of what it will bring to us. "When ye seek me, then ye shall find me, when ye shall seek me with all your heart." This kind of seeking unconsciously builds a noble character, a grand character that is impartial, impersonal and unpredjudiced in all the relations of life. This character neither accuses nor criticizes in anyway. (For do you realize that Unity means that we are one, and if we accuse others we are only condemning ourselves.)

Do you realize what it means to be unfettered and unbiased in judgment - to be free from all prejudice, for or against, and just to keep the realization that everybody and everything are in their right placefor the moment and that they are inevitably tending onward and upward, and there is nothing whatever to blame or criticise? If I say one person is hypnotized or led astray by another, simply because he does not take just the course I would like him to take, what am I doing? Why, I am trying to put him in bondage to something I have imagined; but what I really have done is this: I have hypnotized myself into a state of bondage that will take much struggle and suffering from which to extricate myself. Emerson said: "If you put a rope around the neck of a slave, you have fastened the other end about your own." By unkind suggestions we hurt ourselves far worse than we do our intended victims, and let me assure you that he who realizes the power of suggestion and autosuggestion, and that through this fastens upon himself the thing he tries to put upon another, will avoid using this power to the detriment of anyone. It surely behooves us to take care of our motives, our thoughts, our words. If we were shown a picture of what we do by our words and thoughts how careful we would be about what we say and think. They are the makers of all our experiences. They go forth and draw unto themselves more of their own kind, and so are our daily lives made up from our use of our own vocabu

lary. Think of this!

"Every thought has a form, and every thought is a form expressed and every thought has two modes: action and reaction-action upon others, reaction upon ourselves." Again: It is said that as soon as an idea is conceived it begins to materialize. Another says, "Thought sculptures the flesh." Again: "To know that the within holds all, makes all and is all, is to know wisdom." Then let us, one and all, contemplate Unity, and endeavor to comprehend its fullest meaning. When we see that which does not correspond with our idea of good (if we must speak of it at all) let us charitably explain it away the best we can, and silently declare the perfect which admits of no biased or personal judgment. Paul said, "Why should I be judged of another man's conscience?" Am I to shape my life as in the old time, to suit the prejudices of others? Or am I to develop myself by doing what seems good to me, taking the results bravely and uncomplainingly, as a child of the Infinite should, knowing that I alone am responsible for all I receive?

I believe Mrs. Croft recently said: "Whatever we recognize, that thing we bring into our own lives." Then, if this be true, should we not be careful what we recognize? Or careful from what point we view the things we see? What we feel inclined to condemn in others may be just the right thing to the person doing it, at that particular time. We cannot understand all the influences and motives which actuate them, or which seemed to draw them on to do it. We are absolutely free to pronounce things good or evil, but it makes all the difference in the world to us which attitude we take. "Judge not lest ye be judged," but if we are in the Christ Jesus consciousness we will never condemn in the sense of blame. It is that same mind that was in him, that knows that all are on the upward pathway, and all are doing what seems best to themselves whatever they may be doing, we may condemn only

that thing for ourselves, but not the person doing it.

Judge not: what looks to thy dim eyes a stain,

In God's pure light may be a scar

Brought from some well-won field

Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.

It has been said: "We must study to know, we must know to understand, and we must understand in order to judge." If we will take this course we will make no harsh and unkind judgments. This state of mind redeems us from the petty things, and leaves us free to see Truth.

It sometimes seems very far-fetched to say that the painful things we see and feel are not the real have no existence. If they were real they would not be transitory, or curable, and I feel that I know it to be a truth, or in accordance with the Truth. At certain periods I have been very greatly uplifted and filled with joy unspeakable. At these times I seemed to see things in their right relations one to the other. I saw the divinely good in all people, conditions and things. Everything seemed to be dovetailed together, so to speak, in most orderly fashion, a perfect interblending of all—even so-called evil. When Jesus gave up his last breath he said, "It is finished." He could say this, because he no longer had any sense of evil, but knew appearances were only conditions of unripeness that would give place to growth into advanced states of consciousness. Each appearance is only one of the steps on the ladder of Life, and because we have not eyes to see, we say that the partial good is evil. Pope writes:

All discord is harmony not understood;

All partial evil, universal good.

The divine order of the universe brings final good out of every experience, but if we will put ourselves in harmony with this divine order we will expedite the coming into manifestation of our own good, or our

own desires. Then everybody and everything in the world is good and true and beautiful when my body and spirit are in harmonious accord. This also goes to prove another one of our statements, one that we frequently do not relish, and that seems obscure to us. It is this: that all that I see is but a picturing forth of what is in my own self; that if it were not in my consciousness I could not see it, for consciousness is the producer of all forms. According to this, then, I build my own world according to my own state of consciousness. St. Bernard tells us this: "The damage I sustain, I carry about with myself." Then no one can hurt me but myself. Nothing can really harm me if I refuse to let it. Take myself, for instance, the things that once grieved me no longer do so, and I can smile at the remembrance of some of my greatest woes. It is all as we think about these things. If we want a better environment we must hasten to change our mode of thinking, which is the way to a higher state of knowing. Only in this way can we have what we want in our daily lives. We are without doubt the arbiters of our own fate the makers of destiny-so-called; we are destined to do just what we elect to do. We are self-illuminating, for the illumination of the Spirit of Truth comes only at our own bidding. So we see how we heal ourselves. The undesirable also comes at our call. By thinking daggers of unkindness and criticism we receive them back into our own hearts. By thinking castigation and punishment for others we weave lashes to whip ourselves with. "Curses will come home to roost." "Curse not the king, no, not in thy thought, and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.”

Thoughts are things,

With body, being, breath and wings,

Sings Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Mind is a veritable

substance, and it is intelligence, and we are the directors and moulders of that substance, and it obeys our will. We may make our thought cruel and murderous, too, and so wither and blight many a fair flower of meritorious effort just budding into life. We may discourage many a dear soul who is trying to express itself as best it may. We often help to put our heart's dearest into the grave by our fear and grief. By sending a shining ray, we may cause sorrow and burdens to drop away from some tired, discouraged soul. We know not into whose aching heart may drop the thoughts of love we send forth, nor how much pain and suffering we may dissolve by them. But we grow careless at times and do not realize the power we each carry about with us, and I am sure that there is not one person present who wants to hurt another. Are we without faults that we cast stones at another? You know the lesson Jesus gave us upon this point. At the core we are all good and true, and really, in our inmost hearts, mean to help all and hinder none. We only forget for the time, and let old habits of speech get the upperhand of us, but to attain to our desires we must bridle our thoughts as well as our tongues. I recently read that a machine had been made to cure lying, and I wonder if it could be made to fit in the matter of criticism and condemnation. We can all think that out for ourselves, while we are analyzing our motives and their consequences.

In the first epistle of John he calls all who do not love the brothers liars, murderers, and says, in fact, that they are not really alive. "He that hateth his brother, abideth in death." Our machine for curing all these lying and murderous, dead thoughts is within our own minds. Then let us have brotherly love in abundance. Let us always remember how closely related we are - how near we really are to each other. Not the lowest or meanest manifestation could be dispensed with. If one atom could be destroyed, the