a guide. I quit trying to make my children, my husband and myself be good. I quit trying to "run things." In despair I had to let them be just what they chose to be. All this energy which had been turned toward making people and things over I now turned toward finding out why they were as they were. Instead of vainly trying to control man's ways I set myself to find out God's way. As soon as I let go I "found peace," as the exhorter expressed it; which is a mightily apt term for expressing that state of mind. To let go of material things, of visible things, is to "find peace," which is always the result of adjustment to things as they are. I now adjusted myself, instead of trying to adjust others. Or rather, I let go, and found that I was already adjusted. Having failed miserably with the things which are seen I washed my hands of them and turned my attention to the things which are not seen. I turned from the body to the soul. Every time I caught myself troubling about things, and the acts of persons, I again washed my hands of it all and went back to the unseen. I reasoned that if there is a power over all, then all must be as that power ordains; that there are reasons for things which I could not fathom. I came to the conclusion that at least I must act as if "Whatever is, is right." --- I must trust that it is, even when it seems all wrong. I grew a little glimmer of hope that the world was not so topsy turvy and perverse as I had imagined.

So I went on trusting in God, and diligently seeking him. I tried more and more to adjust myself to the Law of Love, letting others do as they would. And I found, dearies, by this course of acting as if