MODERN PHILOSOPHY.

THE WAY OF FAITH. When we live in faith, we shall always find a way to secure what we need, even though we may not secure directly the things themselves. Sometimes these things may not be forthcoming until the last moment; but if our faith be perfect, and actually filled with the living spirit of faith, all things needful will come before it is too late. And to this there will absolutely be no exceptions whatever. If we live in the faith that we positively will receive, at the right time and place, whatever we may need for the living of life and the making true of our ideals, we shall receive in due time all the wisdom and power required therefor.

THE POWER OF UTILITY. "Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you." Hold nothing back. If you possess something which you can share with the world, let them have it today. Do all you can for everybody. Give richly of the best you have; and good things, blessings without number, will constantly flow into your life.

The deep soul satisfaction which comes to the mind that has rendered valuable service to man is entirely too good to ignore. It is one of the deepest joys that man can know. The people who are the most valuable wherever they go are always the happiest.

THE VALUE OF IDEALS.

Ideals are indispensable. No person is actually living who is not

steadily rising in the scale of life; and no person can rise who does not aim to reach something higher, some ideal upon which he has centered the full force of his ambition. If you are not moving forward you are in the way; remember that; but no person can move forward unless his aim in life is to reach some great and lofty Ideal.

Whoever does work, faithfully and ceaselessly, for some great Ideal, is constantly adding to the welfare and the happiness of the world.-Christian D. Larson.

MOTHERHOOD.

Motherhood is the expression of the protecting, nourishing, loving, creating power of God, which is without beginning and without end, eternal, Divine Motherhood, the tender, loving, forgiving, excusing, protecting Spirit, that omits no measures for the salvation of its children, "loving to the end," until the beloved shall come to its place and be what it was in the beginning.

It is a sign of the spiritual unfoldment of nations to have a respect for woman and especially for motherhood. The recognition of the Divine Feminine in God hallows womanhood and, through her, the child that she gives to the world.

Every prospective mother should receive a blessing from every one who beholds her, a prayer for her safety when passing through the ordeal that lies before her and the tenderest and holiest consideration for the little one that has been sent of God to manifest through her.-The Master Mind.

WOMAN'S SPIRITUAL LEADER

SHIP.

"It is the ever-womanly that leads us on," said the poet Goethe, and every great man has acknowledged the part that some good woman has had in his success, oftenest his mother.

Children are so mouldable-even the worst, although it may require more skill, love and inspiration with them than with others. But But with the divine means at hand, no mother need ever to be discouraged, but rather become the more

earnest and zealous, the more difficulties the problem presents.

Children that seem hardest to guide in their early years often make the finest of men and women. The number of years that a mother can train a child, as a mother, are only about fifteen. When a boy or girl has reached that age, they take the reins into their own hands and what aid their mother can be to them after that must be as a beloved companion.

Fortunate that mother who has brought to her child the realization of her wisdom and her desirability

Dept. W, 649 S. Flower St.,

Los Angeles, Cal.

as an associate long before adolescence, for then there can be a fine comradeship between them all the days of their life.

O mother! begin early to accept your child as an Angel direct from God, and to disregard its shadow side, many times counting it as nothing; or when considering it, to put it into its place as the unreal and, at most, only an indicator of what is to be accentuated in the child, the opposite virtue that it has come this time to bring into full manifestation.

So shall the full mother's joy be yours, to which shall be added the joy of your Higher Self, as you hear the welcome of the Lord of us all,

"Well done, good and faithful servant; thou has been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."-Master Mind.

THE TOO FAMILIAR.

Is it because of the familiarity with the words think and thinking that so many students find it difficult to assign to thinking the powers and importance rightfully belonging to it? Is it difficult to accept that this commonplace thinking has the power to make my soul sad and heavy, and my body ill?

Is it so much easier to accept that the sting of a little insignificant mosquito has the power to produce blood poisoning, and perhaps death, than to accept that thought is the power which made the sting dangerous?

A draught of air is a very simple and, apparently, harmless thing; is

it easier to believe that it can give one a cold that may result in death, than to believe that thinking has the power to give the draught that deadly property?

A man's grandfather died years before the grandchild is born. The grandfather had consumption, and died from this disease. The grandchild, who came into the world many years after the grandfather had left it, takes cold easily. At once the law of heredity is brought into requisition, and the child is condemned to death from consumption because his longdead grandfather died from it. Is it easier to believe this than to believe that thinking can so affect the tissues of the body as to produce consumption?

A man has no success in his undertakings. He gives as a reason that his grandfather was was never able to win success in anything, and died a miserable failure. He is like his grandfather in face and character, therefore he, too, will never succeed.

It would seem more difficult to accept such a reason for a man's failure than to believe that his own thinking has the power to affect his whole mentality in such a way as to make his failure inevitable.

All people know quite well that they think; but all do not yet know the full power of their thinking.

This knowledge awaits them.Alma Gillen.

The sources of joy and glory lie solely within us. If a man's heart be not at peace; if he does not possess his own approval; if a peaceful conscience does not shed its light upon him, then nothing can make him happy.—Farrar.