seems as if my mind does something mind does something special with them while I sleep."

All this was news to me at the time, but since then I have learned that many people practice the same plan when they wish to make definite progress in any chosen line. Try it for yourself. If you wish to be cheerful and courageous to-morrow, put the matter in charge of your neurons to-night. As you go to sleep, think to yourself: I'm cheerful and brave. I'm cheerful and brave." And keep on thinking these words to yourself until you fall asleep. By persisting in this method you will give yourself a big lift towards the thing you wish.

Never let yourself fall asleep with anger, or worry, or fear, or hatred in mind; for each emotion of this kind will be caught up by the wonder-working neurons, and conditions will be worse and not better when you waken in the morning.

Before each night of sleep make it the rule of life to enlist the help of your neurons for one high thought or another, and you will secure a happy life for yourself — a life which will also be a help to others.

This power of suggestion explains what some people can do in the way of waking when they please. A boy whom I know does this. As he falls asleep he tells himself when to waken, and behold, when the hour comes round he finds himself awake. More than this, when his older brother, in the same room, is to get up by an alarm

clock, the younger one, as he falls asleep, tells himself not to hear the alarm. His brain obeys, and, as he sleeps on, the entire rattle and clatter disturbs him no more than the gentle patter of raindrops on the roof. This is a rare power.

Doctors practice suggestion in a more usual way. Notice the words and the actions of any good physician. He is constantly giving the man who is ill the notion that he will soon be better. A friend of mine takes pride in believing that he cures quite as much by his suggestions as by his medicines. He says that the man who is ill and expects to get well has ten times the chance of the man who is ill and expects to die.

It is evident, then, that we may even help ourselves towards health or towards death by the power of our expectation, for this is the strongest kind of suggestion.

But what about unconscious suggestions which human beings give and receive on every side? Three bits of conversation which I stumbled on the other day show what I mean.

The first man said: "I told him it would be the very place for Clarence, provided James Smith were not there; but to throw a young fellow like Clarence into the constant companionship of James would be a frightful calamity. It would probably ruin him for life."

The second man said: "I am as anxious as possible to have my son get acquainted with Harvey Jones. It may change the current of his whole life."

A woman said, "We think we can always tell where Mabel has been because she comes back with the manners of the last person she has visited.”

Of one boy we say, "He may be trusted anywhere"; of another, "He will do pretty well so long as he is with the right sort of companions, but you have to keep him there to make sure of him."

Facts like these, met with all about us, prove the power there is in suggestion even when it is given out unconsciously. But the special fact to bear in mind is that each separate suggestion, however unconsciously made, leaves its individual mark. Moreover, through these suggestions which we receive from others or give to ourselves, we form habits of thought; through habits of thought we form habits of character, and through habits of character we finally become so fixed that change is forever out of the question.

It is evident, therefore, that no one stands alone, and that we help or hinder each other through the character which we ourselves have, through the unconscious suggestions which radiate from us wherever we go. For, as some one has said, "influence follows character as the shadow follows the sun." Clearly, then, we never influence others according to what we wish people to think we are, but according to what we really are.

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