working it out till somebody else "beat him to it." I knew the boy who invented the first fly swatter made of wire screen with a handle, and who made a few and sold them in the local hardware store in the town where he lived--and then let the device slip away from him because he did not value his own idea. And later--you know what happened--another man or men took the same idea and made a fortune out of it.

You know, it would be a good thing for every one of us about once a year, at least, to read over Russell Conwell's famous lecture "Acres of Diamonds" and Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance." Have you ever read them? Could you read them without a tremendous stir inside of you urging you to go and do the thing that you wanted to do, carry out your idea, build your structure, execute your plan, win your prize? Well, as Emerson says in that very essay, that is the creative urge within you stirring for expression. And that very urge, in the man or woman who pays attention to it, is the source of achievement and fortune and fame and usefulness--and the only source; because it is the voice of the Spirit offering guidance, just as much and just as truly as truly as conscience, rebuking our mistakes, is the same voice dealing with another theme.

The English writer A. C. Clutton-Brock has written two books that every Truth student could well afford to read. One is called "What Is the Kingdom of Heaven?" and the other "Studies in Christianity." In one of them he calls attention to the fact that every person has within him what might be called an