and live there. For what we think upon, we embody. We are what we have recognized we shall be what we are recognizing today. We are choosing each moment either our highest or something less.

Our highest thought, persisted in will change any defect of temperament, and thus free us from disease and death. "Let patience have her perfect work."

VIII. - Desire.

I wonder if you have realized yet that Reason is a very poor guide? The very highest intelligence is inadequate as director of even the everyday affairs of life. The man who depends most absolutely upon his reason is the very one who makes the most mistakes. And then he wails, "Why is it that when I always try so hard to do right everything turns out wrong?"

Reason is a blind guide and through allowing reason to usurp the throne as director, all the disease and unhappiness that is, has come into the world.

And yet reason is altogether good, and infallible --- as far as it goes. It does not go far enough to be a safe guide to any man.

Reason's after-sight is better than its foresight; because experience is the teacher of reason. Experience furnishes the premises from which reason draws its conclusions.

Every hour man is passing through new and hitherto