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HE wisest man or woman is the one who makes a business of living.

The supreme thing for each human being is life; the supreme task is living.

There are business men so busy they have no time for the only business worth while, to wit, living. Some of them have postponed life so long they have forgotten how to live.

I know a certain woman whose days are so full she is constantly occupied with her social engagements. Every night finds her tired out, and she does not live at all; she is too busy.

There are pleasure seekers, excitement hunters, who are so occupied in searching for amusement they cannot live; they exist, waiting from thrill to thrill in the torments of boredom.

The laboring classes have their real grievances in this: That so much of their vital force is expended in making a living that they have no strength left with which to live.

What is life? It is the normal expression of one's personality. It is the free functioning of one's self.

In proportion as this functioning or expression is stopped the soul withers.

I know a business man who is dead as a door-nail. He is very wealthy, very active and very much admired. He rises early and arrives at his office before his clerks. All day long he is as tense at his affairs as if he were fighting bees. He has kept this up for over thirty years. The result is that he is no longer a human being. He is a sort of a pianola.

His success has dehumanized him as much as if he had spent those thirty years in the penitentiary. He says he does not want a vacation. The truth is he could not take a vacation. If he did he would die.

Now, I know another millionaire who makes a business of living. I will tell you about him. At the age of forty or more he found his body going to pieces. he rearranged his diet and his physical habits, and now, at the age of sixty, gets the maximum of efficiency from his flesh, blood and nerves. He has a great business and works at it enough to keep it successful. Having attained the top notch of business success, he addressed himself to higher values and began to exercise himself in the more essential matters of life. He turned his surplus profits back into his business, applying them to increasing the welfare of his employes. He interested himself in social and moral betterment. He was seized with the wish to help all men and women as far as in him lay. His whole personality, therefore-body, mind and soul— are functioning normally. Hence he is healthy and happy, and I hope he lives 100 years. For instead of sacrificing his life to business he has made a business of life.

"For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own life."

This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive, conclude to be agreed. -Shakespeare.

Truth is something that gives us freedom. The religion of truth is a religion that gives you freedom. I ask the scholar and the reader not only of to-day, but of past history, Where, outside of the doctrine as taught by Jesus Christ, was there ever a religion taught that gave them freedom? On the contrary, has it not always been that religion itself, you might term it, was almost a synonym of slavery, oppression and wickedness, and that which caused man to sink lower in the depths rather than build him up as it should and give him freedom.

Wherever we find a religion to-day that has the tendency to lift and give freedom, to let the individuality stand out before God Almighty, to let each one working in his own way work out his own salvation through the knowledge of this which has been taught to them by his brother, that is the religion which you should follow. You may know it is You may know it is true by its demonstration; but when you find a religion that has a tendency to depress, that has a tendency to fill your asylums with people who are trying to dodge something in the future that they know not of until their minds become unbalanced, that religion is a curse, and the only redemption that the Christian religion has taught, or ever has had, has been in the germinal truths as taught by Jesus Christ, and the acknowledgment of the One and Only God. That is the only thought that ever gave endurance to so horrid a religion as the Mahometan. The sheet anchor of that religion is that there is only one God, and upon that one truth it has had influence and persistence. But the One who came teaching the beautiful doctrine that this God was Love, and that this God was Good, that this God was Omnipotent, Omnipresent, AllPowerful, All-Wise, it was He that gave

vitality to the religion itself, and wherever that has been taught the world has been made stronger and brighter and better, and those nations of to-day who practice nearest the lines we have mentioned are the greatest leaders, leaders in religion, leaders in wealth, leaders in power, leaders in munificence, enjoying all those things which those who follow the teaching of Jesus Christ are entitled to and do enjoy.

The question, then, is: Are we our brother's keeper? Christ said we must go throughout all the world and preach this gospel of truth. Are we doing that? Why would we go teaching this truth if we were not our brother's keeper? Each and every one of us owes a duty to the world, a duty to our brother, a duty to ourself, to preach this gospel, spread it broadcast, let it go out to the world until the world shall cease to be enslaved and shall become free.

This religion taught by Jesus Christ is wonderful. Based upon the universal foundation of all truth, this truth put into practice gives freedom, gives freedom from all the ills of life, from all the sorrows of life, from all the wants of life, and places you upon the pinnacle, if you might term it that, of universal knowledge, universal good, universal power, universal wisdom and universal love. That is our religion that we prove to be true by the signs that follow. Certain persons may doubt our religion, but it is because of their ignorance. Jesus Christ says if you do not believe Me, believe Me for the very work's sake. That is all we ask. All in the world we ask to prove that this religion, as we teach it, is true, is to test it by results. You do not have to employ anybody to test it; all you have to do is to learn it, study it, know it, and the very knowledge

of the truth will make you free, and you can be a demonstrator along these lines of truth as well as anyone else. I believe in the religion that gives you the good things here, that makes you prosperous, makes you happy, makes you healthy, makes you wise, gives you life and life more abundantly. I believe in that kind of a religion. I do not want any "over there" about it. This is good enough place for me.

Jesus Christ was asked something about this Kingdom of God. He said that it did not come by observation; that we could not say, lo here, or lo there it is; but the Kingdom of God is within you; it is the knowledge of this truth; it is the knowledge of God, and that knowledge, if you understand it, makes you free. There is no guesswork about it. You are always there in touch with Infinite Life, Infinite Love and Infinite Good, and as long as you stay there you are on the right line, and as long as you are teaching your brother to know this truth, then you are your brother's keeper to that extent, and you are in the line of your duty. Love is the foundation stone. You must learn to love your brother. If you have no brother, love God; but do not love God and forget your brother. Make your love practical, preferring another to your own self. Be honest, upright and sincere, and if anybody must be cheated, cheat yourself, do not try to cheat your brother, do not try to overreach him. Make your religion practical, and bring it down to the practical test. The man who loves his brother as he loves himself, and carries that out into his life, will have power with God and can move the mountains. There is nothing he cannot do, because he will be in touch with Infinite Mind and Infinite Power, and nothing can stay his hand.

Therefore, love your brother. You are your brother's keeper. Love him as you love yourself. Carry out that thought, practice it, and in blessing God Almighty will bless you in showering down happiness that shall surround you. You will be in touch with all, you will be wise, you will be broad, you will be content, and you will be a blessing not only to yourself, but to your environment, and the world will be better because of your having lived.

Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West,

From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest,

When the gray-haired New Englander sees 'round his board

The old broken links of affection restored,

When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,

And the worn matron smiles where the

girl smiled before,

What moisténs the lips and what brightens the eye?

What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

Whittier-The Pumpkin.

The way to perfect understanding is through recognition of our relation to God, and an earnest desire for a spiritual discernment; as desire is the awakening and moving power of the universe, it necessarily becomes the corner-stone in the foundation of all upbuilding. And when our desires are clothed in spiritual vestments, the veil of ignorance and blind superstition is swept from our vision, and the light of Divine understanding floods the world with the light that has always shown on land and sea-universal love.-Healey.

HE purpose of this talk is to give a few suggestions for the right use of words, that there may be more uniformity of expression among us, and hence more power. The latter will develop if the former is observed.

The first principle of expression is simplicity. Wherever possible let us use words of one syllable-good Anglo-Saxon words. The Bible and Shakespeare are held up to us as models of English. Notice the simplicity of expression in them. Simplicity gives directness and

power.

Let us avoid coining words. It is well to leave that to scholars. There are words enough in our language, if we learn to use them aright.

We should neither accept nor reject a word without good reason. Prejudice should play no part in our decisions. We should try to get the conception back of the word; we should look up its rootmeaning, learn its history, and consider its present usage, before determining its fate. Do you say, it takes a scholar to do that? Then, if we cannot study words in a scholarly way, let us be careful not to make bold assertions about them. For instance, take the words God and good. I have heard it said a number of times by teachers of New Thought that these two words came from the same root. When I looked them up, I found that it was not so.. Not satisfied with this, I asked a friend to have them looked up in the University of Chicago. The word came back that they were in no way allied. We know that God is good, but let us

avoid statements as to the origin of words which would give occasion for ridicule, if there are those among our hearers who know better.

Language is stable, and yet it changes. That language is dead which does not grow. Therefore, we are to be ready to perceive these changes, and, if they are desirable, to adopt them. This attitude of openness will bring flexibility and attractiveness into our expression.

Here are some of the words and their meanings as adopted by the college. Let us learn to use these uniformly. It will help us in our unfoldment to do so.

God: A word rejected by a number of New Thought teachers and by some of our own people, because the conception. of God had been that of a personal being However, there are reasons why we should retain that good Anglo-Saxon word. It embodies the highest religious conception of the Jewish and AngloSaxon races, their highest conception of what is good and beautiful and true. All the way down through our history that word has stood for all that is highest and best. The personal thought attached to it was limited to just one thing, the conception of form. On the other hand, they attributed to their God all the qualities of the Universal-goodness, strength, power, wisdom, knowledge, love. We should not reject a word that will suggest the highest and best our race has seen. Let me suggest that we retain this word God with this meaning: The Substance and Mind Universal; the One All; the Omnipresence inclusive of its expression.