Mind: The Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding of God, is universal, perfect, changeless; that which thinks, wills. and feels. There is but One Mind, the God-Mind. Hence it is incorrect to say: "I have changed my mind." We may change our decision or opinion, but we cannot change the God-Mind.

Mentality: Mind in action, thinking, willing and feeling. It should not be It should not be used interchangeably with Mind.

Idea has been used with different meanings by different philosophers. Our definition is this: Image in the GodMind; man is idea before he is Living Soul. God-Idea is realized by man as man is ready for it. This word should never be used connected with a negative thought. It is incorrect to speak of a wrong or false idea; there is no such thing.

Consciousness comes from two Latin words meaning "to know together with." From the Universal standpoint it is God's awareness of Himself; from the individual standpoint it is our knowing together with God. Consciousness is another positive word, and should always be so used. We may believe in evil, but we should not use such statements as, "Consciousness of evil or inharmony." We can be conscious only of health, life, freedom and power.

Take such words as Life and Power. Universal words, belonging to God, partaking of God-Nature; hence to be used only as related to goodness and perfection. There is no such thing as imperfect life or evil power; there is no such thing as poor health. All these words. stand for that which is perfect, eternal and changeless.

Perception: From two Latin words. meaning to seize thoroughly; hence we define it as intellectual insight.

Obtain and Attain: Closely related in meaning; some teachers reject both. We use them in this way: Obtain applies to external methods, attain to inner realization. One may obtain a home or a thousand dollars. One attains the realization of Truth. One may obtain a fortune, but if he does not more than obtain it, it may be swept away by the chance of trade. When the consciousness of supply is realized nothing can take that attainment from one.

There are other words which I should wish to consider if time permitted. In closing, let me give one that is often misused, the word State: From a Latin word meaning to stand, to be fixed. You see how it should be used. A statement used yesterday is incorrect. We cannot be in an "unsettled state." The definition is: The unchanging nature of; the realization of Truth that is fixed and eternal. This is another word that applies always to the positive. One cannot be in a state of inharmony or a state of unrest. "Condition" is the word to use on the negative side. Condition means a conception of Truth that is limited and temporal. The word "state" applies to the Universal, hence to the Truth of you and me. When I use this word I am reminded of the certainty of life eternal, of goodness, of God. Each of us is included in God's eternal state of harmony, goodness, peace and perfection. This is our state. May we speedily drop all belief in conditions that limit and hamper, and enter into the joy of this realization.

Mont Blanc is the monarch of mount

ains;

They crown'd him long ago

On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

-Byron-Manifred.

W

HILE fortunes are being set

aside for the propagation of peace, and editorials are pleading for arbitration, scare-lines blaze forth the facts, "CITY GIVEN OVER ΤΟ PILLAGE;" "NEARNESS TO PEACE OFFSET BY GRAVER NEWS," and in thousands of other letters, big and black, is the actual truth expressed-that carnage, bloodshed, murder, war, go on unceasingly within and without our gates.

This is but natural.

One might as well rear a giant on raw, red meat, and when he is ravenous talk gently to him of malted milk, as to talk arbitration to a man reared in the belief that patriotism is best shown by killing his neighbor, widowing women, making little children fatherless, and leaving wreck and ruin in his wake, unto the third and fourth generation.

We talk peace and go on mobilizing our armies, adding to our navies, working up great defenses that give the lie to the beliefs with which we fill our editorial pages. There is not one among us, as an individual, who does not look upon war with just horror, and most of us regard it as an insurmountable evil.

We shudder at the atrocities of the battlefield, the while we enter our children in military schools and boast of our dreadnoughts and our torpedo-bcat destroyers, those vicious little black specks lying in the peaceful harbors, evil signs of an evil time that must pass as inevitably as other black habits of the dark ages have dwindled and faded before the light of big truths.

Wars and crime must pass in the light of the truths which all great humanitarians are now setting before us.

Says one: "Persia, Carthage, Greece, Rome-the history of each is an eloquent commentary on the futility of force as a means of gaining power or peace, excent that peace which is of ruin and oblivion and the grave. The wrecked palaces, the desecrated temples, the dismantled fort, the razed edifices, the broken colunins, the stillness of death-these are the symbols of that peace which arms and armaments bring.

"We are being freed from the tyrant Mars. We are coming to realize that, by seeking the calm which lies at the centr of the madly whirling storm we shall be shattered before we reach it. We are learning that what we prepare for we inevitably obtain; that we cannot secure peace by preparing for war. We are beginning to realize that the millions of dollars spent annually in military appropriations would dot the world with school houses, hospitals and useful institutions; would disseminate enlightenment, reason and material improvement to such a degree that war would be unthinkable. Freedom from war means peace-peace by education, peace by enlightenment, peace by higher ideals, purer standards, broader points of view-the only peace than can ever be substantial and secure."

Peace by education-there is the an

swer.

All education must begin at the beginning. Physically strong men and women are those who have the best of care in

infancy; great-brained men and women, with few exceptions, are those whose earliest thoughts were trained in the light of great intellects.

We do not hope to have a race of strong men and women by neglecting the infant's needs, nor an educated people by letting the boy run wild, and then attempting to smatter the man with knowledge. We can hope to have a peaceful nation only by teaching the boy to be compassionate. When we have done this wars will cease. What we prepare for we inevitably obtain.

Begin at the beginning. Begin with the little, little child. Unbelievably early in his life a boy finds himself stronger than some of his companions, and therefore able to protect them. Early as this may be, however, it is not early enough to begin teaching him how to render help to the helpless and to show compassion for the weak. Before he can walk he is taught self-control; before he can speak distinctly he is taught to live and act the truth, and before he is old enough to protect his weaker human companions, he should be taught to protect those things weaker than he is, and nothing is weaker than a little child except a little animal.

Give every child a tiny pet to play with and to care for; show him how depend ent the little things are upon his thought and care-the puppy wagging his tail because he has been fed; the kitten purring with delight because she has been brought in from the cold to sit beside a warm fire; the birds hopping gaily on the window-sill for the food they know a kind hand has put there for them, and you will be starting in their young hearts the fountain-springs of a great comp ission that will ever render help to the helpless, succor to the suffering, consid

eration to the weak and compassion to the unfortunate. The boy or girl whɔ has been taught, through a helpless pet, that every living thing has rights and needs, is to become the man and woman whose best strength will be given to help raise the burden of all humanity and lead us sooner to that worship of God which is best expressed in service to His children. "Mutual helpfulness and sympathy lead to mutual understanding and then to brotherhood."

We are coming to the dawning of a new and grander creed, "that of worship by love and service, wherein each is responsible, not only for his own happiness, but also for that of his brother. Thus does the complaining cry of Cain, 'Am I my brother's keeper?' become the watchword of a nobler race of men who will stand before God and with devout firmness reply: 'I am my brother's keeper.'"

The greater brotherhood of man for man will of necessity include the lesser, of man for his patient, bent servants, for the noble man will ever hold in highest regard that on which he mounted, and the Peace Priests of to-morrow, who need not talk of arbitration because they will not talk of war, are the boys of today who are being reared to show justice and kindness to every living creature.

Beside his hut and shading oak,
Thus to himself the poet spoke:
"I have supped tonight with gods,
I will not go under a wooden roof;
As I walked along the hills
In the love which Nature fills,
The great stars did not shine aloof,
They hurried down from their steep.
abodes

And hemmed me in their glittering troop."-Emerson.

H, if we could once be rid of our fears! If he could but rest secure in the expectation of happiness, for a little while at least we might be light-hearted as the children who frolic about us, forgetful of yesterday and careless of to-morrow. But, alas, this childish immunity from foreboding, this unreasonable looking forward to joy, is something we lost when we learned to say with the world: "I am afraid!"

Is this well-nigh universal fear of future events worth while? Did it ever help you to a realization of your desires? What, think you, would be the result if you could escape, once for all, out of this condition of perpetual apprehension? And, finally, is there in reality anything to be afraid of? Most of us, I believe, will acknowledge that fear, worry, apprehension and foreboding are not in themselves worth while. We know, if we will but stop to consider, that the mere state of being anxious does not accomplish anything. We have found, on more than one occasion, that fear does paralyze effort, and that instead of helping one to a realization of desire, it retards and hinders and frequently renders intelligent effort almost impossible. It is a self-evident fact, capable of demonstration, that if we could by any means rid ourselves of fear in any or all of its myriad forms, we should be stronger, more capable of effort, and therefore more successful. But when it comes to a consideration of the question, "Is there

Be

really anything to be afraid of?" a chorus of wailing voices arises in dismal unison. Disease, death, accident, poverty, shame all these and more, in a thousand terrifying variations, appear to be the unescapable heritage of mankind. But there is a light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. neath the deepest, darkest cloud of foreboding, in the very midst of terror by day and shuddering by night, there abides the secret, unshaken conviction that in the reality of things eternal there is nothing to be afraid of. Death cannot touch me at all if I am-as deep calling unto deep assures me-spiritual in my being. I may make my exit from the body, it is true, to-day, to-morrow or next year, but no craftily concealed grave yawns in the shadows before me. The grave can neither receive nor hold me. I shall never be conscious of death, and in the deepest, most intimate self of myself I know this with a conviction which needs no proving. And once we rid ourselves of our unreasoning fear of death, disease will-must-loosen its grasp upon humanity. Ease and confidence of mind, the steady poise of the spiritual self in the knowledge of its indestructibility, powers and potentialities, will inevitably bring about a healthful, normal condition of the physical body. Whatever the appearance of things may be, the reality. and the truth is that God cannot be kept from His children. He is, above all, the usable God, offering Himself freely and in myriad forms to his offspring. But