advantage of an important crop. Her home was in the midst of a large orange grove, which was then in full bearing and promising a fine revenue that winter, out of which the family hoped to recuperate its fortunes and once more be on its feet.

Mrs. R --- had a neighbor whose economic back­ground was almost identical with her own; both, with their husbands, had invested in adjoining lands and planted orange trees, which had already yielded several crops. But the neighbor woman did not believe in the power of mind; she scoffed and criticized so much that Mrs. R --- ceased to refer to Truth and its powers in her presence.

One night a report was carried through the town that they were likely to have a black frost before morning and that every man had better “smudge” and so save his grove. “Smudging,” it should be explained, consists in producing a smoke from specially built fires, which warms the air and keeps it moving so that the cold air cannot bite the tender fruit. Now it so happened that the husbands were both away. The neighbor woman came in wringing her hands and crying:

“What shall we do! --no one to help us --- we cannot do it alone --- our crop will be ruined!”

Mrs. R --- tried to console her, but her own heart was heavy, and she had little success. After the woman had gone home she walked the floor trying