The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-27
MRS. LEASES NEW FIELD.

are eight large portraits of Mary Eliza
beth Lease of Kansas, together with an
essay on woman written by Mrs. Lease
1t as becoming more apparent every day
that Mrs. Lease has found a wider and
perhaps more profitable field in the
great metropolis than in Kansas. She
will probably never return to this state
except on occasional visits. Mrs. Leases
article in the World is as follows:
The hands of the dfal-pIate of time
mork the hour for a new dispensation
The Sampson of soul power is shaking
the pillars of material authority. In
these later days the phrase new wo-
man" has become strangely familiar
and to that person whose hand is not
steady enough to feel the throbbing
pulse of the times, whose mind is not
open enough to catch the first faint
glinpses of the resplenent dawn, the
phrase has become cant expression,
and is in some way associated with
some nondescript creature, half man,
half woman, who, bold, defiant, tram
pies ancient usage under foot and tries
to overthrow or improve distasteful ex-
listing conditions by material or intel
lectual force always masculine in its
tendency or nature.
But looking deeper into the sOul-life
of the world we find a real meaning,
deeper meaning, and abundant evidence
that the new woman, new IN a much
higher sense than many can now per
ceive. is here, prime factor in the
worlds redemption. But "aS q man
thinketh so is he" and we have dwelt
in the darkness and environment of ig-
norant thoughts so long that we are
scarce conscious that the world is rising
from the errors of the past to a cOndi-
ton of developed and conscious spirit
uality the realization of a new and
better life.
Women are more spiritually develop
ed, accept spiritual truths more readily
re- la w in nff.-
itual work than man, hence she is deS-
tined TO be a positive force in an age
when spiritual power will take a con-
scious part in the active life of the
world. On the material plane from
which humanity is rising man has I'M
questionably ruled but in the divine
evolution of wisdom and order the
dawn of a brighter, better day appears
when life will be adjusted in accord
ance with basic and natural law, and
the highest and best side of human ma
ture, the soul or spiritual side, will be-
come manifest.
Man being physically positive and
spiritually negative, may resent the new
woman, may resent her power but
that power being the consciousness of
self, or atone ment with God, he can
not suppress or weaken it. 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 new earth" but new
woman as well, may be accurately de-
terfnined from a scientific standpoint.
Prof. Winchen, one of the Srea test sci
entists and archaeologistS of the day,
in his Sketches of Creation" shows us
that the earth was once q component
part OF the sun, that il was hurled far
into space, and that this substance
thrown from the sun contained the
germs and potency of all life on our
planet.
II has been n commonly accepted
though mistaken belief that vegetation
absorbs from the soil alone the nutrition
which produces growth. but Winchell
shows US that by far the greater por-
ton of plant life and growth is derived
from the atmosphere, and this he pro
ceeds to prove. The atmosphere sur
rounding the earth in it's infancy was
heavy in organic matter, and conse-
ouentIy 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
atmosphere, pressed into living entities,
was absorbed by and became a part OF
the earth thus accounting for the
growth of the earth and the huge los
sis found far below the surface
The atmosphere is the universe in So
luton. AS the earth absorbs the low
and coarser strata, the more rehneo,
subtle and potentized becomes the up
air. hence the physical dSCSllA
tellectual evolution and spiritual poten-
CIV of the race. Thus through the de-
scending, ever improving atmosphere
absorbed by the earth old conditions
pass away and new earth becomes
manifest with new heaven
Long years ago a curious questoner
asked the great exemplar where heaven
was located. He answered, THE king
dom of God is within you. Heaven
then is a condition of happiness, an un-
foltlraent of vision to behold the truth,
a better understanding of nature, ma
lures laws and the universal intelH-
gence of which we are a part; and this
understanding or discernment of truth,
opera ting always through natural laws,
seeks and produces its correspondence
in the physiology of those VINO are most
spiritualized and ready to receive its
potency With this understanding comes
the power of the nervous organization
to sense the subtle forces of God in all
and all in God.
greater things shall We do" The old
heaven and the old earth are being
rolled away like a scroll. The new heaV-
en- and the new earth are being unfold
ed to our vision and the new woman, no
longer dependent on the grudging favor
of man, freed from the degradation and
the perversion of her whole nature, m ore
loving and brave and true, more ten
DERBY sympathetic and cOnsecrated in
purpose than ever, clad in the shining
raiment of spiritual power, is here, a
potent verify to exercise her GOD as
signed mission to enter into mems souls
and sow the seed of ever higher aspira-
ton ever nobler effort, ever grander
achievement, that thus through patti
ence and love, not pleading and suffer
ing the race may be brought to har-
mony and completeness.
Then strong in faith the hour abide.
Light, Truth and Love, the battle
ground.
For every wind and every tide
That pulses all the wide world round
Shall start the languid pulse of time,
Shall beat and surge in rhythmic song.
All hail! the New Woman for whose
love
The world hath hungered long.
The people of Atchison believe in a