At thirty tame, if ever. At forty wise, at fifty rich, At sixty good, or never. Regardless, now, of whether the life of every separate person conforms to the tenet of this rhyme, is it not a fact of which we are conscious that the life of humanity does run quite similar to it? Why is this? Why is the general tenor of a life at 10 different from that at 20, 30 or 40? Growth, maturity, experience, etc., you say, hut by what law in nature is this orderly proceed-ure of life. It certainly is not the work of chance. "The operations of God," you say. Granted, but how? Through what instrumentalities? Have unseen forces no representative in the visible world? Man writes with his fingers and not with his toes. He sees with his eyes and not with his ears, and so on, every portion of man's body has its proper function to perform. Has God no parts assigned to special operations, or does every part of God perform the self-same thing in His mighty manipulation of a universe so filled with differentiated functions? Fruit decays, or runs to seed. Does the same condition of atmospheric influence upon the same virtues of the same fruit send one piece of fruit to decay and another to seed? Our reason says no.

On constituents of precisely the same quantity and quality, the self-same atmospheric conditions will produce the-self-same effects. Is not man governed by a like law according to his constitution? Will not two human beings of like nature suffer alike from cold or heat, or if differently constituted, will not one better withstand heat and the other cold? Does not all nature in the same latitude and longitude on earth enter alike into the darkness or the sunlight, or into the changing conditions of the season? By what instrumentalities does God produce these constant phenomena, and again make varied the effects upon the different constitutions? Is it from parental inheritances that one member of a family is different than another, in form, feature and the events of life?

Is it from within the individual himself that these differentiations proceed? Is it from a miasma or some other influences proceeding out of the earth that produce the wonderful operations, regular and constant in their general operations and varied in the individual cases? Is it merely a chemical operation going on in gasses that surround us, or that are within us? If so, what produces these miasmas, these other influences from the earth, or these gases? Does earth alone produce them? Does earth alone produce the sunlight, the bursting of the storm clouds, the growth of the lilies and the grotesque form of icicles? Out upon thee, vain man. to think that these wonders are performed through no instrumentalities but those within the reach of meddling mortals. From the bosom of Old Mother Earth man may draw forth the stored-up energies of the sun and the planets, in coal and gold and silver and oil, but he cannot touch with his profane fingers the instruments of God, from which these energies were implanted in earth, nor can he by his sacreligious denials overcome the fact that these same instrumentalities implant in the human breast and in the heart and. the mind, the energies of light, and substance through which he lives and moves and has his being.

As go the flowers, the birds, the beasts, the forest and the hills, each in its own appointed time, so goes the flesh, the bones and the blood of man, and by the same laws of disintegration, from one form to another elemental combination, with no loss of elemental power, save as manifested in quantity of parts. By the law of cause and effect, which are the divine or divining laws of that universal oneness, termed God, all things, by the evidences of the past and our own proofs of the present, move in regularity of operation, with the regularity of the movement of the Sun, Moon, planets and of even the farthest of all the stars. No tiniest light in the grandeur of the starry heavens is shining without some definite purpose in the great economy of time and space, and so, when we come down to a consideration of the pigmy existence of a mortal life, of only a hundred years in time, we must content ourselves with the limited area of the Solar system, in which as a brotherhood of planets, we accept the Sun as the Father, and the Father as the Sun of God, with creatures of our ilk walking the earth, with the energies of the Sun stored within our heart, making us the Sons of God manifest in the flesh, with the cardinal cross influences of our heart, extending outward into our environing limitation of space influences, in which we mentally exercise our personality as sons of men.

On our journey of days, we meet with those grown gray with a journey of days exceeding our own and they tell us of the life scenes in the journey ahead of us, which are constant experiences to all, and in revery we repeat, as did the martyred Lincoln:

We see the same sights that our fathers have seen, We tread o'er the ground where our fathers have been; We hope as they hoped; we view the same sun, We do the same things that our fathers have done.

The purpose, then, of our wonder wheel is first of all to inspire a realization of the fact that there is a general law that is. alike operative upon both saint and sinner (Matthew v. 45) in the realm of the heavens lorded by the glorious Sun, and from that come down to the things which relate more particularly to the Earth and the personal minutiae of astrology.

Those who deny the operations of these higher laws, prove that they have not advanced above mundane appreciations, while those who grasp these laws are easily equipped for a grander appreciation of the minutiae just as one who can measure a gallon may by the law of division measure a gill. So, too, may one who can measure a gill, by the law of addition (which is the law known by the name "Joseph"in the Bible) measure a gallon, but what shall we think of him who has learned to measure a gill, who cries out in his lack of extended knowledge that there can be no gallon, as it is too great a quantity for the human mind to grasp. The extension of man's mind is unlimited when it is under the mastery of the I am soul power.