The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-04
"Ne7o Thought Says Elizabeth Towne, us An
Irclusi0e Term, Not Mere Cult or Church
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

If l were asked off hand what my i'm
pressen of Mrs. Elizabeth Towne was
after a few moments chat with her,
should say frankly that her most strik-
ing attribute Is a sort of gloriied vitality.
Elizabeth Towne is essentially a vital
woman.
Not vital alone in the sense which
counts for health, virile and red cor
puscled, but vital in the sense of mental
activity-vital with the spark of life which
burns not smoulders-the spark of life
which makes living, breathing, images of
Him who made us, and not mere shadows
of men, following in the footsteps of those
who have gone before, echoing words
which have lost their force and are as
meaningless and empty as the shadows
themselves.
Mrs. Towne is very beautiful woman,
large, physically as well as mentally-her
fair brow crowned by wealth of silvery
hair. which lies softly about her fore-
head, and if the mouth the most telltale
of all features, Is to be relied upon :
large souled, may be added also.
With the seriousness which comes with
study and high ideals, Mrs. Townes hu-
NOR flashes like sunshine, which with the
bon camaradarie of good fellowship and
makes her as delightful chatting over a
cup of coffee as 1 found her yesterday
morning at her breakfast hour (half after
1O) as when with a purity of diction and
a voice which has in it the golden sweet
ness of the song of the nightingale she
stands upon the platform and expounds
her New Thought doctrine. lifting her
auditors beyond a futile oneness of self
into a multiplicity of selves, and throws
open the door to a world wherein one may
change sorrow for joy-suffering for hap
piness, pain for Observation-Disclosures BILE.
Mrs Towne is probably as widely known
as any woman In the United States today
Her activities are felt along many lines
for she's many sided woman.
A writer. a publisher, a lecturer and a
scholar, Mrs Towne combines qualities
which make for the best in every walk of
life
Perhaps she is more widely known as
the leading spirit in the publication OF
The Nautilus-which has helped to de-
fine New Thought" and helped to bring
order out of chaos, as New Thought"
appeared Is or 20 years ago.
With her subject. Mrs. Towne is fully
imbued and talks most Interestingly con-
corning it.
ITO me the term New Thought Is in
elusive" said Mrs Towne yesterday, in
the course of conversation, mot merely a
cult or church, but it includes all those
who are thinking and working super
church--that is, beyond the church.; the
things that would have been in the
church if the church had not been so con-
servative. New Thought has never been
a sect, but has always worked for new
thought of every kind. including Chris
tian Science. divine science, unity work,
and metaphysics m over the country"
"In Boston, for instance" Mrs. Towne
continued, "the work is conducted under
large club called the Metaphysical club,
which affiliates with all the conformers
about there, and this club stands for
everything which is the theory upon which
| work. Here you call your organization
a Psychological society,"
Many people who do not go into the
deepest recesses of the New Thought
idea" suggested, would like neverthe
less to know its import, concisely and
logically"