A Prosperity Treatment

The Twenty-Third Psalm
(Revised)
The Lord is my banker; my credit is good.
He maketh me to lie down in the consciousness of omnipresent abundance;
He giveth me the key to His strongbox.
He restoreth my faith in His riches;
He guideth me in the paths of prosperity for His names's sake.
Yea, though I walk in the very shadow of debt,
I shall fear no evil, for Thou art with me;
Thu silver and Thy gold, they secure me.
Thou preparest a way fro me in the presence of the collector;
Thou fillest my wallet with plenty; my measure runneth over.
Surely goodness and plenty will follow me all the days of my life,
And I shall do business in the name of the Lord forever.
Charles Fillmore
“Prosperity”
1936

The Unity School of Christianity was founded by Charles Sherlock Fillmore(1854-1948)
and Mary Caroline "Myrtle" Page Fillmore(1845-1931) in 1889, and was later incorporated as a church in 1903 by the Unity Society of Practical Christianity in Kansas City.
The Fillmores were students of Emma Curtis Hopkins, herself a student of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, who was a student and healed by Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, a mental healer and metaphysician. Unity, therefore, was birthed by the Fillmores, but its roots go back to through Mary Baker Eddy and directly to Phineas Quimby.
A spiritual breakthrough came for Myrtle in 1886 when she attended a meeting lead by Dr. E.B. Weeks(a student of Emma Curtis Hopkins), a noted metaphysician. Dr. Weeks made a statement that would change Myrtle's understanding of herself and set her on a new course of spiritual development. Myrtle was in a state of mental and physical illness and had come to a point where she was not helped by either medicine or physicians. Dr. Weeks's statement that day brought her the healing she sought. She cherished each word of the phrase:

"I am a child of God and therefore I do not inherit sickness."

1845
- John L. Sullivan, editor of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, criticizes American temerity toward Mexico and argues that it is "our Manifest Destiny...to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions."
- TEXAS AND THE MEXICAN WAR - Outgoing President John Tyler signs a congressional joint resolution to annex Texas and make it part of the union. In response, Mexico severs diplomatic relations with the United States. When Texas accepts annexation, newly-elected President James K. Polk sends a force under General Zachary Taylor to the Mexican border.
- At the same time, Polk sends a representative to Mexico City to offer financial compensation for the loss of Texas and to explore whether Mexico will sell the territories of California and New Mexico for a combined $40 million. Insulted, the Mexicans reject the American proposals and prepare for war. Texas enters the Union at year's end.
1854
- British Baronet Sir George Gore organizes a 6,000-mile buffalo hunting expedition on the Great Plains, leaving Fort Leavenworth for a three-year adventure. By this time, the increasing presence of travelers on the plains has divided the buffalo into a northern and southern herd, where once they roamed freely from Kansas into the Dakotas. Gore's expedition represents a more direct threat to the herd, and to the Indian peoples for whom the buffalo defines a way of life.
- Conquering Bear, the Lakota chief who signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851, is killed when troops from Fort Laramie storm into his encampment to arrest a warrior who had shot a Mormon calf. Meeting resistance, the troops open fire. All but one of the troopers is killed in the Lakota counterattack, and in retaliation the army sends a force against the band which kills 86 and carries off 70 women and children. Though Conquering Bear had offered to make restitution for the calf, as the treaty required, the incident instead proves to the Lakota that Americans cannot be trusted to keep their word.
- After much bitter debate, Congress approves the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repeals the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing these two territories to choose between slavery and free soil.
1886
- Anti-Chinese mobs in Seattle kill five and destroy parts of the city before forcing 200 Chinese aboard ships bound for San Francisco. Leaders of the race riot vow to sweep the city clean of Chinese within the month.
- Geronimo, described by one follower as “the most intelligent and resourceful...most vigorous and farsighted” of the Apache leaders, surrenders to General Nelson A. Miles in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona, after more than a decade of guerilla warfare against American and Mexican settlers in the Southwest. The terms of surrender require Geronimo and his tribe to settle in Florida, where the Army hopes he can be contained.
1889
- Wovoka, a Paiute holy man, awakes from a three-day trance to teach his tribe the Ghost Dance, with which they can restore the earth to the way it was before the whites arrived in the West. His teachings will soon touch many tribes across the West, stirring a spiritual revival that whites nervously misinterpret as a return to hostilities.
- President Benjamin Harrison authorizes opening unoccupied lands in the Indian Territory to white settlement, an order put into effect on April 22 at noon, when a gunshot gives settlers the signal to cross the border and stake their claims. Within nine hours, the Oklahoma Land Rush transforms almost two million acres of tribal land into thousands of individual land claims. Many of the most desirable plots are taken by "Sooners," so called because they crossed into the territory sooner than was permitted.
- At the urging of the National Farmers' Alliance, Kansas adopts first-of-its-kind legislation regulating trusts, providing an early portent of the agrarian-based progressive movement preparing to sweep through the West.
- Farm and labor representatives meet with prohibitionists in Salem, Oregon, to form a progressive Union Party.
Washington, Montana and the Dakotas join the Union.

“The world is awakening in a wonderful way to the truth about the creative power of the mind.” - Charles Fillmore, “Prosperity” 1936