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 AM placing a book in your hands which, with 
 
 I proper study and research you should benefit 
 
 greatly. This book was written by my mother 
 in the spiritland, who wishes the world to know 
 that the time has come for the great change, the 
 cleansing of the earth, the passing away of the 
 old for the new. When Christ's glory shall flood the 
 earth. When truth's fire shall burn all evil things. 
 When the old world of sin passes away and leaves the 
 good to trample on the ashes of the wicked. 
 
 In other words the Millennium, the New Era, the 
 Dawn of Peace, when satan shall be bound for a thousand 
 years. 
 
 Many trumpets have blown and a long struggle is 
 here, in which the old world shall pass away and the 
 new one shall assert itself to live its thousand years. 
 
 The Bible predicts the earth shall come to an end 
 in the twinkling of an eye, which shall be so at the end 
 of those thousand years. The church from the throne 
 of God gives us a chance to learn its mysteries, and from 
 its tiny seed, spring the Tree of Life Everlasting. Worthy 
 endeavor is always blessed and by the Hand of God com- 
 manding it. His church which has long lain subdued, 
 is springing into glorious life, rising higher and higher 
 till it reaches Heaven with all its blessings. To the 
 Heaven of God which is the greatest of the universe. 
 
 Study the New Testament where St. John the Divine 
 acquired such high mediumistic power that he was enabled 
 to write as God commanded. See the corresponding 
 things told here which this book has explained. See the 
 life of Christ and the parables He taught which are 
 herein explained. 
 
 We do not claim the full authorship of this book, 
 for God's wishes were followed and we wrote exactly 
 as He told us to. 
 
 We hope this will find a place in your heart and bring 
 out the power that is in you. 
 
 Let us all with God unite and turn the darkness into 
 light. 
 
THE MILLENIUM 
 
 You all look forward to the devil in chains 
 
 When he no longer tempts the weak. 
 
 And I know 'mid hills and plains 
 
 Is coming the age you seek. 
 
 Coming the world over is that age 
 
 When all are used the same. 
 
 When men are given a living wage, 
 
 When all have equal fame. 
 
 When the devil is bound by truth, 
 
 That mighty word of yore. 
 
 A word still in its youth. 
 
 A word hardly used before. 
 
 Truth will prevail throughout the land, 
 
 Will clear the darkest spots. 
 
 By truth we will understand 
 
 Each other's tho'ts. 
 
 And then the whole world o'er 
 
 Will treat each other right. 
 
 Lies and hypocrisy will no more 
 
 Be found. They'll vanish in the night. 
 
 Truth will prevail the remotest places. 
 
 Wrong simply cannot be performed. 
 
 For all colors of faces 
 
 Will by Truth be uniformed. 
 
 All will know all tho'ts of wrong 
 
 As soon as it is tho't. 
 
 He could not find in a countless throng, 
 
 A man who knew it not. 
 
 And as forewarned is forearmed. 
 
 It would be useless the wrong to try, 
 
 For the victim would be alarmed 
 
 And would know that he was nigh. 
 
 Thus the truth would prevail 
 
 And by force it would stay. 
 
 It would travel o'er hill and dale. 
 
 And need never go . away. 
 
 When Spiritualism envelopes the world 
 
 And all the people mediums become, 
 
 The millennium earthward will be whirled, 
 
 And the devil cast therefrom. 
 
 When Spiritualism is among the races 
 
And so many teach the plan divine, 
 
 All may see their loved ones' faces 
 
 And need not for them pine. 
 
 They could guide them day by day 
 
 Possessed of spirit wings. 
 
 And death be known as a passing from clay 
 
 To a life of higher things. 
 
 Death would not be so terribly sad. 
 
 You could see them with you still. 
 
 By them advice could be had 
 
 And comforts at will. 
 
 We would make no mistakes. 
 
 There would be eternal bliss. 
 
 How heavenly for all our sakes 
 
 If those joys we do not miss. 
 
 Oh the joys of knowing 
 
 That in leaving for planes divine, 
 
 Our loved ones are not far going. 
 
 We can say, "They still are mine." 
 
 They but leave for a higher home, 
 
 To the divine planes of God. 
 
 To comfort us they often come. 
 
 While the house of clay is 'neath the soi 
 
 You say in death we are sleeping. 
 
 To be resurrected Judgment Day. 
 
 Our bodies do lie sleeping 
 
 To awake to Mother Earth in decay. 
 
 The Life, the spirit of things 
 
 Passes on to higher planes. 
 
 There to await what their character brings. 
 
 Whether praise, promotion or pains. 
 
 When comes the great Judgment Day 
 
 They will be gathered from high and low, 
 
 And be resurrected to decide their way. 
 
 To decide where they will go. 
 
 Our Heavenly Father is not mean. 
 
 He gives us a chance to improve. 
 
 If all right we have not seen 
 
 In atonement He does reprove. 
 
 The words the Bible tells 
 
 "In death we sleep, in resurrection wake," 
 
 Is true. Believe what it tells 
 
 But the view of this parable take. 
 
 Jesus' lessons in parables were told. 
 
You understand them and believe. 
 
 Yet why not those words as a parable of old, 
 
 Believe you and your mind relieve. 
 
 The cross of Jesus was hard bear 
 
 And Spiritualism He taught. 
 
 His spirit appeared and vanished in air, 
 
 Yet as a spirit you believe it not. 
 
 Then the trumpet blows at last, 
 
 We of the many stars 
 
 Will be resurrected. Called from the past 
 
 To the future in a heavenly Mars. 
 
 Mars, the purple kingdom on high 
 
 Where is Jesus in a heavenly fold. 
 
 To be good enough we all should try, 
 
 To be called to that mansion of old 
 
 For heaven is a condition, not a place. 
 
 A feeling, a state of mind. 
 
 A clear conscience, a pure heart and face 
 
 And God's praise is what we shall find. 
 
 And with our loved ones always. 
 
 Surely that is worth struggles hard. 
 
 There is no escape and goodness pays. 
 
 Purity's beauty is never marred. 
 
 Why seek the millennium age 
 
 In any other way? 
 
 How other could the devil be in a cage 
 
 By all you could do or say? 
 
 Let your loved ones save and guide you. 
 
 Let them lead harm astray. 
 
 Give them a chance to be beside you 
 
 And in sorrow they would not pass away. 
 
 But in peace they would onward go. 
 
 Just a step higher with God. 
 
 Yet in love live here below. 
 
 To teach us the path they have trod. 
 
 Then happiness world-wide would spread. 
 
 The millennium, the age of peace. 
 
 When you learn there is no dead. 
 
 All is Life, but the devil must cease. 
 
 The devil bound by the chains of Truth, 
 
 And the prophecies of yore 
 
 Will be fulfilled. Happiness now in its youth 
 
 Will live from then on. Forever more. 
 
THE WORD OF GOD 
 
 The word of God is being spoken, 
 
 Many are the ones that have served me. 
 
 Take this message as a token 
 
 Of the blessings that are to be. 
 
 Many are ones that have preached my wordy 
 
 But Oh — in such a different tone. 
 
 And from them many prayers I have hearc 
 
 I pitied them and left them not alone. 
 
 Long ago satan wrongly led them, 
 
 Thru ignorance they turned my words away. 
 
 I knew their souls and could not expect them 
 
 To see more than their same old way. 
 
 And having known them predicted rightly 
 
 That many false prophets would arise, 
 
 While my own flock who knew me, would nightly 
 
 Hear my angels and praise us to the skies. 
 
 I will tell you why I am speaking so. 
 
 I predicted long ago, that some day 
 
 There would be a mighty overthrow. 
 
 That the wrong to the world could not stay. 
 
 The time has come for that work to be started 
 
 When only a century divides 
 
 The end of when the heavens and earth be parted 
 
 And now. The mighty tides 
 
 Of my power and recollections 
 
 Of the wrongs foisted on sad hearts, 
 
 I have at last made my selections 
 
 Of the ones by whom the good work starts 
 
 I will raise thru' them a church spire, 
 
 That my love and kindness and Me 
 
 With that church, shall bring standards higher 
 
 And its beacon light all shall see. 
 
 My words must ring loud and clear. 
 
 My servants must never ending preach. 
 
 For I intend that all shall see 
 
 The truths that I shall teach. 
 
 This work this year shall be started. 
 
 Just one little rolling stone. 
 
 Yet no moss shall it gather as a free-hearted 
 
 Teacher, preacher and guide all in one. 
 
 As I try to guide you and lead 
 
 You in paths of virtue out of sin. 
 
I see the frantic efforts of satan speed 
 
 Toward you that I might not win. 
 
 But he has only the imps of vice to wage 
 
 The war against angels of light. 
 
 When the beams of the New Day reveal his cage 
 
 He will be instantly put to flight. 
 
 But I will come. My time is dated. 
 
 Many trumpets will have blown. 
 
 And when comes the time stated 
 
 I will claim the world my own. 
 
 I will come in a cloud of flame. 
 
 A burst of glory all shall see. 
 
 When all the world shall be the same, 
 
 And all will happy be. 
 
 Look for this prophecy to come true. 
 
 The word of God never fails. 
 
 And when my words are set before you 
 
 The false in insignificance pales. 
 
 My words are true and always last. 
 
 Always my work is done. 
 
 And when false satan is left in the past 
 
 I can call the world my own. 
 
 Pray and in the name of My Son 
 
 And you shall be answered one by one. 
 
 (End.) 
 
 OUR PLEADING 
 
 Hear these words as we speak 
 
 Direct from the planes divine. 
 
 Many are the hearts we seek 
 
 To say "They are mine." 
 
 Many are the years we've worked to gain 
 
 The faith of the lowly earth. 
 
 And we've tried to make it plain 
 
 That we bring love and mirth. 
 
 We bring truth and we guide 
 
 Your lives with a practiced hand. 
 
 And as we work to be by your side 
 
 You must work to understand. 
 
 We cannot speak against your will, 
 
 For your mind is all your own. 
 
 And yet we are with you still, 
 
 We leave you never alone. 
 
We try so hard to lead you 
 
 Out of the paths of sin, 
 
 Into paths of virtue, 
 
 And sometimes we win. 
 
 And oftentimes you do not hear 
 
 Our repeated cries. 
 
 And we view our loved ones here 
 
 With downcast eyes. 
 
 We cannot give you help and cheer, 
 
 For you do not recognize 
 
 Our efforts, yet we cherish dear 
 
 Each one. Our love multiplies. 
 
 For we know every impulse and tho't 
 
 That strays thru your mind. 
 
 And tho' you know it not 
 
 Family ties always bind. 
 
 Bind us nearer and nearer yet 
 
 Even tho' your love grows blind. 
 
 Just because you do not let 
 
 Yourself be master of your mind. 
 
 Let us show you. Let us lead 
 
 Temptation from your heart. 
 
 Trust to us we plead. 
 
 That we may never part. 
 
 Give us the guiding hand o'er you 
 
 To throw out satan's power. 
 
 We will warn you what is before you 
 
 Almost hour by hour. 
 
 Satan has long misled you 
 
 For a purpose of his own. 
 
 Into black night he sped you. 
 
 Into ignorance you have grown. 
 
 In search of the word of God, 
 
 You have lived 'neath satan's wing 
 
 In the wrong path you've trod. 
 
 It is the path of truth we bring. 
 
 The truth we set before you 
 
 On the holy wings of love. 
 
 That is why this must not bore you 
 
 For it comes from the God above. 
 
 Listen and we will tell 
 
 The story you must know. 
 
 Thru' satan the world fell. 
 
 Thru' God you must grow. 
 
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Grow to reach the hilltops of love 
 
 Where God's light doth shine, 
 
 'Tis only then you can see above 
 
 To worship God at His shrine. 
 
 'Tis there we will lead you. 
 
 'Tis there that we live. 
 
 In holy love we speed you 
 
 To the best God can give. 
 
 We worship God, as His angels, 
 
 We know and live with Him. 
 
 We live beneath ringing bells 
 
 While your eyes are growing dim. 
 
 While your eyes that do not see us 
 
 Are faltering with fear, 
 
 And do not know that you'll soon be us, 
 
 As us and with us, here. 
 
 Many false prophets have arisen. 
 
 Have given their point of view, 
 
 So the world has been a prison 
 
 Just awakening anew. 
 
 The power of God has ever 
 
 Been gathering force as it waited. 
 
 And satan knows that never 
 
 Will he escape what is fated. 
 
 Satan knows that he is going, 
 
 Knows that he 
 
 Knows it is too late. 
 
 Yet he is steadily growing 
 
 Incredulity and hate. 
 
 Thus he is trying 
 
 The world to agitate. 
 
 It is his frantic crying 
 
 To hold of the hand of fate. 
 
 And as he tries to hold it off 
 
 God's power is working still. 
 
 And begins to shout "Enough! 
 
 You are bending to my will." 
 
 We are nearing that great ocean 
 
 Whose mighty heaving tide 
 
 Enfolds the world's commotion, 
 
 Spending peace worldwide. 
 
 Let us pray in the time being 
 
 When your hearts are opened wide, 
 
 Let us send doubt fleeing. 
 
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Accept God for your guide. 
 
 Accept your kind heavenly Father 
 
 Who has alwaj^s pitied you. 
 
 Understand Him. Wouldn't you rather 
 
 Accept His point of view? 
 
 Let us guide you we plead. 
 
 Let us teach you how to live. 
 
 God will answer every need 
 
 And all goodness give. 
 
 If you help this life to win, 
 
 In God's fold you enter in. 
 
 Then you will always be. 
 
 Nearer my God, to Thee. 
 
 A SOUL'S PLEADING AND ITS ANSWER 
 
 O take me to some rocky height 
 
 Where I the world may view. 
 
 And leave me far into the night 
 
 That I may commune with You. 
 
 There show me the angel band. 
 
 Lead my mind aright. 
 
 Cast away doubt with your hand 
 
 That I may view the sight. 
 
 Let my soul in freedom rise. 
 
 Let me feel thy breath. 
 
 Let me hear thy words wise 
 
 That I may fear not death. 
 
 Thus pleads my soul, for knowledge where 
 
 The angels dwell on high. 
 
 "There's just one way to climb the stair 
 
 That leads into the sky." 
 
 Thus spoke a voice so still 
 
 That swiftly came to me. 
 
 "All may come who will 
 
 Sit in reverie. 
 
 If you calmly sit 
 
 The fires of hope lit, 
 
 Looking for light. 
 
 And willing to fight 
 
 The many evil sprites 
 
 Who each lend their mites 
 
 Of evil powers, to cheat 
 
 You of your rights and defeat 
 
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The purpose of God who gives 
 
 The chance to all who live 
 
 To converse with loved ones gone, 
 
 To those who have entered on 
 
 Their second road of strife, 
 
 That they may enter life 
 
 Everlasting after Judgment Day, 
 
 When there is love and peace always. 
 
 When God the world created. 
 
 He knew that we were fated 
 
 To drift in ignorance and sorrow. 
 
 Thru' people whose each tomorrow 
 
 Was spent in more stubborn wickedness. 
 
 Listening to satan for happiness. 
 
 Listening to satan's lies 
 
 That stifled the many cries 
 
 Of God's hoping, yearning few, 
 
 Who depended on Him to lead them thru 
 
 The maelstrom in which was whirled 
 
 An ignorant and savage world. 
 
 God knew the character of each one. 
 
 How much the devil possessed of them. 
 
 He knew the ways they v/ould turn. 
 
 How Satan's words would throbbing burn 
 
 Their way thru Truth's heart, 
 
 Then as murderers depart, 
 
 Form a religion of their own. 
 
 Which many people would condone. 
 
 And accept as true. 
 
 When if they only knew 
 
 That Jesus' words of old 
 
 In parables were told. 
 
 Parables whose meanings were thwarted 
 
 By the many fainthearted. 
 
 Who either dared not or really thot 
 
 That they were telling what 
 
 God's meaning was meant to be, 
 
 And were not able to see, 
 
 The considerate, loving plan 
 
 That He meant for the life of man. 
 
 First wickedness, then ignorance led 
 
 The joy of living with the dead 
 
 Not as dead but freed to higher stars 
 
 Far astray. Ignorance bars 
 
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The great plan God intended to 
 
 Use for the joy of all of you. 
 
 If you do not believe such things are so 
 
 You have strayed. You do not know 
 
 Satan has made a dupe of you 
 
 From the beginning. It is true 
 
 Our little sect has retained 
 
 The truth of God's word and are pained 
 
 By the world's preaching the false view 
 
 Which satan has placed before you. 
 
 Satan wants you to be parted 
 
 From God's words. Be broken hearted 
 
 Because God separates and grieves you. 
 
 He wants you to think God leaves you 
 
 To struggle alone, no one to guide you, 
 
 While in reality He is beside you 
 
 In myriads of ways. 
 
 You should see how satan betrays 
 
 Your interests for his ow^n, 
 
 Misleading you till you have gone 
 
 Too far to retreat. You know not how 
 
 To learn. He does not allow 
 
 You to. He laughs and scorns 
 
 At any who try to remove the thorns. 
 
 And find the beauty meant to be 
 
 Spread from birth to Eternity. 
 
 That is why so few live 
 
 Who understand and can give 
 
 A true conception of Christ's word. 
 
 For only a few have heard 
 
 The things God intends to strew 
 
 Broadcast for the joy of His few. 
 
 Let satan weep and gnash his teeth, 
 
 We will give him a wreath 
 
 Of the terrible sorrows he has made 
 
 For those sins he will be repaid. 
 
 For the millenium is bound to come, 
 
 When with joy we enter home 
 
 Cleansed by truth and God's divine 
 
 Words and power. When His sign 
 
 Is understood and loved, so near 
 
 Will be God's life and ours, so dear, 
 
 That when you look for anyone 
 
 Who happens to be gone 
 
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To join a bigger, freer place, 
 
 You will see that loving face 
 
 And it will answer, you need not plead 
 
 In vain to hear what you need. 
 
 There's many and many a way 
 
 To hear what angels say. 
 
 So hear me as we pleading cry 
 
 For a new by and by, 
 
 Hear me as I say to you 
 
 Let us make the world anew. 
 
 Hear me as we pleading try 
 
 To raise the world where banners fly. 
 
 Banners of a worldwide peace 
 
 When all manner of evils cease. 
 
 When we thrust all doubt away. 
 
 And invite God's power to stay. 
 
 When we put all wrong to flight. 
 
 When we change things aright. 
 
 When we accept God's power to stay 
 
 And keep Him with us every day. 
 
 Then you will know the meaning of good 
 
 And things will be as they should. 
 
 Let us keep the good work going. 
 
 Let us make some worthy showing 
 
 To the God who entrusts to our care 
 
 This work to do everywhere. 
 
 Let us look to God for light, 
 
 And view the glorious sight 
 
 Of a satan-held ignorant world 
 
 'Round which vast arms are curled. 
 
 Leading it to the breast 
 
 Of the One who loves us best. 
 
 Of the One by whom from now on 
 
 All the past will be as gone. 
 
 A black page of history 
 
 To be blotted from memory, 
 
 To make room for joys to be 
 
 Lasting thru eternity. 
 
 Emerging from a hideous night 
 
 Into everlasting light. 
 
 Such are the plans told to us. 
 
 Such is to be the joyous 
 
 World overrunning with love 
 
 Given from the God above. 
 
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And then for you and me, 
 
 We know we will always be 
 
 Guided by God's own hand 
 
 Into a far better land. 
 
 There to dwell on some bright star 
 
 And always know we are 
 
 Living loved and blest, 
 
 Always with peace and rest. 
 
 THE ETERNAL CITY 
 
 The eternal city spoken of old 
 
 As having streets paved with gold, 
 
 Is brighter than gold, brighter by far 
 
 Than any gleaming, twikling star 
 
 That looks at you in the night 
 
 And you think is very bright. 
 
 To your eye its beams 
 
 Are as a diamond gleams. 
 
 And yet could you but know 
 
 The eternal city all aglow. 
 
 Is diamond, gold and star in one, 
 
 Rivaling the white-hot sun. 
 
 Could you see from your gloomy night 
 
 It's dazzling bewildering light, 
 
 You would kneel asking for pity 
 
 That you might live in the eternal city. 
 
 That you might live in its purple haze 
 
 Sparkling, translucent, soothing rays. 
 
 That is neither purple, silver or gold, 
 
 Yet all in one. A magnificent fold 
 
 That shelters all his innocent sheep. 
 
 With Christ as their shepherd, their trust to keep, 
 
 For such a purpose a God so kind 
 
 Has long remembered and kept in mind 
 
 His suffering children and for your sakes, 
 
 Will forgive and adjust mistakes 
 
 Which, out of ignorance, you made, 
 
 If in God your trust is laid. 
 
 If in God your trust is true 
 
 He will always remember you, 
 
 And a watch over you will keep 
 
 As in dreams you lay asleep. 
 
 And in those dreams you will see 
 
 A glimpse of our Eternity. 
 
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As you wander by the side 
 
 Of one who wants to be your guide 
 
 You will see before you spread 
 
 The land of the so-called dead. 
 
 And as you gaze upon its beauties 
 
 It will remind you of j'our duties 
 
 To neighbors, strangers and kin, 
 
 If you wish to enter in 
 
 The beautiful life so portrayed, 
 
 A place to fit the life you made. 
 
 For such life that here you live 
 
 As you deserve will you receive. 
 
 Hear the angels say. 
 
 "We are watching every day. 
 
 As into your heart we look 
 
 We are writing in j^our book. 
 
 Every word and exact tho't 
 
 In truth will be bro't 
 
 So in your book will appear 
 
 Your every tho't and deed here. 
 
 By every tho't and deed you build 
 
 The mansion which- was willed 
 
 To everyone from the Lord, 
 
 As a just recompense and reward. 
 
 **In my Father's house are many mansions," 
 
 By Jesus was foretold. 
 
 By your life you build those mansions 
 
 In the eternal city of old. 
 
 The city where some will go. 
 
 While some will be left below. 
 
 Where, if they do not repent, 
 
 To Satan's hell-fires they are sent. 
 
 Where they will experience the Second Death, 
 
 While we enjoy eternal breath. 
 
 Loving, living with God apart, 
 
 In His ever faithful heart. 
 
 While some build deathly homes infernal, 
 
 We will dwell in the City Eternal. 
 
 END 
 
 WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN AND 
 
 WHAT WILL BE 
 
 Think of the things that might have been, 
 Had we given a listening ear 
 
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To the little things pleading to enter in 
 
 And become a part of us here. 
 
 Things which would have helped us more 
 
 Than all the whole w^orld beside. 
 
 And which a kind God long before 
 
 Tried to show us when Christ died. 
 
 Tried to show us the plan that He 
 
 Had formed for our benefit, 
 
 That from birth thru eternity 
 
 He was with us in Holy Writ 
 
 He described the world-old plan. 
 
 And the stubborn eyes 
 
 Of ignorant satan-led man 
 
 Refused to believe they were aught but lies. 
 
 God is not cruel. He was always kind. 
 
 He intended not your hearts to break. 
 
 If you would listen you would find 
 
 His intentions and to happiness wake. 
 
 Forget the age-long preachers and creeds 
 
 That have led us so far astray. 
 
 Let us look for a religion with deeds 
 
 That w^ill lead us right always 
 
 Oh think of the happiness we might find 
 
 If we followed the w^ord of God. 
 
 The laws of nature. The natural kind 
 
 Of living and following God. 
 
 It is as natural as the dust 
 
 That forms from our body. As free as air — 
 
 It is cause and effect. It simply must 
 
 Be the only life, everywhere. 
 
 Our bodies die and go back to clay. 
 
 The spirit lives and goes from here 
 
 To it's next abode, where it may stay 
 
 And still live with its family dear. 
 
 If you would let them, would only give 
 
 Then their natural way to speak, 
 
 You would have found the natural way to live, 
 
 The Godly life you seek. 
 
 Such is the joy that might have been 
 
 Had you but stayed with God. 
 
 Not straying to ignorance and sin. 
 
 And becoming creatures of the sod. 
 
 You might been communing with Heaven. 
 
 You might have had joy untold. 
 
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And for your faith God would have given 
 
 A life of purple and gold. 
 
 And these things that might have been so 
 
 God w^ill not allow to die. 
 
 He intends us all to know 
 
 That there is no cause for a sigh. 
 
 Just listen to the words of those 
 
 Who live and love you still. 
 
 Live with God, with Him who knows 
 
 That truth, your hearts will fill. 
 
 These might have beens will some day rise 
 
 With a power that never dies. 
 
 END 
 
 YE ARE GOD'S 
 
 Listen to the God of Everywhere. 
 
 From everywhere comes the voice. 
 
 "Ye are gods". If you care 
 
 Enough to make the choice. 
 
 You are free. Completely free. 
 
 Free from poverty's hampering strings, 
 
 Free from all evil things 
 
 That here abound, if j^ou wish to be. 
 
 For God said you are a part 
 
 Of the great soul of Him. 
 
 And if so why not start 
 
 To be a counterpart of Him. 
 
 And a counterpart you are 
 
 Even tho' very small. 
 
 Shining from afar 
 
 Is the God over all. 
 
 The God who is all there is 
 
 Even to you and I. 
 
 All good is His 
 
 From the earth to the sky. 
 
 Yet you are a god; and if good 
 
 For good you can- create. 
 
 Not by mere flesh and blood, 
 
 For soulpower is fate. 
 
 And such fate do not deny 
 
 The existence thereof. 
 
 Learn. Understand why. 
 
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At truth do not scoff. 
 
 The world's power is in your hand 
 
 To make or mar its life. 
 
 Lack of faith to understand 
 
 Is the cause of the world's strife. 
 
 Fight with your will, not with blood. 
 
 You are your own fate. 
 
 If you do as you should 
 
 Before you is the golden gate. 
 
 Gold for power. With crystal gems 
 
 Which are deeds pure and clear. 
 
 The gates of power all weakness condemns, 
 
 It will not open to fear. 
 
 "He who will not demand, hath no right." 
 
 Are God's words correctly told. 
 
 He wishes no one to slight. 
 
 But you must ask to enter His fold. 
 
 Ask! And it will be given. 
 
 Believe! and you will find 
 
 That the golden gate to Heaven 
 
 Is opened thru your mind. 
 
 Have we not said that Heaven 
 
 Is a feeling, not a place. 
 
 If in God you have striven 
 
 Your Heaven shows in your face. 
 
 Of course you must know 
 
 We are gods on a smaller scale. 
 
 But while we live here below 
 
 We may lift the material veil. 
 
 Lift the veil and view 
 
 The powers of each one. 
 
 And know each could do 
 
 The things Christ has done. 
 
 Christ said that we could do 
 
 What He did and still more. 
 
 Ye are gods each one of you, 
 
 Seek ye, the open door. 
 
 The door that swings wide 
 
 To each one that tries. 
 
 To no one is denied 
 
 The stairway to the skies. 
 
 The stairway that leads 
 
 To the Heavenly Host. 
 
 Who look upon our creeds 
 
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As a fleeting ghost. 
 
 A ghost that we must banish 
 
 To the satan from whom it came. 
 
 And all trials vanish 
 
 In the praise of God's name. 
 
 Ye are gods, tho small 
 
 Parts of the universe. 
 
 Help the God of all 
 
 To remove satan's curse. 
 
 Tho God is all in all, 
 
 We are distinct parts of Him, 
 
 Who must right the world's fall 
 
 To satan black and grim. 
 
 Tho each has a Heaven of his own, 
 
 The God, of whom we are, 
 
 Has a marvelous Heaven 'round His throne 
 
 On His saintly star. 
 
 On His throne, the Judgment Seat 
 
 Where the perfect live. 
 
 Where Heaven is doubly sweet 
 
 Because there is Good, to give. 
 
 Because we are gods, on a small scale 
 
 Our Heaven is proportionately small. 
 
 In insignificance it pales 
 
 Beside the Heaven of All. 
 
 The Heaven of God, where we pray 
 
 That we may find a place. 
 
 Granted permission to stay 
 
 Reflecting God's shining face. 
 
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 THE CHANGING SANDS 
 
 An experience in Death. Told by one who knows. 
 
 The moaning sea 
 
 The changing sands, 
 
 Have forever and ever 
 
 And ever ceased to be 
 
 To me, this life has, passed away. 
 
 My spirit has fled this very day. 
 
 I see a bright cloud. 
 
 A gentle hand 
 
 Reaches forth to lead me 
 
 To yonder land. 
 
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My scattered senses revive in a flash, 
 
 I feel a great weight drop with a crash, 
 
 And I'm going. I know not where. 
 
 The scene is changed. 
 
 As I look o'er kind faces and know 
 
 I never will dwell here more, 
 
 I feel strange. It is all so new. 
 
 I wonder, I know not what to do. 
 
 But look! In joy 
 
 All words fail me. 
 
 Mother, father crowds near 
 
 That I may see. 
 
 A high spirit appears, holding a book, 
 
 And leans toward us that we may look. 
 
 I understand, 'tis my Book of Life. 
 
 I'm thinking fast. 
 
 The life I led 
 
 Rushes back to memory. 
 
 What will be said. 
 
 Of my selfish and wayward years. 
 
 I falter, I'm filled with racking fears. 
 
 At last they speak 
 
 Gentle but firm. 
 
 I feel in truth 
 
 As a lowly worm. 
 
 "Tho'tlessness of others. You must atone 
 
 And bravely bear your burden alone. 
 
 God loves us all, while you are but one/^ 
 
 I turn away 
 
 Sad and distressed. 
 
 And firmly resolved 
 
 To do my best. 
 
 I'm guided to my next abode, 
 
 Traveling swiftly, needing no road. 
 
 On a planet 
 
 Higher by two 
 
 Than the Earth we left, 
 
 Our journey's thru. 
 
 They tell me it is here that I must live. 
 
 To learn, **As ye receive, freely give. 
 
 The first rule of all is holy love." 
 
 "From love spring all desires and deeds. 
 
 It is out of love 
 
 God supplies our needs. 
 
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The purer your love so are you, 
 
 Forgiving, sacrificing and true. 
 
 Love of duty 
 
 To know we must 
 
 Feel toward others 
 
 As kind and just 
 
 As we want God to feel to us and ours. 
 
 Thus we call to us the holy Powers. 
 
 Thro'out love of self and understand." 
 
 Thus they taught me 
 
 Of the seven spheres 
 
 Of which the Earth is first, 
 
 The Vale of Tears, 
 
 Where the devil now has his way, 
 
 Where the most evil are bound to stay. 
 
 And gradually 
 
 Rise up with love. 
 
 Just as they deserve 
 
 To spheres above. 
 
 On Judgment Day who in evil persist. 
 
 In Second Death will cease to exist. 
 
 For love of God must be undisturbed. 
 
 We are as 
 
 The numberless sands 
 
 That border the deep seas 
 
 In many lands. 
 
 Some are washed high and some washed low 
 
 Wherever the power wills them to go. 
 
 I have only 
 
 This tiny way. 
 
 Please give sober thots 
 
 To what I say. 
 
 I have been there and I pray you give heed 
 
 To your every word, thot and deed. 
 
 Always remember 
 
 The Changing Sands. 
 
 YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN 
 
 Read these words as they are written 
 Divinely spoken from above. 
 That the soul shall be smitten 
 From the one who does not love. 
 And in loving love the ones 
 
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Who have unselfishly loved you. 
 
 Parents, daughters or sons 
 
 Who in spirit are near to you. 
 
 Or a mate whose children borne 
 
 Are half a spirit of you 
 
 The sacredness cannot be shorn 
 
 From the union of you two. 
 
 Sacred love must be maintained. 
 
 The wickedness of men 
 
 By the fates are ordained 
 
 To face them again. 
 
 These things must be made straight. 
 
 Unions must not be broken. 
 
 Remember there is an afterfate 
 
 As these lips have spoken. 
 
 There are things you must know 
 
 Which common sense should teach. 
 
 When to spirit land we go 
 
 We are still within your reach. 
 
 Love the soul^ not the house of clay, 
 
 And not for mere physical things. 
 
 But the soul who knows eternal day 
 
 And has eternal wings. 
 
 Do not the marriage sacredness abuse. 
 
 Choose not for earthly life. 
 
 But for perfect matehood choose 
 
 Where ruptions are not rife. 
 
 These perfect unions must be 
 
 The outcome of Godly love. 
 
 Joined by prayers to see 
 
 Eternal life above. 
 
 If satan has wrongly led you 
 
 And great mistakes you have made, 
 
 The hand of God will in you 
 
 Cause the memory to fade. 
 
 So that when He starts to adjust 
 
 Your life and mistakes undo. 
 
 For your good you simply must 
 
 Forget and think His way is so. 
 
 For your life must be perfect 
 
 If to God's Heaven you rise. 
 
 You must know and expect 
 
 That God's way is wise. 
 
 And being wise, you must know 
 
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That if by chance your love was wrong, 
 
 Thru God's adjustment you must go 
 
 To have life everlastingly long. 
 
 Harmony comes from Godly love. 
 
 In God you must be born. 
 
 In perfect realms above 
 
 You will see Eternal Morn. 
 
 "Verily ye must be born again." 
 
 Was what Christ explained. 
 
 In God's spirit both women and men 
 
 Must be as God ordained. 
 
 If you want eternal life, 
 
 As God's child ye must be born. 
 
 In His spirit husband and wife 
 
 Apart will never be torn. 
 
 It is done by God's mighty hand 
 
 To perfect the perfect union. 
 
 Accept this decree and demand 
 
 Such soul communion. 
 
 Useless marriage is a waste 
 
 Caused by earthly laws. 
 
 Because satan was in haste 
 
 To get you in his jaws. 
 
 A waste to be adjusted 
 
 In the worlds to come. 
 
 The one way to have perfected 
 
 The family in God's home. 
 
 And often there is created here 
 
 A union perfect in soul. 
 
 And which is always dear, 
 
 Together reaching their goal. 
 
 Love the soul. Love the spirit 
 
 Tho 'the body is gone from you. 
 
 This is in Holy writ 
 
 And is very plainly true. 
 
 Love is lonely, it is misused. 
 
 God is love and wants to be 
 
 Not by wrong abused, 
 
 But pure and forever free. 
 
 Free from satan's physical lust. 
 
 Free from contaminations. 
 
 And pleads for you to be Just 
 
 And accept this explanation. 
 
 The Hand of God wins in the end. 
 
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Family ties are sacred. 
 
 And born again ye will amend 
 
 And live with God instead. 
 
 THE UNIVERSE 
 
 There's many and many a one 
 
 Who many and many a time, 
 
 Gaze at the golden sun 
 
 And wonder at its rays sublime. 
 
 For it is a sublime thing 
 
 To warm the earth of snow, 
 
 And make winter take wing 
 
 Back to where icebergs grow. 
 
 The sun in summer heat 
 
 Calls forth the crops again. 
 
 That there may be enough to eat 
 
 To feed all nations of men. 
 
 And besides the sun there is the moon, 
 
 The earth, the stars, the space, 
 
 Where everything moves in tune 
 
 At an even pace. 
 
 Such is the universe God made 
 
 Which we could explain. 
 
 Listen to what has been said 
 And much knowledge attain. 
 
 God creates Life with His will. 
 
 From spiritpower it is grown. 
 
 From His spirit He doth fill 
 
 Our bodies of flesh and bone. 
 
 It is on earth Life is started. 
 
 In materials it is grown. 
 
 In death spirit and materials are parted 
 
 And to higher worlds it goes. 
 
 Nature, Life and God all three 
 
 Are a vast overwhelming One. 
 
 It is Nature that there should be 
 
 A dazzling heated sun. 
 
 Tho' the universe you do not understand 
 
 Why or from where it appeared. 
 
 God, the Life of Nature, did command 
 Such, that His life might be cheered. 
 He made all things as they are. 
 From His marvelous spirit will power. 
 
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From space and the largest star 
 
 To the tiniest little flower. 
 
 And when you wonder at the sun's rays 
 
 Or the moon's silvery glow, 
 
 Or the motion that forms nights and days, 
 
 Just let your wonder grow. 
 
 And in awe of the Spirit Great 
 
 Who built from Him everything. 
 
 Such power let us appreciate 
 
 And in praise our voices ring. 
 
 Love is the crown of life. 
 
 Our hearts beat with its thrill. 
 
 It helps our labors and strife, 
 
 It tries our hearts to fill. 
 
 If your hearts are near bursting 
 
 With joy and love of good, 
 
 Your souls are everthirsting 
 
 To serve God as you should. 
 
 There's joy in love. The love of God 
 
 And kindness to your fellowmen. 
 
 For we are all loved by God. 
 
 We are all God's children. 
 
 Love is a magic power 
 
 That softens and uplifts the earth. 
 
 Bringing near the Awakening Hour, 
 
 The day of joy and mirth. 
 
 When the earth is a heaven, 
 
 When satan is outgrown, 
 
 The age for which we have striven, 
 
 When sorrow has forever flown. 
 
 Then millenium comes with love. 
 
 Love of Justice. Love of Right. 
 
 Love of God here and above, 
 
 Love of God's great might. 
 
 His love is brimming o'er 
 
 If you try to find it. 
 
 Growing more and more 
 
 For those who do find it. 
 
 Love of good rightly applied 
 
 Will give you God's blessings and praise. 
 
 His loving help is not denied 
 
 If you serve Him all your days. 
 
 This book will clearly lead you 
 
 To the truth we preach. 
 
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Work and God will give you 
 
 The joys you try to reach. 
 
 Others do it, why not youf 
 
 God loves you and every one. 
 
 Ye are gods. Try and so do, 
 
 And God's will be done. 
 
 Learn love of God and be true 
 And His blessings be on you. 
 
 FOR CHRIST'S SAKE 
 
 "For Christ's sake." Such is the plea 
 
 That many lips express, 
 
 And as I hear, the love in Me 
 
 Makes satan's power less. 
 
 The love I bore you Savior, 
 
 Jesus, My servant Son, 
 
 Will punish satan's behaviour, 
 
 His cross has just begun. 
 
 The cross that will overpower him, 
 
 Will lay his black soul low. 
 
 The death journey is before him, 
 
 To its end he must go. 
 
 Go to the dark and bitter end. 
 
 To the hell that faces him. 
 
 Rise up and help your God to send 
 
 Him where Justice places him. 
 
 You are my children all. 
 
 Help Good to conquer Bad. 
 
 If before satan you do not fall. 
 
 Great joys are to be had. 
 
 Great joy and great love 
 
 Fulfilling your brightest dreams, 
 
 All coming from your God above. 
 
 The God who reigns supreme. 
 
 Reigning in the Judgment Seat, 
 
 Reigning with mighty hands. 
 
 Many angels at his feet 
 
 Obeying His commands. 
 
 For well they know that mighty throne, 
 
 Its sceptre rules forever. 
 
 Great love it has shown 
 
 To praise their least endeavor. 
 
 For those who are praised 
 
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Lies a happy sunny shore, 
 To which they are raised 
 To dwell forevermore. 
 
 Such is the life of those who are 
 
 Dwelling by My side, 
 
 In My kingdom, on My star 
 
 Where the most perfect abide. 
 
 For such lives I plead with thee 
 
 To pray in Christ's name. 
 
 Heed My commands and I promise thee 
 
 A home in My kingdom you may claim. 
 
 Hear our music from afar 
 
 Of the promise I never break. 
 
 For the love of My Son, I will not bar 
 
 Any from the promise I make. 
 
 For Christ's sake. You surely know 
 
 That in spiritworld you will wake. 
 
 And as you live you nearer go, 
 
 So ask for Christ's sake. 
 
 For Christ's sake I give you 
 
 The help you need. 
 
 For the love of My Son I give you 
 
 The love you plead. 
 
 If you love Jesus and are true 
 
 To His memory in your heart, 
 
 For that love I give you 
 
 Of My power a part. 
 
 With that power you may do 
 
 The deeds that I command. 
 
 If you love Him, I love you 
 
 And so reach forth My hand 
 
 To teach you and guide you 
 
 To the road that leads to Heaven. 
 
 I will always be beside you. 
 
 My promise I have given. 
 
 I love My Son so that His wish 
 
 That you to My heart I take, 
 
 Will cause you all good to accomplish 
 
 For Christ's sake. 
 
 These are My words, I promise you 
 
 As such will carry you thru 
 
 Any dark and dismal road. 
 
 Guiding you to Christ's abode. 
 
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CHRIST OF THE HEAVENLY HOST 
 
 Hear the tramp of many feet, 
 
 The roll of many drums, 
 
 As before the Judgment Seat 
 
 The Conquering Hero comes. 
 
 The Conquering Hero, once so meek. 
 
 Walking the earth in mock defeat, 
 
 Helping the poor and weak. 
 
 Willing all hardships to meet. 
 
 Seeking to cure and heal. 
 
 Yet few would understand 
 
 And in understanding feel 
 
 The blessing of this command ; 
 
 God helps those who helps themselves, ^^ 
 
 "He deserves not who does not demand. 
 
 Why not learn and avail yourselves 
 
 Of God's ready helping hand. 
 
 The hand stretched out to you 
 
 Instantly at your pleasure. 
 
 Giving kind words and true 
 
 And for your work full measure. 
 
 Christ tried to teach what you receive 
 
 By knowledge of His word. 
 
 In greatest joy you might live 
 
 Free as the freest bird. 
 
 He w^as meek and yet so great. 
 
 The purest life yet seen. 
 
 Had it not have been for satan's hate 
 
 Such lives you all might have been. 
 
 Satan seemed to have a victory. 
 
 He accomplished mock defeat. 
 
 For the hand of God surely, quietly 
 
 Deprived him of victory's sweet. 
 
 Satan has ruled hundreds of years 
 
 Trying the world to destroy. 
 
 Causing sorrows and tears. 
 
 Banishing glorious joy. 
 
 Teaching us to curse and kill. 
 
 To think the death he sends 
 
 To sadden us, is God's will. 
 
 And to think separation God intends. 
 
 Such lies and gloom satan sent. 
 
 God is using a powerful will 
 
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Trying to teach you what He meant, 
 
 Seeking your faith in Him still. 
 
 A great army of God's own 
 
 Have risen with Christ at their head. 
 
 A wonderful force they have grown, 
 
 The ones that you call dead. 
 
 Angels with wreaths of flowers 
 
 To crown the success of Christ, 
 
 Are His faithful followers. 
 
 Praising God in the highest. 
 
 Hoping for victory great. 
 
 Knowing they will succeed. 
 
 Knowing it is the hand of fate 
 
 That Satan's heart must bleed. 
 
 Knowing too, the people will 
 
 Escape those tearing jaws 
 
 And Truth will guide them still, 
 
 To learn Nature's laws. 
 
 By doing so you will view 
 
 The success of the Heavenly Host. 
 
 From the Truth that comes to you 
 
 Comes the power of the Holy Ghost. 
 
 See the Hero gloriously rise 
 
 To calm the tempest of woe. 
 
 Appearing to the blessed eyes 
 
 Of those who see and know. 
 
 Thus we see the great career 
 
 Of our Heavenly Father's Son 
 
 Is forming and is here. 
 
 Great wonders have just begun. 
 
 A collossal force is the Heavenly Host, 
 
 Tramping with innumerable feet. 
 
 The God who loves us most. 
 
 Bids us the Host to greet. 
 
 With glories we do not know. 
 
 They are forging straight ahead 
 
 Causing satan's overthrow 
 
 And leaving good instead. 
 
 Thus with the beat of Heavenly drums 
 
 Christ the Conqueror in glory comes. 
 
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THE LIGHTHOUSE 
 
 Across the stormy seas, 
 
 Across the barren plain, 
 
 Over hills and leas 
 
 Comes the echo back again. 
 
 The echo of many a raging wave 
 
 Beating over jagged rocks of hate, 
 
 Rocks that wreck and do not save 
 
 And in pity never wait. 
 
 Thru that black terrible night 
 
 Of gloom and clouds of sin 
 
 Comes a piercing ray of light, 
 
 Seeming to quiet that unutterable din. 
 
 Then comes a voice powerful and clear 
 
 Saying to the world, "Peace, Be still," 
 
 And a calm settling near 
 
 Calls our tho'ts to that wonderful will. 
 
 The will that dispenses the stormy life 
 
 That shipwrecks Peace and Good, 
 
 The storms of Sin and Strife, 
 
 The weakness of flesh and blood. 
 
 Over those treacherous rocks of hate 
 
 Comes that gleaming twinkling light, 
 
 Leading you before it is too late 
 
 Into safety, out of the night. 
 
 A lighthouse has risen above the mist, 
 
 Guiding the way to peace and cheer. 
 
 It has arisen in your midst. 
 
 Its rays are bright and clear. 
 
 A lighthouse sturdy and full of power 
 
 Shines over the land of woe. 
 
 The Dawn, the Awakening Hour 
 
 Is here. The storms must go. 
 
 A lighthouse guided by God's hand 
 
 Will find its way to you. 
 
 God's truth will demand 
 
 An entrance to the hearts of you. 
 
 God will grow a church steeple 
 
 That will mount to Heaven and higher. 
 
 Its light will guide many people 
 
 To God's own church spire. 
 
 And while that church is growing 
 
 The light that will lead you, 
 
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God's own Book is doing 
 
 His own work among you. 
 
 Try to reach it and pray 
 
 That the light may shine your way, 
 
 And the storms that sorrows fill 
 
 May give way to 'Teace. Be still." 
 
 WHEN CHRIST ROSE 
 
 Your heart leaps at Easter time, 
 
 With tho'ts of Christ who rose 
 
 From the tomb, as heavenly bells chime 
 
 His victory over His foes. 
 
 Our Father did resurrect Him 
 
 With the view of showing the rest 
 
 His completely powerful love for Him 
 
 Who did His best. 
 
 So He would love us all, 
 
 If we would listen to Him 
 
 And before all creeds not to fall, 
 
 The creeds that do not do justice to Him. 
 
 He would not even allow 
 
 Christ's body to His foes. 
 
 His spirit is smiling now 
 
 While God's power grows, 
 
 And is flooding the earth with light, 
 
 Leading the people from sin. 
 
 Showing His pathway bright 
 
 That we may enter in. 
 
 Trying to show us the way 
 
 To the power He gave His Son. 
 
 Let us all work for that brighter day 
 
 Which has just begun. 
 
 The day which will reveal 
 
 The powerful arm of old 
 
 Which shielded Christ in His appeal 
 
 And drew Him in His fold. 
 
 There giving Him strength of heart 
 
 To receive the final blow, 
 
 And lessened and soothed the smart, 
 
 That His soul in peace might go. 
 
 Not as a fluttering bird with broken wings 
 
 Wildly shrieking in its pain. 
 
 But a soothing lethargy He brings. 
 
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Christ called not in vain. 
 Christ was a medium of high degree 
 Who knew how to receive such power. 
 He asked and was given instantly 
 Help, in His trying hour. 
 Christ rose, as we may rise. 
 To the supreme heights of God. 
 Let us learn and together prize 
 The truth from Almight^^ God. 
 Then there will be a grand Easter day 
 To brighten the world with praise. 
 When with Christ we all will say 
 Easter is the day of days. 
 
 THE OLIVE TREE 
 
 In a garden of old stood an olive tree, 
 
 Christ in passing stopped to see 
 
 The quality of the fruit it bore 
 
 Thus teaching the parable of yore, 
 
 Each tree is known by the fruit it gives 
 
 If its duty it has done. 
 
 If a cheery life it lives 
 
 Raising its branches to the sun. 
 
 Cheerfully growing to supply 
 
 The needs of anyone 
 
 Who hungry was passing by 
 
 Faint from the toil they had done. 
 
 Feeding the weak and weary 
 
 Who stepped beneath its branches to rest. 
 
 The meat of its fruit a cheery 
 
 Reminder, that we are blessed. 
 
 Thus its duty it has done 
 
 In its only way. 
 
 Privileged by the One 
 
 Who is with us every day. 
 
 And of Whom we are a part, 
 
 Our souls are not our own 
 
 To destroy and tear apart 
 
 By the deeds we have done. 
 
 We belong to that mighty Throne 
 
 That rules from on high. 
 
 Who gave our souls from His own 
 
 And whose Soul is everywhere. 
 
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Is everywhere, in all 
 
 That for goodness grows. 
 
 The' some things to satan fall, 
 
 From whom all evil flows. 
 
 This olive tree nobly tried 
 
 To serve the One who gave 
 
 The power. He never denied 
 
 To the lowest slave, 
 
 That of giving of his heart 
 
 To those who need it most. 
 
 For as each is of God a part 
 
 He would be serving the Holy Ghost, 
 
 Each is judged by their deeds, 
 
 "By the fruits ye are known." 
 
 If you serve others* needs 
 
 You have in God stronger grown. 
 
 The permanent fruitage of the olive tree 
 
 Pleased the Prince of Peace, 
 
 So that He chose a branch of it to be 
 
 An offering that never would cease. 
 
 A peace offering it has become . 
 
 Of everlasting good will 
 
 And forever it will come 
 
 To teach our duty still. 
 
 The duty of giving to another one 
 
 The cheer that he needs. 
 
 So that when the day is done 
 
 God is pleased with our deeds. 
 
 Strive to be as the olive tree 
 
 A peaceful bringer of good. 
 
 Who in the end surely will be 
 
 As happy as such a one should. 
 
 For the tree by Christ is blest, 
 
 And 'neath its branches you should rest 
 
 In your thots, and try to be 
 
 As beloved as the Olive Tree. 
 
 REVELATIONS 
 
 Write these words as written 
 By St. John the divine. 
 That the life shall be taken 
 From whoever extracts a line. 
 The powers of God are rising 
 
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To a higher mighty union 
 
 And these words are the comprising 
 
 Parts of their communion. 
 
 "Many are the worlds that before ye rise 
 
 In a higher freer life, 
 
 These worlds ye must conquer, otherwise 
 
 You sink to the lowest in life. 
 
 Wondrous worlds with no connection 
 
 To man's ignorant wilfuU mind, 
 
 The minds that have no conception 
 
 Of the truth they might find. 
 
 Worlds which spread before you 
 
 In God's guiding light, 
 
 In the maze of stars which o'er you 
 
 Twinkle afar in the night. 
 
 These worlds of which w^e have spoken 
 
 And thru' which you all must climb 
 
 Is God's vast road unbroken 
 
 By the passing of time. 
 
 Thru' the many ages gone 
 
 They remained unchanged in the same place 
 
 And as we lead you from now on 
 
 We lead you in God's grace. 
 
 It is God's grace that we raise 
 
 The earth to its former height, 
 
 Back to its first perfect days. 
 
 Raised by truth and might. 
 
 Truth, this book herein unfolds. 
 
 Truth which God has given, 
 
 Which is the might that molds 
 
 The right path into heaven. 
 
 The revelations which are spread 
 
 Before your mind and vision 
 
 Will of necessity be led 
 
 By this book's holy mission. 
 
 The clouds are aburst with fire 
 
 To attract every eye 
 
 'Tis from up here we lead you higher 
 
 Into a sweet by and by. 
 
 For from here we teach 
 
 A fire will overspread the earth 
 
 And if to us you reach 
 
 You will prove your worth. 
 
 Truth's fire shall burn 
 
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All evil wicked things, 
 
 Over their ashes shall you earn 
 
 The peace the future brings. 
 
 By which fire is the end of the world 
 
 The world of satan and sin, 
 
 Emerging the new earth from which is hurled 
 
 The satan which has been. 
 
 By that is meant the earth passing away 
 
 Of sin there will be an end. 
 
 A new earth, a new day 
 
 Comes with the power God will send. 
 
 And the second coming of Christ 
 
 In His cloud of flame. 
 
 He will lift you to His height. 
 
 To the God from whom you came. 
 
 The burst of glory you will see 
 
 Is meant by the flaming cloud. 
 
 In His humble servant you will see 
 
 A servant of whom God is proud. 
 
 Proud to exhibit as His own, 
 
 A teacher of God's word, 
 
 In whose spirit Christ has grown 
 
 To represent the trust incurred. 
 
 Incurred for the w^orld's benefit 
 
 That God's word might be taught. 
 
 A holy mission and by it 
 
 The world's redemption is bro't. 
 
 The world redeemed by God's teachers, 
 
 Humble servants of Christ, 
 
 Who are world's preachers 
 
 Bringing truth and right. 
 
 This is the scriptures as they should be, 
 
 In parables as they are. 
 
 By God's light you should see 
 
 The change is not far. 
 
 As the change is coming nearer 
 
 Bringing Christ to you 
 
 Listen to His message bearer, 
 
 Listen and then do. 
 
 Do as this book tells you. 
 
 Do and receive your praise. 
 
 God is always with you 
 
 In you all your days. 
 
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WINNING PRAISE 
 
 Choose not the easiest path in life 
 
 That shows that you are weak. 
 
 Choose the one where struggles are rife 
 
 And you will get what you seek. 
 
 Each effort gives you strength 
 
 To help win the next fight, 
 
 The road behind you gains in length 
 
 Stretching back into the night. 
 
 While on beyond is the rosy dawn 
 
 Shining over the hills you climb, 
 
 While those behind you are gone, 
 
 Just the footsteps of time. 
 
 Then at the journey's end we've won 
 
 The right to rest and cheer. 
 
 Then there's many to lead you on, 
 
 There's many to greet you here. 
 
 That is why the idle one 
 
 Will not be of the few 
 
 That are invited to don 
 
 Wings of brilliant hue. 
 
 To those that strive there's praise. 
 
 To those that shirk, defeat. 
 
 To those who look there's many ways 
 
 To win praise from the Judgment Seat. 
 
 PEACE ON EARTH 
 
 Let the message of the Christ child 
 From Whom great blessings flow 
 Teach you to be meek and mild 
 As our Saviour long ago. 
 Learn to be patient and kind 
 And to lend a helping hand, 
 That happiness others may find. 
 That they may straighter stand. 
 Let the message rush over you 
 Driving selfish pride away. 
 Let the message be ever before you 
 And give it a place to stay 
 Leave a corner in your heart 
 For the message to dwell. 
 Let good impulses from it start, 
 
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Listen and heed it well. 
 
 Let it grow and let it rise 
 
 Till it fills the whole of you, 
 
 Let it look out of your eyes 
 
 That others may see it too. 
 
 Let it become a part of your life 
 
 As if it were food; 
 
 To overcome hate and strife, 
 
 And to establish good. 
 
 When we learn to be friends true 
 
 To all who are half way good, 
 
 There will be no wars to do 
 
 The shedding of innocent blood. 
 
 This was the message Christ gave 
 
 When they told us over again 
 
 How God's love to save 
 
 By "Peace on earth, good will to men." 
 
 A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 
 
 When Christmas bells are ringing 
 
 In many a joyous town, 
 
 Many voices are singing 
 
 As snow comes drifting down. 
 
 Many hearts are happy here 
 
 Without a care or a sigh, 
 
 All the world seems to be cheer. 
 
 Reflecting a brilliant sky 
 
 Yet is the world free from care? 
 
 Aside from the wretchedly poor 
 
 Who are everywhere, 
 
 Aside from them are you sure? 
 
 Are you sure you are carefree? 
 
 Are you sure you are gladhearted? 
 
 Can you not in fancy see 
 
 Those from whom you are parted 
 
 Those who are ever beside you 
 
 Longing for you to speak 
 
 Demanding the joys now denied you 
 
 Which you will find if you seek. 
 
 Joys which come not unsought. 
 
 They are the fruits of labor. 
 
 Know you the words Christ taught 
 
 "Learn to love your neighbor." 
 
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Yet these words are pitifully weak 
 
 To describe the whole tho't. 
 
 In explanations we seek 
 
 To make clear what He taught. 
 
 Everyone in every land 
 
 Should feel the brother and sisterhood of us. 
 
 Joined by God's loving hand 
 
 Into one family continuous. 
 
 In that way forming a power 
 
 Of which each one holds a part. 
 
 Partaking of God's liberal dower 
 
 To strengthen each sad heart. 
 
 If you try to help another 
 
 So that stronger powers they may hold, 
 
 Their spiritual strength will be another 
 
 Stepping stone to God's fold. 
 
 If all the world could be 
 
 Spiritual converts everyone, 
 
 For each individual there would be 
 
 Stronger powers to be won. 
 
 Think of the joyous Christmas bells 
 
 Which would ring with a new earth 
 
 If we would listen to what God tells 
 
 Of the millennium's birth. 
 
 The millennium which will be 
 
 A prophecy foretold. 
 
 When Spiritualism all will see 
 
 And dwell within God's fold. 
 
 For Spiritualism is the only way 
 
 The millennium age will come. 
 
 With the new earth, the new day 
 
 In which we enter home. 
 
 A wonderful home which opens its door 
 
 To the glad new earth and which gives 
 
 Blessings and love to all the poor 
 
 Who in God's word believe and live. 
 
 Individual power does increase 
 
 If put with another, tho' small, 
 
 And together with harmony and peace 
 
 Soon reach Heaven's Entrance Hall. 
 
 Just think of the earth as one, 
 
 Just one great mass of power. 
 
 Think you the earth would rival the sun 
 
 In its Awakening Hour. 
 
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Think of the good that would ensue 
 
 With the earth and stars connected. 
 
 Connected by a power that you 
 
 In your ignorance never suspected. 
 
 If you these things spread, 
 
 The words from God Most High, 
 
 If you help the people to be led 
 
 You will help the old world die. 
 
 The old world of satan and sin 
 
 And long by satan oppressed. 
 
 The great joys which might have been 
 
 Will be by God blessed. 
 
 And will overspread the earth 
 
 A glorious Christmas day, 
 
 When Christ brings joy and mirth 
 
 To banish sorrow always. 
 
 When Spiritualism worldwide is known, 
 
 By all of us combining. 
 
 We would create a power full grown 
 
 To keep God's light shining. 
 
 If many small things together blend 
 
 A large one it will be. 
 
 Then the love God would send 
 
 Would grow thru Eternity. 
 
 To get this glad Christmas day 
 
 Work with your neighbors to make 
 
 Unspeakable joy that will stay 
 
 Forever. For Christ's sake. 
 
 THE GREAT I. 
 
 Listen to the rules of love. 
 
 Lower thy voice of tears, 
 
 I will watch from realms above 
 
 Faithful thru all the years. 
 
 Close thine eyes in peaceful rest 
 
 Forget the world of care. 
 
 Forget all else and listen, lest 
 
 You lose this voice from Everywhere. 
 
 Clear thy brain of the dust of years, 
 
 Let thy weary wistful mind 
 
 Have its breath of life, throw off its fears 
 
 And commune with others of its kind. 
 
 Watch and wait in peace, when 
 
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You are quiet and alone, 
 
 Your soul will drift in peace again 
 
 To its own its native home. 
 
 For there 'twas born and there 'twill dwell 
 
 When it leaves its earthly frame 
 
 And you and I in peace will dwell 
 
 From whence you came. 
 
 For I am you and you am I, 
 
 Together we are one 
 
 And when I call from on High 
 
 I know you will come. 
 
 You will leave the earth your present home, 
 
 I will show you the way. 
 
 When I call you will come 
 
 Back Home to stay. 
 
 For I am the Great. I am the Small 
 
 Of the things on earth 
 
 From the least of all 
 
 To things of greater worth. 
 
 My children all, look up to Me, 
 
 My message is clear and bright. 
 
 I gave you all eyes to see 
 
 This great and shining light. 
 
 When once you see, the way is clear 
 
 Even thru thorns and stone 
 
 And when you call I will hasten here 
 
 To greet mine own. 
 
 You have but to look at a little flower, 
 
 At the w^oods and grasses green 
 
 And you will see Me in Nature's bower, ^ 
 
 Even in the moon's silvery sheen. 
 
 For I am all in all 
 
 There is nothing you can see 
 
 And things you cannot see at all 
 
 But what belongs to Me. 
 
 Even the little things 
 
 That seem of no worth to you. 
 
 There is good each one brings 
 
 There's work for all to do. 
 
 There must be things to prove your worth, 
 
 You must stand a thorough test, 
 
 Then when you leave this lowly earth 
 
 You will have proved your best. 
 
 Don't forget you are with Me. 
 
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We are spirit all in one. 
 
 Tho' you claim me not and satan see 
 
 I will leave you not alone. 
 
 Flow on mighty tide, you will reach there at last, 
 
 Your power is a million fold, 
 
 The Great Change is coming fast 
 
 Remember what I have told. 
 
 The time coming not far away 
 
 When with sin you stand beside, 
 
 In the new Dawn, before the new Day 
 
 You will know satan lied. 
 
 This is a message from the Great I 
 
 The only One that lives; 
 
 Hear this voice from on high, 
 
 Hear what Goodness gives 
 
 Hear this voice from many places; 
 
 From angels that are your own. 
 
 Could you see their loving faces 
 
 You would know them one by one. 
 
 Love to all each one sends, 
 
 And 'tis here this message ends. 
 
 WHAT IS LIFE? 
 
 What is life but a series of years 
 Spent on earth, the Vale of Tears, 
 To prove our worth as the years roll on. 
 Who in end will dwell with God's Son. 
 Who in this life have shown their worth, 
 Who have done the most good on earth 
 Who have sacrificed comforts and those 
 Who have been not thorns but a rose. 
 A rose whose sweetness shines afar, 
 A rose and yet a star. 
 A star that shines all down the years, 
 Giving help and banishing fears. 
 A star that some day will be set 
 In the crown of Heaven and as yet, 
 Not many believe and not many know 
 How and why and where we go. 
 We leave the body, the house of clay 
 To develop ourselves. We cannot stay 
 And be still. We must learn 
 The lessons of life, we must earn 
 
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Our rewards. We are children yet, 
 
 We must work, we cannot let 
 
 Evil overpower us. We cannot keep 
 
 Our souls still growing and lay asleep. 
 
 We pass in another stage of life 
 
 Not quite all peace, there still is strife 
 
 To rise above tho'ts evil and mean, 
 
 With many to help us, those who have seen 
 
 The same struggles, the same pain 
 
 And have outgrown such. Never again 
 
 To return to selfish ways. 
 
 They have peace thru all their days. 
 
 That is the how and why we go 
 
 And the where, we must not know 
 
 Until our turn comes. We must wait 
 
 Until we pass the Golden Gate. 
 
 Until we lay aside earthly breath 
 
 And pass thru a wonderful death. 
 
 A death that is a great change 
 
 In our way of living, tho' strange 
 
 At the time, we soon know 
 
 That we have left the Land of Woe. 
 
 And entered Life, with those who kneel 
 
 At Jesus' feet, those who feel 
 
 A desire to help us and greet 
 
 In God's name all they meet. 
 
 That is why we yearn 
 
 For higher things. Thus we learn 
 
 That everything that grows 
 
 Is a part of God. Our woes 
 
 Bring out to what degree 
 
 We have risen. Why we see 
 
 In everything the destiny 
 
 That whirls us on till we are free. 
 
 Life is an everlasting age. 
 
 The first part spent in a cage 
 
 Thru which we build, destroy or rise 
 
 To the heights we lift our eyes. 
 
 Not to earthly wealth but to good, 
 
 When you have done all you could 
 
 To see and reach the beauty of things, 
 
 And to such are given wings. 
 
 That is Life. 
 
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THE HARVEST'S END 
 
 When Autumn's chill 
 
 Our hearts doth fill, 
 And the corn is gathered in the shock, 
 
 The frost doth o'er us hover, 
 
 The furry things seek cover, 
 And the birds to a warmer country flock. 
 
 Summer is w^aning, 
 
 Winter is gaining; 
 As time flies by on wings. 
 
 As the days go fleeting, 
 
 We should be greeting 
 The joys that each one brings. 
 
 The joys of knowing 
 
 That onward flowing 
 The River of Life, tho' if not serene 
 
 In Nature's beauties. 
 
 Helps lighten our duties 
 In keeping with what we have seen. 
 
 Tho' the stubbles 
 
 Give us troubles, 
 We see the corn in a golden pile. 
 
 We know we could 
 
 See the good 
 In something all the while. 
 
 Thus the season 
 
 For a reason 
 Brings the cold and snappy frost. 
 
 In search of cheer 
 
 The best of the year 
 Is found instead of lost. 
 
 In summer days 
 
 There's many ways 
 For our loved ones to drift apart. 
 
 In search of fun. 
 
 There's many a one 
 To slight many a heart. 
 
 But when winter's chill 
 
 Our hearts doth fill, 
 They gather from far and near. 
 
 The old home's door. 
 
 They seek once more 
 Looking for warmth and cheer. 
 
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And there they find it, 
 
 And never mind it, 
 If the hearth is filled to the brim, 
 
 It is warm and cheerful, 
 
 And they are not fearful 
 To brave the storm with vim. 
 
 Thus for a reason 
 
 The winter season 
 Gathers together the family again. 
 
 To all living things 
 
 Necessity brings 
 Together both creatures and men. 
 
 In summer we sow 
 
 And reap and hoe 
 Our plants and pleasures and fun, 
 
 And if we work 
 
 And do not shirk 
 We've gained something when summer's done. 
 
 If on pleasure bent, 
 
 The time we've spent 
 Has led us to many things. 
 
 Or if in work, or both 
 
 We are not loth 
 To greet what the harvest brings. 
 
 And on the day 
 
 In pleasures gay 
 We reap what we have sown. 
 
 The loved ones together 
 
 We know whether 
 Our loves have blossomed or grown. 
 
 But we do know 
 
 When the outside is snow 
 That the inside is the best God could send 
 
 And with me agree 
 
 That the best we can see 
 Is love and home at the harvest's end. 
 
 A CROSS 
 
 A cross you bear, 
 
 If you but knew. 
 
 The word of trouble and care 
 
 Is a cross on you. 
 
 A cross of sorrow or shame, 
 
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Bearing on many a head, 
 
 Blackening many a name 
 
 In the present and long since dead. 
 
 There's a long weary road 
 
 For a cross of one kind. 
 
 Injustice and sorrows is the load; 
 
 No joy can they find. 
 
 All toil and hardship 
 
 With nothing bright ahead, 
 
 With curse or prayer on each lip 
 
 Fighting for their daily bread. 
 
 Which is all caused by greed. 
 
 The world is an organization of sin. 
 
 Keeping people from what they need, 
 
 People who are all God's kin. 
 
 That is one cross which many a one 
 
 Carries to his reward, 
 
 For the injustice which is done 
 
 Is remembered by the Lord, 
 
 The remembrance which makes the other cross, 
 
 Which stalks like a beast of prey 
 
 Selecting the people who are dross, 
 
 Who in the end must pay. 
 
 The cross of servitude and shame 
 Which stands ready at God's word, 
 To fasten itself on every name 
 That greed's stain has blurred. 
 Governments are wrong in power. 
 They give a chance to everyone. 
 
 They should daily exercise the power 
 
 To make justice be done. 
 
 They can do so. There is a way 
 
 In which governments will change; 
 
 We will tell some future day 
 
 And explain what now is strange. 
 
 Tho neither of these crosses you may bear, 
 
 Yet you are not free. 
 
 For where there is sorrows and care 
 
 Weakness there must be. 
 
 The power of God is not there 
 
 But weakness and extinguishing light 
 
 Help God to throw off that cross you bear 
 
 That the world may be all bright. 
 
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HELP THE WORLD 
 
 Hear many voices ring 
 
 Thru the world joyously clear; 
 
 The vibrating voices sing 
 
 Of the change now so near. 
 
 Already overtaking us, 
 
 Of escape there is none. 
 
 It is giving continuous 
 
 Proofs and help to everyone; 
 
 Of proofs there are many, 
 
 Of help there is for you 
 
 An abundance for any, 
 
 And for all the world thru; 
 
 If you are working and wait 
 
 For a change in fortune here, 
 
 If your wants you will state 
 
 You will receive help and cheer. 
 
 You will receive if you try 
 
 Over your powers to preside. 
 
 Be your ruler and try 
 
 In blessings to preside. 
 
 Work together. Not alone. 
 
 Great things will you achieve. 
 
 There will be for each one 
 
 Great rewards to receive; 
 
 The Change is coming. Coming fast, 
 
 And brightly envelops the earth. 
 
 Old prophecies rise out of the past, 
 
 As the new age is given birth; 
 
 Be not behind when it arrives. 
 
 Be one of the blessed folk. 
 
 Don't put it off if your soul strives 
 
 To be free from satan's yoke. 
 
 Free. Think of the glorious word 
 
 Which means sorrow no more. 
 
 Every heart should be stirred 
 
 As it never has before. 
 
 Free from death's parting sting. 
 
 Free from fear in every form; 
 
 Help given in everything; 
 
 Free from every harm. 
 
 All this Spiritualism gives and more. 
 
 The glorious Religion of God. 
 
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He shows freely the wide-open door 
 That all may know their God. 
 Think of the meaning. Understand 
 The joys of no ending. 
 Help to make this changing land 
 One that is with Heaven blending. 
 
 FOR EVERY SOUL 
 
 Many faces are up-turned in vain, 
 
 For love's kindly glow. 
 
 While their hearts filled with pain 
 
 Are wondering and do not know, 
 
 Where the outcome of the world will be ; 
 
 Whether peace or war and hate; 
 
 They do not know, they cannot see, 
 
 All that they can do is to wait. 
 
 Wait; and be unaware 
 
 Of the advantages they might gain 
 
 To banish sorrow and care 
 
 And be free again. 
 
 Free to see the future as true 
 
 As heavenly forces can tell it, 
 
 And learn to see and do 
 
 That in good they might profit. 
 
 They could see in spirit vision 
 
 The colossal forces of God 
 
 Making a world revision 
 
 That it may please the sight of God. 
 
 God has long been grieved at heart 
 
 At the world of sin and sorrow; 
 
 He says that satan must depart. 
 
 There will be a glorious tomorrow; 
 
 By His love we are told 
 
 Will we see, hear and know 
 
 Truths which are worth more than gold. 
 
 Truths that will teach us how to go. 
 
 Do not wait. Do not ponder, 
 
 Groping blindly in the dark ; 
 
 Nor on sins wreckage wander 
 
 But on God's lifeboat embark. 
 
 Let us every earnest soul save; 
 
 The Bread of Life is here at last, 
 
 In sins' encounter let us be brave, 
 
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For the old age is past. 
 
 Have courage. Learn to eat 
 
 The Bread of Life your soul to feed 
 
 That you may have liberty sweet 
 
 And the guiding love you need. 
 
 Learn. You hold the power in your hand, 
 
 The power Nature gives; 
 
 You have the key. Understand, 
 
 And live as God lives. 
 
 Help the world everywhere 
 
 That the Great Day may come, 
 
 Reflecting God's light over there 
 
 Jesus will welcome us Home. 
 
 THE MISSING LINK 
 
 Life is an earnest proposition; 
 
 There is always an expedition 
 
 Into unknown ways; 
 
 No matter where we are now. 
 
 We are not certain how 
 
 We will end our days. 
 
 We think things "just come," 
 
 Whether cheery or glum, 
 
 We do not try to know. 
 
 Did you ever stop to think 
 
 That someone is the missing link, 
 
 Someont made it so. 
 
 There is a reason that things should be 
 
 Good, bad or indifferent to thee. 
 
 Whether hate, ignorance or greed 
 
 There is a reason for every deed, 
 
 Some one made it so. 
 
 There is a missing link for all these things; 
 
 You think of mysterious hidden wings. 
 
 Carrying them to you. 
 
 When really someone's hand 
 
 Made everything in every land; 
 
 Someone made it so. 
 
 Spiritualism gives a chance 
 
 For everyone to enhance 
 
 Their joys and fortunes too. 
 
 You are waiting and while you wait 
 
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You may learn to be your own fate, 
 
 Let that someone be you. 
 
 You may rule while by your side 
 
 Is your particular guide, 
 
 Leading you aright. 
 
 If in God you seek to gain, 
 
 Your efforts will not be in vain, 
 
 You may dispel your night; 
 
 When Satan's will you are breaking, 
 
 Your power is in the making. 
 
 Your fate lies with you; 
 
 This book is to help you learn 
 
 And teach you how to earn 
 
 The powers given you. 
 
 God wishes you to be 
 
 Happy thru Eternity. 
 
 His message is to all of you; 
 
 We pray you will take 
 
 This chance for Christ's sake, 
 
 And with His blessing on you. 
 
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THE GENERAL DIRECTIONS AND RULES— 
 
 You must know the general rules and direction in 
 order to do full justice to the mediumships we have 
 endeavored to explain. These are things that are very 
 important for your success and you should pay strict 
 attention to them for your own benefit. Your room and 
 person must be perfectly clean to permit the power that 
 emanates from your body to be of such a pure nature that 
 your spiritual guides will care to work with it, for the 
 magnetism which comes from the spirit within your body 
 is the spiritual power with which all such manifestations 
 are created. But the magnetism in order to create, must 
 be subject to a strong mental power to be able to accom- 
 plish anything beneficial or otherwise. Therefore you 
 must give the one who is trying to get power from you 
 to work with, every opportunity if you expect to gain in 
 what you have started, and by so doing you will be well 
 paid for your efforts. Secondly, you must harmonize 
 everyone that is in the room you are developing in, by 
 having ever>^one very sincere in the work of winning 
 help unselfishly for all of you by having all their minds 
 in one particular groove; and applying all of their mental 
 force on whatever they are working for. This magnetism 
 is subject to your will and by imagining the desired 
 manifestation to occur, you are sending that power in that 
 direction. You may do much good towards combining 
 all of your thoughts by singing a good hymn, "Nearer 
 My God to Thee" and 'In the Sweet By and By," pre- 
 ferably, after which a prayer in the minds of each, asking 
 God's blessing on your undertaking and help to overcome 
 evil influences, will greatly harmonize conditions. You 
 may continue the hymns at intervals also. 
 
 If more than one are sitting for the same purpose, 
 a small table or stand is necessary, around which you 
 must sit, locking your little fingers over the next one to 
 you and touching your own thumbs together, thus forming 
 a circle of magnetism which allows it to condense in what- 
 ever form it is willed to. Never break circle if you want 
 good results. Keep it till your quitting time. If only two 
 are developing you must sit opposite each other touching 
 the tips of your fingers. If only one you should place your 
 hands on your side of the stand or forsake it entirely in 
 such things as clairvoyance, clairandience, speaking or 
 
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going under control. The latter is curbing your own 
 thoughts and mental power and allowing yourself to go 
 completely under the control of your guide. You must 
 known who your control is and be certain it is some one 
 dependable, as one of your relatives or friends, and 
 not an evil spirit representing itself to be someone it is 
 not. For that reason it is best to develop yourself in 
 other things first, to save yourself the misfortune of sub- 
 mitting your mind to an evil master which is simple hypno- 
 tism, for which purpose we will explain later under the 
 head of "mediumships." That is why you sit around 
 the stand to find out what mediumship you are best 
 suited for, and to learn who wants to be your control or 
 guide and to gain strength enough to keep away evil 
 influences. Also remember, in your spirit friends answer- 
 ing your questions that it is a matter of willpower, which 
 ones answers your questions, your own spirit friends or 
 evil ones representing themselves as good forces. You 
 must not judge harshly your spirit relatives if they seem 
 to give false answers, for it certainly is not them who 
 deceives you. If you want to attract good forces to you, 
 you must be pure in heart with high aims and you will 
 attract accordingly. Like attracts like. And yet you 
 may be ever go sood and some evil spirits will be near 
 you, because this is the lowest sphere in which the most 
 evil are bound. They cannot rise to higher planets for 
 they are not advanced enough. That is why you will be 
 interrupted in your work by evil forces. But by per- 
 sistent prayer and earnest effort you will succeed in gaining 
 power enough from the higher developed spirits, that 
 you may sufficiently hamper the evil advances of destruc- 
 tion on your work and eventually succeed. Your spirit 
 friends will communicate w^ith j^ou first on the table, by 
 its tipping or rapping in the rapping system, which is: 
 three raps mean "yes." One rap means "no." Two 
 raps means either "I don't know" or "doubtful" or "un- 
 answerable on account of your question." While five 
 raps denote the wish that you would repeat the alphabet, 
 which is done by slowly repeating the letters of the alpha- 
 bet, giving them time after each letter that they may 
 rap if they mean the letter spoken. In this way they 
 can give you messages and talk to you more as they 
 wish. As it takes considerable power to materialize 
 enough to rap at first, they may communicate easier and 
 
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quicker by placing two thin pieces of wood under the legs 
 of the stand you are using. One under one leg with one 
 under the opposite corner leg. Thus they may tip the 
 table to a far better advantage over the way of material- 
 izing, which gives you the joy of communicating with 
 them without waiting so long. 
 
 We have tried to convince you of the necessity of 
 power for the spirits to communicate with you, which 
 is true to some degree, even in the way we will tell you 
 now. Your spirit travels while your body sleeps. Though 
 you may have all manners of dreams arising from an 
 unsettled stomach or a worried mind, in some instances 
 when the brain is calm and clear, your spirit in such 
 peace with nothing hindering it, it is very likely to leave 
 your body, and in its clearness of mind talk with your 
 spirit friends who may make you feel yourself in many 
 strange actions and places w^hich you should be able to 
 think out with the help of well known phrases and 
 similies and so understand the symbols. For each thing 
 they show symbolizes something, which might be of great 
 benefit to you if possessed by your knowledge. You will 
 also feel that you understand perfectly in your dream, 
 and when you wake you should try to understand as 
 well. You may find in our list of symbols for clairvoyance, 
 signs that serve the same purpose in dreams. 
 
 And another thing. Spiritualism is generally supposed 
 to be a fake, because so many do fake such manifesta- 
 tions in a way that might misguide an inexperienced 
 observer. Thus many a person who might change his 
 whole life for the better by being an ardent spiritualist, 
 is disappointed, and in their disapointment discard Spirit- 
 ualism, thereby being deprived of the happiness that is 
 his due. Surely such are unpardonable works of the 
 devil. Fakers and correspondingly evil spirits keeping 
 down the spiritualist religion is satan's bidding done. 
 Thereby causing those ignorant of the truth to call 
 Spiritualism "the works of the devil." Therefore never 
 as you value your soul's salvation, pretend or fool anj^one 
 w^ith such manifestations. Look upon it as a serious re- 
 ligion which fills your heart with the blessings and power 
 which God intended for you. Never allow anyone with 
 you in your circles or in any such work w^ho does fake or 
 treat it lightly, for they are not only very detrimental to 
 your advancement in the science, but you are wasting valu- 
 
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able time In which you might accumulate much power 
 and joy. As the circle stand will move quite easily on its 
 thin pieces of wood, you must all work together for the 
 purpose maintaining sincerity and carefulness. 
 
 Many people wonder why the spirit manifestations re- 
 quire absolute darkness. They think it is a sure sign of 
 faking and misrepresentations. But this magnetism, while 
 it is weak, has the power to create only in the dark and 
 when stronger in a dim light. Its chemical properties sci- 
 entificially change as the result of light. Only with a great 
 number of harmonizing persons to draw strength from 
 or with highly developed persons can power be retained 
 enough to stand the light. But if you who work together 
 are all sincere, you will surely know and be satisfied that 
 what you get is spirit power. 
 
 If a crowd of harmonizing persons sit together far 
 better and very much quicker results can be obtained 
 than if only two or three sit. This is also a very easy 
 way to become a trumpet medium. Have your suitable 
 crowd and if too large to sit conveniently around the stand, 
 place the stand in the center with the trumpet on it while 
 the crowd sits with joined hands around the room form- 
 ing a complete circle. Proceed the same as with any dark 
 circle and it should not be long before the trumpet is 
 floating around the room, with your spirit friends talking 
 thru it. Besides there are spirit lights which seem very 
 wonderful and beautiful to the material eye and touches 
 and caresses from your relatives on the spirit side who love 
 you more than they loved you here and who want you to 
 know they are with you. You must never be afraid of such 
 things for it is only the fond caresses from someone who 
 wants to talk to you as much as you want to talk to them 
 and a good deal more for they can see ahead in your life 
 and surroundings, things of which you should be warned, 
 which worry them and which they are anxious to com- 
 municate with you. They also see you mourn for them 
 and as they suffer at the parting, they wish to comfort you. 
 As they will not touch if you are afraid, try to overcome 
 it and give yourself and them the joy of such reunion. 
 
 We are now ready to disclose the ways of learning the 
 divine mediumships which will bring these beautiful things 
 into your very home and life. We have tried to not use 
 unnecessary words and you will appreciate the fact that we 
 
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have used the least space possible, putting things in a con- 
 cise form which is easier remembered. We have also tried 
 to prepare you for them by our general directions. We 
 will first give a lesson of the importance of holding your 
 mind and then clairvoyance with its accompanying list of 
 meanings of the signs or symbols. You must not fail to 
 pay strict attention to everything for thereby hangs your 
 success. Alwaj^s expect success and imagine yourself mak- 
 ing it. Always give cleanliness and fresh air a chance to 
 help you and never be discouraged. 
 
 TO GUIDE YOU 
 
 Lead me not in mournful byways, 
 
 Where my soul evil will see. 
 
 Lead me to the glorious highway 
 
 Where I may righteous be. 
 
 Tell me not our earthly living 
 
 Is but an ending empty dream, 
 
 For God is always giving 
 
 His light to over you beam. 
 
 Tho your heart is near breaking 
 
 And in tortuous sorrow burns, 
 
 God's power is had for the taking; 
 
 One receives all one earns. 
 
 Tho trouble has overpowered you; 
 
 Or satan has led you astray. 
 
 Or fortune with tears has showered you, 
 
 God loves you every day. 
 
 God's love is lasting and true. 
 
 Everyday and any hour 
 
 That you ask He gives you 
 
 Your part of His power. 
 
 When once this power you gain, 
 
 Your eyes are opened to further things; 
 
 If you try, this power you may retain 
 
 And enjoy the fruit it brings. 
 
 The fruits of love and happiness. 
 
 The joys that are yours forever; 
 
 Your power will never grow less, 
 
 And love will leave you never; 
 
 While you view the panorama of life, 
 
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Of its beauties and of its sins, 
 
 Think of the vast useless strife 
 
 In which this world spins. 
 
 The peace which satan prohibits, 
 
 The sorrows that he pretends 
 
 To be God's will that benefits 
 
 Us by the pain He sends. 
 
 If we turned to God there would be no pains, 
 
 Nor sorrow. There would be nothing wrong. 
 
 All would be wonderful joy again, 
 
 And one never-ending song. 
 
 See the joy that would live again 
 
 If our faith in God was great. 
 
 Sorrow in the dust w^ould be slain, 
 
 Overcome by fate. 
 
 Never to revive to give 
 
 Us the pain that now 
 
 Causes us to gloomy live. 
 
 With care upon our brow. 
 
 Read the messages here given. 
 
 Think them over and be true 
 
 To the God who has long striven 
 
 To return your rights to you. 
 
 As you think, kneel and pray 
 
 To the God who gave your soul. 
 
 He will answer without delay. 
 
 Leading you to your goal. 
 
 He will answer if you try 
 
 To learn the rules. He has shown 
 
 And allow doubt to die. 
 
 Trusting in Him alone. 
 
 If you work you will receive 
 
 More value than the time spent; 
 
 Your joy will never leave 
 
 You in doubt of the power sent. 
 
 Such is the advice we give to you, 
 
 Calm yourself and prepare 
 
 For the quiet and stillness which in you 
 
 Must spread around you everywhere. 
 
 Relax yourself and train your will 
 
 To conquer every roving thot. 
 
 Let God and peace fill 
 
 Your mind and doubt not. 
 
 Now for the rules we give, 
 
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While you are dwelling here, 
 
 That will banish while you live 
 
 Every falling tear. 
 
 Rules that will help you to grow 
 
 In a mediumship so true 
 
 That you soon will know 
 
 Your loved ones are near you. 
 
 While holding your thots as before said, 
 
 Create a harmony around you, 
 
 By asking to be by God led 
 
 And feel His presence in you. 
 
 While your mind is in this state 
 
 Expect good spirits near 
 
 And be good yourself, j^ou'U not wait 
 
 Long for them to appear, 
 
 Or manifest their presence, some way 
 
 By a touch on head or hand, 
 
 And if in soul you continue to pray 
 
 Their powers are at your command. 
 
 Do not fear. Do not doubt, 
 
 Tho evil spirits interfere 
 
 With God's help drive them out 
 
 And keep your mind clear. 
 
 Then you will find the truth of these 
 
 Things I am telling you; 
 
 And find with what wonderful ease 
 
 A power surges over you. 
 
 Above all practice constantly 
 
 Every possible day, 
 
 And expect a wonderfully 
 
 Powerful force to say; 
 
 Do not weaken or despair, 
 
 Constantly k^ep in mind. 
 
 That to gain anything anywhere. 
 
 For what you expect, work in kind. 
 
 When once you begin to gain. 
 
 Keep on steadily. 
 
 Till things come to you plain, 
 
 And come instantly. 
 
 Constant work is the only way 
 
 To gain things worth while, 
 
 And when you've got them to stay. 
 
 You are fully paid for your toil. 
 
 Such are the general rules to learn, 
 
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Any medium mystic power. 
 
 Remember you receive what you earn ; 
 
 Try to earn your dower. 
 
 Following will be 
 
 Minute directions for each 
 
 Of the things you may wish to be : 
 
 Study what we teach, 
 
 While you fight doubt and sin, 
 
 Ask God to help you win. 
 
 If you work with thoroughness too, 
 
 We know God will help you thru. 
 
 CLAIRVOYANCE 
 
 When you feel surging over you 
 
 An unexplainable, subtle change, 
 
 Do not throw it off. Keep in you 
 
 The feeling and power however strange. 
 
 Do not strive or strain. 
 
 But constantly concentrate 
 
 On one thing and your thots train 
 
 To keep your mind, in the proper state, 
 
 While you are practicing 
 
 Imagine that your power 
 
 In your work is constantly increasing, 
 
 Thru every available hour. 
 
 Do not become indolent or lazy. 
 
 Allowing your mind to roam. 
 
 For if it is the least bit hazy 
 
 You shut out the power that would come. 
 
 Keep your mind within your head. 
 
 With your spirit eye look steadily 
 
 And you soon will gain from the so-called dead, 
 
 The power of communing readily. 
 
 Tho at first you despairing cry. 
 
 Try and try again ; 
 
 That what you've gained may not die 
 
 And in dying be the end 
 
 Of the joy that might have been 
 
 In that particular way. 
 
 Had you only persevered to win. 
 
 Every possible day. 
 
 Listen how to see 
 
 Visions bright and clear. 
 
 That you may before long be 
 
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Able to receive help and cheer. 
 
 Limit your diet to vegetables and fruit, 
 
 And things easy to digest. 
 
 Having done this follow suit, 
 
 With exercise in air of the best. 
 
 Drink water pure and cold, 
 
 To flush the sluggish blood; 
 
 Exercise as you are told 
 
 In pure air, there is nothing so good. 
 
 Select an easy chair. 
 
 Relaxing body and mind, 
 
 And let your thots everywhere 
 
 Be most cheery and kind. 
 
 As you sit in your easy chair 
 
 Facing the northern pole. 
 
 Your mind may climb the spirit stair 
 
 That leads to your guiding soul. 
 
 Pray and clear your mind from doubt. 
 
 Always hoping for the best; 
 
 Working with prayers devout 
 
 Into a peaceful rest. 
 
 Keeping your mind w^ithin and before you, 
 
 Watching with your spirit eye 
 
 For the bright clouds which o'er you. 
 
 As in a dream floats by. 
 
 If 3'our material eye you forget, 
 
 And allow your mind to pierce the veil 
 
 Of material things, you will get 
 
 A power that will not fail. 
 
 With your eyes closed by a blindfold. 
 
 You may be able to see. 
 
 But it is far better in a semi-cold 
 
 Room in pitch darkness to be. 
 
 Follow these rules and persevere 
 
 In determination to win. 
 
 And you will see faces most dear. 
 
 Who have always beside you been. 
 
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SOME SIGNS TO HELP YOU IN 
 CLAIRVOYANCE 
 
 Flowers and their Meanings 
 
 Rose Wedded bliss or much happiness. 
 
 Lily Nobleness of Character. 
 
 Violet Sweet and Shy. 
 
 Honeysuckle Vain and Fickle. 
 
 Lily of the Valley Industrious 
 
 White Apple Blossom Deceitfulness 
 
 Clematis Vine Dainty and Dependent 
 
 Oak Tree Sturdy and Independent 
 
 Buttercup Vanity 
 
 Bleeding Heart Chivalrous and Sympathetic 
 
 Pinks Charity and Love. 
 
 Golden Glow Artistic Temperament. 
 
 A door opening in the ground. — Means an undertak- 
 ing which is unworthy is being enacted towards you. 
 Watch carefully. 
 
 An eagle flying away from you. — Is a lost opportunity 
 which is a loss to you and which will never come again. 
 
 A high board fence with a tree growing above it. — 
 Your opportunities are now limited but you will outgrow 
 them. 
 
 The fence without the tree. — Certain obstacles will 
 not be overcome. Look in other direction. 
 
 A row of posts. — Exceptionally fine chances to learn 
 and acquire knowledge. Take them. 
 
 A box with a hammer appearing above it. — You are 
 liable to lose your earthly goods by a precarious position 
 you may be in. You are running risks. Examine more 
 closely the steps you are taking. 
 
 An open book. — Some pages of your life history are 
 likely to be disclosed with exaggerations. Prepare your- 
 self and be careful who you confide in for someone is a 
 false friend. 
 
 Dove. — If you see a dove flying towards you it denotes 
 a message from someone. If its wings are black it denotes 
 a death, if green it means sickness, if brown it is of 
 
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trouble, if white an ordinary letter. 
 
 A trap door. — Means a trap or scheme is laid for 
 you. Try to avoid it. 
 
 Fruit. — If you see fruit smooth and well developed 
 it means hope and happiness in store for you. Things 
 are going to come out all right. 
 
 Anchor. — If you see an anchor it denotes an under- 
 taking which will come out successfully. If it is broken 
 in two parts it means to abandon the undertaking or not 
 start it for it is all wrong. 
 
 The flag of your nation. — If seen denotes victory. 
 
 Running water. — If a river is black and raging it 
 means you are warned of trouble and utter defeat. If 
 you do not use care you will fall to that depth. If river 
 is smooth and peaceful your life will run as calmly from 
 now on. 
 
 A Mountain. — Means hard work ahead. If the sun 
 is shining over the top there will be success and fame 
 awaiting you at the top. 
 
 A cross. — Means there is trouble or a sorrow you 
 must bear. 
 
 Prison bars. — A certain crime will be committed. 
 If on the right a female, if on the left of you a male 
 will be the victim. If up high it is a male, if below a 
 female is the criminal. 
 
 There are lights that are given by the spirit forces. 
 If you see a blue light it means that very good spirits 
 are with you and a purple light is the sign of the very 
 highest ones. There are other lights the show for what- 
 ever they are showing about. 
 
 A brown light. — Means melancholy induced by 
 trouble. 
 
 Dark Green. — Is jealously. 
 
 Light Green. — Is selfishness. 
 
 Dark Red.— Represents anger or quick temper. 
 
 A bright red. — Means hidden treasure. Search where 
 indicated. 
 
 A black dog. — Means a true friend will make you 
 a proposition which now or sometime should be ac- 
 cepted. If the dog is spotted it denotes a friend who 
 should be refused. 
 
 A whirlpool or rapids. — A sudden change. Be on 
 the alert for hidden dangers and successful opportunities. 
 
 A wreath. — Means success is near. 
 
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A towel. — Whoever it is shown about is mixed up 
 in something and should wash their hands of the whole 
 affair. 
 
 A bunch of flowers. — Means sincere praise. 
 
 A bow of ribbon. — Means, try and do as you are 
 bidden. 
 
 CLAIRAUDIENCE 
 
 Now we will tell you how to hear 
 
 Things you know not, 
 
 So that voices may be clear 
 
 And not comingled with your thot. 
 
 If your mind has been concentrated 
 
 In the way before explained, 
 
 If in the dark you have waited 
 
 You will feel that you have gained ; 
 
 Gained in a subtle ingrowing way 
 
 That while perfect stillness reigns 
 
 You may hear spirit voices stay 
 
 In 5^our mind perfectly plain. 
 
 While you hope to hear 
 
 Voices from spiritual places, 
 
 Listen with your spirit ear. 
 
 Remember the three graces. 
 
 Faith, Hope and Charity gives 
 
 A feeling of blessed endeavor, 
 
 And while your faith in God still lives, 
 
 He is with you forever. 
 
 Voices come from those who dwell in planes 
 
 Made by God for His many children, 
 
 A God who blesses you for your pains, 
 
 And helps you thru ill omen. 
 
 For such a purpose His kindly plan 
 
 God wishes all to know. 
 
 Those who try certainly can 
 
 Cause their power to grow. 
 
 While you are waiting for voices to come, 
 
 Those directions hold good. 
 
 As told before and there are some 
 
 Additional ones which should 
 
 Be adhered to and persisted in; 
 
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Perfect stillness throughout the place. 
 
 There must be harmony to win, 
 
 With no uncongenial face. 
 
 You must think not a single thot 
 
 To bar a spirit word, 
 
 For when it comes you know not 
 
 Where or when you heard. 
 
 In a flash on your empty mind 
 
 A few words are sent. 
 
 If you wait you will find 
 
 Improvement and content. 
 
 Do not repeat in your mind 
 
 As each few words are said, 
 
 For the two cannot be combined 
 
 Until you are strongly led. 
 
 While those flashing w^ords are creasing 
 
 Their impact on your brain 
 
 There must be quiet unceasing, 
 
 That you may hear again ; 
 
 For they come you know not when. 
 
 Just flashing on your mind. 
 
 'Tis your spirit ear that catches them. 
 
 That your material brain may find. 
 
 Practice these rules as you would 
 
 School rules of childhood days; 
 
 And unlike all rules of childhood, 
 
 They benefit you always. 
 
 For by such you will learn 
 
 To talk to friends departed 
 
 To brighter worlds, who help you earn 
 
 A life that is glad-hearted. 
 
 TRUMPET WORK 
 
 Trumpet work we now will tell, 
 
 That you may learn to do it well ; 
 
 Learn to eat little or no meat. 
 
 In the latter part of the day. 
 
 If you heed not and so eat. 
 
 Your body to drowsiness may give way. 
 
 Meat has a dulling effect to those 
 
 Tiny nerves that carry life and power to you. 
 
 Believe this comes from one who knows; 
 
 And wishes you all to better do. 
 
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In the darkest possible room you should sit 
 
 Around a small table or stand, 
 
 And to get the greatest benefit 
 
 Each should touch each other's hand. 
 
 For a complete circle must be formed, 
 
 By touching fingers and thumbs. 
 
 For around the circle thus formed 
 
 The spirit power comes. 
 
 The spirit power thus created grows, 
 
 Materialized into someone, 
 
 Enough so the spirit know 
 
 The talking may be begun, 
 
 And when strong enough to do so 
 
 Will speak thru the trumpet plain. 
 
 At first in a whisper low 
 
 But will improve if you sit often again. 
 
 The power may be a long while 
 
 Even months in getting strong, 
 
 But in the end you have cause to smile, 
 
 Tho it has taken long. 
 
 You should harmonize everyone, 
 
 If you expect to gain success. 
 
 When once you have begun 
 
 Do not work any less. 
 
 Concentration and expectancy. 
 
 Are the main things to try. 
 
 Constantly expect. Indulge in the fancy 
 
 That your power is very nigh; 
 
 That it is with you and in you 
 
 Always working higher. 
 
 Do not stop the desire in you. 
 
 Of your work do not tire. 
 
 If you sit right you must know 
 
 That you gain every day. 
 
 Do not stop and let your power go 
 
 By not coaxing it to stay. 
 
 For to gain you must persevere 
 
 Every possible night. 
 
 At j^our given hour the spirits are here 
 
 Ready to lead you aright. 
 
 One hour it should be easy to sit, 
 
 Every possible day. 
 
 A precious power you will get; 
 
 One that will always stay. 
 
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If there are only two, 
 
 You will get in a longer time, 
 
 The same as more would do, 
 
 In any place, in any clime. 
 
 The important thing is to think together 
 
 On the trumpet all minds concentrate. 
 
 Do not stop or show the white feather. 
 
 For success comes to all who wait. 
 
 In the end you will gain 
 
 A wonderfully cheering power. 
 
 If all evil you have slain. 
 
 And try to be good every hour. 
 
 It is not the evil spirits but the good 
 
 Who help you to nice things. 
 
 If you are not quite as you should 
 
 Such power speeds away on wings. 
 
 HOW TO BE A SPEAKING MEDIUM 
 
 To be a speaker you must be 
 
 A message writer of the best. 
 
 With clairvoyance to see 
 
 What your ears may have missed. 
 
 You must hear so perfectly 
 
 With your guide half controlling you, 
 
 That you can speak instantly 
 
 As you are told to do. 
 
 With a clear spirit view. 
 
 To see and understand 
 
 What is told to you. 
 
 And be under their command 
 
 With every feeling they express. 
 
 You must be in harmony. 
 
 To feel their every caress 
 
 And hear them rapidly. 
 
 Make your tongue coincide 
 
 With your spirit ear. 
 
 Practice that you may guide 
 
 Your lips with what you hear. 
 
 For by so doing you may speak 
 
 Any speech they wish to make. 
 
 The mediumship you seek 
 
 You will gain without mistake. 
 
 A messagebearer can be the same, 
 
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If they wish to be; 
 
 By persistent effort, we claim 
 
 These powers are free. 
 
 HOW TO BE A WRITING MEDIUM 
 
 For your spirit friends to write 
 
 Messages of their own, 
 
 You must take a stand at night, 
 
 And sit in a dark room alone. 
 
 With a sheet of paper on the stand. 
 
 Which your left hand is holding tight, 
 
 With your pencil straight up and down and 
 
 Used as a prop for your right; 
 
 Hold your mind so very still 
 
 That your guide may control you arm 
 
 And write words at their will, 
 
 While you forget your arm. 
 
 It is better a stand to use 
 
 That a dark circle has been around. 
 
 So that power in it you may not lose. 
 
 But in magnetism it may abound. 
 
 You must sit in silence perfect, 
 
 That your guide may gain control. 
 
 To his will you must be subject. 
 
 Your body but not your soul. 
 
 Keep your mind in that one way 
 
 Till you have gained your aim. 
 
 When you have succeeded, you may 
 
 In the light do the same. 
 
 MATERIALIZATION 
 
 For materialization you go under control 
 In the complete influence of your guide. 
 You know nothing in body or soul 
 While your control works by your side. 
 You must sit in a place dark as can be, 
 With heavy black curtains before you. 
 On the other side a dim light to see 
 What the spirits may show and do. 
 Pray and sing and keep your mind 
 As in the dark circles before, 
 That good conditions the spirits may find, 
 
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That they may dcvelope the more. 
 
 Then silence. Tliat the medium may keep 
 
 His mind so still that he will fall 
 
 Into a deep trance sleep, 
 
 Which is the hardest to do of all. 
 
 While the crowd sits in horseshoe shape, 
 
 With each end a few feet from the door, 
 
 That of magnetism there w^ill be no escape, 
 
 So it may help the medium the more ; 
 
 It may take months to accomplish 
 
 This form of mediumship told, 
 
 But the end exceeds your brightest wish, 
 
 And joy worth more than gold. 
 
 For between those curtains will appear 
 
 What you have long wished to view. 
 
 The forms of relatives so dear, 
 
 That their absence has grieved you — 
 
 A purpose worthy-, you will find 
 
 Of long patience, that you may see 
 
 The results of Nature's kind 
 
 Wav to reunite thee. 
 
 In materialization seances as in every other form of 
 development, you should see that every door is locked, 
 the light excluded and conditions perfect before attempt- 
 ing anything at all. Before trying any mediumship at 
 all, it is wisest to get your dark circles perfect, that you 
 may test what mediumship you are best suited. In dark 
 circles you must remember not to hold the spirit forces 
 longer than two hours, but you should sit one hour at 
 least. You should place an ink tablet and a soft lead 
 pencil on your stand or conveniently near so when you 
 get developed strong in your circles you could be pleased 
 by finding a message written by some of your friends. 
 
 We have tried to give you all information possible 
 which would be of especial benefit to you in these things 
 and w^e hope you will profit by them. Let us bring 
 heaven on earth by adhering to the truth and the only 
 religion which will open The Gates of Paradise. 
 
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