FiEPORT of Wednesday evening healing meeting, ___________April 7,191.b«___________________ i will read two verses from the 3d chapter of Pro zeros,- verses 9 and iu of the 3d chapter ol Proveros. "honor the nord witn fruits of ail thine x i x x e u w l th plenty , new wine.** thy suost&iice, and with the first-increase; so snarl thy warns oe and thy presses snail burst out with phis has always seen construed to mean that if you honor the Lord vita some of the fruits of your rand, and gave him some of the very west of your supply, that you would oe increased in your iand; in other words, it would oring you prosperity. nut we fmo a different application. It should oe given the true meaning, which is, that man is tne Iirst consiueration .in ail of It A as wi‘11ten a, out man, this description It was the wisdom of uod being given for trie benefit of the individual. This wouid not hrpuy to a man who aid not nave anything, — to a tramp, for example. He has not any barns, or any wine-presses, and it alignt not apply to the average individual here. You are notpngaged in agriculture; you ore not "building wine-presses; but you see that in order to give it the universal application,--to get the real meaning, we mus find out the real man, and the symbol is here intended to portray certain conditions in man. So we have, as we do in all truth, to. get at the mind, to get at the mind, and the conditions that the mind sets up in the consciousness, and then the rest will all be made plain to us. * Honor the Lord with thy substance, fruits of all thy increase." It says and the first -2- I' "Thy substance *» Now what is the sub stance of mind? Why, it is that something that :;oes to build up the consciousness. One phase cf it is the building up of the body; another phase is the building up cf the energy; another is the building up of the force and power of the thought, —what you call your mind. That is, the intellectual mind is sustained by q certain substance that is constantly coming up in consciousness from the processes that go on in your body. Bo you can see this supplies what is needed for the activity cf the mind, and the building up of the body. How,so many of us are looking to some outside source for new energy, and new life, and new spiritual consciousness. We wonder why we do not have more health. Well, it is because we are not conserving and storing up the substance and life that we already -3- have. Through our lack of understanding cf the power of a man, and of the real processes that go on in the consciousness, we are just dissipating our forces, — throwing them to the four winds. But when we get into an understanding of spiritual things,--when we know that there is a Lord, or a spiritual law, — then we begin to honor him with this substance; and when this begins, there is a real storing-up . how, these barns in the consciousness are really the centers, the centers in the animal body. A barn is a place where you store up substance for the animals which you have. Now, we every one of us have animals here at work. your body is .really, in its natural condition, an animal. And it must have a certain stored-up do ixs perfect work. If you dissipate and throw -4- force, in order to sway all of the substance,— the grains and the hay, and all of those things that you need to supply the animal f orces, —don ’ t y^ou see that you will gradually run down, you will deplete. you say, "Why, a man grows stronger and- stronger from birth until he reach-s the age of, say thirty, and then a gradual decline sets in.” Why? It is just a condition hat has "been brought about through dissipation of the forces. The natural tendency ofjyouth is to grow, to build up. But pretty soon things get a little more material; young people begin to thinl?: more and more about material things. You materialize the substance of the body, and as you materialize, doctors tell us that the blood avenues, the arteries, begin to crystallize and take on a hard condition, and the blood does not circulate through, the body, and what is called old age sets in. To give you a very recent illustration, we are told that the reason that Johnson did not hold out when pillard ga-. e him a knock-out — V blow, was because he was forty years old, and Jillard was only twenty-eight» The twenty-eight man won. I read in the paper the other night about some man who was asking if he had to go to the scrap-heap because he was forty years of age. It depends upon how much he has conserved his force, whether he has dissipated it in fast living, living as Johnson lived or. whether he has lived the spiritual life. There is no reason at all why if Johnson had not lived a sporting life, he could not have increased in his capacity. He would have, if he had only known how to take care cf himself. In the training of prize-fighters, they don’t let them drink, they don't let them, nowadays, eat much meat, and in every way, they conserve their substance. They co not give especially, their substance to the Lord,^—I would not say that, but they get 6- hold of it. They conserve it. There is a lesson in this for us. Suppose all you get hold of all the substance, just in the manner that these prize -fighters do, and you get it into your consciousness, and spiritualize it. Now the fact is, that all the substance that we take into our bodies, goes through a spiritualizing process. Any physiologist will tell you that digestion, in one of its phases, is a fire, and that in the process, a constant energy is being thrown off, that is taken up by the system. After you have taken your meal, and digested it, vou proceed to do a certain work, and you will find yourself full of energy. You can work for a certain time, but then the machinery bevdans to run a little slower and slower. Then if you are under the natural law, you must have something more to eat, in order to go on with the work. -7- In a higher phase of consciousness, in Spirit, there is a building up of the spiritual man. There is a higher man than this mere physical one, and when we get into the understanding of spiritual forces, ana spiritual powers, when we learn concentration and go into the silence, we throw our force to our lord, which is I AM, — Jehovah. this Lord. the I AM You will find in the modern revised translation, that , —Honor the Lord,--is Honor Jehovah, Honor !_ AM, Honor in you with this substance. Pretty soon you will find yourself filling in with a new consciousness of substance. In other words, you will become conscious of what you have already got, the spiritual part of yourself, a certain energy and force and power that you have not realized before. This comes through an under- standing of the power ox the mind. iiO know the law. thine inoreas moment that y That is what and look upon you can see how nicely this fits, how it works when you .‘nxd it will increase. "With the first fruits of all e. fou increase in your power and capacity, .past the ou center your consciousness upon the spiritual man. -he spiritual man is. People who ignore the spiritual man as more or less formed of matter, will "begin to t conserve in a way when they lose the activity of youth, and they grow l8,1, ‘ -hat is not giving the increase to the Lord; it is giving it to the flesh, and you get no special profit out of it. It is not true conservation. The man must he built up in his soul quality,--that is, in his thinking power, in the faculties that tend to the growth That comes through an adding to the soul rower. of the real man. You have pot to save your soul,--no question clout that. it is a practical philosophy. It is not that you are roing to he saved through some outside force, tut you must "build up your soul. Xarcsstnadc You must give the substance that you are adding day hy day,--a certain 'portion of it must go to soul growth. If you dissipate i“;, you dissipate your soul. You have not anything to go upon. Even though the lord, the great Universal Good, might with all Its heart desire- to save you, .It could not do it, unless you had something to save. It is a law, of course, and that law is that you shall conserve, and recognise and build up your own inner spiritual man. Go we have these lessons on meditation, on the silence, on inner concentration. dome people think they can go through life without think- • » r*? *Mn ■«. i i f »VJ. o-J U b in.g about spiritual things, without concentrating in any way. They ere just going to have a good time. They run s. good sh-re of their energy off.in dissipation,--it does not bring any return whatever. It ooz.es out like the smoke through .. man’s pipe. In my experience I have sometimes hear, kind o* dreaming, and not thinking to a. purpose, and I would as o rule, he shown myself as smoking. Just listlessl'” letting the smoke go away, without any special attention. That is not meditati on; it is a kind of dreaming. That does n o t vring you o: ny fruit. r- 4- 1 O i [ihi U IS i5, 7VT3 e» +0 p f one r °*v * p p m r. v-. + V, r. + smokes is w r' S ^ 1 * p no ya .m y*p*yr The man that spits is spitting' 37.7a his energy, sp it ting away his s ub stance. Every ’waste of energy is a robMnr crjder.leting of the body, and the mind has not anything to work upon. It can only work -11- js cert ain length of ‘time. If* people van t to grow younger as they crow old. If you d have you more c ap: must he place s * ^ a-^-1 -f i 1 that you tr.hc ■i r f is there need for more t got anything, d o n1 tion, that will carry you see? There ju over these hard How we have built up a carnal mind, and spiritual power is necessary to carry y~u ri gh tjthrough that,--that will say , ”It is nothing.Ho condition within or without can interfere with the perpetual conservation and growth of the spirit within me.” That is the hind of thought to have. And as you go on in this process of conserving substance, -If the inner process, the pressing out of this substance, will continue unti you feel so full of new energy, new life, t hat you will feel £LS i f you were almost bursting with new capacity, new for ce. The man of ordinary ability will break out some cay a. ni be a genius. Some 4-y, ing new will come to you. So -we find that people who really get hold of this, and give to the Spirit that which they hare "been dissipating in various ways, rill grow in spiritual stature. They take on quality; they express themselves in new ways. They see things they new 0 r* s 3 w before. T + I c; thro ugh conservation what they ulw&y s h ad, bat did not know how 4" \ J use. fern e r-j eople soy, "I have iionp so for in this way; I have con ■f -yoL Uo. ZK cted various habi ts +V> i> +■ wl i u V I c an not stop.” -13- All you hs It is al'.'A ever it ms at that. sensation, grati fie a ■ these sen: have "been erate (?) the cells . you hove 1 keeps goir ;ve to do is to step the thought hack of that dissipation, iys founded on thought. Every dissipation of force, what— i.y he, has as its real initiative, some hah it of mind. Get That is what it is. It is a desire for the pleasure of ,--ret at it there. Say, "I no longer desire mere sense iion; I desire Spirit." And you throw a new force into see. The "body is full of nerve centers, in which there accumulated through long years cf hah it , certain degen-ideas, and those ideas have incorporated themselves into , and they go on repeating the state of consciousness that thought into them, just like the record that a phonograph, that lg on, once it is set into action. thing pees on in your consciousness. how you Toe same must change the recor d. go a can do it, i vfii] t n *1 \r to f V,i: a\r ± .l \ -J U • Some people give up t co easily. They s- ay, "I cannot control my thoughts.w But that is al 1 moonshine. Y o u c an co n t r o 1 y o ur thoughts . ITot all a t once, but now and again. Begin it; do a little here, end a little there, nn< ^■ind that this thought-man, the body and the sensitive mind, e go ba ck ;=-L> ain en n e r v o us nes th at I am c en t ered i n thing } bee aus e i t '■ought to every part of the tody. You must t * :0 • j ”1 ;,m not nervous; in tha t ma terial the energy comes. Say, "I am centered in the substance of Spirit. I am centered in the very substance of Spirit. I am one with the great Universal Spirit. I conserve all energy, all force, all life in this mind, in this body, for the use of ray Lord. I refuse to allow my life to flow away. My life is mind; I have dominion and power over it. My 1 i fe is no w cons erved. ” 19- your 'body? Bo you know that you have control over the life in C e r t g i n ly yo u ha ve : c az life is "hid with Chris' in God.” And you have control over the life in the body. I have told you of an experiment that took place at one of the theaters. A hypnotist took a man, and told him that the. life would be taken out of his arm, from the hand clear up to the elbow; and then he threw the life away, and you could stick pins in that arm, and pinch it, and there was no feeling at all. Then the hypnotist said, "I will bring that life back. He did not manipulate it. He just said, "Life, come back! Life, come back.’» And the life flowed right back. That was a good example, not exactly of the law that we use, but all of these laws point the way that the wind blows. If you keep your eyes open, you .ill see how the law „ in all of its details, is being used every day. And yet we do not take advantage of it. We can take advantage of it, and we can secure results that these seeming masters could. Now, we have a few moments in which we would like to hear, from any of you here, of your experience with it. It is always encouraging to those present, especially "beginners, to know that others have demonstrated. It does not make any difference jus what the demonstration may he, hut we would like to have you tell us about what you have accomplished. The meeting is or.en to you. Has anyone here had an increase of life, or mental power, or physical power, through conservation of force, after getting a complete knowledge of the law? Has that? 21- anyhody lie re had rs. T.misny:— Eight weeks ago, I fell on the ice walking ux> here, and broke kqt arm entirely through. I was taken to e hospi tal across th called for help from char ge , and I was t e bone. She said f had the surgeon set- ry bed arm, and that + T • - J - *** could stay .a 3 and t hat I should Abridge came over, and took me j had them call a surgeon, ■f r :.o set n he 1ef t me that it was a He said I would suffer intensely with think I needed any opiate. He said, "You don’t know what you are talking about i ’ i'-': t is the verv ’worst thing that oould come to ou. v/hy do you talk like that?” I said, ’’Because Margaret ” He laughed and r.arnsay trusts in hod. He can do ever’/thin". prescribed an opiate. He came back the him that I had slept from ten o’clock an h a d s c a reel w: tk en e d dur insr th e ni -<• ht. an ohate?" "Ho," I said, "I did not,” next morning, and I told til five, undisturbed, I He said, "Didn’t you t ake From .“Join ■£ ("> o tt n ^ began to improve, and in three days, he said it was knitting. He had told me it would De nine ur :en days, and then I would suffer unoearaole pain witn it. In three days it oegan to knit rapidly, and it has continued until now I have almost entire use of it. He said that at my age I would not recover the use of it, rerfcaos at all. Hut in eight we°ks I am able to do my work. even x o darn my stockings, and to sew some. Everybody says they never heard of anything like it. Another wonderful illustration. 1 have a nephew whose wife was said to "be dying with tuberculosis. He Had her in a sanitarium. He wrote to me to come and help to fake her to Arizona; that that was the last chance, I was hurrying home to --ret ready to vo to Arizona with him, to tsxe Mary there, bui, apparently I could not go, po he did not go. But I gave the case over for treatment here, and she "began to improve rapidly. -‘-hey had had experts from St. Louis come here, and they said one lung was gone entirely, and part of the other; that, she could not live, she was liable to die at any moment. She began to improve immediately, and in two weeks, she had gained fifteen pounds. I had a letter last week from him, saying that Mary was up, and going around, to the astonishment of everybody. Yesterday I had another letter, saying he had taken her to Mexico, and she was apparently getting well just as fast as anyone could. They did not understand it. The SPEAKER:The Lord knew, and so do you. Mrs. Laras ay. — I want everyone to affirm health in Albuquerque; and that tod may he with her. or 7/fV -v-,- - iViciTj mv* es Idrs. CLALL:— One week a,50 to-day, I like yrippe. I called up to ask Mfs Silent Unity to treat me. Wednesday W 3. S taken writh what seemed n r» 0 * oft on Wednesday to ask night I was up here, and the next day I wa s p e r fec 11 y well. And an angel c ame, and is Love; an d she tre at e d me, an d I visited me, and the angel’s name was well after she left. The SPEAKER:--ThaJ the name of all these healers. Yes Ms 3. ALDREWS: - - I have had the Lord, that has done some help through Unity, it, though. I think it is have "been having ray teetli done down town here, and I felt as though 1 just wanted to say, --Glory to ^od, felt t ha t w ay tod ay. through Unity. 59r all of being in the dentist’s chair, I I know that it was the Lord that helped me, Mrs. CRALL:--I want to tell of another experience, not mine, "but with a metaphysician, who lives where I do. A neighbor moved into the house next door, end he had a great big dog, and it howled to beat ttf band. When this lady came in, that dog never howls when she is all night long. jn the daytime when she is there, he never howls just holds for peace, and the dog she said that must not be, and in t'-e house,—we never hear him he makes up for lost time, but . Isn't that remarkable? She le ep s still. (Laugh ter.) if -26- you had heard it, and seen the dog, you would not laugh, you would know it was wonderful. I wish you could have heard that big dog. The SPEAKER:-- I believe it is true. The whole creation shall hear the Lord. I notice that all of the barking -we had here at the beginning of the meeting, has stopped. Coughing is a result of crossness. You came in here cross, and you felt like barking at somebody, and you aid so. Then you got into the spirit of harmony and peace, and you forgot your crossness, and stopped coughing, when you find yourself coughing, say, "I am filled with the Spirit Oi —we. I do not want to '"-ark at anybody, I am on good terms with everybody.” That will sto, the cough. I have tried it. ’' y> \V T TVC' rvrn*r> n - - , ’ •"* * !lare a great man- demonstrations tne last four or five years of this ]if« p .a.., , -i.c -Hi., ui wnich we have m nave seen talking. But one of the most remarkable has been in the development and use of the memory. I have so conserved this force, that I can read a lecture of from ten to twelve thousand words, requiring about one and one-half hours to deliver, and eiJ every word of it in my mind almost perfectly. I worked for something like ten years in the restaurant business, principally as a waiter, and when in practice, I have seen the time when it was scarcely any effort for me to work all day,— twelve hours,--and wait on two or three hundred people, and get home and tell the amount of every check I had handled in the house during the day. I have worked at night, when I was my own cashier, and I know of months at a time that I never used a single check, with a house full of people,--all that I could wait on. I h»r. commi ‘ ted ,vhole books to memory, fron cover yfcr" cover, and I started at one time to commit Webster’8 Dictionary to memory, but I gave that up. That is simply an illustration of what can be done, if we get hold of this law, so as to make a practical use of it. It is limitless in its application. Another thing that is very noticeable in my own experience is the beautiful thoughts, and the grammatical use of English, that have been given to me. I am a men that was born and brought up out in the backwoods of West Virginia, where we bad no schools to amount to anything, lily common school education amounted to about i..2 months To-day I am considered a splendid writer and grammarian, and I have developed my talent myself along that line almost entirely, without teachers or instructors of any kind. And they are exceedingly beautiful, tne thoughts that come to me in quiet meditation, things there are no schools the 1' nd to teach If had gone through all the theological seminaries in the speak many things that I do today, hy this illumination of life, and law It takes constant application, persis is not altogether easy, hut it can he ure, after we once get well started. country, I could not s»rite and They have "been revealed to me , and truth. It takes practice, tent effort, concentration. It accomplished, and "becomes a pieas- The SPEAKER: It is very encouraging to all of Let us all he still. you know yc: relax. you shoo Id let go of all thought a" and then relax your hold upon your "body. We bodies in a tense state of mind. You will fin a pencil, or something of that kind with a cert US • ■vhe n yo u get still, hout external things, nearl - all hold our id yourself holding to ain grip, that shows th ere is a tense center somewhere in in your organism. Rome muscle is tense. If you find yourself doing that, relax. Say, "I rel =x every muscle, every nerve. I relax, and rid my mind of all of these tense states of consciousness. There is just One universal harmonizing spiritual Presence working under divine lav, and I am one with it." This universal life and substance is under the law. It is a law which keeps the universe that if given an opportunity, uses wisely all substance, all life. Net only outside of us, but especially inside, and by calling our mind's attention to it, there is an application of the law. We can call the inner mind's attention to that lav, and immediately there is mode a contact, or union, vita Queer .unds. r»et us realize fully, all the people here, a new application of substance and life with the life and f * 5-aw of the -Spirit. Just hold ip your 1hou$it:—The substance life, within and without, is now unified with the One Divine Law, (Silence)