small quantity of that kind of faith will do it, according to the teaching of Jesus.

"Lord, increase our faith." Faith grows in the mind rather it expands. This expansion is most rapid when associated with other mental qualities, such as judgment and love. Peter represented Faith, in the mind of Jesus, and he was associated with John (love) and James (judgment). All things are possible to those who believe in the One Supreme Mind working through them in love and righteousness.

"At various periods devout minds have been distressed by the fact that some great thinkers have doubted the Bible miracles. These men have been denounced as infidels. Now there is another form of unbelief, no less foolish or fatal than this. I mean that which denies all modern wonders. The scientific skepticism, which denies the Gospel miracles, finds a twin sister in the pious atheism which rejects all miracles not recorded in the Bible. To the argument of Renan, who says: 'We banish miracles from history in the name of a constant experience,' there is but one rational and effective reply, viz: 'We accept miracles as facts of history in the name of a constant experience.' The enlightened faith of today has no use for the worn out conundrum of Dr. Trench, 'When was the miracle working power withdrawn?' Its true expression is found in the words of Carlyle, The age of miracles is forever here.'

"So far from being strange or incredible, the stories of miraculous healing told by the evangelists are in perfect keeping with the continuous history of the race, and the present age is witnessing more and greater miracles than any age preceding, not excepting the age of Jesus and the apostles."

-George H. Hubbard.

SEMI-MONTHLY REPORT OF MIDWEEK MEETINGS.

As the regular reports have been omitted in the last two numbers of Unity, we will simply give briefs of them in this issue.

February 24th, 1909

Mrs. Ripley, leader.

Thought for meditation

"Christ is here."

Among the many good things Mrs. Ripley said, illustrating the healing power of the Christ thought, was, "In my early girlhood 60 years ago, I spent some years traveling in the state of Maine with my uncle, who was a minister. On one of our tours we stopped for the night at a small town called Gilead, on the bank of a river fragrant with the odor of the Balm of Gilead. I was suffering from the condition of a severe cold. Our hostess came to my room and ministered to me a medicine made of the Balm of Gilead, which she said was used by the people there as a remedy for every ill. In the morning I found myself perfectly relieved, and well and happy. I went down by the river and walked beside its fragrant trees and thought, "What a wonderful place this is to have this balm of healing for every ache and pain." The incident was forgotten, when many years afterward I read where Jeremiah, bemoaning the diseased and unhappy condition of Israel, cried out: "Is there no balm in Gilead no healing there," and I recalled to mind this experience, and how I realize that the real balm of Gilead is found in the knowledge that Christ is here.

Mrs. Sneed said: The old poem,

Little drops of water, little grains of sand,

Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.

is familiar to all of us, and yet I am sure that unto each life there comes this thought again and again, "Oh, if I could only do something to show my love for humanity, and what I am capable of doing. My life is so shut in. Oh, if my environment were only different how much I could do," forgetting that it is "the little drops of water, and the little grains of sand," that make up the great universal whole. forgetting that

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,

Make our earth an Eden, like the heaven above.

Also

You know it is "the little foxes that destroy the vines." I think there is not a soul present who can not recall times in his life, when a great calamity occurred, that he did not rise to the emergency and display astonishing courage, showing plainly that the supply is always equal to the demand. Yet you can also turn over another page in the book of your life and see how torn to pieces you were if Johnnie spilled milk on the freshly scrubbed floor, or May got mud on her freshly ironed dress. What are we to learn from this? That there is the same power to help us control ourselves in the smaller trials of our life that there is when the greater calamity befalls us. Which shows that we have a work to do in watching the little trials, and conquering them, and in this way we can make our lives SO serene that great calamities can not touch us. I think it might be a good plan at the end of each day, to jot down the little things met and conquered, and at the the end of the week take an inventory of our stock and see how much we have gained, and then we will begin to see how much happier we are, how much sweeter life has grown to us, for we will have cultivated patience and love in ways surprising to ourselves. I think mothers, and housekeepers especially, need to know that this thought can be helpful to them,

and that their work is just as necessary as the teachers and healers, for they have within their care souls to whom they minister daily. Their work is certainly important, for the home is the rock on which human lives are either wrecked or safely anchored. Let us then not despise the day of little things. Let us know that if we cultivate patience and love in the home, and speak kindly when we are tempted to reprove, we will fill our hearts with love, and radiate love to all who cross our threshold, so that they can not remain in our presence without feeling better for coming. Let us not forget to give "The cup of cold water "' in his name. Let us give smiles for frowns, hope for fear, love for hate, then we will not have lived in vain. Let us then count our blessings and determine that we will give our best to the world in little things.

- MRS. M. C. O'NEIL, Secretary.

THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT

GLADYS FREEMAN

I hear a voice throughout the earth
In tones majestic say,

"Be still and know that I am God,'
Be still and praise and pray."

Listen and you will hear it, too,
In the calm Silent Hour,
In sounds of the night wind sighing,
In fall of summer show'r.

In the surge of mighty ocean

And crashing thunder's roar,

In the gleaming flash of lightning
It speaks forever more.

THE RATIONALE OF SUCCESS

CHARLES H. CONNER

The term "Success" is of various application; but, in the present instance, it is used with particular reference to worldly getting.

In the present era of "treatments" given and received for "success," one should know that success is subject to conditions, without which it will not be attained, and which it is the object of such treatments to install. As success involves the appropriation of material from the environment, it is a matter of the right relationship of the individuality towards the environment.

The environment possesses certain characteristics; and it requires certain characteristics in the individual to successfully cope with it.

He who has not succeeded in life, has not done so because he has not really wanted to; because he has wanted to walk in a road that led elsewhere, more than he wanted to walk in the road that would have led on to success. His wanting (inclination) to walk in the by-road made attempts to walk in the road to success more arduous; and that inclined him the more to forsake the right path, even while he filled the air with lamentations about his failure to succeed. Lack of self-confidence, diffidence; lack of persistence, courage, independence, have all helped the failure to fail.

There are things that we know by instinct or experience, but will not admit their truth to ourself, hoping against hope that they will prove to be other than they are.

Such a one, in order to become successful, must undergo a process of mental, tempera-mental regeneration.

The process involves an arousing, an awakening of the mind from a state of lethargy, self depreciation, despondency. The treatment called for is a mental