The gift of healing and spiritual science as taught by Christ

Introduction

When I sent out the messenger "How to Make Use of the Power Within" which I was inspired to write, in order to reach those who had not developed the light that shines from within and could not realize the happiness that was theirs by divine right, I said, "If you call for me I will come again."

I thank those of you who have made it possible for me to come before you again, as the little book was well received, and is still on its way trying to find those who have not known the light that never fails and that pervades all life. I mentioned then my hope to establish a humane park as a rest for horses who had served some one faithfully and when old and worn out deserved a rest from labor before they leave this plane.

I have the promise now of quite a sum toward this institution and it is my intention to have control of the same during my natural life and to secure funds by the sale of my books and otherwise, to make it a permanent institution, in connection with the boarding home for young men which I mention further on.

These institutions I will place in the hands of other permanent public welfare societies as I only desire a life lease in them. If anyone who reads this book is interested in the subject,, having the means to donate something toward this good work, wishes to consult with the Author, they may do so by submitting their credentials and arranging for an interview.

Very sincerely,

THE AUTHOR.

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One of the author's intentions is to have a farm for dumb animals as she has told you in her little book, "How to Make Use of the Power Within." And in the city to have a boarding home for young men with all the social conditions of a private home. The food for the home could be raised on the "Humane Farm/' and this would make the home self-supporting from the start; and any of the young men out of employment could find work temporarily on the farm.

The author believes in prevention instead of cure for immorality. If these young men were to meet the young ladies before they got into the whirl of excitement, they would probably marry and never go wrong, for they would not have the experience of such a life nor the longing for luxuries which they acquire from experience. Most of these young women have been brought up to moderation in their living.

This book on spiritualism is to be sold to help along the work. We will have a large dormitory built on the farm as a free vacation home for aged people who will be permitted to bring their pets. For the author is not among those who believe that animals are spreaders of disease germs, for they are not allowed where contagious diseases are any more than human beings are.

When a child, she brought home to her dear mother every broken-winged butterfly, or bird, or crippled animal, that she could find, and the mother taught her how to treat them for their ailment. And she still brings into her home every sick crea-

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ture she can find and she has never contracted a contagious disease.

The good spirits tell her that she will be granted three graces before she enters the higher grade of life, two of which she mentions here, when she has accomplished these two parts of her life's work, the third will be easily gained. She asks God to specially favor all who secure her book and sends helpful thoughts to you all.

THE SOCIAL EVIL.

To you mothers who lay away your little ones, the author knows all the sorrow, and the feeling that you can no longer serve them, and keep them warm and protect them; the author loved her pets and cared for them in the same way that you loved your infants, and oh ! the sorrow of it she must sen$ away these creatures that she loved with all the intensity of her nature and feel that perhaps they were being ill-treated.

She loved her home and pets, and she decided owing to the intemperance and abuse she was subjected to, that she must give up all, and go out into the world. Ill, broken in health and spirit, she would look at the golden sunset, she loved to look out over that beautiful green field (where her pets gathered before going to their rest) and watch the golden clouds turn to rose color and then purple before darkness came on. And she thought, why am I driven from my home, I am doing right here, why must I go out into the world? And the answer came, you are doing right but you are living for self, as those who are serving family and things they love are only working for self. You are fitted to do much good out in the world, and your gifts and understanding will be developed more and more as you do His work.

She will not touch upon all she suffered and endured in sacrificing her loved ones, but will give a poem here which will express it for her.

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WHAT CHRIST SAID.

I said, "Let me walk in the fields";

He said, "Nay, walk in the town" ; I said, "There are no flowers there" ;

He said, "No flowers, but a crown."

I said, "But the sky is black, There is nothing but noise and din" ;

But He wept as He sent me back —

"There is more," He said, "there is sin."

I said, "But the air is thick,

And fogs are veiling the sun" ; Lie answered, "Yet hearts are sick,

And souls in the dark undone."

I said, "I shall miss the light,

And friends will miss me, they say" ;

He answered me, "Choose tonight If I am to miss you or they."

I pleaded for time to be given ;

He said, "Is it hard to decide?

It will not seem hard in heaven

To have followed the steps of your Guide."

I cast one look at the field,

Then set my face to the town; He said, "My child, do you yield ;

Will you leave the flowers for the crown?"

Then into His hand went mine, And into my heart came He, And I walk in a light divine The path I had feared to see.

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In giving up her loved creatures who depended upon her for their welfare, she gave up all that she cherished in an unhappy home and in parting with them and her home she gave up almost her life and her heart's blood. After sorrowing for months to gain the submission to His will, she asked God to place her, for she knew that all this sorrow was for her progression, and she said, "Not mine, but Thy will be done."

The author has no intention of inflicting her personal sorrows upon her readers, but she gives this side of her life to show the selfish ones who do not appreciate love for God's creatures. That God gave an all absorbing love for dumb animals to some, so that His lower creation would be cared for and given the attention He wished them to have; to some He has given love for children in the same intensity, and to others the love for the aged.

So fate drove her out into a big city, with very little ahead of her for her immediate needs, and to what? She was physically unable to do hard work, and as the only work she understood was the hotel business, she entered that line of labor, until something else would present itself. This brought her in contact with the women who had gone wrong, and many times she would think, why was I driven out of my little home to come in contact with these men and women?

People who imagine they can save these women are greatly mistaken ; they only laugh at the reformers. She invited many of them to call on her and induced them to tell her about their present life. This they were very willing to do, and she

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learned that there was a caste among them the same as in any other social life. Those who were not so well educated could not associate with those who were accomplished, nor could they command the same recompense, financially, as the others.

Many times she tried to induce these handsome creatures to get employment and begin life anew and settle down and marry and become useful citizens. And they would say to her, "We like you for talking to us like this and we know you like us, and are interested in us, and if you can tell us where we can earn a hundred dollars a week or more, as we do now, we will go to work."

Of course, there was nothing more to be said. The author has arrived at the conclusion that the only ones who reform are those who find themselves. That is, something comes into their lives which brings about a willing change. As a rule, if these women marry, they return to their old life after a short time, and are found frequenting their old haunts while living with their husbands.

To give you an illustration of how important these young women consider themselves. Several of them were discussing the marriage of one who had followed that profession for fifteen years ; one

of them said, "Miss S did not do very well, did

she? She married a man earning only thirty-five dollars a week." I said, "Don't you think that a woman of that stamp should consider herself fortunate to get any man to marry her when he knows just what she is?" and they indignantly said, "Oh, I don't think so."

In regard to the women who have gone wrong.

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No one can reform them; they are what they are from choice, and it is born in them. They will lie and pretend to reform and tell you that they have given it all up, and you will learn, from their intimate friends that they are frequenting their favorite meeting resorts the same as usual. They cannot deceive the author on this question, for the spirits showed her one of these reformed ( ?) women with a long-handled drag net swung over her shoulder and this interpreted meant she has the drag net out for men, and it was verified afterwards by some of her acquaintances.

Some societies for the suppression of vice are paying young men good salaries, some of whom go out on the streets nights and try to induce these young women to solicit their acquaintance. This is very wrong, and is distinctly contrary to the prayer "Lead us not into temptation."

SEGREGATION.

Segregation by an unwritten law would be much more effectual, for if they were driven to live in the restricted section of the cities their parents and relatives would soon know the life they were living. This could be done by driving them out of every part of the city excepting that section, where they could be compelled to maintain orderly conduct.

These creatures have played at love making so much that deception has become a second self to them. They cannot sincerely love anything or anybody, and they prefer to lie and deceive even

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when the truth is much easier for them. This is the only conclusion to come to after several years of close contact with them. If they are to reform they must find themselves ; arrest and punishment does not change them.

Most of these women were wronged by a lover under promise of marriage before they came to the city. The city life nor low wages never was the cause of their downfall, for you will find many young women working for low wages and rooming in attics, doing their sewing and laundry evenings, who never go wrong and will not, no matter how hard a time they have. They will endure it. It is the one that has started wrong who comes to the city to bury her trouble that we must keep from going any further in that direction, and that can be done by prevention.

"The Working Girl Who Goes On Call."

Many young women in all big cities are employed through the day, and are called evenings and any time of the night by messenger or otherwise to houses where they make the acquaintance of men. This could be prevented by the parents of many of them if they were aware of the lives their daughters were leading, and if the segregated district was well guarded by police and agents of societies they could turn back any of the women "called" to that section of the city, as only those who roomed there would be allowed to enter that section.

And as most of those who are "called" are keeping up a respectable appearance to their relatives

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and gentlemen friends, they would not room in the segregated section and they would be obliged to give up their immoral way of living. It is the fact that they can keep up an air of respectability under present conditions that induces many of them to remain in that way of living. The men they meet take them to dinners and they dine at the next table to the wealthiest and ride in automobiles, wear fine clothes and jewels and enjoy all the luxuries of life ; but many of them would not lead this life if they could not keep it from their friends and under cover of respectability.

The remedy is back to the soil where the daughters could be kept at home until they are married or have arrived at the age when they are not so susceptible to this danger.

Many of the working women who are leading a sporting life, marry sports, and, under cover of the marriage certificate entertain socially, men of wealth give dinners at these couples' homes, and young women, married and single, are invited to meet these men several times a week. And in this way these working girls acquire the desire for automobile rides, swell dinners and luxury.

One of the oldest resorts was run in this manner, the husband bringing in the guests, and after a time they quarreled and separated and the wife, in order to continue the money-making business, was obliged to give the husband an allowance, and he was living with another woman supported by the wife. Death has since then ended that resort.

Many of the young women pretend to their friends that they work, and they go out every day

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just as if they went to work. They go to some of the houses, where they pay a dollar a day for the privilege of remaining there to receive their calls from men or to "houses" where they are wanted. I am giving you every side of this question, so you will know just what you have to cope with.

The author is telling you these facts so that you will fully understand that the police and societies for the suppression of vice can handle this subject only in a limited way. For if they suppress it in one direction it rises in a new form, for if you scatter them they take small apartments and entertain even more than they did before, as they are not under the rules of the one who runs the house, as they were before.

You will find this subject in the Bible, and it probably will be found in all ages of the future. Prevention, in the form of education, will do much toward suppressing it, if the next generation is taught that health and womanliness is above everything else ; it will be one step toward it. Also give them things to love, for love is the tie that binds and the whole theme of nature.

If some of the professional men could have their way, all creatures that people love would be exterminated and the next generation would be like so much machinery; the man or woman who has a pet to love him or her when they go to their home have something to love and bring them home. For many married men and women long for love as they do not get it from those they have chosen for their partners for life. And this little bird or animal that runs to greet them with all the joy of its

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little heart gives them the love they do not get from the selfish one they live with.

And it is love that makes the home life. If they do not get love in the home they usually go where they will get it. Every form of physical life must have love, from the little insect up to the largest bird or animal, and the human. Nature's laws are ruled by love, and God is love.

As the daily papers are now discussing the social problem of progression, the author gives her experience on this subject after several years of study and close contact with those who know personally, and are willing to tell of their own experience, as well as that of their many associates. Some of these say that they live with their parents or relatives and are among the sporting set, and their parents are ignorant of the fact.

It is the hope of the writer that this book will go into many homes, and place this subject before many parents, and in this way accomplish much good.

"The Call House."

There is in all big cities what is termed a "Call House," where many young women room and board. They are not allowed to receive any callers at this house, as the place does not conflict with the law by "doing business." This proprietor charges from twelve to fifteen dollars per week to each boarder; the boarders have the privilege of being called by telephone or messenger to any house that wishes them to entertain men, day or night.

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They are called to houses of ill repute or private apartments or lodging houses that do "some business" in this line. At some of these houses where they are "called" the girls are expected to drink wine, as the greatest profit to the "landlady" is on the wine and other drinks.

Many of the girls do not like drink and refuse to take it at first, but if they do not drink they will not be "called" again, as more money can be made when the girl drinks a great deal. I am told by some of these girls that some men will spend from $25 to $150 in a night, just for wine, and the girls try to learn to drink so as to become popular with all concerned, as they do not make much if they are only called to the places where they do not have to drink, as it is only the "cheap places" that do not sell wine.

In this way the girls acquire the drink habit, then when they become drunkards the "houses" do not call for them, as they are not fit to present to their gentlemen callers, as these men believe that these girls are nurses, bookkeepers, artists, musical students, etc., and tell their men friends how they have met the music student, etc. They think they ;are meeting some one who has never been around ; that this student, etc., was induced to come in answer to this call, especially for them. When all the time the "select party" is a "Call House" product.

These young women laugh over the credulity of the men and say, "Wouldn't you think that they would know that if we could be called for a man

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that we never saw that we also could be called for anyone ?"

I am telling this, so you will know every side of this question and how much there is to guard against. I had lived in the city many years and never knew that there was such an institution as a "Call House" until I met one of the supposed to be "music students" and I asked her where she was stopping and she laughingly said in one of the "swellest call houses in the city." I said,, "What kind of a house is that?" and she explained it to me to my amazement and enjoyed my astonishment very much.

If mothers could see this side of life they would never consent to their daughters going away, from home, and the fact that some one may go with her does not make any difference, as we find sisters together in these houses and several girls from the same city or state who have known each other for years. Of course they will not tell on each other.

If you could see these girls after two or three years of dissipation you would prefer to see your child in her grave than to live the life she is living, for when she becomes addicted to drink she is an outcast, for none of the "Houses" will receive her, as she is likely to attract attention toward the house. And her next step is to solicit men on the street, and then the career of this poor "moth" is very swift down the scale of life, as part of the time she starves and is turned out of her boarding place for not paying and for creating a disturbance.

And this beautiful child of somebody's is a pitiful wreck that no one can do anything for, because

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she will not do any different. And to help her by giving her money is only to give her money to buy drink with, and if anyone allows her to visit them she is likely to call on them when intoxicated, and people who see her call say you are associating with low people.

To try to help them is to drag yourself down in public opinion, so she is shut out all together. Usually she goes from bad to worse. She finds herself in the street starving, no home and without a friend. She is too far gone to think of work and as a last resort turns to the river, and death is the best friend for her.

The morning paper tells of finding a woman's body in the river or harbor, and perhaps a dear mother waits and longs for the return of her darling child, and she may never know how that dear one suffered. And I think if that dear mother had only known the danger there was for her child perhaps she would be with her today and be a help to her instead of a sorrow.

This is why I am anxious to place this awful subject before you in a way that will make you fully understand the danger that any or all young girls are in who are away from home. They are free to go where they will, and as bachelor girls they have no delicacy in entering this life, no more than several young men do who go out together, when they go to saloons or other resorts.

I hope I may be inspired to make you see this awful situation in its proper light. I wish it were possible to have you see some of these beautiful girls as I see them very often, cast off by first one

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lover and then another, trying to find some man to support them. When I ask them what their mother thinks they are doing, they say, "Oh, she thinks I am a stenographer or bookkeeper." But it won't be long before "mother" must know, for she is a confirmed drunkard and must have strong drink the first thing in the morning, and when they reach that condition they cannot hide it from anyone any longer.

Some of them marry and bring children into the world, and there is nothing so pitiful as a child with a drunken mother, beside the suffering it endures from neglect in the home. Every child loves its mother, and its pride is hurt by other children taunting it about its awful mother.

People who live in comfortable and pleasant conditions cannot realize how much there is to be thankful for. If they should go into a Criminal Court a few mornings they would soon know what suffering is. There you will find young men and women being tried for various crimes, and it will make your heart ache to hear them sentenced to different prisons for short or long terms. And you feel, if you only could be allowed to do something for them, but it would be of no use for you to try, for many others have tried before you saw them, and, like the "Moth and the Flame," these poor human moths return again and again until judges and officials know that they must be sent away.

The poor immigrant or the girls brought up in humble circumstances are seldom among those who live immoral lives, for the poor girls are willing to work and hope to marry and have a home of their

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own to take care of. It is the pampered daughter of parents who try to live above their means and are brought up to false ideas of their importance. That is, they are led to believe that with their education and good looks, that they can marry wealth, and they will not look at an honest working man, and when they find that they cannot find anyone who is wealthy to marry them they decide to have luxury without marrying.

The girl who is willing to marry the man she loves and is willing to work with him to establish a respectable home is much happier than her foolish sister who prefers luxury and ease to happiness, for she is always unhappy. She is in constant fear of coming to want, for if she has a man that is supporting her she knows that she may lose him most any day, for generally he is a sport and is apt to leave her for the first pretty face he meets, and usually she is left without a dollar and without a home. And as she grows older her chances of finding another man friend are few, and altogether life is a very discouraging proposition for her.

Save the Boys.

Another reason for the segregated district is that young boys are sent to deliver groceries and other goods to houses and apartments of ill repute, and the women living there tell them all about their manner of living, nothing is sacred to those who are dissipated, and you will hear these young boys remark that "there are no good girls."

You cannot wonder that they think so when you consider how many of these abandoned creatures

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there are in large cities and the boys from the age of sixteen years upwards are sent to their homes every week to deliver goods. If we had the segregated district we could prevent boys under age from delivering in that section. And in this way they would not know these harmful creatures.

Neither Do I Condemn Thee.

The women of the first-class establishments are not the sort to advertise themselves in this manner ; they keep their business to themselves, and anyone going there would not know that they were in an immoral business. And no man or woman who is not well known there will be admitted. If a new comer gets into one of these houses they must be introduced there by one who is well known by the proprietor.

The segregated district should have a chapel and lectures daily; this would attract them, and the excuse to get them to come in would be to ask their aid toward different charities, the care of infants, the aged, etc.

The lecturer should ignore their mode of living, simply give talks on the life of Christ and the saints and topics of the day; the lecturer should take the stand that Christ did, "Neither do I condemn thee."

Many people say to me "Why do you not have a home for girls?" There are many homes for girls, and I want to save the boys from becoming "sports," for once they enter the sporting life they do not care to become family men. They can have all the sociability without marrying and they do not want the responsibility, so if we can keep them

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from losing the ideals they received from their home influences, then we will have more and happier marriages, saving the girls will not make domestic life if there are no good men to marry them.

The man and woman who have a family to care for and love are not likely to enter the sporting life, and it is the sporting life that is the cause of so many early deaths.

These women spend more money on their hair dressing, manicuring and "facial massage" than the little working girl earns in a week. And the good little working girl who is forced to dress within her means is not invited out to dinners, rides, etc., as her sporty sister is ; for the sporty sister indulges in drink and is more amusing and interesting and is playing her part in the game of life, the same as the actress or other professionals are.