the side, the sleeplessness, the gall stones, and he had no more appendicitis than his grandmother who never heard of it. We repeat that wonderful and gratifying as this case is it does not appear as amazing to others as the case of the one who has no sooner made the resolve to do all this than he is instantly and unmistakeably healed.

The philosophy appeals to them, they resolve to try it, and they have no sooner made this resolve than they are healed. This makes clear to us, the parable of the workers in the vineyard where those who toiled one hour received the same wage as those who had toiled all day. The one thus blest by being healed quickly had already gone a long way toward the goal. He had good lung capacity. The ganglionic nervous system was in a position to respond quickly to vibratory action. The cell life was aroused to creative possibilities. The thot conceived was positive, assured, absolute. Disease fled before it as chaff before the wind. The little monitor of warning called pain was out of a job. Relief came with harmonious conditions established, and the patient declared, "I am healed."

When the way is once pointed out, how

easily we can see how it was done, and we know that every individual has all the elements of healing within themselves, and yet it has been established beyond a shadow of doubt that some have the power to eradicate any acute condition arising from mingling with those entertaining thots of disease or on account of partaking of food wrongly prepared by those entertaining ideas differing from their own. We say those who can quickly and surely eradicate these conditions from their own domain, exert a powerful influence on account of their great faith in aiding others.

Faith is that blessed word that lifts us from error unto God, and by the exercise of which we lay hold of everlasting life. We are speaking of the eradication of disease that has been made permanent but was entirely removed, not merely temporary aid given to the sufferer. Faith that is perfect admits of no possibility of defeat; therefore, on entering a sick room, however severe the case may be, we go about using those simple means as furtherance to a higher and mightier force in aiding nature to adjust matters that have been overlooked, misunderstood and maltreated.

To every conscious soul there is given insight into each individual case. These facts cannot be laid bare even for the help of our readers. We must all be governed by the light revealed, and that depends upon the plane of development which we have reached, and the place we occupy in our mission of reclaiming the earth.

Many of our people are quite satisfied to confine themselves to their own individual case, and by living the life and thus becoming a healthy, happy individual, demonstrating the truth. In so doing, they have really accomplished a great deal, but some of us feel that our blessings have been so great that in no other way can we show our gratitude than in helping such as are seeking the path that leads to health and happiness. The way is plain to us, may it be made clearer to others is our wish. Be it so.

Leaving out the "eat and drink" we no doubt would readily subscribe to "be merry for tomorrow we die." Altho it may be true that many a fiddle-faced moss-back, objecting to merry-making, prefers to die from eating and drinking.

Mother's Voice

No Nation can rise above the level of its womanhood.

Edited by Maria Rose Ruth Hilton

HEALING BY FAITH

"Faith is the assurance of substance unseen" is the definition in Scripture given to faith. Such faith is the motive power in every walk of life. Success in undertakings is nothing more than the result of faith. The sick who have faith in medicine become well, while those who place implicit confidence in the power declared by Christ are healed after the attempts by medical science have proven fruitless. There are many things yet to be learned, analysed and understood. One who claims impossibilities because of failure discloses ignorance, not knowing that it is a method wrongly applied that failed; another method, other means, administered in correspondence and harmony with certain laws will bring the desired effect.

The divine touch is to be found everywhere and in everything, but it is for us to bring about harmony.

The simplest of all methods of healing, "the laying on of hands with prayer," is not a matter of physics but metaphysics. Whenever a patient does not respond to these means, then it follows that either the faith of the patient is low, or that sympathizers interfere. In such a case natural means of fasting may be resorted to so as to prepare the mind for receptivity.

Medicine is the handmaiden of the weak, while surgery may be a science when accidents befall the unfortunates, still faith is the greatest of them all, for by faith man has power to lift himself above the common level where through efficiency he is not given to afflictions.

The questions of sickness, sin and sorrow would never enter into the daily walks of life if man lived in accordance with the simple laws of nature and would cling to principle, recognizing the fact that as a factor he must be a living example of perfection.

When having fallen by the wayside honest men should not turn to artifice or place their trust in the arm of flesh, but recognize, acknowledge, confess and confide in the power of God.