laws has not yet disappeared. It was only recently that at Paris, Tennessee, two highly respectable Seventh day Adventists were confined forty days in jail and then sent out to work on the public highway with three negro criminals because they observed the sixth day as their Sabbath and worked quietly and inoffensively (their neighbors said) on the seventh day, and this sentence was ratified by the Supreme Court of the state on the ground that Christianity was part of the law of the state, and the Supreme Court of the United States, while stating that they were wrongly convicted, said they were powerless to interfere.* No longer do we hang men, women and children for stealing a loaf of bread, or bury the actress or suicide at the cross roads, denying them Christian burial, the latter with a stake through his body; as they did in modern days in France and England. Plagues, leprosy, famine, etc., that swept over Europe wiping out the entire population of some cities, are now things of the past. The average span of life has been raised from eighteen years of age † in the Thirteenth Century and thirty years of age three hundred years ago, to the present average of forty-five years.‡ * Signs of the Times, June, 1915, p. 36. So many infants died and famines so frequent. There were nine thousand leprosy establishments in Europe alone. Sprengel Histoire de la Medicine, Vol. 2, p. 374. One famine every fourteen years in the eleventh, There is still room for great improvement, but it is coming, and faster than ever before, and as we realize more strongly (as we shall) our brotherhood with man, all strife between capital and labor, between nation and nation, will pass away, and good will toward man and universal peace will pervade every land, and that perhaps sooner than we think. Who can read the history of civilization from the earliest period to the present day, and deny the presence of an all-conquering power at work through it all, which at times seemed almost vanquished by the crimes of the age, but which in the end always proved successful in elevating the masses (little better than swine originally). All that power we can plainly see was exercised by an omnipotent God of Love, who still rules and promises endless life and happiness to even the vilest sinner amongst us— His son and our brother. twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. Journal of the Statistical Society, Vol. 9, pages 159-163, Essay by Farr. Power By FLOYD B. WILSON CONTENTS One's Atmosphere Growth A Psychic Law in Student Work Unfoldment Power: How to Attain It Harmony The Assertion of the I The Tree of Knowledge-of Good and Evil Conditions Faith Back of Vibrations Wasted Energy Something About Genius Shakespeare: How He Told His Secret in the "Dream" and the "Tempest" 12mo, Cloth, $1.00 TAR POOK CONCERN 1133 EROADWAY, N. Y. BY CHARLES G. LELAND. HIS book gives the methods of development THIS and strengthening the latent powers of the mind and the hidden forces of the will by a simple, scientific process possible to any person of ordinary intelligence. The author's first discovery was that Memory, whether mental, visual, or of any other kind, could, in connection with Art, be wonderfully improved, and to this in time came the consideration that the human Will, with all its mighty power and deep secrets, could be disciplined and directed, or controlled, with as great care as the memory or the mechanical faculty. In a certain sense the three are one, and the reader who will take the pains to master the details of this book will readily grasp it as a whole, and understand that its contents form a system of education, yet one from which the old as well as the young may profit. Popular-priced American edition, bound in cloth, 119 pages, postpaid, 50 cents |