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 An Address given by HENRY HARRI- 
 SON BROWN at the International New 
 Thought Congress, San Francisco, Cal., 
 Sept. 1, 1915. 
 
 "Peace on earth among 
 men of Good- Will." 
 
 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that 
 all men are created equal; that they are en- 
 dowed by their creator with certain inalien- 
 able rights ; among these rights are life, lib- 
 erty and the pursuit of happiness. Declara- 
 tion of Independence. 
 
 We the people of the United States, in order 
 to form a more perfect union, to establish 
 Justice, do ordain and establish this Consti- 
 U'iu,i! iY.r the United States of America. . . 
 Congress shall make no law respecting an es- 
 tablishment of religion, or of abridgement of 
 the freedom of speech or the press. Constitu- 
 tion oi the United States. 
 
 Four- score and seven years ago, our fathers 
 brought forth upon this continent, a new na- 
 tion, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the 
 proposition that all men are created equal. * * 
 We here highly resolve that the dead shall 
 not have died in vain ; that this nation shall 
 rnder Gcd have a new birth of freedom, and 
 that the government of the people, by the 
 people and for the people shall not perish 
 from the earth. Lincoln's address at Gettys- 
 
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It is one huiVt red and xhirty-nine years 
 since that august body in Philadelphia 
 declared that "ail men are born equal," 
 and 133 since from Independence Hall 
 came forth the document that forever 
 revolutionized the principles of govern- 
 ment by placing it in the hands of, 
 "We the People." It is fifty-one years 
 since Lincoln declared this government 
 "of the People shall not perish," and 50 
 years since the close of the war which 
 cemented the confederacy into a nation 
 and thus settled the question of the per- 
 petuity of this Government of the Peo- 
 ple. 
 
 This Ideal of a government, "of the peo- 
 ple," rests where, until that time, no gov- 
 ernment or institution did rest, and that 
 is upon faith in Man. Faith in kings, 
 faith in warriors, faith in priests, faith 
 in some authority of book, birth or gods, 
 had heretofore been the source of power 
 and reliance of man. 
 The Puritans of New England had 
 sowed the seeds of this rebellion against 
 authority, and manifested faith in the 
 individual conscience, when they de- 
 clared for "A state without a kirg 1 and 
 n rhnrrh without n hi c< hop." 
 
From the French Encyclopedists had 
 come into other sections other streams 
 of rebellion. The Hugenots had brought 
 the spirit of liberty and Lord Baltimore, 
 a Catholic, had declared in Maryland, 
 for religious toleration. 
 All this ferment had been working, un- 
 til it broke out at Lexington and Bunker 
 Hill. Jefferson had begun the agitation 
 in Virginia six years before, and Patrick 
 Henry had already thundered for Free- 
 dom. 
 
 Thus was the Declaration "All men are 
 created equal" but the culmination of a 
 New Thought movement a movement 
 that had been growing en this soil for 
 over an hundred years. 
 "All men are equal" how? Not in 
 ability; not in character; not in con- 
 science ; not in reason ! No man of av- 
 erage intelligence would so affirm. But 
 "endowed by their creator" are the 
 words. Thus all men are equal before 
 that "Power behind phenomena" which 
 is commonly called GOD. From iL"" 
 the Fathers logically concluded that all 
 men should be equal before the civil law. 
 This is the American Ideal. This is 
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that Unity for which New Thought 
 stands One God! One Life! One Hu- 
 manity ! 
 
 This Unity includes all mankind, all na- 
 tions. In Ideal; in Principle; our na- 
 tion and the New Thought movement 
 stand for the Universal Federation of 
 the World. One Universal Brother- 
 hood; one "Parliament of man" in which 
 all battle-flags shall be furled! 
 We seek to establish that era of Goocl- 
 Vv'iil among men so that Universal 
 Peace must come. A Good-Will which 
 must precede any desired era of peace! 
 With Good-WillPeace Is. 
 During all those 139 years events have 
 been moving continually toward the rec- 
 ognition of equality, and to the estab- 
 lishment of the government among the 
 people, and by the people, and for the 
 people. It has not yet been realized in 
 its fulness but the Perfect is on the way. 
 We are doing our part to help its reali- 
 zation. 
 
 There is one Principle upon which all 
 the various cults embraced under the 
 generic term New Thought unite, and 
 that is The Divinity of the Human 
 
Soui, and its infinite possibilities. Man 
 is the one conscious expression of the 
 one Power which we term Mind, or 
 God. 
 
 This statement of the Declaration which 
 the Fathers saw as a Principle, they ap- 
 plied as they were obliged or otherwise 
 fail in their attempt to organize a gov- 
 ernment, and so did not include in "We 
 the people'' woman and the black man. 
 We have grown so that we recognize 
 that this Principle of equality has no 
 more limitation than a principle of math- 
 ematics, and today the black man, and 
 in many states woman, is the equal, un- 
 der the law, with man. It will not be 
 long till she is so recognized in every 
 state, and I will add, in every nation. 
 All are of One Spirit. It is our purpose 
 to so teach that each person shall see 
 this Unity. Then we shall be One Peo- 
 ple, and in time all people shall be one 
 nation. 
 
 When I realize that I am my brother, 
 and iny brother is I, then will all wars 
 cease, for all wars are born in competi- 
 tion, born of wanting something my 
 brother has, whether they be wars be- 
 
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tween neighbors, merchants, states, or 
 nations. Good-Will as my brother will 
 bring co-operation and communion 
 where discord and dissension is impos- 
 sible. 
 
 Wherever and whenever this Principle 
 of our Fathers is lived there is peace. 
 "WE the people" are one Soul, as we 
 are one blood. I and my Father are 
 one. I aru in him and he is in me. In 
 him all are One! What is for my good 
 is for my brother's good, and what is 
 for my harm is for my brother's harm. 
 The harm or the good of one is equally 
 true of all. 
 
 Act from Universal Principles, must be 
 the rule of each individual life. 
 Never was a Principle of government, 
 or of personal conduct, so all-embracing 
 and so greatly stated in that most in- 
 spired of all documents, the Declaration 
 of Independence. It is an Eternal Char- 
 ter of Liberty, for the constant unfold- 
 ing soul of man. It frees the individ- 
 ual from all authority outside himself, 
 and places all authority within the man. 
 "We the people!" are not only freed 
 from all external authority in all ques- 
 
oi right, but we are responsible 
 that we maintain this Freedom and per- 
 petuate it, and thus pass it down unim- 
 paired to our children. 
 
 As a free-born, or as a naturalized 
 American, there has been placed in my 
 hand the scepter and the miter hereto- 
 fore wielded by king and priest. I AM 
 THE GOVERNMENT. Of necessity I 
 should first be self-governed that I may 
 in turn be a safe integral part of the one 
 government. When the individual is 
 selfrgoverned then will the nation be 
 wisely governed. The first duty then is 
 for each to learn and each to teach the 
 Divinity of the Soul and to inspire men 
 to its expression. 
 
 "Upon me," each citizen should affirm, 
 ''upon me depends the just settlement of 
 all questions of national and internation- 
 al importance !" 
 
 Do you understand that here in this Am- 
 erica, we have a New Thought govern- 
 ment? A new experience in all history? 
 Here for the first time is authority 
 placed within the individual. Where do 
 you as a New Thought person place the 
 responsibility and authority for ycur 
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health and happiness? You place it 
 where it is placed in the Constitution of 
 the United States. The first truly loyal 
 citizens of any nation are we. We say 
 in our lives "Amen " to the statement 
 of 78. Within is the Throne of God. 
 From that throne issue all the edicts 
 which we obey every waking moment of 
 life. 
 
 It is our mission to develop this con- 
 sciousness in the people till they by be- 
 coming self-reliant and self-respecting 
 shall indeed form a nation of self-gov- 
 erned people whose only authority is the 
 Inward Voice, which ever thunders 
 "DO RIGHT!" 
 
 It is the mightiest task a people ever set 
 for themselves to build a nation of in- 
 dividuals where the state is for man and 
 not man for the state. One hundred 
 and thirty-nine years is but a tick of the 
 clock of progress measured by the task 
 before us. But the Idealism of 76 shall 
 yet become an objective reality. We are 
 on the way and Democracy is coming. 
 During this century and a quarter the 
 Principle of liberty of democracy, has 
 been possessing the people. When 
 Thomas Paine thought out the Declara- 
 
tion which Jefferson's hand wrote oui 
 thought would have found no sympathy 
 When Paine said, ''The world my coun- 
 try and to do good my religion!" it was 
 heresy and still worse was his heresy 
 when he said, "I believe in One God and 
 no more and hope for happiness beyond 
 this life" for there were then three 
 Gods, and no man, not a churchman, had 
 a right to hope for happiness beyond 
 this earth life. He was persecuted and 
 socially ostracised. And today an Ex- 
 rresident calls him "A dirty little in- 
 fidel!" 
 
 But we proclaim it, and are received 
 with acclaim. The opinions of men do 
 change. We have passed the persecu- 
 tion stage. We have no longer tolera- 
 tion or merely statute law protection, but 
 we possess in almost perfection, the 
 guarantee of no meddling with free 
 speech. 
 
 The heart of the people is always right. 
 All we need is to give way to the natu- 
 ral impulses of man and that human 
 heart l;ein-;r Love all will be peace. 
 Truth is finding its way and we trust it. 
 r \ he Thinker his come and the Thinker 
 n:lcs. Erner>un warns us to "Beware 
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when the gmtt Ood lets toose the Think- 
 er, For then all things are at his mer- 
 
 Ihe wisdom of the Fathers is now made 
 manifest in this great body who echo 
 back across the centuries "The soul of 
 man can be trusted to the end!'' 
 I wish you to see where you- where 
 this Congress stands, in the march to- 
 ward Freedom. I wish you to feel with 
 me the great debt we owe and the great 
 responsibility that rests upon each as in- 
 heritors of the spirt of '76 and the in- 
 stitutions born from it. As children of 
 that early Idealism that materialized the 
 United States of America it devolves 
 upon us to materialize "THE UNITED 
 STATES OF THE WORLD!" This 
 is our manifest destiny. This is the 
 mission of America among the nations 
 of the world. 
 
 As they were the Fathers of "Many 
 made One" so we, New Thought peo- 
 ple and I say it with a full heart and 
 with a loyalty to which my life is con- 
 centrated it is our duty to crystahze 
 the spirit of today as they did the spirit 
 of unrest of '76. In the dawn of the 
 twentieth century we hold as important 
 place in the world's history as did the 
 
minute men of Concord, Putnam at 
 Bunker Hill and Patrick Henry in the 
 Legislature of Virginia. Soon there will 
 be a crystal organized that will, in the 
 Spirit of the old Liberty Bell, proclaim 
 Freedom through the world. 
 It is to us, the only body today dealing 
 with CONSTRUCTIVE THOUGHT, 
 to see that that proclamation is made an 
 universal reality. 
 
 All the world but the United States 
 seems in chaotic conditions. Ecclesiasti- 
 cism has lost its hold ; it has failed when 
 the test came; war is rampant among 
 the great nations which have called 
 themselves Christian. The church is 
 powerless. Socialism is powerless. Ev- 
 ery institution that has claimed to stand 
 for brotherhood has failed. The Red 
 Cross welds all into one in its sympathy, 
 and while it has no constructive power, 
 it is preparing the way for the 
 thought of that Unity, which can 
 only come through suffering. But here, 
 we are an International Body with Uni- 
 versal Truth and Love for our power, 
 and WE ARE THE ONE AND THE 
 ONLY i-ODY THAT REPRESENTS 
 THE SPIRIT OF THE NOW, AND 
 WEO HOLD A CONSTRUCTIVE 
 
IDEAL FOR THE WORLD. WE 
 KNOW THE POWER OF THOUiHT. 
 THE POWER OF TRUTH; THE 
 CONSTRUCTIVE POWER OF THE 
 IDEAL and upon us has fallen the man- 
 tle of the prophets and we must fulfill 
 that which they have foreseen and bring 
 about a Universal Brotherhood. 
 This Universal Federation cannot come 
 through legislation. It cannot come by 
 any artificial means. Nature's evolution 
 of the human heart's expression which 
 is Friendship, is its only way. Improved 
 economic conditions will not bring it, 
 for they will not eliminate selfishness 
 from the heart. It will never come 
 through physical or social hygiene. 
 These do not reach, and only mitigate 
 the evil. All conditions which the world 
 does not find to its advantage as joy 
 Lringer, as experience shall decide, will 
 fall cff the body politic, and social, as 
 leaves from the trees in autumn. Only 
 the best of each generation will remain 
 for future use, and when this is out- 
 grown it will also fall away. 
 The end of present undesired conditions 
 can come and will come through the 
 awakened consciousness of Man. Con- 
 sciousness of his Divinity and his Unity 
 
with all the race. He must come to a 
 realization not only that "I and my 
 Father are One" but that I and my 
 Brother are One. Consciousness of the 
 One Indwelling God will create that 
 feeling of Brotherhood which will result 
 in an era of Good-Will which must pre- 
 cede any era of peace. 
 This is seen by many whose occupation 
 is war. Sir Francis Younghusband, who 
 led the British army to Thibet, in a re- 
 cent article says: 
 
 Men who regard themselves as integral parts 
 of the whole, with every other single part of 
 which they are most related, and who also 
 realize that each, in his own small degree, 
 contributes to form that spirit which has made 
 them, will have not only this deep sense of 
 unity, but a craving to make it closer. They 
 will resent the tyranny of a rigid order im- 
 posed from outside, but they will establish 
 for themselves that full and flexible orcic* 
 which free individuals possess of a sense of 
 responsibility which freedom engenders, and 
 naturally evolve for themselves. They will 
 allow full scope for individuality, for they 
 will know that thereby will unity be increased. 
 . . . It is not so much peace and rest to 
 which they look forward, as the harmony 
 which comes of activity, an activity bent on 
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frsimr all discords. . . Men imbued with, 
 the Universal Spirit will be sensible of it 
 working- through them, making always for 
 what is good ; propelling them upward. 
 "The right to Life," say our organic 
 law, "and the right to liberty are one/' 
 Only under liberty can life have its full 
 expression. But liberty is a constantly 
 unfolding Principle. Its definition is 
 never the same in any two generations. 
 The Liberty dreamed in '76 would be 
 tyranny now, and our liberty would 
 have meant license to them. Even 
 Paine and Jefferson would have shrunk 
 in terror from present individual free- 
 dom and the spirit of Hamilton if it has 
 not kept in touch with mundane affairs, 
 will see that all he feared has come upon 
 us. But because we have trusted the 
 Principle they announced, we are freer, 
 and I believe happier, than were our 
 Fathers. All this advance has come as 
 all growth in individuals and nations 
 comes through suffering, pain, agony, 
 tears, and blood. 
 
 O Freedom thou art not as poets dream, 
 A fair young girl with light and delicate limbs 
 And wavy trtsses gushing from the cap 
 
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With which the Roman master crowned his 
 
 slave 
 
 When he took off the gyves. A bearded man 
 Armed to the teeth art thou ; one mailed hand 
 Grasps the broad shield and one the sword; 
 
 thy brow 
 
 Glorious in Beauty though it be, is scarred 
 With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs 
 Are strong with struggling. Power at thee 
 
 has launched 
 His bolts and with his lightenings smitten 
 
 thee, 
 They could not quench the power thou hast 
 
 from heaven. Bryant. 
 
 And the struggle for Freedom is as 
 great new as ever in the past. It has 
 changed its fields, its methods and its 
 weapons. The first struggle that greets 
 us in the objective world is the struggle 
 for economic freedom, for what we in 
 New Thought term prosperity or opu- 
 lence. There must be freedom from the 
 present slavery of wages on the one 
 hand, and the equally oppressive slavery 
 of over-possession on the other. All the 
 attempts toward this is but the attempt 
 of Justice to balance her scales. As long 
 as men live to possess rather than to Be; 
 as long as possession is sought, and Be- 
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ing ignored, the scales of Justice will 
 never balance. 
 
 But we are nearer Justice in every av- 
 enue of human endeavor than we were 
 one hundred years ago. We are indeed 
 our brother's keeper. But 1 am net to 
 think for him. Am not authority for him. 
 Am not to make rules and regulations 
 for his thought and conduct. I am not 
 to be a post for him to lean upon. I am 
 not to save him from the effects of his 
 thinking. I am to leave him as free as 
 I wish to be myself. I am to see that 
 he has equal opportunities with myself, 
 then, if he refuses to use them, I am to 
 leave him to the Law of Justice, but I 
 am to love him under all conditions, as 
 my brother still. 
 
 Economic liberty when it comes will be 
 only the John the Baptist to that Jarger 
 Liberty of the Sons of God; that spir- 
 itual liberty which we foresee and to- 
 ward which we work. When that lib- 
 erty dawns we shall be a self-governed 
 nation of self-governed individuals, 
 whose God is Love, and where till men 
 are brothers and all life is co-operative 
 This is Democracy. Kcar Whitman's 
 
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declaration : 
 
 I speak the watchword primeval Democracy. 
 By God! I swear I will have nothing that 
 every man cannot have the counterpart of on 
 equal terms. 
 
 This is the Spirit and the Purpose of 
 New Thought. As far as I know it 1^ 
 the motive of every editor and teacher, 
 healer and lover in our ranks in this, 
 the last and greatest demand for Free- 
 dom. All around is chaos. The world is 
 in the birth-throes of a new era. Old 
 institutions are tumbling Old methods 
 have all been tried and found wanting. 
 The most progressive nations are prov- 
 ing that education, culture, theology and 
 politics are impotent to save from war. 
 If we look only on one side we may well 
 believe that the end of civilization is 
 near. There is a rampant holocaust of 
 destructive thought. Where are the 
 builders? Where is the savior? 
 Only a movement that will look above 
 the clouds and will come vith the con- 
 sciousness that thought is Power and 
 with an Ideal of Universal Brotherhood, 
 and with constructive thought, will be 
 equal to the work of reconstruction. 
 Now is that psychological moment when 
 
the Savior can come, and can save. 
 
 And the saving power, the savi??.v; move- 
 ment, is here. This world-wkU: move- 
 ment, called New Thought, is the one, 
 ??ad the only, movement before the race 
 today that comes constructively. We 
 know the power of Silence. We know 
 that Though: is creative, and amid all 
 this tumult and chaos we speak the 
 WORD and it will create more than a 
 Tabled Eden. As God spoke Light into 
 being and Jesus calmed the troubled 
 sea, so we, a million people with under- 
 standing of our Constructive power, 
 speak the word PEACE, and peace IS, 
 and that which IS in the world of Re- 
 a"ty, will soon be seen in the world of 
 the objective. 
 
 but among t*>e inalienable rights is that 
 U Life. This statement is not alone the 
 recognition of the right to life, but the 
 recognition of the fact that Life is, and 
 it is for me. We claim Life, and we pro- 
 claim with T'.r.th "I come that ye may 
 have life and have it more abundantly/' 
 and the slavery of disease mtibt end. Not 
 alone the right to life and liberty, but 
 
 I will be, in inv own person, life ?nd lib 
 
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crty. Will live in that larger liberty 
 possessed by the equal sons of a co-nmc u 
 iather, where there are no limitations of 
 wealth, custnm, education, ncr even 
 those of vice and virtue. Ail these are 
 unknown. We have ushered in Uie thou* 
 band years of Unity of Spirit, where w^ 
 recognize only the Divinity of the hu- 
 man soul and demand for each expres- 
 sion of tl:;it soul, equal opportunities. 
 Freedom comes in those successive steps 
 in which the intellect of man translates 
 the emotions into action. 
 We start at birth full of the animal, and 
 are slowly "crushing out the ape and let- 
 ting the tiger die/' In this growing con- 
 sciousness of ourselves as POWER TO 
 \VILL AND TO DO we are fast over- 
 coming conditions and shall conquer the 
 last three enemies or the race poverty, 
 disease and the involuntarily leaving the 
 body by the present process of death. 
 Man will eventually leave his body when 
 he chooses, and at will will take it up 
 again. Through the power of his 
 thought, he will overcome all the condi- 
 tions of mortality and will consciously 
 live an immort'u Being here and now. 
 
Our first freedom came at birth; the 
 next when free from mother's arms and 
 breasts. The last physical step was tak- 
 en when we becai le capable of earning 
 our living. 
 
 Intellectual liberty has progressed along 
 with thir. physical liberty. Few reach 
 liberty in tko'ight for instead of resting 
 upon their own ability to perceive truth, 
 they accept statements from some au- 
 thority. Few have in all history ex- 
 pressed this intellectual freedom. Am- 
 erica has placed, in the panthenon of the 
 gods, two men who represent her nine- 
 teenth century freedom. When these 
 two were ushered in the gods of old 
 times arose and vacating their seats gave 
 Ultra the places of honor, and these two 
 Emerson and Walt Whitman. 
 Complete emancipation comes only 
 when we declare, as did Emerson and 
 Walt declare, our own divinity, and live 
 in perfect trust in ourselves. 
 Here is my declaration of complete in- 
 r!rrendcnce as taurrht nie by Emerson: 
 I TRUST MYSELF. MY HEART VI- 
 BRATES TO THAT IRON STRING. 
 I ACCEPT THE PLACE DIVINE 
 
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PROVIDENCE HAS FOUND FOR 
 ME. THE CONNECTION Ob 
 EVENTS; THE SOCIETY OF MY 
 CONTEMPORARIES. ALL GREAT 
 MEN DO -THIS AND I DO IT ALSO. 
 I AM SURE THAT THE ABSO- 
 L, ^LY TRUSTWORTHY IS 
 WORKING THROUGH MY HANDS, 
 IS BEATING IN MY HEART AND 
 IS PERMEATING ALL MY BEING. 
 This is the Spirit of American citizen- 
 ship, and when it becomes the manifest 
 spirit, then the government of the people 
 \vili surely be a government for the peo- 
 ple and it will never perish from the 
 earth. This coming is delayed by the 
 conservatism, pessimism, lack of trust in 
 man, and the fears of the timid and most 
 of all by those who trust the past only 
 and who cry for a precedent and for 
 authority. A "Thus said the Lord" will 
 keep back the car of progress for an 
 hundred years, when a "Thus saith the 
 heart of man! 1 ' would bring brother- 
 hood and peace. 
 
 There must come today, to all, that faith 
 i:i the Self, that Luther had when he 
 declared "Here I stand! I can no oth- 
 
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er! God helping inei" 
 We are very near the dark and bloody 
 gi^i.nd of Europe but we are in the 
 dawn of Europe's greater day. The tale 
 is told that upon Calvary the sun was 
 darkened and the earth shook. So do 
 the clouds of war always darken the 
 sun and shake the earth. But as that 
 darkness presaged the Resurrection, so 
 does this upheaval prophesy the awak- 
 ening of the Soul of Man from the 
 grave of militarism, selfishness and ma- 
 terialism and death. 
 
 I TRUST MYSELF! hereafter will be 
 his watchword. 
 
 The Christ that was to coine is here! 
 Christ is not a personality but a Prin- 
 ciple inherent in every soul. It is the 
 Principle that inspired Jesus and 
 led to the cross, and it has inspired ev- 
 ery teacher, lover and martyr in all 
 times and all lands. 
 
 It is here ! It has been precipitated from 
 the Universal and crystallized its body 
 in this Congress. It is today as un- 
 known and as unperceived, as it always 
 has been, by the generation that gave 
 
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it birth, but upon the grave of today 
 will be built monuments to the Messiah's 
 advent. 
 
 The truth embodied in our fundamental 
 Law is the Christ Principle, that shall 
 bring in a Triumphant Democracy. A 
 redemption from the ill, the authority and 
 the grind of a false system of wealth, 
 that allows one person to possess more 
 than is necessary for his own life ex- 
 pression, while ethers want. 
 Democracy equality is the world sa- 
 vior. We, New Thought people, are 
 the first great body who have attempted 
 to bring scientifically and by practical 
 word the Kingdom of the Good upon 
 earth. That kingdom has always been 
 here. The early teacher said, "It is at 
 hand!" Turn and grasp that hand of 
 Love, always extended by man to man. 
 It is there. Look for it ! Expect it ! and 
 you shall find it. In that kingdom stands 
 the altruist declaring "All is mine. And 
 all is yours. There is no mine and 
 thine for we are one " Supply is in-' 
 finite, and always there is enough for 
 ( rich and all. 
 Come and be healed! We pray I-P.M!- 
 
risniy: "May thy kingdom come on 
 earth !" We care for no other kingdom, 
 nor time, but always enough for NOW 
 AND HERE! This kingdom lies in the 
 faith of the Quaker poet when he 
 
 'insi : 
 
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 I know not where His islands lift 
 Their fronded palms in air; 
 
 I only know, 1 cannot drift, 
 Beyond His love and care. 
 
 'ih^t kingdom of the Good comes 
 through the recognition that it is here 
 the moment we look to the Law of 
 Causation and realise Cause and Effect 
 as its Chancellors. Think Goodness and 
 Goodness is. Think righteousness and 
 righteousness is! By thought we build 
 it within where all Goodness dwells. 
 
 Affirm: / am the Kingdom of the Good! 
 and let it bring forth the fruits of th* 
 Spirit. Emerson says, "God hid the 
 whole world in thy heart," and also af- 
 firmed : ''The whole future lies in the 
 bottom of his heart." Mind, "heart " 
 net intellect. In his Love and not in hi 
 thought. Let it, en the waves of your 
 emotion, find its objective expression, 
 for LOVE IS ALL POWER, and in 
 giving Love in Friendship we fulfill the 
 
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Law we fill the Law full. 
 There is but One law, the law of Love, 
 which is the Law of Desire. What 1 
 desire, I have already in Reality, or I 
 could not desire it. 1 am Will to bring 
 it forth. Desire and Will lead to Expec- 
 tation, c.nd of these three all material 
 things are mine. For I am an individ- 
 ualized expression of the Absolute One. 
 Through me the Absolute rim-i; con- 
 tinue Its work of Creation. 
 The Absolute made a world of mineral, 
 vegetable and animal life, and It could 
 do no more till, through Man, came 
 Thought, and in Man God thinks, and 
 by Thought continues creation. With- 
 out Man not a nail. With Man see this 
 Exposition. 
 
 Without Man, God would have con- 
 tinued to swim in the fish, to croak 
 in the frog, to sing in the bird, and to 
 blossom in the rose. But in Man the 
 Absolute will express all possibilies of 
 Being through new creations forever. 
 Therefore the time has come when Man 
 in consciousness of his Divinity must 
 now declare his freedom of limitations, 
 that in this faith God mav continue 
 
through liim the process of Evolution. 
 It 13 for this Alliance to teach Man to 
 proclaim I AM FREE! In his percep- 
 tion of infinite possibilities he is to af- 
 firm : I AM FREE TO EXPRESS 
 THE DIVINITY I AM i 
 Every condition of consciousness that is 
 possible to Infinity I am now. I am to 
 knew this, and to give each clay a fuller 
 expression of that which I am. Know- 
 ing this I am to affirm I AM THE 
 LAV/! Because of this fact affirmed in 
 the Declaration "WE, THE PEOPLE," 
 ARE THE LAW, AND BEYOND US 
 THERE IS NO OTHER! 
 My work, therefore, lie^> with myself, 
 and within myself. And that work is 
 simply to KNOW MYSELF. 
 Over the expressions of life in any per- 
 son or nature I have neither right nor 
 wish to interfere. If the wind cools my 
 cheek gratefully that is Good. If it 
 carries me by cyclone into the Bay still 
 it is Good. For alone am I to decide 
 \vhat shall be the effect upon me. And 
 I have decided that whatever conies IT 
 shall produce for me and in me Good. 
 Work toward me your sweet will, my 
 
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brother, no s ii latter 'il uo you it 'shall 
 that you give me hate. I shall not know 
 it so, for it will be still to me your own 
 sweet will, for I will sec the Divinity 
 which is behind it all and that Divinity 
 cannot wrong me, if it would. 
 I am not an aspen leaf to be fluttered by 
 every whiff of emotion frcm niy neigh- 
 bors. I AM THE ROCK OF AGES. 
 NOTHING EXTERNAL TO ME 
 CAN MOVE ME ! If I like the sensa- 
 tion I'll repeat it. If I do not like it, 
 I'll refrain. 
 
 I have learned that every friendly act 
 produces in me happiness, therefore I 
 am at all times and in all places and to 
 all persons, A FRIEND. 
 The only test and the only epithet of 
 character that is worth anything, is that 
 which w^e pay to Jesus HE WAS A 
 FRIEND OF PUBLICANS AND 
 SINNERS. 
 
 Only that we fail by lack of friendship 
 to transmute them, there are to us pub- 
 licans and sinners. I have trans- 
 formed them through my Love to 
 FRIENDS. When I so live, when I so 
 recognize, mv divinitv and the divinity 
 
of -rill, Uicr? has Goodjjos.s done its per- 
 fect work, and eternity has for me no 
 higher plane of expression, and I may 
 forever continue to evolve in this life of 
 LOVE. 
 
 In this consciousness of the Wholeness 
 of the Universe, I realize that I have 
 nothing that is not all men's. That pos- 
 session is robbery, and that I am to de- 
 pend upon Infinite Supply from which, 
 when I take, I take from no man that 
 which is his need. I shall have passed 
 into that opulence which was Jesus' 
 when he said he had neither, like foxes 
 or birds, the necessity for possession, 
 because all was him. The hearts and 
 hopes of all men was his, and at need 
 
 the Law would materialize coin or bread 
 My wealth is common, I possess 
 
 No petty province, but the Whole! 
 t's mine alone is mine still less 
 
 Than treasure shared by every soul. 
 1 have a stake in every star 
 
 in every flower that gems the day. 
 All hearts of men my coffers are 
 
 My oars, arterial tides convey. 
 "All mine is thine" the Sky-Soul saith, 
 
 The wealth I am thou must become, 
 Richer and richer, breath by breath, 
 
 Immortal gain, Immortal room!"'' 
 And since all his mine also is, 
 
 Life's gifts outrun my fancies far, 
 And drowns the dream in larger stream 
 
 As morning drinks the morning star. 
 D. A. U'asson. 
 
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