lute inseparablencss from their Creator; when they realize that divine power, Omnipotence, is flowing through them, is throbbing in every atom of their being, and that they cannot possibly be separated or cut off from this perpetual inflow of divinity, they immediately look at themselves in a very different way. They take on new courage, new confidence; they have a new estimate of their power and dignity. A sense of inferiority or humiliating weakness cannot exist in its presence. If you fill your soul with the thought of your oneness with God it will be impossible for you to be timid or bashful.

This is why I recommend the constant affirmation of our oneness with the One as the surest remedy for all timidity and shyness, for defects of every kind. It is the God in us, the divine quality of our being that gives us courage, confìì dence, assurance; that gives us initiative, faith, power to back up our ability. It means that the Creator endows us with His strength and that we should make good as kings or gods in the making, and not go about as underlings, deficient weaklings, mediocrities, nobodies.

When timid, bashful, retiring men and women claim their kingship with the Supreme Being they feel reinforced, buttressed with a mysterious inward feeling of peace, of harmony, a sense that they are not doing their work alone, but that they have tapped illimitable power. They no longer

feel that they are separate units, puppets to be tossed about by cruel fate with simply a gambling chance at life instead of certainty. All fear vanishes, and they become poised, natural, independent, masters of themselves, partakers of infinite power.

This one thought that God is all, and that we are one with Him, will antidote, neutralize every weakness, will drive out forever the timidity bogy. Bearing this in mind, one cannot be the victim of a foolish bashfulness. It would be treason against the Creator, a belittling of the Power that made us.

TO BE GREAT

CONCENTRATE

This one thing I do.—Saint Paul.

"He who would do some great thing in this short life must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of forces, as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity."

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward a thing and in no measure obtain it?—Thoreau.

The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one,
May hope to achieve it before life is done.

S

Owen Meredith.

AID Carlyle, "The weakest living creature,

by concentrating on a single object, can accomplish something; whereas, the strongest, by dispersing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything."

All men who have accomplished great things have been men of one unwavering aim; men who have sacrificed all conflicting desires and ambitions to that one aim.

Ours is essentially an age of specialized, intensive, purposeful action. The man who succeeds in any walk of life to-day is the man who says, "This one thing I do," and lives by it. This does not mean the narrow, one-sided man, the man

whose mind is capable of but one idea, but "the broad man sharpened to a fine point," the many facetted mentality concentrated upon a single object.

The world will make way for any man who knows his goal. The secret of achievement is in the focusing of one's powers, in the bringing the whole man to the day's work, to his life purpose. Everything worth doing in this world is reached by the road of concentration, and by no other. The efficient life is the concentrated life—the life of focused energy, dominated and directed by a single aim.

Whatever other qualities he may lack, whatever weaknesses he may have, there is one quality that is always present in the man who achieves, and that is, the ability to concentrate his mind, to focus his faculties with force and vigor upon one definite aim. A man may lack many important qualities, and yet be successful on the whole if he has this one quality of mental intensity, the ability to centralize all his brain power, all his energy upon one thing. This is the force that executes, this is the force that "does things."

An elephant can pick up a pin or uproot a tree with his trunk. The energy and force and power of attention throughout its whole huge body can be concentrated and specialized to manipulate the finest point.

One talent concentrated will do infinitely more

than ten talents scattered. Concentration is the secret of all great execution in explosives. As a thimbleful of powder behind a ball in a rifle will do far more execution than a cartload of powder scattered loose, so the poorest scholar in school or college often far outstrips the class leader in practical life, simply because what little ability he has he brings to a focus in one unwavering aim, while the other who depends upon his great ability and brilliant prospects, fails because he does not concentrate his forces into a definite aim.

All our eminent discoverers and inventors, indeed, all the red-letter men the world has known, have owed their world distinction more to this one faculty of intense concentration upon one unwavering aim than to anything else.

This was the secret of Napoleon's power, a large part of his "genius" consisted in his tremendous power to focus on a single point just as he massed all his forces on the weak point of the enemy. His successes on the field were in large part due to this policy of tremendous concentration on the point of attack, hurling squadron after squadron in overwhelming numbers until the point of opposition was literally swept out of existence. As in everything else, once his resolution was fixed, all beside was forgotten, and nothing could turn him from his aim.

The same thing is true of all the great leaders of men. Having once arrived at a decision during