The Unity Society of Kansas City. This Society is an independent movement established in 1889 with headquarters in Kansas City. It has a local attendance at its various meetings of about 500. It is called the Unity Society of Practical Christianity. An auxiliary Society, called the Society of Silent Unity, has a membership in all parts of the world of about 15,000. The local Society owns property at 913-915 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, Mo., where its meetings are held in a stone and brick structure of adequate proportions known as the Unity Building. The doctrine promulgated is summed up in the name of the Society - Practical Christianity. We follow the injunctions of Jesus as written in the last chapter of Mark: "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. "And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." The Lord confirms that we are preaching and practicing the true gospel by the signs that follow our work. "By their fruits ye shall know them." We publish many pamphlets and books and regular monthly magazines as follows: UNITY, $1.00 per year, 10 cents per copy. Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, editors. WEE WISDOM for children, 50 cents per year, 5 cents per. copy, Myrtle Fillmore, editor. The publishing part of our work is done under the name of the Unity Tract Society, Charles Edgar Prather, Manager, Unity Building, 913-915 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, Mo., to whom all subscptions. and book orders should be sent. Enquirers are cordially invited to attend our various meetings, both Sunday and week days, mention of which will be found in detail in our weekly program. For full information call or write to UNITY SOCIETY, Unity Building, 913-915 Tracy Ave., Kansas City, Mo. THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY. By Charles Fillmore. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes on forever, twixt that darkness and that light. - LOWELL. The promise that the garden of Eden will be restored on earth, is older than the Bible. Other bibles of other peoples far antedating the Hebrews, prophesy a time when man shall possess the earth in peace and plenty; a time when the elements shall be subdued; disease and death eliminated, and-immortal life in the body be again set up in this phase of existence. It should be observed that all prophecies to this end that come through mystical channels say that this is a state to be regained. They do not hint at evolution, as understood in modern thought. the students of physical science arrive through their deductions at virtually the same conclusions as to the ultimate conditions of humanity. But They also agree that this condition of peace and happiness will be brought about through causes originating largely with man and his acts. In other words, its consummation will depend upon the wisdom and energy with which men act at certain crises in history. These prophets, both ancient and modern, say that we are now at one of the most vital turning points in our experience. They get at it in a variety of ways, and they differ widely in minor parts, but are unanimous in their conclusions that now is the time foretold by prophets of old, and reiterated by prophets new. But it does not require the prophet's perception to discern the signs of these times. The dissolution of the old and the birth of the new is manifest in every walk of life. For instance, the thought that has been held inviolate for thousands of years about the opaqueness of matter has been shattered in but the past few months. The materialist and his world are no more. This, however, is only a minor example of the astounding swiftness with which the material sense of things has been dissolved in recent years. The past quarter century has witnessed more of this than all the history of all the world records before. The past half dozen years has accelerated this dissolution at a tremendous pace, and a prominent scientist says that the changes have been so many that the text-books of nearly every science will have to be rewritten. Yet those who are watching the mental realm know that still greater changes are going on there. The religious world of a few years ago does not exist today. There is but one sect in all Christendom that stands by its creed, and carries forward its work in the old lines. All the others are shaken to their foundations. Thus creeds and dogmas are skeletons in their closets, which they talk about just as little as possible. In politics and government the same upheavels are at work. The rights of men are no longer theories; they are about to be real. So from any plane of observation which may be chosen, we can assert with the conviction of truth that a crisis is here. Something is happening. All along the line are evidences of the birth of New Thought. A higher state of consciousness is bursting full blown upon the whole race. It is everywhere, but those who are most open to its influx are being rewarded. The power is abroad in the earth, and it calls to men and nations, "Come up higher." It awaits the action of the governments of Europe now. They will speedily go one way or the other. They will lay down arms, and make peace universal, or they will consume each other in war, and thus clear away the minds that obstruct the peace that must surely come. All this presages a new state of consciousness for the whole race. It is the beginning of the visible reign of the Christ, whose seed-man was Jesus of |