y in
the discoveries and revelations of the most ancient "adepts," the
fathers of mystical lore, in the light of modern discoveries and
inventions, mystical no longer; but practical and full of earnest
meaning in their adaptation and adjustment to the needs and wants of
the citizens of the world today.

EVANESCENCE OF MERE BELIEFS.

Proclaim not mere beliefs today, and be not labelled and pigeon-holed
and held to account on any special line of thought or action lest the
individual soul be barred out from a conception and knowledge of some
far grander truth. At best our view is narrow and contracted, else
were we gods, and as we grow we discover our little, vaunted beliefs to
be but as tiny shreds of color in God's great mosaic, our song of
triumph and discovery but as the buzzing of the insect to the chorals
of the chanting hosts of heaven. So, then, an eternal negation is the
safest attitude of the unfolding soul. Mere beliefs, unproven by
facts, are so many barriers set up for the soul to overleap and leave
behind on its onward march.

THE FOUNT OF INSPIRATION FOR ALL.

"The righteous shall inherit the earth." Just so far as we are able to
prove our rightness, the world--nay the whole universe of God--is ours.
Our Heavenly Father has never said: "Thus far shalt thou go, and no
farther, upon the road to knowledge." Everything invites us; get
wisdom, get understanding, and to thy knowledge add virtue are the
recommendations from inspired sources, and to the soul that fears not,
revelations upon every line stand invitingly open.

MAN VERSUS DEATH.

In all the domain of organized being, it is only man, who, in his crude
egotisms, and defiant resistance to nature's laws, makes ado with
death. The dainty denizen of the air, and the things that creep over
the earth, the leviathan in his nature element, and his warmer-blooded
brother whose passage causes the earth to tremble beneath his tread,
all the multitudinous expressions of the animal kingdom, that disport
themselves in fur, or feather, in filament of scales, or covering of
hair, each and all recognize the approach of their final experience on
earth, and hie themselves to their appointed coverts, to keep their
tryst with their old mother in utter privacy. How well she loves her
children! She sheds over them her varied mantle of leaf, and piney
bloom, or scented brake, and soothes them with softly falling rain, or
tender dew, and woos th