The courier., 1902-09-13


women are resuming their club and So
cial duties. Chapter X Of p. e. o. held
the first meeting Of the club year Mon
day evening. The Century club will
open its season next Tuesday and the
executive boards OF the Matinee Musi-
Gale and the woman's club are holding
frequent meetings preparatory to the
regular meetings which will begin next
month. The w. T.. NJ. and the Fort
nightly will hold first meetings the last
of this month.
The three prospective brides of East
Lincoln. Miss Garnet Geer, Miss Flora
Roberts and Mics Mabel Klock, are be-
ing led merry whirl by their friends,
who are giving luncheons. dinners and
teas, and showers" galore for them.
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1t was q select and appreciative audi
ence that greeted Prof weltmer at
the home Of Mrs. Angie F. Newman on
Tuesday afternoon. And we venture
the assertion. no ''parlor lecture"
which has been given in the city has
been OF higher type. or deeper interest
to those who were privileged to hear.
Prof. Weltmer is a man Of slight
physique. a graceful bearing. and
gives the listener, even in his initial
sentences, a sense that he is master of
his theme Devoid of ostentation, of
mannerisms. he makes his audience his
own from the beginning He has the
appearace Of youth scarcely commen-
surate with his known achievements,
not only in the school of magnetic
healing" but I'm his larger field Of lit
erary work. The author of sixteen
books within the last FIVE years, the
editor In chief of the literary maga-
zine which bears his name, lecturer on
metaphysics In the auditorium of the
institute three times per week. beside
courses Of lectures in other cities he
seems the very exponent Of his own
philosophy Of Individual effort" His
theme on Tuesday was Individual
ISM" He first treated his subject from
the standpoint of the physical Man,
the arbiter Of his own destiny in the
realm Of the physical IAN disease is
violated law" said the speaker. "Man
10 that violator. All law is Gods law
The sick man IL out Of harmony with
God. His first effort at recovery il to
comprehend the law which has been
violated-to obey II, to put himself
thus In harmony with the law of being,
then trust the infinite source of life
for restoration"
The professor quietly disposed of the
current religious theory that Whom
the Lord loveth he chasteneth" with
sickness by saying, God is not a law
breaker. He would vitiate His own
law to thus afdict." Changing his line
Of thought to the realm of mind. the
professor gave a most fascinating
analysis Of mentalities. OF the "dyna-
mic power Of thought" In the whole
realm Of human achievement he placed
the responsibility Of human action 90
absolutely within the province Of the
individual that II almost made one shiv-
er to feel that he was absolutely under
the dominion Of his own inherent pow
ers.
The difference in men is not the diff
ference in environment-not the meas
ure Of circumstance. The real man
knows no circumstance. He only
knows power-not the power Of anoth-
er. but the power within himself Half
the world accords to the other
half-genius. and denies it to itself. No
man should concede to another an ini-
tiative power not his own. Natures en-
dowment II no respector of persons"
but he who respects himself is he who
recognises his endowment. Half the