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can be harmonious and perfect until all its parts serve ONE DOMINANT IDEA.

In perfecting the human organism, both in mind and body, this law is regnant. There must be a ruling Ideal, and the office of the Will is to bring all thoughts, desires and purposes under this dominant Ideal. Until this is accomplished the house is divided against itself, there is contention and discord in the organism, lack of peace in the mind, and in consequence, pain and disease in the flesh.

While the Will cannot crush itself out of existence, it can use one part of itself against another part, one part desiring to follow one course and the other part desiring to follow the opposite course. One of these two courses is in accord with the Ideal, and the other is not. The better course does not look attractive at the start, and it requires a decided effort of the Will to follow it. This is good for the individual, for with the exercise of the Will force is called forth, intensifying the life.

To have more life is to move upward and away from weakness and disease. Therefore to understand the use of the will and to see its oneness with the Universal Will, to set it in operation in obedience to the highest and best that we know, is to find renewal of Life, Health, Youth and general Happiness.

In nervous prostration one loses interest in all things, desiring nothing, caring for nothing, doing nothing, and all this indicates a lessening in the activity of the will. But underneath this