divine principle within us, that all sorts of discord are liable to develop. The secret of all our strength, both physical and mental, lies in our conscious oneness with our divine Source, our weakness, our helplessness in our feeling of separateness from this Source. The consciousness of our oneness with the One, of our vital connection with Omnipotence, gives us a wonderful confidence in ourselves; fills us with a tremendous buttressing, sustaining power. We feel the thrill of this creative power or force through every cell in our bodies. It gives us a sense of safety, and an assurance of health, of success and happiness which nothing else can give. This divine force is constantly flowing through every cell of our body, and is our especial help in time of need. At the instant any accident happens to us, a wound, the breaking of a bone, or any physical hurt, this great God force goes instantly to the spot to repair the damage, to restore, renew, to make good. The secret of masterfulness and health is to establish a consciousness of our union with God, and persistently to hold the ideal of perfect health in the mind until the word (the thought) is made flesh, until the ideal is outpictured, is realized in the body. The same victorious attitude which we hold toward our health we should hold toward every thing in life. Confidence, assurance, expectation of all good, are very vital forces. It is a wonderful help to carry the victorious attitude toward everything in life; the victorious attitude toward our work, the victorious attitude toward people, toward our environment, toward obstacles, toward our ambitions. Approaching all our problems, tasks, however small, with the victorious attitude, with the assurance of victory greatly increases our confidence and our achievement force. Above all the victorious attitude toward ourselves, our health, our conviction that we are going to be well, vigorous, and able to carry out our great life aim, to make our contribution to the world, in the spirit of masterfulness will have everything to do with getting the most out of life, and making a worth while career. Man does not live by bread alone. He is a very complex creature, and it takes a great variety of food to nourish his threefold nature,—physical, mental, and spiritual. He cannot attain his maximum of power and creative force unless the food is right, the living is right, the habits are right, the thought is right, and the work is right. When these conditions are fulfilled, when body and mind are properly fed and exercised, then we get a real man, a superb human specimen, a being capable of sublime achievement. HOW TO MEASURE YOUR ABILITY "One for all—all for one— The man is nothing. The boat is everything." This is the slogan of the Cornell University boat team. The men repeat it until the words become ingrained in the very structure of their brain. Trainer Courtney, who in his training of Cornell crews, has given a most remarkable example of the possibilities of team work, insists that every man under him must bury any personal ambition to be stroke oarsman. F ROM the first, each man in the university boat team is made to understand that his independent effort, no matter how extraor dinary, does not count, that every position on the crew is just as good, just as dignified and just as honorable as any other. It must be "all for one," and that one, the boat. The whole aim is to prevent the individualizing of effort and to make every man do his best to help every other man to do his best. "When the boat wins we win," is their constant thought. The human brain may be compared to a boat crew. Its maximum power comes from the combined efforts of all the faculties in team work. To get the best results each faculty must be trained with equal care and thoroughness, for the good of all. None must be favored to the neglect or injury of another. For more than a quarter of a century Mr. Courtney's method of training has enabled Cornell to win a very large majority of university boat races, both in the four-oar and eight-oar contests for freshmen and 'Varsity crews. This method, applied to brain training, will bring success in the life race. To develop the possibilities of the most complex of all the Creator's handiwork—the brain of man—is a most difficult and delicate task. Its forty-two different faculties are like the wheels in a watch. If symmetrically developed and properly coordinated, they keep perfect mental time, but if any one is over-developed or underdeveloped, there is trouble similar to that which would be caused by putting a wheel designed for a small watch in a large one. Of course this would throw the watch out of harmony and it could not keep correct time. Where any one mental faculty is out of tune with all the others the mind cannot express perfect harmony or power, and the person is a victim of his defective faculty. A symmetrical brain, that is, a brain in which all of the faculties are so developed as to produce the greatest possible harmony and efficiency, is the effective brain. If one faculty is developed out of proportion to the others, no matter if it amounts to genius in some particular line, the brain as a whole is not as effective, because there is no poise, no balance of mental power. This does not mean that a specially strong talent or faculty should not be cultivated to its utmost possibility, but simply that in doing this other faculties should not be overlooked. Because of the ignorance of many parents and teachers of the laws of psychology, the mental effectiveness of thousands of children is seriously impaired, and often ruined, by the over-encouragement and over-stimulation of some particularly strong and brilliant qualities, while others are neglected because they are weak and deficient. The result is, the brain as a whole is thrown out of balance. The child grows up with a lop-sided mentality, and suffers, perhaps all its after life, from the results of injudicious training. The tendency to encourage brilliancy in any particular direction and to neglect weakness and dullness is natural, but to follow the tendency, whether in regard to ourselves or our children, is fatal to symmetrical development and efficiency. This applies not merely to the purely mental, but in equal, perhaps even greater, degree to the moral qualities. Many children, for instance, are deficient in mathematics. The mathematical, the constructive powers are weak; they require constant encourage |