EAST AND WEST

Men look to the cast for the dawning things,
For the light of the rising sun;

But they look to the west, to the crimson west,
For a view of the things that are done.

For the eastward sun is a new born hope
From the dark of the night distilled,
But the westward sun is the sunset sun,
The sum of a hope fulfilled.

For there in the east they have always came -
The cradle that gave the birth-

To all the hopes of the hearts of men,

To all the hopes of the earth.

For there in the east a Christ arose,

And there in east there gleamed

The dearest dream and the clearest dream.
That a prophet ever dreamed.

But into the waking west they came

With the dream-child of the east,

And they found the hope they had hoped of old

A htousandfold increased.

For there in the east we dreamed the dream

Of the things we hoped to do,

But here in the west, the crimson west,

The dreams of the east came true.

How do we get civilized and away from barbarism, if not through being born again? Christian belief as to Jesus and others whose blessed work for less civilized mortals, gave us clues for betterment. It has surely depended upon rebirth, as all our instincts point directly to former denizens of earth, before the printing press was thought of, or even earlier stories of creation were handed down. Discoverer of America had, as recorded, a firm instinctive faith as to new continent. Peoples of the East were famous naviga

tors and no doubt Columbus was under this inheritance from Phoenician or Greek life lived long ago. In Spain or among Druids were no such leading. Inheritance means that which inheres, aside from real estate affairs, for Shakespeare says, "It is to enclose as in a funeral monument, traditions"; or as Raleigh says to have inherently. If the earth is for real estate owners, why is its surface so given to the waters?

Oliver Lodge, a learned spiritualist of the true order, already has a vast following—many from communing with unseen spirits as though heaven and earth were one. To what region will Jesus next come: to lands of his former work and agonies, still in control of autocrats, popes, kings and Kaisers, who hated him, or more sensibly, to those of the loving kind, the poor in heart who will gladly receive him? The principles of equity and helpfulness that Jesus taught are in the very foundations of the government of the United States, and signs of the times point to the triumph of the republicanism that means equity, equality of rights.

Nor shall I deem His object served,

His end attained, His genuine strength put forth
While only here and there a star dispels

The darkness.

. When the host is out

At once to the despair of Night

When all mankind alike is perfected—

Equal in full-bloom powers,—then not till then,
I say begins Man's general infancy.

-Browning.

Reader, did it ever occur to you that Heaven may be in our midst unseen? This surely would shorten the Circuit of Being. For ages we have had so-called spirit rappings, communications with unseen ones; by

priests, ministers, mediums, etc. We know that as God is spirit, no one has seen Him at any time; time being a material concept. What is coming from hell or the devil-negative of the Great Spirit-is not known. Have we ever had an age of miracles? I think not, for Law can never lie dormant, if from God: spirit never sleeps. To get a better advertiser was the need in theology a few centuries after Jesus had been killed by the fanatics. Make a noise, call out the lo heres and lo heres; so the miracles were revamped from uses in barbarism of olden times. Jesus taught highest philosophy.

There is cause and effect in everything-in natural way of course; so when clouds move because heat has to do with it, and the electrical disturbances must likewise be governed; then at man's behest if anything must stand still in Nature [as the sun is reported, while a fight lasted, over the valley of Ajalon] the reporter may have been drinking a drop too much or was asleep.

It is well known to intelligent readers that reincarnation is one of man's earliest beliefs. All ancient writings, including the Scriptures, have frequent reference to it being born again. In fact, devout Christians and of all religions down to lowest level of culture, daily pray and act under this belief.

In Matthew, 11:15, of our New Testament, is this: And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven-[likely was meant the Holy Land of the Jews]-suffereth violence-[Jewish nation, conquered by the Romans]-and men of violence take it by force; for all the Prophets and the Law

prophesied until John. And if ye are willing to receive it, THIS IS ELIJAH [Jesus] which is to come. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. * * * For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, he hath a devil. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! And wisdom is justified by her works."

In Malachi, "Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet [by rebirth] before the great and terrible day of the Lord come; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children; they to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."

Luke 1:17, And he shall go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to walk in the wisdom of the just to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for Him.

Matthew 17:12. And he answered and said, Elijah indeed cometh and shall restore all things: but I say unto you, that ELIJAH IS COME ALREADY, and they knew him not, but did unto him whatsoever they listed. Even so shall the Son of Man suffer of them.

John 1:23. What sayest thou of thyself? He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the Prophet, *** And they asked him and said unto him, Why then baptized thou, if thou art not the Christ? John answered them saying, I baptizeth with water; in the midst of you standeth one whom ye know not, even him that cometh after me, the latchstring of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose."

This prophecy (or introduction) of a great prophet, met fulfilment,—after a great many centuries of wrangling. We have no guide, religious or governmental, that would govern mortals truer than the advice vouchsafed by Jesus. I quote below from Charles Nordhoff's Politics for Young Americans.

"I believe that free government is a political application of the Christian theory of life; that at the base of the republican system lies the Golden Rule; and that to be a good citizen of the United States one ought to be imbued with the spirit of Christianity, and to believe in and act upon the teachings of Jesus. He condemned self-seeking, covetousness, hypocrisy, class distinctions, envy, malice, undue and ignoble ambition, and he inculcated self-restraint, repression of the lower and meaner passions; love to the neighbor, contentment, gentleness, regard for the rights and happiness of others, and respect for the law. It seems to me that the vices he condemned are those also which are dangerous to the perpetuity of republican government; and that the principles he inculcated may be properly used as tests of the merits of a political system or a public policy."

A poet of the nimble fancy exclaims, "How wonderful is sleep, sleep and his brother death!" Just as are your perceptions, keen or dull, will you behold of the higher life, the innocent, unwordly state and condition of Jesus, when he says that children are of the spirit that will be prevalent in the Hereafter. You can have no Heaven without this spirit. You make your conceptions of hell theologically, to suit yourself. No one here can tell of any divisions, physically,