Show him the door. Remember the words of the Savior, "I am the door." By that door, in the name of the open door, you cast out the very devil and sweep him into the depth of hades.

Do not pride yourself on having entertained tramps. Do not publish it among your neighbors that your holy tabernacle has been broken into by professional thieves. Give thanks to God that you have availed yourself of means that will frighten away sorcery. May these words spur you to a higher understanding and create a habit of wisdom and a real purpose in life, so that a new beginning unto life, revealing life eternal, may place the key into your hand which unlocks the Father's house of many mansions.

Let the tempest roar and the whirlwinds blow their orgies; the earth quake with discontent, and the world at large carry its noise of oppression; give it all no thought; be still, listen to the still small voice of revelation, and take heed of the words of comfort and of counsel; remember, though all else you may have forgotten; remember that God is God in all.

The simplicity of the message of Jesus kept those in authority from embracing it. Today the world at large takes the same attitude. They profess His name, but only to play their game, to intimidate the world at large and to keep their subjects tame. Truth is kept

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under the bushel. But there is no reason why those who know of it may not break the fetters of their chains and seek safety under the wings of the Almighty and live the life unobserved by others; and to that extent at least it will assure a part and portion of the inheritance that is ours.

Concentrate your mind; think of the things of life and eternity, and be free from the entanglements of time. Concentrate all the powers and forces within your being and learn to know that concentration is the keynote. Wherever one's attention is turned, there the result of achievements bears out the power of concentration. The very commercial machinery stands out as a proof of the power of concentration. Success in industry is due to the concentration of labor and material. The very powers that be reveal to us the fact that the keynote of life is concentration. Nature herself has attained to the objective in countless number and variety due to the concentrating, crystallizing, focusing and polarizing of the elements. Then, as man, to succeed in our labors, to achieve to realms and planes characteristic of progress, we, too, must learn to utilize the powers conducive to concentration.

(To be Continued in Next Issue.)

"To-morrow may never come." still the bills due will be presented just the same.

No Nation can rise above the level of its womanhood.

Written by Maria Rose Ruth Hilton

RIGHTS AND MISSION OF WOMEN

Much has been well spoken and written upon the "Rights of Woman," and many valuable suggestions for her improvement and elevation have occasionally been developed; but I feel deeply impressed with the conviction, that the relation of the sexes, and their reciprocal dependence and claims upon, and duties to one another, are but little understood and acknowledged. This fact can be accounted for only by admitting the hypothesis that there is a great dearth of correct thinking and acting in the world, and a surprising misapprehension of the true springs of society and government.

It can not well be denied, nor disguised, that woman is sometimes moved to rebel against what are considered to be her respective duties, and that she runs into numerous vices, follies, and extravagances, simply because, also, those who govern states and nations are profoundly ignorant of the mental and spiritual attractions which are natural to the female character, and of the sublime in

fluence her spiritual organization qualifies her to exert upon the race universally.

As are a country's institutions so are the people, and, vice versa, as are the people so are the institutions; they reciprocally affect each other's character and development. Action and reaction are inevitable; and, therefore, just that influence which man (as a governing principle) exerts upon the position and character of woman, the latter will, and must, necessarily exert upon the world in return. There are, in the world, a few enlightened minds who know how dependent society is upon the morals and refinement of woman's character.

The extent of female influence is as little understood by the sex themselves, as it is by the world of minds in general. For, upon investigation, I learn with as much pleasure as astonishment, that woman exerts threefifths of that influence which moves the human world. The spiritual circles are spheres in which she particularly performs her mission.

All the heroes, poets, artists, philosophers, and theologians that ever moved upon the earth, were put in possession of their various maxims and attributes, mainly, by woman. She exerts a positive influence upon the constitution and character of the individual until the national sphere is reached, when, com

pared with the influence of the male, the female power is negative; and now the wisdom principle pervades the individual, for the purpose of modifying, harmonizing, and further developing the mind.

Properly, and naturally, man has but two circles of action, he moves harmoniously first in the national sphere, and second in the universal sphere-because these are the circles of government and harmony. Woman can not produce harmony of herself, but she can furnish the proper elements for its elaboration and establishment; and man cannot produce these elements, but he can discover, furnish, and enforce the principles of discipline, or the natural laws of government.

Andrew Jackson Davis.

AS OTHERS VIEW THE SITUATION

Judge M. T. Dooley, of the United States District Court, sitting in San Francisco, held in the case of A. Belinski, that Birth Control literature does not come within the provisions of the federal statute penalizing the mailing of obscene matter.

Belinski was charged with having posted some of Margaret Sanger's literature.

Getting the Birth Control question straightened out is the first imperative step: it will open the way for all the rest. And presently