Some one says you are unreasonable, yes, unreasonable; I do not reason about it, but I want it, I demand it. You say it is God, or it is Fate; I say it is neither God nor Fate.

Something within gives me courage to believe in myself, even in unpleasant surroundings, lack of health and property. It is soul stirring my consciousness. This I say to myself is myself, I am finding myself. I can get a new and satisfactory idea of life. I demand justice for all. Is this possible?

If I can find justice for myself it is for all, for no one is different from another. All have within all latent power. Thus my mind begins to think, and my consciousness begins to enlarge; I will think these things, and then live as if I knew them to be true, and then see what comes.

The proof of anything is in the result obtained. My old point of view in

regard to life brought me no real satisfaction. My new view of life brings me lasting satisfaction, and I find that I am "losing my misery."

We find that even hard lessons cease to be a misery, the "trials of life" are no longer trials. The "trials" are just the same, but our attitude towards them is changed, because we have a new and larger view of life.

"Life" does not mean to us now, the present time only; it means the past, present, and the future. Life is continuous, development is continuous, we do not need "rest" in a future state any more than we need it now. We can rest here, and be active here, and enjoy here, and be satisfied here.

This thinking and living brings us to the point of finding ourselves. Put yourself in harmony with all things, feel yourself in harmony with the stars, planets,

atmosphere, earth and water, with all nature. Find yourself in all these things, and find all these things in yourself. Both are true, else we could not harmonize with this wonderful universe.

DON'T STRADDLE.

DON'T straddle. Don't shake hands with your difficulties. I see people who accept the principles of metaphysics, who have believed in this method of treatment, who have even given treatments, and yet they "straddle" and "shake hands." One woman said to me: "I know the truth. I am I am perfectly sure that I can keep my children from having 'children's diseases.' They are quite unnecessary. I feel that I simply hold them in God." Yet when her children had a children's disease, or sickness, she at once made a reality of the condition, she shook hands with it. She forgot her principles practically as she straddled the situation, turning her face towards the difficulty, shaking hands with it by saying it must be overcome, and then turning

her face towards God and trying to realize that God is all. I said to her, "Why don't you turn completely around and face the truth? You can get no realizing sense of its power as long as you are only half looking at it." She had been so confident of her own power to help the children and keep them from disease that God or law was rather in the background. The child she loved the most dearly was the one that suffered the most. She resented this suffering, she shook hands with it. After she had expressed herself fully on the subject, I said to her, "Let us start at the beginning and get this tangle straightened out in your mind. First, whose children are these, my children' or God's ?" "Yes,

of course," she replied, "they are really God's children." "And you are also God's child?" "Yes," she answered, "I am God's child." "Are you working out