SHE WHOM THEY LOVE THE MOST IN ALL THE WORLD, and who possesses their hearts and souls: "I love you!" And because of these three words expressed in the many activities and industries of the world, we move on to higher things and loftier ideals for the morrow.

BROTHERHOOD.

That plenty but reproaches me
Which leaves my brother bare;
Not wholly glad my heart can be
While his is bowed with care.
If I go free and sound and stout
While his poor fetters clank,
Unsated still, I'll cry out,

And plead with Whom I thank.

Almighty, Thou who Father be
Of him, of me, of all,
Draw us together, him and me,
That whichsoever fall

The other's hand may fail him not—
The other's strength decline

No task of succor that his lot
May claim from Son of Thine.

I would be fed. I would be clad.
I would be housed and dry.
But if my brother's heart is sad,
What benefit have I?

Best he whose shoulders best endure

The load that brings relief,
And best shall be his joy secure

Who shares that joy with grief.

E. S. Martin.

Mr. H. E. Butler,

CORRESPONDENCE.

Falk, Cal. April 26, 1905.

My Dear Brother: The May number of "Bible Review" surely is unique in its way. From present indications it would seem that ere long the most skeptical, the most materialistic, will have ample food for reflection from spiritual manifestations. I feel that your words are only too true, where you say-referring to the article "The Welsh Lady Seer"-"We do not say that there are not many good, honest, Christian ministers, but we do believe that the leading ministers are the strongest infidels of any class of men now in the world." These are undoubtedly the ones whom the Master will tell "In that day", "I never knew you." Blind leaders of blind. The dark clouds are fast gathering when the time of evil will be upon the world.

I was very much interested in Henry Proctor's article entitled, "Parthenogenesis And The Immaculate Conception." His scientific treatise is very good and would seem to be a strong argument in favor of the immaculate conception of Christ as advocated by the Church. While it is in harmony with the teachings of the church, yet it seems to me not to be in harmony with the Scriptures. According to the Scripture, we find, Christ is the root and offspring of David. We also find in Hebrews ii. 16, "For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham." If this be true, and the prophesies concerning Christ all lead us to conclude him to be a descendent of Abraham, then Joseph must have been Christ's father of the flesh. If Christ had been of any other nature than that of the seed of Abraham, how could he be our pattern? If Christ's body was of a different nature from ours, then would it not be useless to attempt to approach his? But we find it said of him, "He was tempted in all points as we." It seems to