Cease from anger, and forsake wrath :
Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil-doing.

PSALM XXXvii. 8.

All thoughts of ill; all evil deeds,
That have their root in thoughts of ill;
Whatever hinders or impedes

The action of the nobler will; -
All these must first be trampled down
Beneath our feet, if we would gain
In the bright fields of fair renown
The right of eminent domain.

H. W. LONGFELLOW

"MA

AY not the elimination of anger and worry take away some of the stimulation to effort that is necessary to human progress ?”

"Assuredly not. The absence of anger and worry is an evidence of strength and not of weakness. So-called righteous anger is a weakness in the presence of judicial calm. Without anger and worry one is stronger to ward off a blow, administer a correction, or protect a principle. The emancipated mind is as eager for effort as a child is for play. Freed from anger and worry one can shovel more dirt, plough more furrows, perform every duty better, and with less fatigue, than if under their influence."

HORACE FLETCHER

For fear is nothing else but a surrender of the succors

which reason offereth.

WISDOM OF SOLOMON xvii. 12.

There is no storm but this

Of your own cowardice

That braves you out;

You are the storm that mocks
Yourselves; you are the rocks
Of your own doubt:

Besides this fear of danger there's no danger here,
And he that here fears danger does deserve his fear.
RICHARD CRASHAW

MANCIPATION, or, a perfectly de-angered and de-worryized mind, can only be secured through conviction of its possibility, and not simply through an intellectual admission of its possibility. Faith is the pre-requisite of every successful accomplishment in life. Knowledge and the appreciation of the power of the mind over phantoms of its own creation, and confidence to expel them, is as necessary in menticulture as is the confidence of the gymnast in performing wonderful feats of menti-physical skill. The condition required for growth to Emancipation, is that of perfect faith and confidence, born of knowledge of the power God has given us to "cast out evil," and in that condition, Emancipation, when attained, can be anchored safely, protected from any of the battling and surging elements of discord from without.

HORACE FLETCHER

God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.— PAUL.

(2 TIMOTHY i. 7.)

When shall I see the welcome hour
When God shall reign in me,—
Spirit of health, and life, and power
And perfect liberty?

WESLEY

PROFESSOR ANGELO MOSSO, the emi

nent physiologist of Turin, Italy, who has experimented with the condition and results of fear, states that, unconsciously or consciously, the effect of fear is found to be disarrangement, which allows or causes inflammation, fever and other unhealthy conditions that are favorable to the nesting of the microbes of special diseases, such as are sometimes found in the air or in the water that we take in, and which are ever waiting for a chance to nest and breed.

An eminent English physician has also communicated to a leading English magazine a belief that fear directly attacks the individual molecules of the body and causes a disarrangement, a relaxation, a letting-go condition of the molecules in their relation to adjoining molecules, and that the relaxed condition is that in which disease originates. He states that there are means of communication within the body that are as direct and distinct as are the wires that convey the electric fluid from point to point, and that they

connect the brain or nervous centres with each pair of molecules. By these means the sense of fear travels, weak or strong, in response to every pulse of its activity.

HORACE FLETCHER

Faith, hope and love are purifiers of the blood. They have a peptic quality. They open and enlarge all the channels of bodily vitality. As was learned long ago, "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." And the self-control which keeps reason on the throne and makes passion serve is the best of all domestic physicians.

CHARLES G. AMES

Come

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.... He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

EMERSON

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. It is in the cracks, crannies and gulfy faults of our belief — the gaps that are not faith that the snow of apprehension settles, and the ice of unkindness forms.

GEORGE MACDONALD

Week Ninth

THE ELYSIUM OF HIGH

THINKING

Prelude

THE SOUL

The soul does its own life to Nature give,
Its tranquil beauty, or its fearful gloom;
And thus within Elysium it may live,
Or in appalling darkness fix its doom.

E'en as the sun, by gazing on a cloud,

Fills each dark fold with showers of golden

light;

So, when the storms of life are beating loud,

May one true thought make all around it

bright.