BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

If I could give the young people of America but one word of advice it would be this: "Believe in yourself with all your might." That is, believe that your destiny is inside of you, that there is a power within you which, if awakened, aroused, developed and matched with honest effort, will not only make a noble man or woman of you, but will also make you successful and happy.

If the people who are down in the world, who are side-tracked, who believe that their opportunity has gone by forever, that they can never get on their feet again, only knew the power of reversal of their thought, they could easily get a new start.

Always hold the picture of yourself as a producer, think of yourself as a creator, as an achiever. Never for a moment yield to the suggestion that you, perhaps, after all, may overestimate your ability, that you are possibly a nobody. Doubts and fears long indulged in will often change a positive mind to a negative one, and a negative mind attracts poverty and failure.

If we were to take an inventory of people who think they have failed because they never had a chance, because the fates were cruel to them, because they were elbowed out, crowded out of the current of prosperity and left high and dry on the bank, we should find that most of them had a vast amount of unused assets even when they gave up.

It is a curious fact that most people are blind to the advantages they have.Orison Swett Marden.

And taught by thee the church belongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving still.

-Kebel-The Christian Year.

BEAUTY AND CHARACTER No, indeed, it is not wrong for you to try to be just as beautiful and attractive as you possibly can. It is your duty and privilege to express all the beauty and attractiveness possible. To be beautiful is to express love, and love is God. You know the Bible says God is love. Men and women are put in this world to love each other. How can we love what is not beautiful. To be beautiful is our duty toward each other as well as toward ourselves.

But we have also another duty—to express character as well as beauty. We must be strong as well as beautiful. We must be true as well as beautiful. We must be honest as well as beautiful. If we are true and honest we shall not misuse our beauty. And no one else will be misled by it.

Beauty cannot hide character.
Ugliness cannot hide character.

But ugliness is more apt to hide character than beauty, for the reason that ugliness does not attract attention. Beauty attracts attention, and the attenion discovers not only the beauty, but the character which underlies the beauty.

Perfect beauty is the true expression of perfect character.

Practice good-will with stick-to-it-iveness, and the beauty of wholeness will unfold from within you.-Elizabeth Towne in The Nautilus.

Thoughts are forces, and the constant affirmation of one's inherent right and power to succeed will change inhospitable conditions and unkind environments to favorable ones. If we resolve upon success with energy, we will very soon create a success atmosphere, and things will come our way. We can make ourselves success magnets.

GOD IS LOVE

We should often affirm that "God is Love." "I am the living expression of the love of God. Let the Infinite Love now be manifest in me." Such words are quickening, and the cells of the body that are waiting for the Word of the Spirit will be charged with positive lovethought. Every brain center throughout the body must be charged with ChristMind power through oft-repeated affirmations of I Am dominion. In this way the faculties, of our disciples, are educated in the law, and the body is regenerated.

It is hard sometimes to do the loving thing, because love is not first felt in the heart. To try to force our will to do loving things without this inner feeling of active love will end in failure. We should meditate daily upon Divine Love and declare for it full, free expression. It is easier to do loving things than not to do them when the consciousness is active with the Spirit of love. We will never find it hard to forgive if we open our hearts to the loving, forgiving Christ spirit. Many try to forgive, but fail, because they try to do it of themselves, or through the personal man. When we realize the perfection of Christ, our real self within us, we will see the perfection of Christ, or the real self of others, and it will then be easy to forgive them the errors of the personal man. When man realizes his true estate, there is nothing to forgive, for he knows but the one reality, Spirit, which always was and ever will be perfect; he then knows that all so-called evil is but a dream, a delusion, from which he has just awakened.

We should express our God love toward the animal world, and realize that in being kind and merciful toward them we are helping them to express love to

ward us, and to their fellows. In the great days when love shall reign, "nothing shall hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain."

NONE COULD CONVICT HIM OF SIN

Jesus was accused of many different sins by those who have not understood, but, like another Cain, have lifted their hand against this brother. Here are some of the sins that have been imputed to Jesus:

1. Blasphemy, "For a good work we stone Thee not, but for blasphemy" (John 10:33).

2. Sabbath-breaking (Mark 3:2).

3. Impurity, "a friend of sinners" (Matt. 11:19).

4. Drunkenness and gluttony (Luke (7:34).

5. Sedition, disloyalty, being a traitor (John 11:48).

6. Falsifying (Matt. 26:61).

7. Being in league with the devil (Mark 3:22).

8. Folly, a fanatic (Mark 3:21).

9. Disobedience as a child, and disrespect to His mother (Luke 2:48 and John 2:4).

10. Giving way to anger (John 2:15). II. Cursing and killing a fig tree (Mark 11:21).

12. Stealing a colt (Matt. 21:2).

Yet, before all these accusations, Jesus could stand absolutely guiltless. None could convict Him of sin. He can be justified in all that He did, and so become the justifier of all. This He could do, because He knew Himself, knew God, and loved God and man with His whole being. The Master Mind.

The Orientals say: "To be angry with another is to punish yourself for his fault."

A NATION BUILDER

No one is more worthy to bear this great title than the teacher in our public school. Never did the truth of such a statement crowd its way so irresistibly into our thought as when we stood a few days ago before a thousand little children ranging from eight to twelve years of age. They were children of both foreign and American parentage. In general appearance, in attractiveness of face, in keenness of perception, in brightness of eye, in all the signs that promise fine and noble citizenship there was no difference. It was a city of factories. Recent industrial disturbances had been inclining us to rather pessimistic views as to the fuThat wonderful body of children, with the possibilities for all that is high gleaming from their eyes, trained by that splendid group of teachers who sat with them, was the best sort of medicine for one with pessimistic symptoms. Give those earnest men and those gentle women a few years with these children, and, through that steady transfusion of life by which the teacher pours himself into the very soul of the pupil, there will be formed a generation of citizens which the agitator and the anarchist cannot move at will, inciting to violence and outrage. Here is the hope of Americathe public school-and the teacher makes the school.

SCIENCE AND DOGMATISM The striking things that have happened in the natural sciences in recent years have had a most wholesome effect. They have induced the unbiased thought which is open to conviction and willing to make progress instead of remaining in bondage to dogma. Scientific men have long passed the point where they are surprised at new and revolutionary discoveries. In fact, they are surprised if such discoveries are not made. The most hopeful sign of the times is this open attitude which is not afraid of having old beliefs overthrown, and which is willing and able to delve into the more delicate and intricate problems which hold the answers to many questions as yet unsettled from a scientific point of view.

Science is opposed to dogmatism; it has no patience with smug self-satisfaction; it demands that progress be made continually, and it is willing to accept the results of that progress, even though they necessitate a revision of former beliefs. More and more it is becoming a factor in broadening the popular thought, and, if we may judge from present conditions, it will serve the very worthy purpose of helping many to receive and understand some metaphysical ideas to which otherwise they would not listen.

The more you expect from yourself the more you will accomplish; and the more. you expect from your opportunities the more you will realize from those opportunities. And the reason is that expectation invariably brings out an increase of power from your own talents, and causes the mind to penetrate more deeply into the real life of every condition, circumstance or opportunity that you meet.Larson.

RELIGIOUS HOME TRAINING

In scanning the influences that have molded the great men and women of history before every other advantage must be placed the early religious training received in the home. How far this religious training has borne upon the lives of men and nations is best described by Robert Burns, himself the child of deeply pious parents. In the Cotter's "Saturday Night," that picture of Scotch home life which must live while Scotland still exists, he portrays with a fidelity born of familiarity the "family worship" of his

native land:

The cheerful supper done, with serious face,

They round the ingle form a circle wide; The sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace,

The big hame Bible, once his father's pride;

His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,

His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare;

Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide,

He wales a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God," he says with solemn air.

They chant their artless notes in simple guise;

They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim;

The power, incensed, the pageant will desert,

The pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole; But, haply, in some cottage far apart, May hear, well pleased, the language of the soul,

And in His book of life the inmates poor enroll.

From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs

That makes her loved at home, revered abroad.

Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,

"An honest man's the noblest work of God;"

And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far be

hind;

What is a lordling's pomp? A cumbrous load,

Disgusting oft the wretch of human kind,

Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined!

We would do well in reading, often as time will permit, the lyrics that bear upon home, the home where God is believed in and trusted.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. Froude.

THE DREAMERS

Oft me seemeth, in the days that yet shall be,

When no slave of gold abideth 'twixt the

land from sea to sea;

Oft when men and maids are merry ere the sunlight quits the earth,

And they bless the day beloved all too

short for all their mirthSome shall pause awhile and ponder on the bitter days of old,

Ere the day of strife and battle over

threw the curse of gold.

Then 'twixt lips of loved and lover holy.

thoughts of us shall rise:

We who now are fools and dreamers

then shall be the brave and wise: There amidst the worlds new builded shall our early deeds abide, Thou our names be all forgotten. -William Morris.

My Lady Night, ah, fair is she

As is a twilight rose

That in some deep-gloomed bower blows, As is a lady's face at night

In some old garden 'neath the light

Of misty moon.

Her arms are deep and wide;

She moves as does a bride

To some slow weddig tune.

Like pools unfathomed are her eyes,
And in them lie uncharted skies

Where low lights burn like distant stars
Aglisten through the sunset's bars
That shut in all mortality—
My Lady Night, ah, fair is she!

-Arthur Wallace Peach.

THE SUFFRAGETTE

She darned the fussing plumber When he labored with the pipe. She darned the corner grocer

When the lemons were not ripe. She darned the patient butcher When the steak he sent was tough. She darned the washerwoman When the ironing was rough. She darned her poor old husband

When he didn't wind the clocks. In fact she darned a lot of things, But she wouldn't darn the socks. -Exchange.

Who would list to the good lay
Gladness of the captive gray?
'Tis how two young lovers met,
Aucassin and Nicolette;

Of the pains the lover bore
And the sorrows he outwore,
For the goodness and the grace,
Of his love, so fair of face.
Sweet the song, the story sweet,
There is no man hearkens it;
No man living 'neath the sun,
So outwearied, so foredone,
Sick and woeful, worn and sad,
But is healed, but is made glad,
'Tis so sweet.-Andrew Lang.

As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,

Swells from the vale, and midway leaves

the storm,

Tho 'round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,

Eternal sunshine settles on its head. -Goldsmith-Deserted Village.

-Byron.

-Shelley-To the Moon.