character of men is steadily growing better. If you don't think so, it is because you are looking too long at what you should not see. If you have a tendency toward scepticism of the good, buy the three little monkeys. Make them your motto, "I will see no evil; I will speak no evil; I will hear no evil." After a while, you will have faith in the world. "Why do newspapers make their principle stock-in-trade the sensational murder or divorce?" you ask. Why. how do you know they do? How do I know they do? We have seen it. We are like the boy at prayers. "Teacher," he said, "Joseph kept his eyes open while you prayed." Everybody is doing it more or less --- seeing the evil, feeding on it, and therefore demanding it. The newspapers will stop publishing that sort of thing when we get to the point where we won't read it.

Then, when we stop seeing evil, we shall stop experiencing it. Why is there often a "crime wave" in large cities? It is the contagion of example. One sees and hears what another is doing; and he goes and does likewise. Recently a boy hanged himself over a bath-tub and died, imitating a hero at the "movies."

To keep your faith in the world, look for good. You cannot look two ways at once; and "if your eye be single, your whole body will be full of light." The world grows better as we grow better. We see only those things that most interest us. We must therefore seek higher and finer interests if we are to have faith in the world. Never forget that the world becomes to you just what you become to it. The law of mind is that we get out of the Universal just what we put into it. If, therefore, you would have faith in the world, turn your mind to the good there is in it. Soon