Extracts from "Uplift"

Do not be discouraged if you are not able at once to have such control of yourself that you can master your emotions and your pains. It took you a long time to iearn to walk and run, a longer to learn to read and write, and why should you expect to do without training what is much more of a task than either? If you are one of those blessed with an emotional nature it probably will take you ten years to gain a fair mastery of yourselfѿenough so that you do not "think damn"; but yon will think it less often as each day goes by with some victory on your part. Think very little about the failures, but be encouraged by the success, and having started on the work of self-mastery, keep steadily and patiently at it, not minding the discrepancies between what you want to do and what yon have grown equal to, and the day will surely come when yon can do many things that now look impossible to youѿamong them bearing pain as if it were not, and curing ills of your body by the action of your subconscious mind; or, if you prefer to word the cure in another way, by God working in you. Each expression is true.

It is so easy to misunderstand how one gains self-mastery. Most persons look upon it as meaning something great that one does, but it is not so; that it is not may be proved by earnest trial of oneself. Great things come to few, but life is made up of this and that little trialѿthousands of them, perhaps, before any great temptation faces one; and the way they are met is exactly the way the great one will be. One masters his appetite by just indulgence of it, drinking only enough, eating what the body craves, not something merely because it is good. He who controls the little indulgences of the body will never be overcome by gross temptations in any form. He who can control little irritations and impatiences will never be an offender by great anger, or a victim to it in disease. It is the little things that spoil life, character, and the soul. One need never think about the great ones if once he really is master over trifles. As One said, "He who is faithful over little things shall be ruler over great things."

Did you ever meditate on the amount of misery that had come and still is coming to the world because people tried and try so hard to make others good by another road than that they wished to travel? In the old and very religious days, offenders were turned from what the stronger thought the errors of their ways by being put to death, which was highly efficacious to a certain extent, though not exactly a practical working remedy for the offender; later on, those who believed differently from their neighbors were ostracized (of course that was long ago, too); and still later, people suffered for the faith that was in them in various ways, sometimes by being shut out of membership in Christian homes where the motto was not quite like Christ's "whosoever will may come," sometimes by loss of social recognition. We have now progressed to the stage of religions toleration to a considerable extentѿnot fullyѿso that no open act is done in most communities to mark any difference in faith between one and another, which is a great gain.

I knew some one who spent all his life saying sharp, sarcastic, unkind things to every one he ever knew; that his words would hurt to the very quick never kept him from saying any of them. Naturally, every one left him pretty much to his own society. Did he ever blame himself that he was left alone, and say it was just? Not at all. He said, "I have given This One all that; and Her all this" and so on. He recounted again and again all

the things he had done for others, and in his long life he had never learned that no one loves you because yon have done things for them, except in the instances of a few very rare, great souls. They love you because you love them, and that is the only reason they do; and love is not expressed by saying things that make the heart bleed. Giving things to people and boasting about it has never yet brought one nearer to the giver. The sense of obligation is hard to bear, and is never a strengthener of affection. Love, that seeketh not its own, is a sure inducer of kindly feeling in others; and he who gives it in an unselfish manner to all with whom he is associated, will live and die blessed by the best thing in the world—the affection of all who knew him.

You will never be old in heart so long as you keep yourself loving. One of the most marked indications of the loss of youth is the loss of readiness to make new friends, and the love for them. The younger one is, the easier he makes friends, and you will remember that in no system of ethics is it recommended to us that we adopt the characteristics that make old age. On the contrary, we are expressly told that unless we become as little children we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven;: an£ we are also told that the kingdom of heaven lies within us. It is therefore most reasonable that we cannot have it ours unless we keep within us those characteristics, which make childhood so beautiful—the faith in human kind which makes even bad men long to deserve it, the love that takes every one as a friend and by so taking them finds them friendly. We too may continue young if we will. That disappointments have come to us, that some friends or lovers have been false, need not sour our natures; for one friend who betrays the love given them there are five who are true. Let us say as did He who had so much more to bear, "Father, forgive them; they knoj not what they do;" for we know no one would be bbase if he realized his baseness.

The Unity Pure Food Store has Mrs. Walmsley in charge now, and you can drop in after meeting. She has been a vegetarian for many years, and can tell you ways to fix up the foods that will make your mouth watter. Don't be timid because you think you are a bad cook. She will show you how to be a good one. She will be glad to see you. Soon we shall have a regular day for demonstrations, and have hot cereal coffee on tap all day long and nice, dainty sandwiches too—a reformed "Free Lunch." The Food Company is going to have lots of good things to eat for you on the night of the Guild Party. Better follow the Unity Crowd and come in on the night of October 30th.

Sunday, October 22d, is the day set for Rally day by the Unity Sunday school. All classes will take part in the exercises, and diplomas will be given to those holding gold buttons.

Don't have your Hallowe'en party on Monday night, October 30th. The Unity Guild is going to give a big party for all the Unity people at the Unity Building that night Will it be a slow, old-fashioned party? It will be new.' All the old charms will be tried, and are guaranteed to work out If you don't like the way they work out, try them over again. You are bound to br satisfied.

The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors in the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and the able always keep the sails and their minds unfurled to catch the friendly gale, and then reach their destination very soon.—Brahmavadin