An illustration of this fact was given me by a member of one of my classes. Miss M --- , a teacher, had given many lessons to a wealthy woman who had made no movement toward payment, and finally Miss M --- concluded that she was waiting for a bill. Feeling it to be thoughtless on the part of her student to wait for a bill, and moved by a combination of resentment, impatience, and indignation, she sat down and wrote the bill and mailed it.

Now this woman was generous and just and also a good student of Truth. If she had not been, Miss M --- would have waited long for her money.

“For,” the woman said, “the moment I took the bill in my hand I had such a feeling of resentment, impatience, and indignation against you that I almost threw the bill into the wastebasket, with the vow that I wouldn’t pay you for a month! Then I remembered my principles, and instantly I knew that those were your feelings about me and that I had been reflecting them, and I immediately came down here to pay you. Be careful, young lady, what you think, when you send out bills!”

arisen if we should contract debts when there is no money in sight to pay them? Unless there is the true, supreme assurance from within that the money to pay such debts is already on the way, it is better to fast and pray until such assurance comes than to put oneself to too