"Great Pan is dead! his rule is o'er!* Proclaim the news! uplift the strain! III Dead was the god of Nature rude, Spirit of Christ! arise in might, Lest "Peace"-God's Will-fail in the fight; Throughout the world, O let there shine, HUMANITY-True Love Divine. NOTE: Plutarch, in De orac, defectu, 17, and other classic writers, relate that on Easter morn in the reign of Tiberias, Thamus, a pilot, with crew and passengers including some Roman courtiers, sailed the Ionian sea near the island of Paxi in the Echinades. Suddenly, they heard a great cry from space: *Tha-mouz! Tha-mouz! pan-ma-gaz teth-neke.” Thamous! Thamous! the all-Great is dead. This, probably a Lenten lament of the dying winter time, for the great Thamous or Adonis, raised by pagan worshipers assembled around some crude hill-top altar and, borne through the clear Egean air, the courtiers interpreted as a proclamation to be made to Tiberias as a warning against his licentious conduct. By tradition it is supposed to have announced the end of the old world of pagan cruelty and fear while heralding the beginning of the new world of Christian love and humanity. Albany, Christmas Eve, 1918. UNITY LIFE'S IDEAL THE BASIS OF FEDERATION HEBREW-CATHOLIC-PROTESTANT "The earnest hope and expectation of the creation awaiteth the revealing of the sons of God." "A person, man or woman, who can say more ably, forcibly and pungently than others what those others are longing to have said, will sweep into unity an irresistible body of support.' "What is needed is to solidify sentiment, to focus it, and to apply it at white heat to the particular barrier separating religious bodies which must be burnt away." "Those who suppose that modern facilities for the transmission and presentation of intelligence have lessened the value of the individual with a fiery message in the brain, and the heart and soul in the words, are deceived.' "People think with considerable looseness on many points, and even when their thought is earnest it is seldom coördinated with the thought of others so as to become effective." "Youth especially is hard to teach and to convince. Loitering by the way, it wastes its precious chances, arriving at the realization of what it might have become only at the time when by yielding to ease and sloth and blandishment, it has set itself into ways that bar it from doing its best." "If the youth of the land, of the world, could grasp the great Truth, there might be in the next generation such forward strides as would dwarf the progress of the last 400 years since the slowly moving, unaccomplished Re-Formation." —K. P., 9 Feb. 1919. "Such inborn gentlemen is what they are, those splendid American soldiers. Remembering their mothers and sisters they respect all women; they help our mothers, they fight alongside of our husbands and fathers for the right, and one of the things that touches me most is the love of all of them for our little children.”—Marquise de Noailles on American Soldiers in France, February, 1919. "Woman herself has won the victory! She has become victorious through her children." "And a great sign was seen in Heaven! a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars." UNITY PRAYER AND HYMN Inscribed to the Motherhood of the Great Red Cross Society Raise Motherhood to Heaven's bar! The World redeemed has found salvation! Go! spread the Gospel wide and far To every tribe and every nation! For now there glows in Rose and Star, "And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him, male and female." "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of Redemption." For neither Time nor Might dissolves "Und keine Zeit und keine Macht zerstuckelt Gepragte Form, die lebend sich entwickelt." -Goethe. "Be of good cheer! I have overcome the World!" "When the Comforter-the Paraclete-is come whom I will send unto you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth which proceedeth from the Father shall bear witness of me." See Genesis 1:26; 3:15; John, chapters 14, 15, 16; Ephesians 4:30; 1 Timothy 2:15; Revelation 12:1. MOTHER of CHRIST! May the influence of Thy holy spirit Guard! strengthen! defend us! Shrine of the HOLY GHOST! The Heaven-born Child! JESUS! |