Wake anew sweet thoughts of heaven,
Dreaming souls to meet again.

List the sweet returning carols,
Rising upwards from all climes.
Now behold the loved ones yonder,
Listening to our earthly chimes.
Do I see among those angels,
One who fills our home with light?
Can that star of brightest splendor,
Be the one veiled in the night?

Now give ear to heavenly answers
From the music of the spheres,
Yes, dear friends of clouded earth life,
Through our own we see your tears.
We are near you, near you daily,
Drawing you to homes on high,
All your earthly cares and conflicts,
Meanjour meeting bye and bye.

Oh, my angel one, my gnardian,
May I hope to know you there?

Is it you I hear in whispers,

When I breathe your name in prayer?
Then I'll wait and cease all murmurings,
You're my loving guardian angel,
Sent of God to guide me home.

66

In the Sermon on the Mount, we see nothing very wise or moral. 'Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth" is not good advice and has never been carried out. "Take no thought for to-morrow "would soon lead to poverty and distress. "Turn the other cheek to be smitten " no one has ever practiced, even to this day.

The word "Bible” signifies a book that is supposed to be derived through a supernatural power. All nations have such a book or books. The Hindoos have their Vedas, the Persians their Zendavesta, the Chinese their Maxims of Confucius and other sacred books, the Egyptians their Books of Hermes and of the Dead, the Mohammedans have their Koran, while Jews have their Old Testament, and the Christians hold strongly to the New Testament.

More than twenty different bibles are found among the nations, all claiming to be divinely inspired, and each claims to be a finality from which there is no appeal. We have about two hundred different sects, each declaring that its

particular doctrines are drawn from the bible, and each quotes pages of proof in support of its dogmas.

The Calvinists denounce the Armenians as holding doctrines that are delusive, dangerous and destructive of human souls. Armenians retort that the Calvinists' God is worse than their devil, and say they would rather be Atheists than a Calvinists. Now let all the different clans come together and agree which one of all their bibles God had anything to do with, or in any way dictated and said was His holy book. When they can come to an agreement among themselves, which is the only true word of God; then it will be time enough to say it will be read in our public schools.

To claim that God impressed any one to write some of the things found in that book, would be a libel upon his moral character. It is an old saying, "That it is never too late to mend one's ways." Now, would it not be just, and doing the right thing to call another council; send them to the town of Nice with full instructions that not one word be left in it that would bring the blush of shame to the cheeks of any fair maiden?

I have oftentimes wondered if a mother could be found who would be willing to have some of the passages in that book read before her daughter, whom she was trying to bring up to be an ornament to her parents. No man can be found depraved enough nowadays who would write a book and fill it full of such depraved matter and then send it through the United States mails. If he did he weuld find himself in the State's prison before he was a month older.

True happiness can only come by doing good to ones fellowman. No one ever enjoyed real happiness except when he had done some noble deeds, or in some way benefited his fellow-man. 66 'By these signs ye shall know them," as a man lives he will be known. The only true happiness to be enjoyed in this world is in trying to do one,s duty from day to day.

The greater the effort we make to assist those that are in need, the greater will be our reward in the future. The Great Designer of all things has endowed all mankind with sufficient knowledge to know right from wrong. No man ever did a mean thing without being sooner or later ashamed of it. And no man ever did a good act without feeling glad in his heart that he had done it,

It is true, his acts of kindness are not always appreciated at the time, but they can not be forgotten, and they will spring up in his mind when he is not thinking of other things, and his ownin gratitude will rebuke him. A kind word and a penny goes a long way towards making the starved orphan happy, and she will smile the next time she meets you. Remember that every beggar is one of God's pets, he loves him as dearly as he does you, and his prayers ascend just as high as yours do.

How much longer time is it going to take for Christians to find out that God's love extends just as far outside of the Church as it does inside of it. It matters not whether a man joins a Church or not. If he does more good deeds than the Church-member, he will receive greater reward in the next world. "For it is written where suffering is, released happiness is in abundance."

The resurrection of Jesus on the third day after his crucifixion is a guarantee to all mankind that life is immortal and that all good men as well as bad ones can return and make their presence known to their friends. Thus the law is firmly established, and the day is not far distant when our friends in the other world will be permitted to come to earth and walk hand in hand with their mortal friends. There will be no miracle about it; simply an understanding of the law and the fulfillment of ancient prophecy.

Millions of spirits are daily walking the earth, some are seen and some are not. Spirits have the one thing to learn, how to materialize and then it is easily accomplished. If Christians had been only half civilized in the day they hung

mediums for allowing spirits to control them, we would today be as familiar with the departed ones as we will be in two hundred years to come, when they will return and be seen by all.

CHAPTER IV.

THE CRIMES OF ORTHODOXY.

When Catholics and Christians assume to be the only ones that are authorized to point out the right road that leads to heavenly spheres, they take greater responsibilities upon their shoulders than they are able to carry out. Their faith business will not show up one-half so well in the next world as true merit.

Remember this, my Christian friends, we shall be known over there just as we have lived here. Do not think for one moment that sins can be hidden. Every thought, be it good or evil, is mirrored in the heavens, and stands out in bold relief for all to gaze at; thus it is better for us all to do the best we can in order to be called even good over there.

When rumors were rife in Dakota that the Sioux Indians were about to don the war-paint and go on the war-path, prophets arose among them, predicting the end of the world. The whites were all to be massacred, and the Indians to return to their former homes, and a large and better kind of buffalo was to roam the prairie. Furthermore, that the Indians were to be the lords of creation, and that happiness and great sport would reign forever among them.

Now all this scare and trouble had grown out of having a little too much orthodox religion preached among them. The Indian, before he is tampered with by the white relig ionists, has very good common sense regarding the Deity, or a