"If you wish to find the Kingdom of God, look no more toward glittering crosses on cathedral domes, but lift the cross of the down-trodden, struggling with poverty. Look upon the careworn faces of mothers and see their misery when they hear the cry of their half-starved little ones; the underpaid daughters, bribed, bought and sold as white slaves to man's unholy desire; the sons of intemperance; the wayward girls of the slums. Open the portals of your souls to all sin-stricken humanity, so that they may see in you the spirit of Christ leading them into the 'Temple of the Living God,' where bruised and bleeding hearts will find upon the altars your offering of wealth and holy deeds for the brotherhood of man.

"Also find the love Christ revealed, that uplifts man into the secret places of the most High, there to learn that the science of life is holy living, and that the science of religion is service to others. Therefore, let no man that hath eyes and sees not; hath ears and hears not, call himself a Christian, who permits suffering he could alleviate.

"In the religious world there has come a great psychological awakening. Through the false conception of God's will, the church has not dealt intelligently with the problem of salvation; has given itself entirely to the salvation of soul for a future life, and has failed to teach the christian science or do the practical work that Jesus did to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead." For it is not written, "That greater things than these we shall do?" That the kingdom of heaven shall be taken from you and given to a people bringing forth fruits of its kind? The religion of practical Christianity has already been formed outside of the church, demonstrating through spiritual enlightenment the laws of divine healing. Since then the church has felt a desertion from its ranks; has become alarmed and is making a desperate effort to keep in the race for knowledge, realizing it is in danger of destruction.

"The church has fallen far below its high calling, and many illumined minds and loyal hearts are remaining within its walls, not because they agree with its principles and dogmas, but because of a noble purpose to aid in raising it to a standard that would make it an honor to Him whose name it bears. Outstretched arms are extended to those who have broken out of bondage and beckon for their return.

"But what has the church to offer?

"Is it ready to teach the laws of love, health, and success in life? How can it ever hope for the return of those who are receiving these things outside of the church, and through mental discipline awakening to the fact, that we are not sinners, but gods of our own world?

"We do not realize this until we have a spiritual awakening and open the windows of our souls, that the sunlight of God's love may shine into and radiate through our being. We may starve in a world of plenty, grow cold and cynical in an atmosphere pulsating with infinite love. The personal man may feel content in the valley of mere things. Not so with the awakened soul transcended above this material world to heights sublime, where we hear a voice say: Where I am, there ye may be also.9 Still in human form we enter, and find ourselves in heaven upon earth, the significance of life revealed, and we just begin to live.

"Our existence becomes an endless inspiration in a world of spiritual things, where everything is animated with a great divine purpose. Where the eye of the awakened soul is too pure to see anything but what is good; where the mind is too luminious to know anything but truth; where the body becomes the concentrated temple of the spirit and feels nothing but health and purity.

"When once the gateway of thought has been opened to this inner realm, the old earth and the old heaven pass away. From groping in the blindness and uncertainty of previous mental states, the mind becomes illumined with the light of Immortal Intelligence and all the phenomena of nature takes on a different hue and tone - a different meaning. When the observant mind is vivified by the awakening touch of knowledge it is to learn and understand the philosophy of life, the religion of Religions and the science of Sciences.

"The world is becoming conscious of a psychic element working through all visible and invisible nature, and the force of its influence is felt in every department of human thought. It has wrought an entire change in the attitude of thoughtful minds concerning the problems of 'Life and Death,' the relation between the two states; at the same time opening up a vast inter-realm, including all the psychological problems and possibilities of the human mind, while still in the human environment. The invisible forces have solved the knotty problems between religion and science, by correcting erroneous impressions born of ignorance concerning a future life, substituting knowledge for theories. Belief is much; Faith is more but Knowledge is all.

"Through the ages, the church with its creeds and dogmas, with its beautiful lessons and inspiring sermons, has taught us there was another world and to prepare for it. But where is this world - this world beyond the grave?

"This most important and tremendous question has never been answered by the messenger of the church. You stand around the open grave of your loved ones and your hearts are torn with anguish. Doubts, fear and anxiety, creep secretly into your hearts, that perhaps you have parted with them forever. Oh, that it were in my power, dear friends, to lift the veil of your mental horizon and present to your spiritual vision those arisen ones, walking the earth unseen - at all times - when you wake and when you sleep; hovering around their loved ones, aiding them in all exalted themes for the uplift of humanity. Their exalted influence is felt in every life that accepts its truths,

"To a materialistic and unbelieving age it has demonstrated the existence of spirit and continued life beyond the change called death.