ally, try to apply the love-thought, the kindly, good-will thought, the charitable thought, the do-as-you-would-be-done-by philosophy, you will be surprised to see how quickly these antidotes will put out the fire. You will then have, instead of a destructive conflagration raging through you, burning up your energy and consuming your vitality, a kindly goodwill glow gradually stealing over your entire being, and in a very few moments you will be at peace with all the world.

The mother calls out of the child the ideal qualities which she sees in it. Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to correct the evil, up-root and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. "I can not sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out," said John Newton.

Parents, teachers, reformers are beginning to see that they call out of those whom they wish to help just what they see in them, because their suggestive thought arouses its affinities. The subject feels their thought. If it is a helpful, inspiring one, it tends to uplift him. If, on the other hand, it is concentrated upon his defects, these very qualities which they try

to erase are only etched deeper and made more indelible.

The same principle applies to our own imperfections; our own unfolding. If we over-emphasize the bad in ourselves, if we are always criticizing our shortcomings and weaknesses and castigating ourselves for not doing better, we only deepen the unfortunate pictures in our consciousness and make them more influential in our lives.

On the other hand, if we visualize the larger possible man or woman and see only what is sublime in ourselves, we shall be able to make infinitely more of ourselves and open up the glorious possibilities of what may properly be called a divine development.

What a great thing it would be if we could learn always to think of ourselves, or of others when we are talking with or about them, as the image and likeness of perfection, instead of as the weak, the debauched image, the mere burlesque of the man God made!

One reason why some clergymen have been able to revolutionize so many lives is because they looked to the God-side of people, and hence, no matter how low they had fallen, saw hope for them. However blurred it seemed, they could see the God-image beneath.

No one can help another very much when he sees in him a hopeless picture. On the other hand, you can make a person do almost anything when you show him his possibilities and make him believe in himself.

The great secret of Phillips Brooks's marvelous influence upon people who had lost their self-respect and were wallowing in beastly habits was that he reflected back to them the lost image of their possible divine selves. This picture gave them hope and encouragement, for, as he said, no man will ever be willing to live a half life when he has once seen that it is a half life.

The world has made marvelous strides along material lines in multiplying efficiency of machinery; increasing facilities for rapid transportation and quick communication of thought; in our educational system, in the way of learning things; in inventions, in our methods of doing business and in controlling the forces of nature; but we have not made very great progress in the art of increasing human efficiency in scientific mind-building, mindchanging, mind-construction, man-building.

The future physician will be a trained psychologist, a real educator of the people, showing them how to think properly; explaining how right thought makes right life; that their bodily conditions are simply reflections and outpicturings of their mental attitudes, present and past, and how, by changing the thought they can change the life.

If invalids and people in poor health could only hold persistently the perfect image of themselves, and, no matter how much it might howl in pain for recognition, refuse to see the sick, discordant, imperfect image, the harmony thought, the truth thought would soon neutralize their opposites and they would be well.

All reforms and all mental healing must result from changing the mind; from a complete reversal of the mental attitude; a turning about and facing the other way.

In proportion as the healer is able to annihilate the sick image, the disease image, and picture vividly the God-man, the divine image in all its wholeness and completeness, he is successful. When the mind is changed the man is changed.