Father dwelling in me." When in this consciousness a certain illumination quickens the minds of both patient and minister, and through this the healing is accomplished.

By this method I have treated an average of probably twenty cases a day for the last twenty years, and the results have been uniformly good. Not all have been healed, but benefits have resulted in either mind or body in every case. I have witnessed the healing of diseases of nearly every character, including fibroid tumors, tuberculosis, blood poison, Bright's disease, gall stones, rheumatism, paralysis, fevers of all kinds, blindness, deafness and have never refused to treat a case because it seemed incurable, knowing that "With God all things are possible."

I have never used hypnotism, mesmerism, nor in any way attempted to suggest health to the subjective of my patients, nor encouraged them to go to sleep during treatment. On the contrary, I try in all ways to awaken them to the light and life of the spiritual nature. "Awake thou that sleepest, and Christ shall give thee light."

It is imperative in spiritual healing that the sinner be shown the relation between his physical disability and his sin. In children, the parents are usually responsible and should be enlightened and instructed in the application of Truth to both themselves and off-spring.

The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking, he not only makes character, but body and affairs. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." The understanding of the destructive power of thought in the cellular life of the body will solve the problem of the origin of rebellious microbes. Fear, anger, jealousy, lust and kindred thoughts manufacture disease germs and no sanitation or serum will ever stop their devastation.

When man consciously knows that there is an AllEnfolding Divine Love, "in whom we live, move, and

have our being," he will trust it and seek to harmonize his thought with its laws. Then instead of the body microbes fighting like little demons and causing him pain and diseases without number, man will become the wise direetive head of all the life in his organism, and through right thought build a body temple that will not only be diseaseless, but deathless. This is the ultimate of the teachings of Jesus, and every minister should preach and practise it. “He that believeth on me shall never die,” is a promise based on science, and a fulfillment of Bible prophecy.

We are beginning to learn that man carries the great panacea for all ills within himself; that the antidotes for the worst poisons, the poisons of hatred and jealously, exist in his own mind in the form of love, charity, and good will essences. We are beginning to learn the magical qualities of right thinking.

The cheerful, hopeful thought is itself a powerful remedy for a score of ills, such as the “blues," melancholia, and discouragement. Optimism is an antidote

for some of the worst mental diseases.

Think how many ills hope and encouragement antidote! Kindness, and a helpful, inspiring mental attitude, have kept thousands of people out of insane asylums as well as out of prisons.

Some people are so terrified by the dread of poverty. or the fear of failure, that they are robbed of their ability to succeed by the wasting of their physical vitality. their mental energy, and by the killing of their enthusi

asm.

On the other hand confidence, self-assurance, and the tonic of hope, optimism, multiply a man's power a thousandfold.-Selected.

We can sing away our cares easier than we can reason them away.-Beecher.

A PROSPERITY LESSON

In the Old Testament, II. Kings 4:1-7 is a Prosperty Treatment.

A "widow" is one who has lost sight of her support. The Divine Idea of God our abundance is our support. The two children represent the bondage of thought of debt.

Elisha is Divine Understanding and Power.

The "house" is consciousness. The "pot of oil" is faith in Spiritual Substance.

The "neighbors" are external states of mind and their "empty vessels" are thoughts of lack.

To "go in and shut the door" is to enter the inner consciousness. Then with words and statements of God's abundance pour full all the seeming places of lack. Each "vessel," or need, is to be in thought filled with the consciousness of Spirit Abundance.

In conclusion affirm that every obligation is met and a surplus remains equal to all needs.

This is all to be done in the mind, every step being carried forward in imagination exactly as if it were occurring in the without. Then hold to the Divine Law of fulfillment. "Having done all stand.”

You may not be able to fill all the vessels with oil at the first attempt, but your faith will increase day by day.

Keep right at the problem until you prove it.

Do not let a single empty thought exist in your mind, but fill them all with words of plenty! plenty!

If your pocketbook is empty, fill it with a thought like this: "I pour into you the bounty of God, my Father, who supplies all my wants."

If your rooms are empty, say: "I deny this appearance-let prosperity be manifest in you."

If you want to open up new avenues of work, say: "The Spirit of Prosperity is now active in me and in all my affairs and I am successful in all my undertakings."

Be just and honest in all your ways. Do not try to get something for nothing but give value received for everything.

Never think of yourself as poor or needy, nor talk about "hard times" and the necessity of economy.

Do not think how little you have but how much. Associate with people who are holding prosperous thoughts and cultivate the optimistic side of every question.

Take things by the smooth handle. Look on the bright side.

Trust the goodness and power of God to right every wrong, and help to make the Divine Law operative in the world by declaring your faith in it. "Let your light shine."

"Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you."C. F.

The constant contemplation of the success thought, the thought of prosperity, of abundance as one's birthright, the claiming of all the good things of the world as ours by right, because we are part of the great creative principle of all things, because we are heirs of all that is good in the universe, will so change our mental attitude toward life that we will begin to be prosperous and failure will be impossible. The health thought, the constant affirmation of physical vigor, strength, and power, and great vitality, as the right of all the children of God, will tend to bring us into the realization of perfect physical harmony.-Selected.

Think how many human ills can be antidoted by the magical, medicinal power of love! It is a solvent for selfishness and greed, a destroyer of hatred, envy, and jealousy, of revenge, criminal intent, and a score of other mental and physical enemies.-Selected.

THE POWER OF STILLNESS

Be still and know that I am God.-Psalms 46:10.

It was "a still, small voice" or "the sound of a gentle stillness." Is there any note of music in all the chorus as mighty as the emphatic pause? Is there any word in all the Psalter more eloquent than the one word, Selah (Pause)? Is there anything more thrilling and awful than the hush that comes before the bursting of the tempest, and the strange quiet that seems to fall upon all nature before some preternatural pheonomenon or convulsion? Is there anything that can touch our hearts as the power of stillness?

The sweetest blessing that Christ brings us is the Sabbath rest of the soul, of which the Sabbath of creation was the type, and the Land of Promise God's great object lesson. There is for the heart that will cease from itself, "the peace of God that passeth understanding," "a quietness and confidence," which is the source of all strength, a sweet peace which nothing can offend, "a deep rest which the world can neither give nor take away." There is in the deepest center of the soul a chamber of peace where God dwells, and where if we will only enter in and hush every sound, we can hear his still, small voice.

There is in the swiftest wheel that revolves upon its axis a place in the very center where there is no movement at all; so in the busiest life there may be a place where we dwell alone with God in eternal stillness.

This is the only way to know God. "Be still, and know that I am God." "God is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him."

A score of years ago a friend placed in my hand a little book which became one of the turning points of my life. It was called "True Peace." It was an old medieval message, and it had but one thought, and it was this-that God was waiting in the depths of my being