a scandal, close your ears, if possible; if not, be silent. When your husband or wife is quarreling, be silent. When you are tempted to speak ill or slightingly of any one, be silent. When you hear others speaking evil of their neighbors, be silent. When you are attempting to masticate your food, be silent.

At least once a day every one should be alone for at least half an hour. It is better for ladies to take this half hour along in the middle of the day. Not necessarily go to sleep, but to get into a perfectly comfortable position, either sitting or reclining, and closing the eyes, make the mind as perfect a blank as possible, and find sweet rest and strength.

I have a friend, who lived by me for many years, who practiced this with wonderful results. She was the wife of a German shoemaker who settled in Georgia sixty years ago. Once every day she went into the silence for half an hour and no one was allowed to disturb her. They were energetic people, and while the shoemaker was driving home the pegs, the good wife attended the garden, milked the cows and looked after her children. She had four sons, who all occupied prominent positions in business life, and six as sweet daughters as any man would wish to see. This good lady is now 94 years of age, hale, hearty and happy, strong in body and vigorous in mind. She says the half hour of perfect silence brought her long life, health and happiness. May she live to be an hundred years young!

It is through the power of silence that cures are made by absent treatment. The patient goes into the silence, becomes passive and receptive, and the health currents directed to him or her by the healer, hit the mark with unerring certainty.

Why should we want for anything with this great source of supply open to us? Learn to get connected with the Great Source of All Good, and you will find that "Ask and Ye Shall Receive" is not only a scriptural truth, but a psychological fact.

PARAGRAPHS OF TRUTH.

BY EDNA L. CARTER.

"Out of Egypt have I called my son. Out of the darkness and bondage of mortal thought are we called into the light and freedom, and health and peace and plenty of the Divine Mind.

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"There is no death," is a much mis-used statement. There is no death just as there is no sickness or disease or lack. These conditions are not true in Spirit. One must get into Spirit to be free from them. The statement of a proposition is one thing, its demonstration is another. Nearly every one who is being awakened understands the difference between the statement of the truth, "There is no disease, and its demonstration; but the statement and demonstration are confused, where the proposition, "There is no death" is concerned.

One who goes to the grave fails to demonstrate that there is no death, just as surely as one who is tied up with the rheumatism fails to demonstrate that there is no disease.

Life and Love, and all the Principles of being are eternal, and so is the Divine harmony and health. But unless a man makes himself consciously one with Life and Love, and builds them into his consciousness, and into his body, he will not escape the fires of dissolution and decay.

Oneness with Life and Love comes only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Him there is no eternal life. To claim, "I am one with the abundant, eternal life of Jesus Christ," is one thing; to demonstrate it is something more. The time for this demonstration is now ripe, and many are already seeking earnestly and faithfully to make it. Those who are still satisfied with this mere statement of the Truth will sometime receive the quickening, awakening power of the Spirit, and will be awakened up to see the need of making this all-important demon

stration. Every one must, and will, in time, do his part in fulfilling the wondrous prophecies of the time when death and the grave shall be no more.

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Jesus said, "The words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are life." His words are Truth. Words of Truth are Spirit and life, and this is why they are healing. Repeated over and over, and held faithfully in mind, they change the vibrations in the organism by lifting the whole being up into the fine, pure, harmonious vibrations of Spirit.

Truth words are a balm; they soothe, and harmonize and heal. They are a purifier; they cleanse and purify the blood. They are nourishment; they enrich the blood, and nourish and build up every cell in the body with the pure Substance of Spirit. They are a tonic; they strengthen, and invigorate and tone up the whole system.

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"The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." (John 1:14.) "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you." (John 1:53.) "I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." (John 6:48-52.) "I am the Truth." (John 14:6.) "Thy words were found, and I did eat them." (Jer. 15:16.)

There is an interesting study in these texts. It is not only interesting, but it is absolutely necessary to salvation. The Word was made flesh. The flesh of the Son of man was Spirit and Truth. Words of Spirit and Truth have to be eaten-appropriated through the mind, and built into the body. The result of eating the word of Truth - the bread from heaven is eternal life, and there is no other way to gain eternal life.