be at sixes and sevens, speak the word of health and peace to it, TIME AND AGAIN.

In giving yourself such a treatment by suggestion you have added nothing to your powersyou have merely awakened them to renewed activity. That is all that can be done by any sort of medication.

DRUGS DO NOT COMMUNICATE ENERGY THEY

MERELY AROUSE IT. This is the whole law of drug action in a sentence.

Certain teachers of psychology direct us to assume the religious attitude and merely open ourselves to Divine inflow. Do so, if you prefer, but I opine that the method has small advantage. The ego itself is an embodiment of Divinity, and, as such, is entitled to fall back upon its inherent powers and require the desired action of the physical. LEARN TO TRUST YOURSELF. Selfreliance is all important, and it exalts us to the very height of our possibilities. "I am captain of my soul," says Henly.

This is auto-suggestion in its simplest form. We practice it in an irregular and inconsiderate manner whenever we say: "I can" or "I can't.”

He who, in view of a task to be done, stoutly says: "I can and I will," and then sticks to his resolution, is clothed with a majesty of power.

He who says: "I will try, but I fear that nothing will avail," may as well surrender at the start; he is self-shorn of his strength.

But there is something beyond what I have thus far mentioned, the power of which for good or ill is more pronounced. I allude now to selfhypnosis.

Having observed the conditions just prescribed for the simpler form of suggestion, and

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having repeatedly practiced the exercises mentioned, one may undertake to put one's self into the hypnotic state.

There has been a flood of falsehood thrown about the possibilities of hypnotism for good and ill, and unreal dangers have been pointed out in connection with its practice. Those who desire to test its merits may rest assured that in putting themselves into the hypnotic state they do not weaken, but, on the contrary, do really strengthen, their mental powers. One cannot put one's self into hypnotic sleep at all without thereby giving evidence of good self-control.

We all ought to acquire such power over our forces as shall make them our willing servants. Among people in general we find the senses in full dominion.

Having reached the suggestive stage, in the manner before described, one may need but to give the suggestion of sleep and hold the thought persistently upon it in order to fall into a state of hypnosis.

The action will be aided by looking steadily at an object on the ceiling, or at a small object suspended in such a way as to put the levator muscles of the eyes into a state of tension. On this object the eyes should steadily rest until drowsiness ensues, and then they may be closed and the mind be still held to the thought of sleep.

It is better to give the suggestions that we seek to impress, in an earnest way, before attempting to sleep, and among them should be those of sleep itself and the duration of it. When this is done the ensuing hypnotic sleep will tend to impress the suggestions more deeply on the sub

consciousness. You will awake after sleeping the prescribed time.

At first you may be unable to recognize the sleep, and can be sure that it has ensued only by consulting your watch. Time has slid by in an unaccountable way. You have certainly slept. You may be able to determine that there has been sleep by the memory of vague images or indefinite fancies that have traversed the mind and left behind mere lines of passing. Failure to have noticed a rap at the door, or the sound of a bell, may be further proof.

Auto-suggestion should be used in a regular and systematic manner as long as deemed necessary.

We ought to avail ourselves of its beneficent aid through life.

Let it be used freely and without fear.

Suggestions are pouring in upon us from an infinite variety of sources. We are unconsciously accepting many of the most forcible among them, and those which apperception finds most convenient and assimilable. Shall we allow this unregulated process to go on indefinitely in ourselves and others? It is an important-a momentous question. How shall we answer it? That we can regulate the processes has passed beyond question.

How to regulate them is the question I am here attempting briefly to answer.

That many will spurn the thought I have no doubt; but I am equally sure that to others it will prove a message of joy.

"We are living in a world of eternal law and order—a world of limitless power. If ignorantly or willfully we misuse this power, we experience the lack of good, or

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perverted good, which is evil; we experience conflict and sorrow, and we ally ourselves with all conflicting conditions. There is about us beauty, happiness, love, abundance; limitless good for us to use and for us to use today everything to make life a growth of ever unfolding joy, if we intelligently direct this (our) energy. Every new view we obtain through experience, or inspiration, points to heights not yet attained, nor even conceived, but which the soul knows awaits the earnest, believing climber.

Browning, who studied so deeply into man's nature and possibilities, said: Man is not yet, but is becoming.' Then in a moment of sublime realization of achievement and prophecy he exclaimed: 'I shall arrive.'"-M. Woodbury Sawyer.

"Positive and negative are relative terms. Each thing, eact person, is negative to all above in pitch, and is positive to all below. Each center with less velocity. is negative to those centers that, in their own sphere, revolve faster. Note the whirlwinds; when two meet, they become one and take a direction which follows the diagonal represented by the parallelogram of the two forces. So is it with whirlpools. The one law of nature is that the greater centers of like motion swallow the less; but the lesser, when thus enfolded, proportionately changes the direction of the greater and lowers its pitch."