day of dominion, indolence, and extravagance that overburdened our time, and left mankind beggared in lands "flowing with milk and honey."

Let us hope for another star group of immortals with powers to rebuild those civilizations that "progressives" since have in digging for gold, ruined, made the lands deserts. Halt the fighting storekeepers that bring on world wars, so we may have world peace, a society free from sex suicide, etc., to weaken strongest of nations.

But give me one clear hour at close of day,
And whisper, as the darkling shadows fall,
The names of friends I lost along the way,
The faithful friends I can no more recall.

And while their names upon my lips are set,
Oh, speed the silent tides that I must stem,
That ere again I slumber or forget,

I may begin my eager quest of them.

-L. Dodge.

In this fervor for reunion in spirit we have an idea of rebirth akin and more real than those of earth wholly. Religion may still keep the key, the password, but dogmas about the infinite mystery must pass. Education makes us more and more at home in this world of progress, but for a well-balanced mind the need can be felt for a night of the soul, a higher land of delight, felt only in our dreams now and then. Passing to the new morn again for a coming day, by rebirth, society will have advanced as we get to an age for appreciation. Wonders increase, souls in all homes with love and compassion as the religion of Jesus taught and to be understood later; so this quiets our fears of hell and purgatory, man's inventions

surely; so we can, as the saying is, continue if necessary to pour oil on troubled waters. The world no longer a place of torture, a prison, but for real home life, and joys of nature we never before dreamed of.

As Burroughs said, "satisfied with our earth." Whitman in his joy exclaimed, "I have positively appeared"—again!

A well known writer says: "I am pessimistic by night, but by day am a confirmed optimist, and it is the days that have stamped my life. I was born under a lucky star." May all thy rebirths be like unto this!

Some murmur when their sky is clear

And wholly bright to view

If one small speck of dark appear
In their great heaven of blue.

And some with thankful love are filled,
If but one streak of light,

One ray of God's great mercy, gild

The darkness of their night.

-Richard Cheneviv Trench.

All life is a school, a preparation, a purpose: nor can we pass current in a higher college, if we do not undergo the tedium of education in this lower one.-Author Unknown.

"Nature is ourselves written large," says John Burroughs. I have dwelt upon some phases of early humanity, as exhibited by scriptural traditions, a species of ancient history. We shed past life, just as life ascends to higher light.

On earth "in the beginning" may mean only back to savagery. Prof. Osterhout, studying our seaside kelps, found death always going on, as with life, the turn of the scales, he states, in turn break to mysterious life. As with vegetable life, the A, M, B, etc., to properties, say of the kelp; the cell means life, with elemental

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forces diminishing. But the foundation link which joins the organic with the inorganic elements, in all living forms, chloriphel in plants, and diatomic in animal features, means the unthinkable spectacle-bridging life and death.

A slight change in the thermal condition of the globe, or some real flood of pernicious fluid, would sweep us all to the discard-and this may happen any moment—would happen if the creator was a mere divine of the proselyting order, with foolish cry of god, god; me, me!

This would be far less cruel than has religion or Roman power inflicted, to say nothing about ferocious quarterings or body burnt alive because of "infidelity." To say this fair earth of ours is not good enough for the righteous, is rather laughable. If the Maker of heaven and earth made anything amiss, it was mankind, if scriptures are truthful. But do not reckon as of the higher light the mere rushlight that humans

hold up.

Man, like the rest of all life, will be improved by every evolution, yea, by every rebirth. Prayers of the righteous availeth much in the way of directing attention to future betterments. If we find that after a general hope in mankind there is sure comfort for death that evolution follows evolution, a theory of reincarnation has no terrors, as death now with uncertainty. Whatsoever you may think of heaven, purgatory and hell, the hope of coming to the old home land may be cheerful, may be joyous, as you will come as come all the living from a state of simplicity, and ignorance.

Philosophy and theology agree that matter is a coarseness as compared with spirit. See wheat grow up only with assistance of silica in the stalk. In the egg of every creature coming to life are the elements of body and spirit. In the body goes the earth's fertility fitted for spirit later, reincarnation. Life's envelope contains the new letter of credit for both life and higher light.

As I made reference, the first of life in the world was when one-cell particle of matter joined the one nearest of opposite sex, or polarity. Even dust hardly discernible has the quality of circular attachments to other particles of opposite polarity. This law continues to the highest and greatest of aggregations, heavenly orbs and suns. Fish and other of the nearbrainless creatures, cold-blooded, have only external contacts of polarity. The vulgarest of all creatures is mankind, with a literature filled with love gush and art with naked women and men-models. Whitman told me the poem he wrote to kill sex vulgarity was the very one that is loathed by all hypocrites and vulgar-minded.

Mr. Heald lays much stress upon polarity of heat and cold. This twin force seems to move everything. In the earlier stage of our world, the oceans being warm and earth supercharged with fertility, the vegetation was crowding and decaying, to accummulate for ages and ages coal, crude oil, etc. Showing that our present period is that of earth's sear and yellow leafautumn of the old man earth-he is beginning to exact extra clothing. Those of us not being minded of coal oil products and remnant of coal left us, are bethink

ing of getting nearer the sun. Nature will perform the operation-dissolve his cold remains in our surcharged neighboring sun-then we will be warm!

The passage from suns to earths, to form all the globes of the heavens, is very like the spirit of all the living being reborn.

There are honest rich men as there are dishonest poor, and vice versa. You see the profiteers making all kinds of lying promises, advertising tricks, socalled bargains, to call attention of those who imagine the greatest call is also the biggest bargain. Hence so many millions of dollars spent annually in very gaudy public advertising. Duplicity, dishonest trading, come of craftiness and selfishness, so called provident ones are also, maybe not honest ones of earth. "Bargains" turn the heads of the weak,-those Jesus came to succor as lambs he would hold. But ye would not. Souls differ of course, individually, and weak ones pass the Lake of God time and again but are not remade-only purified.

If anywhere in this essay the writer makes allusion to the Other Life-which no mortal can know-please lay this upon weakness of human nature training among story-tellers, mind-readers, spiritualists, preachers-all who work you for a fat living. Soothsayers all telling you about gods and higher abode you can get for so much at the agency on earth.

Animals meek and harmless, or nearly so, are called wild beasts and monsters in all languages. This is far from truthful, and shows our unkindness and selfishness towards the little people. A lizard not longer than your foot is a gila monster.