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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index

Trust and Service just one week, and to always do the loving thing, and you will appreciate the universal nature of this creed of Fellowship.

Try it and see what you think of it.

But in the trying be honest with yourself. Watch your words, your thoughts and your actions. Do nothing for the praise of men. Do only what your own best self knows to be right and best.

Never mind the times you fall back, and make mistakes, and fail. Each recognition of your own errors means new strength to go forward.

When you make the motto of Fellowship your mental mentor, and listen to the question, "What is the loving thing to do?" spoken by your heart at every turn, you will be surprised to find how difficult is the answer.

Sometimes the loving thing to do necessitates inflicting pain on those you love. It means warning them when they are on the downward path; and it means refusing to proceed with them if they will not listen to counsel. We cannot continue to "be companionable" when that necessitates dissipation and other forms of vice.

It means to give material aid, and to deny yourself for others; and again it means to withhold material aid and compel the indolent unfortunate to earn his own bread.

It means controlling the quick temper and developing the spirit of tolerance and sympathy. But it means, too, controlling the sympathies and not allowing them to lead you to the performance of another's duties.

There is no more unloving thing than to do another's work and let that one go free of his own responsibility.

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