which he is the culminating point. Reason and intuition have at last explained to him his status in eternity. He understands. He realizes his dignity, knowing now for the first time that the universe has been in travail for ages to bring him forth. His greatest wonder is that he has wondered so little. The revelation fills him with new inspiration. He desires to be in harmony with Nature. Turning his eyes to the future, he gazes upon the Ascent of Man. What a glorious vision! Love is seen leading all the children of men to the Kingdom wherein God and man are eternally one.

THERE is a great deal more for medical students of the next century. We put into their hands indeed plenty of failures. We have failed to cure gout, asthma, rheumatism, cancer, consumption, and paralysis, without speaking of other "plaguey diseases" which afflict mankind. All that we can do at present is to recommend habits and diet which shall perhaps be preventive. We can cure none of these diseases. Will our successors prove more competent than ourselves?-Sir Walter Besant.

I HAVE had to do that in past days, to challenge Him through outer darkness and the silence of night, till I almost expected that he would vindicate his own honor by appearing visibly, as he did to Saint Paul and Saint John; but he answered in the still, small voice only, yet that was enough.-Charles Kingsley.

MAN postpones or remembers. He does not live in the present, but with reverted eye' laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he, too, lives with Nature in the present, above time.-Emerson.

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.-H. L. Payne.

HEARING AND DOING.

BY CHARLES BRODIE PATTERSON.

Some college professors admitted to me some time ago that the world is turning more and more toward the search after health along mental or psychical lines, conceding that the more advanced students believe not only that health is obtainable through mental effort alone but that the time is near when great numbers of people will so seek thus to regulate their lives that human life shall be greatly prolonged. It is true beyond doubt that scientific minds are investigating this subject today as never before. Medical men may strive to side-track the issue by appealing to hypnotism or some other agency, but they are not succeeding to any marked degree.

The doctors make strenuous efforts to procure legislation prohibiting the practise of Mental and Christian Science, ostensibly because these schools are inimical to the public welfare but really because they tend to reduce medical incomes. Yet intelligent physicians everywhere are dispensing more and more with the use of drugs, and are confining themselves to the giving of advice as to diet and the making of hygienic suggestions.

My object in referring to this is to show that progress in the spiritual and psychic realms is undoubtedly being made; yet a still more encouraging fact is that very many people who formerly took regular mental treatment are now beginning to rely largely on their own efforts to keep well. This is as it should be, because we have a right to regulate our own health. We all have the power, but unfortunately we do not always use it intelligently. In order to control and direct the power of life, we must focus our attention upon it in the natural way, and not imagine that, if ill, five or ten minutes' effort will make us well and strong. The "age of miracles" has not yet arrived.

Let us see how intelligence may be brought to bear on the different phases of this subject. In the first place, let us consider the morbid, or diseased, side of human life, in order to discover how we get into wrong conditions-because if we know this we may also learn how to get out of them: by retracing our steps.

The very best scientists in the world to-day no longer regard the brain as the generator of thought, but rather as an instrument through which thought acts. They recognize that thought is independent of the brain, though it acts upon it. The entire physical body is only one of our possessions, and is not by any means our greatest possession. We have the right to do with it as we will, so long as our authority is exercised in accord with law; that is, so long as the will is used to produce a harmonious effect upon the body, because if used otherwise the will is bound more or less to injure this house we live in.

A great many people suppose they are thinking when they are really doing nothing of the kind, but are using their brains to such a degree that an undue amount of blood is drawn to the head, where, becoming congested, it accelerates the vibrations of the upper portion of the body till the head is very hot and the feet are very cold. The physical effect produced here is the result of wrong thinking, not right thinking, which has never yet caused a congestion of any kind. Right thought cannot produce a rapidity of vibration that will result in an overheated head. When we refer to certain persons as being "hotheaded," we mean that they become angry easily, for anger is an emotion that drives the blood unduly to the brain. There is a very delicate part of the body called the mucous membrane, and when the rate of vibration is thus increased it becomes inflamed, the result being what is known as a "catarrhal" condition. Again, we are very sensitive as to what people say or think of us, and are frequently so affected by their words or thoughts that this membrane becomes similarly inflamed; more

over, we have a disturbance of the stomach, and we say it results from something we have eaten or drunk-but it means simply that we have allowed ourselves to be annoyed by what some one else has said or thought. No one can produce in us a wrong method of thinking unless we allow him to do it. Let us cease trying to shift the responsibility from our own shoulders onto those of some one else by insisting that another's failure to do this or that has caused our suffering; for it is a very poor excuse. We suffer for our own misdeeds, and when we lend ourselves to the sinful side of life we have a right to expect no other result. It rests with each individual whether he shall be related to the world about him in a strong and healthy way or in a weak and diseased way.

It is better to know the truth about these things-to face the whole truth-than to go on year after year laying the responsibility for our mental and physical conditions at the doors of other people or other things, when we ourselves are solely responsible. It is not enough to say that we are “negative," and that we "take on conditions" from others. If we are negative, it is because we have allowed ourselves to become so without reason. If wrong thought reaches us from other people, it is because we open wide our door and tacitly invite it to enter. We literally call out what others say or think of us. There is something within us that, coming in touch with the identical quality in other people, stirs it into activity. When this result does not follow, it means that we have risen above it. If it seems to come and has no effect upon us, we have proof that we are not one with it; that is, that we have no fondness for it. We do not like to have unkind things said of us by others; yet if we ourselves say unkind things we become one with that habit of thought and thus call forth just such remarks, which adversely affect us mentally, and therefore physically.

We become one with whatever we love. We become intimately related also to those about whom we say unkind things

-to the unkind thought of the world-the converse of this proposition being equally true: if we love to say and do kind things, we are one with the good deeds and the good people of the world. And so it is with health, with wholeness; for health and wholeness, harmony and heaven, mean virtually the same thing. When a person is healthy he is harmonious. How many harmonious people are there in this world-people who can say that they are well in every part of their beingperfectly whole and perfectly harmonious in both mind and body? This is a question that I feel we all should ask ourselves. If we are not in full enjoyment of this state, it is time for us to begin to think about heaven right here and now— about health and harmony at the present time. What is the use in dragging out a miserable existence? If we are not harmonious in our own minds, and if our bodies are ill, where shall we find the happiness of life? We create our own heaven and are the authors of our own health. The power is Godgiven.

It is right that each and every individual should present his body whole and acceptable unto God, for this is his reasonable service. He should present a body whole to that higher part of his being which is the God part, so that this inner harmony may have its reflection in outer harmony-that the soul at peace and rest may show itself forth in peace and rest of mind and body. If we are not doing this, we are not living up to our highest knowledge of life. It is done by creating the desire first in mind, every wholesome thought leading to a mental condition in which we love to talk about health and strength and harmony in preference to sickness and disease and other disagreeable things. Thus do we become one with the healthy-minded, who show forth health in their bodies; but it must be accomplished by each individual for himself.

No mental healer is able to do more than to help his patient onto the true path, whereon he must walk unaided. Very often I have met people who had taken mental treatment and who