The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-17

PRAYER DAY

SALEM, Oregon, Nov. 3.-The move :
ment for universal prayer, which was {
started by Mrs Matte Grupp and Judge
Horatio N. Mcguire in 1886, has obtained
such a wide notice recently that time !
table has been made up for the convent
ence of those who take part in the COM
munion. When asked to explain the ORR
in and purposes of the movement, Mrs
Matte Grupp made public the following
signed statement: |.
Whole world soul communion had it's
birth in the year 1886 in the remote little
town of Salem, Oregon. 1t was given it's
Mcguire while delivering a public adj
dress and without forethought. He was Il
moved to call for a few minutes silent /
communion, requesting his hearers to d.
vert their minds of all prejudices and an
tagonisms and sit in silent, soulful COM
munion with the Divine, invoking in
flow of light and the blessings of peace
and good will for all the children of earth,
regardless of race and creed. The power
was sensibly felt and recognized to I've of |
Gcd.
Shortly after this the call for whole |
world soul communion was sent out and |
was responded to from all over the world |
People of every nation were touched by |
the fire and brought under the inference
and felt it's power. Since that time it has
been growing, steadily but silently until
now the time is at hand for teachers and
demonstrators of it, as embodying the true
philosophy of life, to go forth and bring
the people in touch with each other in
their social as well as spiritual relations.
Heretofore there has been no active prose-
ly tizng done through personal effort, but
the silent soul forces have been working
like leaven getting the people ready for
the advent of Illuminated characters, who
will be commissioned to teach new truths
and bring new light for the spiritual ele-
ton of humanity.
Whole world communion is on the 9th
OF each month, and continues simulta-
neously all over the world for thirty n in
utes, it being usual to devote from a
quarter of an hour to half an hour before
entering the communion to devotional
singing and invocations in the most uni
iversal spirit for an inflow of the divine
: life influence, to bring the communing
souls on earth and in heaven in more per-
: feet accord.
) The object of the monthly whole world
? communion is to bring communicates of
+ diverse faiths and nationalities into unity
l of thought and aspiration in invoking the
l blessings of peace and good will for ALL
2 and spiritual illumination according TO the
l receptivity of each. In soul communion
! self interests and the influence of precon-
ceived ideas of religious duties and obliga-
tions are, SO far as possible, kept cut of
mind, that the inflow may be the same,
S may come from the one divine center, in
t eli parts of the world.
e Special times of observing communion
e ALWAYS once " eek and sometimes often
S er. are arranged to suit the convenience of
S soul communicates locally; and for such
s as are fully in the soul communion inf1u-
: !eEce it is a continuous influence, to them
d it is "a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar
n of fire by night"
a A timetable, giving the time for enter
s ing the communion at all points CORE
o spending to I'm, Salem, Oregon, is in the
d hands of communicates everywhere, and
e TO" those on the seas it may be easily de-
); termined by reference to the ships log
: book and request for it's calculation by
e the master. The time for some of the
a principal cities is published in connection
# with this article
o Soul communicates are not asked to
s subscribe to specific articles of faith OF
n obiigate themselves to specific religious
a duties and to abjure old tenets of faith, ii
W being assumed that each and all will be
It interiorly Illuminated to understand the
e will of God and disposed to conform
d Herewith. The light within will be the
unerring guide for each. But most SOU
Is ccmmunionists claim to be conscious of
IS ito be interiorly illuminated to understand
g many truths regarding the divine econo-
e. my and nature, of which the following
y may be noted:
y That there are dead mechanical
n forces in the universe, that all things are
J. moved and sustained in the will and by
p the life energies of the one all including
= God, from micro-organisms up to world
systems.
n That all humanity unites into one life
l. state racial or collective life, the one
d Universal spirit animating and moving al
e the parts one harmonious whole, while
n manifesting in different ways through
ii their different relations to each other.
RI That man is essentially spiritual be-
n irg the physical organism being merely
lie an instrumental provision for use until he
e becomes interiorly conscious of his es
TO sential nature as a spiritual being, an6
Is that all his physical environing conditions
n, are likewise but temporary provisions fol
er his spiritual infancy
re That celestial beings or angels, that \:
~ souls resurrected out of the fleshly con
IN sciousness do not live or feel in the form
" life Of mortals, but live in life essences o.
n God, in the good of each other, as mortals
e. In spirit live in the life emotions of eaci
IN ether, in each others hopes, thoughts
In etc.
ty That the miseres and sorrows of NOR
e. tails are the results or effects of thei
n false consciousness, that life here is II
e. the form instead of spirit, of their usini
d. the spirit for the form instead of usinI
to the form of the spirit, of their being II
in the fieshly consciousness instead of befnt
at =, the consciousness of the will of God
be which is the light of soul communion o
TO the new dispensation, soul communion be
r. rig a great composite life souled or cen
H. tered in the divine consciousness, an
n that the divine life must be manifesto