flicted with nervous trouble, accompanied by Rheumatism of the most terrible character he was a helpless invalid with nothing to look to for relief from his sufferings but death.

"The treatment began on May 15, 1890. Two persons were informed of the proposed experiment and were asked to note the time when the treatment began. They were pledged to profound secrecy, and to this day the patient is not aware that he was made the subject of an experiment in psycho-therapeutics. After the lapse of a few months one of the persons entrusted with the secret met the invalid and learned, to her surprise and delight, that he was comparatively well.

"When asked when he began to improve, his reply was 'about the middle of May.' Since then he has been able at all times to attend to his profession and has had no

return of his old trouble."

Dr. Hudson states also that he, with two other persons, has made more than a hundred experiments by this process (absent treatment) and not a single failure has been so far experienced when the proper conditions have been observed.

Surely here is a law relating to the Dynamics of Thought which may be utilized for the good of men that demands our earnest attention and study.

(3) Note further another great law of thought: "No Thought can ever be lost."

"There is an unseen cord which binds

The whole wide world together;
Through every human life it winds-
This one mysterious tether.

It links all races and all lands

Throughout their span allotted;

And death alone unties the strands
Which God Himself has knotted."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

All our thoughts, from the beginning to the end of life (and beyond), are indelibly inscribed on the soul. The soul is the treasure-house of all thoughts or impressions received through the five senses or otherwise.

A true clairvoyant can read these thoughts from the tablets of your soul as readily as you can read the contents of an open book.

Nothing can really be hid, not even your thoughts; for Holy Scripture assures us that our thoughts are open to the Divine scrutiny.

Therefore, watch your thoughts. You will meet them again in the near future, both here and beyond.

(4) This brings us to another phase of the dynamics of thought:

The thoughts we send out have a reflex effect upon us, like for like. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

"Your unkind thought; your selfish deed is felt in farthest places" and both will come, in time, back to you, freighted with the same as you sent out and more of it. Speak well of another and your heart warms, but speak ill of another and you cannot but feel mean yourself. Such is the reflex power that thought exerts upon the sender.

"Sow a thought, reap an act,

Sow an act, reap a habit,
Sow a habit, reap a character,

Sow a character, reap a destiny."

It is not only to those whose spiritual windows are of the same shape as yours that you are neighbor.-George MacDonald.

A QUIET state of mind, a state of mind free from its own troubled imaginings and operations, is God's habitation, his inward kingdom and temple.-Ruysbroke.

THE ETERNAL NOW.

BY BOLTON HALL.

I suppose that the worst advice that ever was given was Edward Everett Hale's,-"Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in."

The habit of looking forward, instead of enjoying or at least getting good out of the present, is an evil one and logically leads to putting your Kingdom of Heaven in the future. Times may be hard and circumstances severe; but it is all a period of the school course and if we apply ourselves to it to get the most out of it we begin to enjoy even a hard lesson.

There is philosophy in the lines: "The past is gone and over; the future may never come; we live in the living present" -that is "the Eternal Now." Why should not one look in, if one knows that he has in himself the possibility of all beauty and of all good. It is only when we separate ourselves from the universe and hypnotize ourselves into thinking that we are not a part of it, that we begin to hate to look in. If we have concluded that our "every prospect pleases and only man is vile," then of course the less we look in, the better; but that seems to me a piece of stupidity, incredible even for the missionary who must have seen that the prospect which he compared so favorably to man was encumbered with snakes, vermin and fever.

Finally, if man is the highest there is, what in the world is there to look up to? The soul that realizes that it is one with God has nothing to look forward to; has no object in looking back, finds nothing to look up to and is entirely possessed with the expression of itself instead of looking at external objects.

BREATH.

BY CHARLES BRODIE PATTERSON.

Most people think that they know all that is necessary to know in regard to the subject of breath. The mere fact that they can breathe in and out is enough in and of itself to satisfy their minds. But occasionally when it becomes an effort to breathe they become conscious that it might be desirable to know how to be master in the matter of breathing.

All doctors agree in saying that there is a need of good breathing capacity, but beyond telling us to breathe deeply and strongly they say very little about the matter.

Now it is a fact that one can injure the body by breathing incorrectly, and many of the methods taught by physical instructors bring results to some that are far from desirable.

It is no sign because one person can get good results from breathing in a certain way that such a method will prove beneficial to another. This is because we vary so greatly in temperament, and what would benefit one would perhaps actually injure another.

The system taught by men of the East does not tend, as a rule, to make us of the West more restful and serene in mind and body. They being more of the meditative type and the Western mind being more gifted in regard to concentration, the method that stimulates and benefits the one very rarely has the same effect on the other.

If a Hindu were confronted with the problems and situations which the Western business mind has to meet daily he could not stand the strain; and, on the other hand, at the present stage of development it seems impossible for the typical Westerner to adopt the Eastern habit of mind.

Now this is not to say that the Eastern system of breathing

is not a good one, but simply that at the present time it is not adapted to our requirements.

I have made a careful investigation of this subject and know the results that have come, not to one or two people, but to many. With the Eastern method psychic powers are apt to be developed, and when these are not understood, instead of bringing to the possessor a sense of peace, he is made restless and unhappy, becoming oftentimes unfit for his work in life.

When we come to a thorough understanding of this development and learn how to use it aright, then the effect will undoubtedly be a purely beneficial one, and in all probability the time is coming when the Western mind will be able to profit by the Eastern method.

The question is often asked: Can the breath be used to bring about a higher state of concentration and meditation as well as a better physical condition? If this is so (and such is undoubtedly the fact) we ought to seek to know all we can on the subject and then to apply our knowledge.

We must, however, realize this in the beginning, that it is not the mere physical breath action which will prove permanently beneficial.

One may thoroughly understand the subject from the physical side and yet derive only a temporary benefit from the breath exercise. If one is ignorant of the underlying principles, there can be no benefit except as one continually practises the physical exercises. But it is our privilege to reach a point where we need pay no attention to the physical breath. If we get the proper spiritual and mental conditions, then the proper physical conditions will naturally result.

Now the question is often asked: Why is it necessary, then, to lay stress upon the physical breath? It is because in many cases the seeker after life in its fulness often does not know how to arrive at a consciousness of the soul life, and so the physical exercise is used merely as a stepping-stone to the exercise of spiritual power.