this truth, and the realization of it will drive out all fear.

Fear takes its inception from the fact that man feels himself to be alone in this world. When confronted with danger, he believes that the task of extricating himself from imminent peril lies upon himself, and at the same time regards himself as too feeble and insignificant to avert the impending calamity. In the face of adversity and difficulties, which, as a rule are monstrously exaggerated in his mind, his helplessness appalls him, for he thinks that the burden of solving his perplexities rests upon his shoulders alone, and his powers, he feels, are not equal to the task. This sense of helplessness it is that gives rise to overwhelming fear. But man in reality, is not alone, he is not a stray leaf to be blown about by every breeze, not a fragile twig to be bent or broken by every storm, not a deserted barge to be carried by every current; no, man is a vital factor in the divine scheme, he is an essential portion of the divine universe; without him, God's world is incomplete. The power that saturates the universe is also with him; God, who fills the world, dwells also within the innermost depths of his being, and therefore he has no cause to feel alone or unsupported; the reservoir of divine power within him will aid him in overcoming all the perplexities which he may encounter in life. This is the philosophy of Jewish Science.

Jewish Science destroys fear from the heart of its adherents by cultivating in them absolute trust and confidence in God. God, it teaches, is the essence of all reality; He saturates the heart of nature and the heart of man. Man must, therefore, not look upon himself as a segregate being destined to suffer sickness or endure privation to the end of his days; he must, on the contrary, regard himself as an integral portion of the universal and divine whole which embraces all reality---he must