HE subject of the lecture this morning is "The Rule of Proper Living;" in other words, the rule which gives us happiness, harmony and success in this life.

conscious or sub-conscious mind. It is through this channel that all our treating is done; it is through this channel that we bring ourselves in touch with the Divine Spirit. When we treat, we do not treat the patient; we have nothing to do with him in his initial condition, but we go immediately to God Almighty, affirming that John Smith is the perfect child of God, filled with all harmony, all good, and it radiates from this great Center of Good, and takes up and controls the mind of this John Smith.

In the first place, the mind has to be kept right, the thinking must be healthy and normal. You must be in harmony with universal good, universal love, universal wisdom, and universal power with God, All in All; and in order to obtain that condition of mind, each and every one should call on this Divine Power at the commencement of Our day's work, fit ourselves for the day as it may come to us, in order that we may be so led throughout the day that there can be no mistakes on part, and that we will so conduct ourselves as to be successful and harmonious.

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You can obtain nothing except as you seek, ask and knock. We ask through what we call the common five sensesyou may call it carnal mind or whatever you choose but it is that part of us that sees, hears, feels, smells and tastes. We seek through what we term the under

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It is the truth which our Savior said makes us free. It is this freedom from care that Divine Power has thrown over us; it is this freedom from fear in all of your undertakings. In all so-called diseases there is to the seeming a factor which we call fear. Fear is the mother

and the father of every kind of disaster. A person who has no fear and places himself in touch with God Almighty love, power, good, wisdom, in a proper way, can have no failure, can have no disaster, can have no sickness, no inhar

mony of any kind or character. These come to the one who is always looking out for breakers-the one who is always fearing. You find this everywhere right amongst us. We are filled with fear, and fear is killing the world-fear of disease, fear of poverty, fear of sorrow, fear of catastrophe. All of these destructive agencies are destroying the proper harmonious condition of man and keeping him in a state of quasi-slavery. Therefore, the first rule of living is to keep your mind in a harmonious condition.

Take a person who is always prophesying that he is going to be sick, that he is going to have a cold, have this disease or that; take a person who believes in contagion, and let him go in contact with this so-called contagious disease and he will have it; but take the person who knows the nothingness and realizes the nothingness of so-called contagion, of so-called inharmony of any character, and he cannot be touched. Therefore, keep your thinker, so to speak, in a healthy, normal condition, and in touch with the Infinite All in All. If you are going into an enterprise of any kind, treat that God Almighty leads you, that God Almighty gives you success, and continue to treat, and so ask, seek and knock. You have a right to knock, and by virtue of that power of knocking, the heavens will open and you can command and all will obey, because that power is given to you by the Infinite.

Remember one thing, as I have told my readers in a great many instances, you must practice what you know. It will not do to go to sleep on your beat-to use a military phrase. You must be wide awake, standing upon the place where you are supposed to watch and guard, and whenever anything evil comes to you,

knocking for a home, knocking for entrance, say, "Get thee behind me, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve." Get thee behind me, Satan, is the answer to all carnal mind requests to enter and make a home with you, and in this thinking you must recognize the power of thought.

Thoughts are things; thought is a noun, instead of being a barren ideality; or, as Blackstone may term it, "an incorporeal hereditament." It is a reality, and unless you so recognize thought, and treat it in accordance therewith, your thoughts will find homes in your body, in your mind, and you will be destroyed by the wicked combination of so-called carnal thoughts.

The proper road and the proper way of success are to have your mind in condition, in touch with the Infinite, and allow the Infinite to lead you. Do this, and you can make no mistakes. The person who is always worrying about impending catastrophe, the person who is always worrying about the dead, the person who is always worrying about his own ailments, is not in harmony with Infinite Love, and no inharmonious conditions can come to him if he places himself in tune, in touch, with the Infinite. You cannot worry about those who have who have gone on if you understand that there is no such thing as death, and that your friends are surrounding you and about you, happier in their condition, possibly, than when here. A person who passes over this earth, so to speak, into the next dream does not pass from a state of sin to a state of righteousness. If he has committed sins he has to make reparations for those sins somewhere sometime. He has to work out his own salvation. I believe the opportunity will

be given to us all somewhere sometime to have the power and the privilege of making right every wrong we have ever committed, and thus become in harmony with perfect brotherly love. Then we will be as the prophet said, "whiter than snow." But until all the sins of life are gone over and everything that is smirched is washed clean by proper action on our part, you cannot be in perfect harmony, because there are sins that must be atoned for-you must be made right, you must reap the crop that you have

Sown.

One great trouble with this countryand I find it worse in many others-is this universal fear of poverty. The people have a tendency to intensify the feeling by the thought that it is coming on them worse and worse. Take the Parable of the Sparrows and the Lilies as given out by our Savior in the 6th chapter of Matthew, follow it out, practice it as the birds do, and you will never know what want is; you will never know what the fear of want is. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof;" you can reverse it, "Sufficient unto the day is the good thereof."

Suppose the thought comes to me that I am going to want. I ask myself the question, have I had my breakfast? Yes. Have you all you want yourself; have you good clothes, sufficient to make you appear respectable in society? Yes. Have you air and water, plenty of that; are you in the enjoyment of health? Yes. Then I ask you, What do you want? Can you use any more than you have? It is God's way of living to take no thought of the morrow-what you shall eat or what you shall wear. Live in the eternal NOW, enjoy the NOW, enjoy the pretty things and the good things of earth. Nothing is too good

for you. Why? Because it all belongs to you; you are God Almighty's heir; it belongs to you; therefore, everything that is belongs to you. that is belongs to you. But you can build up barriers in front of you that we call limitations; that will keep you down in poverty, in sorrow, in sickness. It is within the power of yourself through God Almighty's unchangeable law to be or not to be, to be perfect or to be imperfect; and you will be judged in accordance with the seed you sow-the crop will be in accordance with the sowing.

I received a letter some time ago from a lady in regard to the Day of Judgment. I replied to her that the Day of Judgment was today, and that never would a day be set up for the world to be judged, but that we are judged constantly. If you commit sin, the sin puts the condemnation on you, and you are judged by the unchangeable law, and you have to reap the crop of your commission of that sowing; that is the Day of Judgment.

Another line along this proper way to live is to be honest and upright and deal on the square. Do not see how far you can overreach your brother in a trade, but do unto him as you do unto yourself under like conditions. under like conditions. The rule is to

love your brother as yourself, and do unto your brother as you would have him do unto you. Do unto your brother as you would do unto yourself. When we become so we can follow that rule and demonstrate it in its purity, I tell you we can command the mountains and they will tumble into the sea, if it be necessary to carry out any of God's great works.

Love your brother. That does not signify picked out lovers, but it is the broad family of man. Jesus said if you

love your friends only, you deserve no reward, for everybody would do that. Love those who despitefully use you, do good unto them that would harm you, throw out the vibrations of love and you are the conqueror. That is what brings you in touch with the universal family of man, all animated by the one great God Love, and there are no big I's or little you's in God Almighty's kingdom of universal love. We all stand upon an equal plane, all to enjoy the beneficence of God Almighty's love.

Let your thoughts be directed along these lines, and let us harmonize all our actions to the lines along which we are led. Ask for the leading and the answer will come, and your life will be perfect and you will be happy.

BELIEVES PONTIFF'S BLESSING IS CURE

Miss Mamie Wilson, for twenty years an employe of the Treasury Department, is returning to Washington from Rome, happy in her faith that a disease pronounced incurable by physicians has been banished from her by the touch of Pius X, according to a cable dispatch.

from Rome.

Certain that the touch of the Holy Father had the power to heal the bodily infirmities, Miss Wilson applied for an audience with the Pontiff immediately upon her arrival at Rome. She was unable to persuade the Vatican officials to inform the Pope as to just what she wanted him to do.

After several days of anxious waiting, she was granted an audience in company. with many others, whom the Pope blessed in the ordinary way. Fearful that her only chance of restored health was slipping from her, Miss Wilson motioned

excitedly to the Holy Father that she had something to say to him.

The eloquent sincerity of the plea in her eyes moved the Pope to find out what she wanted. No one was present, however, who could interpret her request, made in English. The Pope gazed upon the upturned face, with its dumb appeal, and remained for a moment in deep thought, as if in prayer. Then his face lighted up as though his prayer for understanding of the needs of the kneeling woman had been answered. He placed his hands upon her head and lifting his eyes to heaven blessed her.

Miss Wilson is returning to Washington jubilant in her faith that her sufferings are at an end.

HEROINES

There's a grand old recitation
Of a girl who bravely swung
From a belfry. Hope was shattered
If that curfew's note was rung.
Still the heroine is with us,

Staunch and true, although polite, And she cries in tones triumphant, "Turkey shall not trot tonight!"

Though the band tunes up for ragtime,

Though the gay and thoughtless throng. May affect the reckless rhythms

Of the syncopated song,
She steps forth with simple courage,

Conscious in herself of right,
And sounds forth the ultimatum,
"Turkey shall not trot tonight!"
There are always heroes waiting

Each emergency to meet, Some upon the field of battle,

Some where gayeties compete. Here's a laurel for the hostess

Who a custom dares to slight And sends forth the cry defiant,

"Turkey shall not trot tonight!"

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HERE is a great deal of talk about democratic simplicity at the forthcoming inauguration, and especially are the references frequent to Jeffersonian simplicity. As a matter of fact, Jefferson was an aristocrat, and this statement is not to derogate one jot or tittle from the honor due Jefferson as a writer on the theory of equal chances for all men, or equal rights before the courts, or as a brilliant and sincere popular leader. But Jefferson was an aristocrat and a man of luxurious habits, though of intellectual industry, a combination frequently found in men of high intellect.

Jefferson lived in a fine house in splendid surroundings. He owned fine paintings and statues, and used the finest furniture of the time, the finest china and the finest silver tableware. He owned blooded horses, negro slaves and fertile lands. He had entry to the most exclusive social circles in Virginia and elsewhere. The difference between his standard of living and that of a "poor white" of his period was greater than the living difference between a rich man. and a poor man today. Time has a "hazening" effect on class distinctions as those distinctions were observed by our ancestors. In the section of the country in which Washington stands today pioneer conditions had been long outgrown a century ago, and class distinctions based on family and wealth were harder to break through then than they are now. The people of these parts a hundred years ago were much closer to the English idea of class of that period

than we are to the English idea of class today.

One of the things constantly cropping up is the reference to Jefferson's inauguration and his simple horseback ride from his boarding-house to the Capitol. Jefferson was stopping at one of the expensive hostelries of the young capital-as much difference separating it from the usual drovers' tavern as separates the tall hotel with oriental rugs and liveried bellhops from the plain commercial house today-and the simple horseback ride is a myth. That story had its origin in a book of travels written by an Englishman-John Davis, of Salisbury. He called his book "Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America During 1798-17991801 and 1802." The following extract from Davis's book contains the horseback-ride story, which is refuted by numerous current accounts of the inauguration of President Jefferson:

"The city of Washington was now the center of attraction for the nation. Multitudes flocked to it in different directions to hear the inaugural speech of Mr. Jefferson. Of this general enthusiasm I was not without my share. Mr. Jefferson's notes on Virginia was the book that first taught me to think, and my heart now beat with a desire to hear the accents of wisdom fall from the tongue of that man whose pen had engrafted much truth on my mind. I therefore departed for the city of Washington, passing through, in my way to it, Philadelphia and Baltimore. *** Let me now come to the object of my journey to Washing