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between a wife or a mother, and her family, and causes
a separateness of interests, and atrophies the affections,
its divine origin may be questioned.
Religion should give new vitality to the heart,
strengthen the love nature, and bring those who are
near to us still nearer; it should enable us to be so
broad, so tolerant, so sympathetic, so loving, that all
difference of faith can be borne, without discord or
alienation of the affections.
New Thought, so called, of all religions ought to
bring harmony rather than dissension into the family
circle. Its whole philosophy rests upon the power of
silent thought to change conditions and achieve
results.
The old creeds believed in proselyting, in trying
to make converts, in preaching and haranguing, and in
revival meetings, which consisted in working upon the
emotional and hysterical nature of the "unconverted."
New Thought has abandoned all these methods.
The law of assertion has taken place of preaching
and praying with "sinners." Thought has been declared by physical science to be a phase of the same
energy which governs the solar system. It is understood how, rightly and persistently directed, thought
can draw to the mind which sends it forth, whatever
that mind desires. - Demand creates supply.
The woman who wants her family to come into
harmony with her ideas, should begin by making her
family love and respect her in every capacity of wife,
mother, sister, daughter and friend.
So practical, so thoughtful, so humanly loving, so
useful,*so companionable should she be in her daily
life, so cheerful and so amiable in her performance
of duties, that her example would, in the natural
