The age-herald., 1902-03-06

wcSssn Mrs. Snsy EVerhart Cunningham, who reviews Dominion and Power" by Charles Brodie Patterson. and Mrs. Julia Nicely Finch. who reviews "The Seven Essays on the Attainment of Happiness" by Kate Atkinson Boehme.
 Mrs. Cunningham writes:
 'If one wishes to get a clear and com prehensive idea of the new thought move ment. let him give MT. Patterson's book a careful reading. It is an honest presen- tation of a subject at once uplifting and of deep interest to the thoughtful. Even those who may not agree with the author in, many of his views. will hardly be able to withhold the recognition that such an appeal to the highest nature deserves. In the January Arena MT. B. o. Flowers writes in unqualified praise of Dominion and Power He says
 "'Among the most notable recent works that appeal at once to the heart and brain of the thoughtful is MT. Charles Brodie Patterson's new book "Domin- ion and Power" This really vital con- tribution to the unfoldment of the spir itual life will take a high place in the
  literature of the new thought movement. It is an earnest. luminous and thought full message presented in a clear, concise and manly manner. embodying the ripest experience and conclusions of the heart and brain of a broad thinker and an earnest, truth-loving man. "'Mr. Patterson has for years stood in the forefront of the New Thought move ment In his labors he has discouraged the 1 formation of any church or sect, seeking rather to awaken the dormant spirituality of men and women, in and out Of the churches, that they might feel believe and know the truth-the profound life l giving truth which blossomed forth in the 1 glory of perfection in the life and teacn- ings of the great Nazarene.' 1 The plan of this work embraces the 1 gamut of human development. The argu- ment is set forth in a simple and rational way, and attracts the reader by the in l tcnsely practical application of it's spirit ual message. The kingdom of God IS within The reward of life is to be like Jesus are two truths that permeate every chapter.
 "One might read Ambrose that gem Of Lowell's verse, if disposed to deny MT. Patterson the right to his newer concep- tions' of life. We might, with equal cor rectness, refer to the Bible, the sacred books of the east, the Rubaiyat, or the Rig-Vedas The fact Is, the New Thought. is really the old Thought whose es- sence we find in the great books of old. nf mutable truths underlying human life, to the obligations and duties of modern life. that makes MT. Pattersons work val uable.'
 Mrs. Finchs review Is in part as fol- lows:
 "A book that is light and easily ham dled always comments itself to reader and when added to this there is clearness 1 of type one is predisposed to judge fa- | vorably. and one enters upon the reading pleasantly disposed towards the writer.
 "All these conditions are fulfilled In the Seven Essays on the Attainment of Happiness by Kate Atkinson Boehme, as gotten up by the National Publishing Company of Washington, D. c.
 
 condition of happiness Mrs. Boehme treats under the heads of
 Rest
 "'The Universal Heart
 "'The Universal Mind
 Immortal Youth
 "'The Secret of Opulence' and The Source of Health and Beauty
 'The essays amply repay one upon l second reading; but I am free to confess that a first reading leaves one somewhat confused and uncertain of the true mean ing of the authors abundance Of words; redundance of ideas.
 But while there is something to be de- sired as to the sincerity of simplicity, the swift, arrestlng forces of conciseness and the lasting effect of brevity. yet these are wonderfully clever and convincing words which are given us.
 "The thoughtful reader, the earnest seeker after truth, those who in darkness vearn for light, will find large and com pensative results from the reading Of these essays.
 The initial step toward the attain ment of happiness is to recognize the fact that the individual purpose must become one with the universal purpose; and all individual action must have firm resting place upon the principles which underlie all right action in the universe"
 Quoting further
 "I shall seek goes on Mrs. Boehme to prove that mans only chance for happiness lies in adjusting his life to principle and 1t shall then be my effort to indicate the manner In which such adjustment may be effected
 George MacDonald's mystical Lilith' is largely quoted from, and serves to point many truths as set forth in the | essays.
 Man is held to be an organic unity in the enfolding of a larger growth pos sibe from the least pin-point of good, outward and towards some supreme en- Towering of the soul; some pinnacled moment in which one may hold himself i .E-E--I-,-1zSz-