"IF"

IF I can throw a single ray of light

Across the darkened pathway of another;

If I can aid some soul to clearer sight

Of life and duty, and thus bless my brother;

If I can wipe from any human cheek a tear,

I shall not then have lived in vain while here.

If I can guide some erring one to truth,

Inspire within his heart a sense of duty;

If I can plant within the soul of rosy youth

A sense of right, a love of truth and beauty;

If I can teach one man that God and Heaven are near,

I shall not then have lived in vain while here.

If from my mind I banish doubt and fear,

And keep my life attuned to love and kindness;

If I can scatter light and hope and cheer,

And help remove the curse of mental blindness;

If I can make more joy, more hope, less pain,

I shall not then have lived and loved in vain.

If by life's roadside I can plant a tree,

Beneath whose shade some wearied head may rest;

Though I may never share its shade, or see

Its beauty, I shall yet be truly blest-

Though no one knows my name, nor drops a flow'r upon my bier,

I shall not then have lived in vain while here.

By B. F. AUSTIN

HARTMANN'S WHO'S WHO

IN

Occult, Psychic and Spiritual Realms

EMBRACING

Alchemy, Anthropology, Anthroposophy, Applied Psychology, Archaeology, Astrology, Baha'i Movement, Bio-Chemistry, Bi'O-Psychology, Buddhism, Christian Mysticism, Chromatics, Divine Science, New Thought, Numerology, Occultism, Phrenology, Psychiatry, Psycho-analysis, Psychical Research, Ros.icrucianism, Sacred Science, Spiritualism, Sufi Movement, Theosophy, Transcendental Science, Vedanta Philosophy, Vegetarianism, Vocational Guidance, and Cognate Subjects.

JESUS AND SIDDARTHA

ONE from the manger and one from the palace came;

Their goal the same.

Their search only to find

Liberation for mankind.

One only solvent-

Love.

And one died young and one lived long;

Yet sang the selfsame song:

One only hope in

Love.

One died on the cross and one in peace,

Yet each found refuge and surcease

In living the truth of

Love.

Spires and domes and priests and creeds

Obscure their message for human needs

And divert the stream of

Love.

Yet the truth of the Christ

And the truth of the Buddha

Is stronger than bricks and stones,

And greater far than sacraments and robes.

One from the manger and one from the palace came

When the world had need ;

And the message today's the same

As living saviors sow the seed of

Love.

Dedicated to Edmund Russell

By DR. GUY BOGART

By special request we reprint from "The Stratford Journal" of Boston, Dr. Bogart's popular poem, praised by William Stanley Braithwaite; of which Robert Service said "This is real poetry"; Edmund Russell, "It should be written on tablets of gold," and Tagore, "The poem is indeed remarkable."

Copyright 1925

by

William C. Hartmann

Published, November, 1925