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thought on health and has active faith. Some fix their thought on disease, others fail to put their faith in the thought of health.” Unity and Prosperity Although beginning as a healing ministry, Unity’s emphasis has switched to prosperity during the last two decades. With their luxuri ous establishment at Lee’s Summit, they set quite an example of the possibility of making material things the goal. Woodbury describes this prosper ity angle almost humorously: “ The best-selling item in the Unity’s metaphysical package, however, is the sect’s theory about affirmative prayer. Unity disciples maintain you can have anything you want if you only ask God for it in the right way. They have thousands of success stories at their finger -tips to convince you of this, and these stories are constantly broadcast to the public by means of Unity radio programs and literature . . . In 1908 after trying other stratagems such as selling souvenir china plates and prosperity emblems, the magazine Unity printed an an nouncement that a crisp new dol lar bill would be sent to anyone who would use it. as a magnet for gathering prosperity thoughts. Ex perimenters were asked to join with Silent Unity for a month in a daily affirmation of prosperity and then return the dollar, together with any increase. The scheme paid off beautifully. Two thousand dollar bills were sent out, and 5,000 re turned. That gave the Fillmores an other inspiration and the so-called Prosperity Bank was bom. These little banks . . . have been mailed out to thousands of Unity adher ents, and the idea is that you drop a dime in the bank at regular inter vals, as you make your affirma tions, and then return it to Unity. These banks have brought millions of dimes jingling into Unity’s cof fers . . . In Unity literature, on Unity broadcasts, and as the plate is passed at Unity services, one is CONTINUED
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'T h is month Christmas w ill be celebrated for the first time by Hebrew Christians in Dayton, Ohio; London, England; Fran k fort, Germ any; Jerusalem — and many other cities throughout the world. During the last year these Jews have found Christ as their Saviour-Messiah through the gos pel efforts of missionaries of The Am er ican Association for Jewish Evangelism. Your prayerful support of this world-wide Christian ministry to Jews will mean that many
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