sleep and have them stimulate the mind and body to resist disease."

"Why," Dr Van Eeden said, "the Japanese were treating patients by suggestion several hundred years ago. They wrote prayers on paper for the patient to swallow-now don't everybody laugh. I've seen things as bad as that in our own country."

Then he told a story of a woman who, instead of taking a prescription to a druggist, pasted it on her side. The mere suggestion produced a blister and-cured her.

He whose heart is full of gratitude and truth,
Who loves mankind more than he does himself,
And cannot find room in his heart for hate,
May be another Christ.

We all may be the Savior of the world if we
Believe in the divinity which dwells in us, and worship it,
And nail our grosser selves, our tempers, greeds,
And our unworthy ambitions upon the cross.

Who gives love to all,

Pays kindness for ingratitude, smiles for frowns,
And lends new courage to the fainting heart,
And strengthens hope, and scatters joy abroad;
He, too, is a Redeemer-Son of God.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

God give us men! A time like this demands

Great hearts, strong minds, true faith and willing hands.
Men whom the lust of office does not kill,
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy,
Men who possess convictions and a will,
Men who have honor, men who dare not lie.

-Unknown.

Some glances of real beauty may be seen in their faces who dwell in true meekness. There is harmony in the sound of that voice to which Divine Love gives ut-terance.-J. WOOLMAN.

THE WORD OF GOD...MAN

STELLA M. TEMPLEMAN.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Therefore, the Word is not the Bible, as we have been taught, but is another name for God. The Word is God, the Creator of all things, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent.

This omnipotent Word is in the world; it has made the world, yet the world does not realize it. More than this, the Word is in man, it has made man, yet man is not fully awake to this truth. Listen: "It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it and do it? But the Word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it." (Deut. 30.) The omnipotent Word of Power lies at the root of the tongue, ready to be spoken into expression at man's good pleasure. The heart is stored with an inexhaustible supply of this Power. "The heart of the wise teach eth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips." All wis dom and knowledge are its essence.

Man is made in the image and likeness of God, therefore he also is the Word. The Word is made flesh and dwells among us, and in it is "all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." Man as the Word of God has power to create all things and, when cognizant of this power, he uses it to create himself and his environment, so that all are attuned to Divine Harmony. When, through ignorance of this creative Principle within, he uses some personal substitute, he merely forms that which can not endure. "Who is he that saith and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?" We have all done this through the ignorance of race belief and this is why we have believed that man is subject to natural laws, so called, and must "pass away." We hear people argue that "death is a manifestation of life;" that flowers and grass die in autumn and come

up again in spring. Yet these same people do not believe in re-incarnation and it would be difficult for them to apply this theory of nature's processes to the life of man. The Word of God can not die, it liveth and abideth forever within man, making him king over nature instead of subject to it. We know that the roots of the grass and flowers do not die at all, but are filled with the Life Principle as virile as ever, otherwise they would not come up in the spring.

As for the leaves of the trees, they resemble the personal man. He is really a part of the great tree of Life, but does not realize it, and so flourishes but for a season, while outside conditions are favorable. Soon he lets go his grip and falls off, and that is the last of the personal man. But the tree, or Life Principle, stands unmoved and, by and by, puts forth another leaf in his place, and so on indefinitely. Man's problem consists in realizing that he is an integral part of the tree of Life, and holding on to this truth in every circumstance. Then he will lose his apparently deciduous nature and become an evergreen.

The Word has this holding-on power, usually known as Love. God is Love; he holds on to us and never lets go, and he means us to hold on to him in the same way. "With purpose of heart we should cleave unto the Lord." "Call up me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me." When we stop to realize that God is in our words (though we have known it not), we will use only words of Love. God is in the soft answer that turneth away wrath. God is the pivotal Love that turns all evil away from us and keeps us balanced true, pointing ever toward the pole star of Truth. God is Truth, drawing us ever toward that which is right and good.

When we

God dwells in us as the pure Word. realize this we will use only words that have in them the Purity of Spirit. "Every word of God is pure."

"The words of the pure are pleasant words." It gives us pleasure to use them and others delight to hear them. When "our conversation is in heaven," we are in heaven, and so are those who converse with us. We are

all lifted up by the power of the pure Word and "sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." If we see that we have allowed ourselves to harbor unworthy thoughts and feelings, to be actuated by mercenary motives, we must take the Word of Power and, entering in, drive out of our temple these sheep and oxen, these money-changers and sellers of doves, and so cleanse our temple that it will be consciously the dwelling-place of the Most High, the abode of Purity Peace and Love.

"In the beginning was the Word," and Faust paraphrases this, “In the beginning was the Deed," showing the intimate connection in our lives between thought and action. The pure thought makes the pure act. The Word has active power; action is its natural outcome. The two are one, as cause and effect are one, and where one is, there the other must be.

Out of purity comes strength, and we find all Strength in the Word of God.

"His strength is as the strength of ten,

Because his heart is pure."

Man in his true being is the Word made flesh, therefore his flesh is strong. In him is all the strength of the Godhead bodily. The flesh of the real Man is formed of pure Spirit Substance, not subject to death, disease or corruption. When we realize this truth in its fulness, we will arise in our might and our soul will "go forth with strength." "Thy God hath commanded thy strength."

God dwells within man as the Word of Substance. The only substantial things are the things of Spirit. This statement of Truth may not be acceptable to all, but that does not affect its validity. It has always been true and all must, sooner or later, realize the nature of

the Universal Substance out of which all things are formed. With this understanding, the belief in matter as a reality will vanish and man will be free in spirit, soul and body, with the freedom that has been his from the beginning. There will no longer be for him a consciousness of limitations, but, as the mind is free to go and come at will, knowing no barriers of space or matter, so also will the body be free to accompany it, "whithersoever the governor listeth."

Man can not

God is the Living Word within man. grow old when he uses the Word aright. "A wholesome tongue is a tree of Life." "The excellency of knowledge is that wisdom giveth Life to him that hath it." The Word of Wisdom clarifies man's understanding, so that he is able to discern Truth and to enter into the Christ consciousness, where it is given him to know and use the Word in its fulness. Until he enters into the realization of the Christ Mind within him and knows that he himself is the Word in its fulness, he omits certain attributes of the Word and gets unsatisfactory results. When he awakes to the knowledge of the Living Word within, that God is his Life, he begins to live the Life that is eternal. He no longer thinks of age, his thoughts take on the hue of immortal youth. Knowing that the body is renewed at least once every year, he no longer says "I am thirty years old," but "I have been renewed thirty times." He looks about him and sees the typewriter and automobile manufactories getting out new models of their machines every year, each model a little better in workmanship than the preceding; a little nearer the ideal design in the mind of the inventor, the true standard of perfection; and, seeing these things by the light of Spirit, he is inspired to apply the same principle to the expression of his own life and to build each new body a little better than the preceding, a little more like the true inner Model,-the Idea that God has of him.