Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-05

The hands or the dial-plate OF time mark the
the hour for new dispensation The Sampson
of soul-power is shaking the pillars OF material
authority. In these latter days, the phrase
"New Woman" has become strangely familiar,
and to that person whose hand is not steady
enough to feel the th-obbing pulse of the times,
whose mind is not open enough to catch the hrst
faint glimpses of the resplendent "dawn," the
phrase has become cant expression, and is III
some way associated with some nondescnpt
creature, half man, half woman who, bold, def
ant. tranples ancient usage under foot, and
tries to overthrow or improve distasteful exist
ing conditions by material or intellectual force
ALWAYS masculine in its tendency or nature.
But, looking deeper into the soul-life of the
world, we find real meaning, deeper mean-
ing, and abundance evidence that the "New
Woman''-new in much higher sense than
many can now perceive-is here, prime factor
in the worlds redemption. But, Gas man
thinketh, so is he," and we have dwelt in the
darkness and environment of ignorant thoughts
so long that we are scarce conscious that the
world is rising from the errors of the past to
condition of developed and conscious spiritu-
ality-the realization of new and better lite.
Women are more spiritually developed, ac-
cept spiritual truths more readily and predomi-
nate more largely in spiritual work than man;
hence she is destined to be positive force III
an age when spiritual power will take con-
scious part in the active life of the world. On
the material plane from which humanity is rls-
ing, man has unquestionably ruled, but, IN the
divine evolution of wisdom and ORDER the dawn
brighter, better day appears, when life Will be
adjusted in accordance with basic and natural
law, and the highest and best side OF human
nature, the soul or spiritual side, will become
Ia;,
spiritually negative, may resent the new wo-
man. may resent her power, but that power,
being consciousness of self, or at-one-ment
with God, he cannot suppress or weaken. The
unseen forces of the universe are beating down
opposition and heralding her advent with the
trumpet tongue of prophecy. That we are to
have not only "new heaven, and a new
earth, ~ but 'new woman" as we'll, may be
accurately determined from SCIENTIFIC stand
point. Prof Winchell, one of the greatest SCI
entists and archseologists OF the day, IN his
"Sketches of Creation, " shows us that the earth
was once component part OF the sum- that 1t
was hurled far into space, and that this sub
stance thrown from the sun contained the germs
and potency of all life on our planet. 1t has
been commonly though mistaken be-
lief that vegetation absorbs from the soil the
nutrition which produces growth, but VIM
chell shows us that by far the greater portion OF
plant life and growth is derived from the at
mosphere, and this he proceeds to prove. Thea:-
mosphere, surrounded by the earth in its infancy,
was heavy with organic matter, and consequent.
" unfit for the life of man; hence, strange and
giant monsters abounded in the animal and
vegetable worlds. These enormous growths were
absorbed by the earth; or, rather, as chemistry
and geology prove, the dense organic atmos-
phere pressed into living entities was absorbed
by, and became part of, the earth, thus ac-
counting for the growth of the earth and the
huge fossils found far below its surface. The
atmosphere is the universe in solution. AS the
earth absorbes the lower and coarser strata, the
more refined, subtle and potenized becomes the
upward air, hence the physical ascent, intellect
ual evolution and spiritual potency OF the race;
thus, through the descending ever-improving at
mosphere absorbed by the earth, old conditions
pass away, and a new earth becomes manifest
with a new heaven. Long years ago, a curious
questioner asked Jesus, the Great Exemplar,
where heaven was located. He answered,
"The kingdom of heaven is within you."
Heaven, then is condition Of happiness, an un..
foldment of vision to behold the Truth, bettsr
understanding of nature, natures laws, and the
universal intelligence of which we are part;
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