Universal and Individual Treatment.

1. D. S. A. Health Thought, to be held from May 1st to June 1st:

Nothing stands against you in the great book of Life.

Let all the readers of HARMONY use the above statement as a benediction

for peace throughout the world.

Statements of Truth and Freedom.

First Day :-I love the All Good.

Second Day :-I love God with all my heart.

Third Day-I love neighbor as myself.

Fourth Day :-I love to act lovingly toward all.

Fifth Day :-I love to be unselfish in all my ways.

Sixth Day :-I love people regardless of what they think of me. Seventh Day :-I love people not in a worldly way, but as God, who is love, loves them.

The Message for Perfect Sight.

I regard the holy presence of God within me sufficient for all demonstration of sight, health and prosperity. His presence within me is Omniscience, the All-seeing One. I cannot see apart from Him, for I am not separated from my Source, and in It my sight has never failed; it is not dimmed at this time; sight cannot fail; my eyes are the eyes of the all-seeing One; therefore I see perfectly at this time. I have sought and found, I have asked and received. No conditions of the past or of the present have any power to limit me or darken my vision, no seeming condition can possibly reach or mar the Life that I am; I am now proceeding forth from within; I am that power, that mind eternal which flame burns not, and waters cannot o'erwhelm, nor dry winds wither; I am that mind which is impenetrable, that sight which is unassailed, unharmed, untouched, immortal, invisible, and by thought and word uncompassed, ever and ever all-sufficient in God; thus am I now, thus shall I be, thus have I been.

Goodness.

A good tree bringeth forth good fruit-
In every garden in the land;

So good hearts also everywhere—

With boughs of ripening richness stand!

WILLIAM BRUNTON.

A Trio of Wise Councils.

Intelligent watchfulness. Reliance on the word of Truth. Self-expressed generosity.

He who watches wins. He who relies on truth realizes an inheritance among them that are sanctified. He whose generosity is an expression of self, sees himself in others; that what he is, others are.

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Born from Above.

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God."-
John iii: 3.

HIS matter of birth is the foundation principle of all of the further teaching of the Christ. With it he begins where all things begin--their bringing forth. It is at this very point, the starting point, that the world has parted company with him. This which was his chief corner-stone other builders have rejected.

Moved by his Truth teaching, and won by his glorious life, men have, nevertheless, tried to follow him, yet they have said, "We cannot be what he was, for we are born differently, our birth is responsible." They have come

to him year after year through the centuries repeating Nicodemus' question, "How can a man be born when he is old?"

Condemning as they do the body and its natural birth, they have sought to locate and define a new birth equally positive and apparent, but wholly without the realm of the physical and its human understanding.

It is of the utmost importance that we arrive at Jesus' meaning in his teaching on this subject of birth. It is sometimes urged that spiritual truths are the ones sought for, and that this discussion of the body, and of the universe, is not only irrelevant, but unworthy the thought of the spiritually hungry. However, we as urgently insist that this teaching is highly spiritual, and is the basis of further spiritual understanding and unfoldment, and must be our starting point. Upon our attitude toward this subject depends our conscious relation to God, to man, to life in its various manifestations, and to that inner self men have called "soul." Our belief concerning birth touches us on every side, colors every opinion, regulates every effort, and determines our philosophy of life; and this is true because the truth of birth involves the Truth of Being. Only that which is can be brought forth, so that birth must always reveal in existence that which is in Being.

Except a man be This renders the

The text quoted above is translated in the margin : born from above he cannot see the Kingdom of God." thought much more clearly. It is not so suggestive of two distinct and opposite experiences as Nicodemus' question has attached to the other translation.

This question was so far from the thought Jesus intended to convey, that he did not even answer, but continued to reiterate the Truth concerning all birth, explaining that he did not refer to a change of body, but to a change in consciousness, and that this consciousness was not to affect anything already born, but was to know the Truth about that which is born.

In other words, he meant except man is conscious of the Truth of allbirth of that which has been called physical and material, as well as that which alone has been called Spiritual - he cannot enter into the realization of the kingdom of unity and atonement. To state it again: Unless we see that God is the Source and Cause of body, as well as of Spirit, we live in a kingdom ruled over by duality, a kingdom divided against itself. Now, the Kingdom of God is the kingdom of unity, in which His allness is maintained from eternity to eternity, and is to be found in the consciousness of this One living Omnipresence.

Hence, to enter this Kingdom, we must accept what it proclaims to be, the Truth of All Being and all birth. No one can ascend up to this consciousness of atonement but he that is the expression (ex pressing) of at-one-ment, and that one is the Son of Man, who is ever in atonement. John iii: 13. I, is this Truth of universal sonship, birth, that must be lifted up. Believing in our true nature, we will see there is nothing to perish, and that we are eternal life. This knowledge finds nothing in the world to condemn, and hence is that which saves to the uttermost.

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Vivisection the Inquisition.

MARY C. ALLEN.

E believe that all students of Divine Science will agree that the vivisection of animals cannot be justified on any pretext, for they know that there is but one life manifest in all living things, and those who practice vivisection recognize (perhaps unconsciously) this as true, for they expect to discover by this process the method by which the organs of the human form perform their office, and necessarily if the action of the organs and members are the same, the life that animates them or acts in them, must be the same. Any theory or practice that has for its basis the destruction of one form of life, that knowledge may be gained to save another form of that same life, is false, for its saving power is based in destruction, and not in creating. We believe that every student of Divine Science will agree with the sentiments

expressed in the following letter written by Robert G. Ingersoll to a friend. This letter was published in Freedom, and should be published in every paper in the land.

PHILIP G. PEABODY, Boston, Mass.:

My dear Friend: Vivisection is the inquisition-the hell-of science. All the cruelty which the human-or, rather, the inhuman-heart is capable of inflicting, is in this one word. Below this is no depth. This word lies like a coiled serpent at the bottom of the abyss.

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We can excuse, in part, the crimes of passion. tion the fact that man is liable to be caught by the whirlwind, and that from a brain on fire the soul rushes to a crime. But what excuse can ingenuity form for a man who deliberately-with an unaccelerated pulse--with the coolness of John Calvin at the murder of Servetus-seeks, with curious and cunning knives, in the living, quivering flesh of a dog, for all the throbbing nerves of pain? The wretches who commit these infamous crimes pretend that they are working for the good of man; that they are actuated by philanthropy; and that their pity for the sufferings of the human race drives out all pity for the animals they slowly torture to death. But those who are incapable of pitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men. physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces-laying bare the nerves, denuding them with knives, pulling them out with forceps-would not hesitate to try experiments with men and women for the gratification of his curiosity.

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To settle some theory he would trifle with the life of any patient in his power. By the same reasoning he will justify the vivisection of animals and patients. He will say that it is better that a few animals should suffer than that one human being should die; and that it is far better that one patient should die, if, through the sacrifice of that one, several may be saved.

Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart without brain. Have these scientific assassins discovered anything of value? They may have settled some disputes as to the action of some organ, but have they added to the useful knowledge of the race?

It is not necessary for a man to become a specialist in order to have and express his opinion as to the right or wrong of vivisection. It is not necessary to be a scientist or a naturalist to detest cruelty and to love mercy. Above all the discoveries of the thinkers, above all the inventions of the ingenious, above all the victories won on fields of intellectual conflict, rise human sympathy and a sense of justice.

I know that good for the human race can never be accomplished by torture. I also know that all that has been ascertained by vivisection could have been done by the dissection of the dead. I know that all the torture has been useless. All the agony inflicted has simply hardened the hearts of the criminals, without enlightening their minds.

It may be that the human race might be physically improved if all the sickly and deformed babies were killed, and if all the paupers, liars, drunkards, thieves, villains, and vivisectionists were murdered. All this might, in a few ages, result in the production of a generation of physically perfect men and women; but what would such beings be worth--men and women healthy and heartless, muscular and cruel-that is to say, intelligent wild beasts?

Never can I be the friend of one who vivisects his fellow-creatures. I do not wish to touch his hand.

When the angel of pity is driven from the heart; when the fountain of tears is dry, the soul becomes a serpent crawling in the dust of a desert. Thanking you for the good you are doing, and wishing you the greatest success, I remain, Yours always,

R. G. INGERSOLL.

The International Divine Science Congress.

At the Fourth Congress of the I. D. S. A. held in St. Louis, May, 1897, it was thought best to hold the next one in September or October, 1898. The exact time and place was left to the Advisory Council to determine. The Council at their business meeting decided that it was best to postpone it for this year, as more local work ought to be done first; and none of the members who did the preliminary work of former Congresses, which was greater than most persons understand, are situated so as to be able to attend to it this year, and we know of no others who would be willing. The expenses of the last Congress were greater than the receipts, and had to be made up afterwards by dues that came in to Headquarters. The financial part of these conventions has always entailed considerable labor on some one's part, in interesting others to take hold and help in that matter, so it seemed advisable to wait till local interests had progressed further, and more funds had accumulated in the Treasury, in order that the next one might be arranged for more easily. These Congresses are pleasant and profitable, but they are not the only purpose of the I. D. S. A. We want to build up a strong organized effort for the bringing forth of Truth in even remote places. Each member can help, by striving to interest those in their neighborhood to establish Branches, in which they can meet, and send forth the power of the silent word from their midst.

The dues for this year, of $1.00, are payable on May 1st. Please remit to C. L. Cramer, Treasurer of I. D. S. A., at 3360 Seventeenth Street, San Francisco, Cal.

SARAH A. ECKMAN, Rec. Sec'y.