To imagine means to picture in our mind.

In the artist we acknowledge it as a necessary mental state, also in the musician.

The artist must see, must picture in his mind, to himself, even more than he may see in the landscape, he must feel warmth, for summer; his colors are not nature's colors, but so combined as to make us feel nature. This is the result of imagination.

It is the same with the poet and the musician. As we read we imagine and as we listen to music we feel that imagination was necessary in its composition. But we have not realized that we ourselves were using imagination.

As we think we imagine. Places, people, conditions, even words, as heaven or hell, make images in our minds. Disease and unhappiness, discussed or thought

about, create images that are undesirable, while health and happiness, confidence and joy, create other images. We suffer or enjoy in our imagination.

What we imagine in regard to life makes our life. If death means separation to us we suffer loneliness. If it means progression for both, no separation in reality, then we are prepared to meet it in a different spirit. Our imagination has been trained in the right direction in regard to death.

A contented citizen of Milan had not been outside of the city for sixty years. At that time the governor forbade his going out. The citizen at once felt himself a prisoner. Imagination was his prison.

The reason why we desire patients to stop talking about their aches and pains and unpleasant conditions is because we wish to train their imaginations in the

opposite direction, and teach them to make new images.

Whitman's imagination is healthy. I always feel strong in my body, as well as powerful in my soul, when I quote him.

"All things have been steadily employed to complete and delight me. Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul."

IF THOU WOULDST BELIEVE.

"Said I not unto thee that, if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God."

JESUS said this to Martha at the grave of Lazarus. The grave was a cave and a stone lay against it. He had been dead four days; he was past being restored. Martha believed that he could have been cured while ill. She even believed that he could be raised from the dead if he had not been so long dead.

You see she believed "to a certain extent," as my pupils and patients tell me.

But Jesus said, after all of her excuses, these words: "If thou wouldst believe," showing there is no limitation to the Divine Power if we believe.

But we do not believe. We ask to see the glory of God without believing. We say if we can only see the result we

will believe, when the result depends upon our belief.

You can take the teachings of Jesus anywhere and they all hinge on belief or faith. He says when asked for a sign, "If you do not believe what I have already told you."

No one's success or failure has anything to do with our success or failure. The success or failure of another ought not to encourage or discourage us.

Some patients seem dead, their spiritual nature is so covered up. Awake! Come forth!- and the result?

If the teacher believes in the spiritual nature, the divinity of his pupil, his call is earnest and sincere and the result is the coming forth. The most difficult cases sometimes unfold the quickest.

We must have courage to give upto give up old methods, material means courage to use the newly-found power.