become God. I ask to be rid of God, that is, that God would bring me in His Essence, that essence which is above God and above distinction. I would enter into the Eternal Unity, which was mine before all time, when I was what I would and would what I was, into a state above all additions or denominations, into the immovability whereby all is moved.

"Folks say to me often, 'Pray God for me.' Then I think with myself, 'Why go ye out, why abide ye not in your ownselves, and take hold of your own possessions? Ye have all truth essentially within you.' God and I are one in knowing. God's Essence is His knowing, and God's knowing makes me know Him. Therefore is His knowing my knowing. The eye wherein I see God is the same eye whereby He sees me. Mine eye and the eye of God is one Eye, one Vision, one Knowledge, one Love.

"If any man of you hath understood this sermon, it is well for him. Had not a soul of you been here, I must have spoken the very same words. He who hath not understood it, let him not trouble his heart therewith, for as long as a man is not himself like unto this truth, so long will he never understand it, seeing that it is no truth of reflection to be thought out but is come directly out of the heart of God without medium." - ADOLF.

MY NEEDS.

BY HARRY T. FEE.

I need but faith to realize

The Truth that in my spirit lies.

I need but Love, whose light for me
Shall make a world of harmony.

I need to know, I need to feel

⚫ That Life is Truth, and ills unreal.

I need at fear to stand unawed
And make my sole reliance God.

I need but make one thought my creed,
And that "God is my only need."

CONDENSED TRUTH.

THE VOICE OF
THE SPIRIT.

BY VARIOUS WRITERS.

As I listened in the Silence a voice said unto me, "Be still, and know that I am God." And as I stood silently by the "still waters," and "green pastures" all around, and felt that I had been led by a tender shepherd's loving hand, all my doubts and fears were swept away. I knew I should not want; that I should ever be led in the paths of righteousness, even though I walked through the "valley of the shadow." 'Twas a loving Father's hand that led me on and on into a purer and better life. I knew there could no "evil befall me," for the Infinite love was all around like a wall of protection, and what had seemed evil was for my greatest good. Oh, how my heart was filled with love and joy as I realized by "overcoming" I had a right to the tree of life (knowledge). And as I came forth into the earth-life again all things seemed changed to me, for I had walked and talked with God.

Cultivate cheerful thoughts. Think only the Good. There is nothing good or bad but thinking made it

INSTRUCTIONS

TO THE
PATIENT.

So. As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

Ye are the temples of the living God. What kind of

pictures are you hanging on the walls of your temple by thinking?

Be very careful about your thoughts. The creative faculty of mind must act, and corresponding impressions are made through thought, upon the temple or body.

Stop thinking about your seemings; do not describe them to any person or allow others to talk to you about your bad feelings.

Stop thinking of yourself; think of the good and beautiful. Know that you are a child of the Infinite Father Love, for God is Love. In God you live and have Being. Faith, Hope, Trust, are tonics that will build and beautify the temple-body.

Don't think or talk about sin or sickness of any kind. Never condemn or find fault with yourself or any one else. Know that by faith in God, through Christ the Truth, you are every whit whole now. It is God that heals you of all your diseases (seemings).

Declare every hour in the day that God is your Life and your Health. Let it be said of you, Thy faith hath made thee whole.

Fear not, there is absolutely nothing to fear. God is omnipresent, and in that omnipresence you safely dwell. Fear hath torment. Fear killeth. Job said, "That which I most feared hath come upon me.'

Trust your hopes, and do not allow yourself to be fearful. God is just as powerful to heal the sick as he was nineteen hundred years ago, for God is no respecter of persons; the same yesterday, today and forever.

Go alone every morning and evening between the hours of 7 and 8. Sit still, or lie still, as the case may be, breathe slowly and deep with closed eyes. Shut out all worldly thoughts and repeat the words, "Peace, peace, harmony, harmony, harmony; peace and harmony now are mine." Say those words in a whisper loud enough so you can hear your own voice. Say them over and over. If outside thoughts come in, put them out at once and tell them to stay

out.

you

seem

If you feel drowsy, yield to the influence.. Should worse to feel at first, never mind, don't fear, such may be a sign of a yielding of error to the Truth. Truth will heal you if you are patient and faithful in following directions, and take time. - E. P. C. WEBSTER.

Ralph Waldo Trine, writer of books, and one of the brightest philosophers in the New Thought, contributes to a recent num

A SORT OF CREED. ber of Mind the following substantial foundation for a

religion for a free individual.

To live to our highest in all things that pertain

to us.

To lend a hand as best we can to all others for this same end.

To aid in righting the wrongs that cross our path by pointing the wrong-doer to a better way, and thus aid him in becoming a power for good.

To remain in nature always sweet and simple and humble, and therefore strong.

To open ourselves fully and to keep ourselves pure and clean as fit channels for the Divine Power to work through us.

To turn toward and keep our faces always to the light.

To do our own thinking, listening quietly to the opinions of others, and be sufficiently men and women to act always upon our own convictions.

To do our duty as we see it, regardless of the opinions of others, seeming gain or loss, temporary blame or praise.

To play the part of neither knave nor fool by attempting to judge another, but to give that same time to living more worthily ourselves.

To get up immediately when we stumble, face again to the light, and travel on again without wasting even a moment in regret.

To love all things, and to stand in awe or fear of nothing save our own wrong doing.

To recognize the good lying at the heart of all people, of all things, waiting for expression, all in its own good way and time.

To love the fields and the wild flowers, the stars, the far-open sea, the soft, warm earth, and to live

much with them alone, but to love struggling and weary men and women and every pulsing creature better.

To strive to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. In brief

To be honest, to be fearless, to be just, to be kind. This will make our part in life's great, and as yet not fully understood, play, truly glorious, and we need then stand in fear of nothing-life nor death, for death is life.

Or, rather, it is the quick transition to life in another form; the putting off of the old coat and the putting on of the new; a passing not from light to darkness but from light to light, according as we have lived here; a taking up of life in another form just where we leave it off here; a part in life not to be shunned or dreaded or feared, but to be welcomed with a glad and ready smile when it comes in its own good way and time.

Someone has well said that we are not held accountable for our features, but we are responsible for our expression. There are many people whose souls are so full of the peace and joy of the Lord that their faces are made beautiful, although slighted by nature in respect to their features. "There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior," says a noted writer, "like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."— MOODY.

Forget the things of the past; do right and think truly now. Practice the art of forgetting." "Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation." Now is the time to save ourselves from thinking error thoughts. Now is the time to speak truly. Now is the time to do justly.- FANNIE M. HARLEY.

And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?-I. Peter 3:13.