seems, that he truly loved the mother of his children and did not wish to prosecute her. So he began to beg her to go back with him. She spurned him bitterly and said if they sent her paramour to prison, she wanted to go, too; and that if they kept him there forty years she would wait until he got out and then go to him. The officers joined their entreaties with those of the husband, but to no avail. So they both remained in jail.

By and by the man said in the presence of the husband and the police, "I wish I had never seen that woman. She got me into all this trouble. I tried to shake her when I came here, but she followed me. I never did care anything for her." The husband told her what he said. "I don't believe it!" she stormed. Then the officers came and told her the same story. The spell was broken. She declared she hated him and would help her husband prosecute him and would go back home and be a good wife and mother. She was then released and husband and wife are prosecuting the other man.

You see, that was not love at all; it was mesmerism, all physical attraction. The husband truly loved the wife. His love was so true that even her waywardness and spurning him could not drive him away from her. Here you have an example of the false and the true. Most of the marriages are brought about through association. If either party had been located elsewhere and associated with others, just as congenial mating would probably have resulted.

It is true that in a majority of cases all the infatuation of the first days of congenial bliss fades out and there is really little or no love between the couple. Often there is no respect.

I do not believe a person can truly love one he or she cannot respect. It has been aptly said that undue

familiarity begets contempt. When this occurs, there is surely no love, in the true sense.

The woman who clings to the unworthy husband whom she cannot respect, does so for three or four reasons: She has associated with him until there is a strong hypnotic tie binding her to him; she feels a sort of wifely sense of duty in the matter, a pity or feeling of obligation to look after him; or she dreads the public disgrace of separation, possibly on account of the children. And sometimes he is her only means of support. But in either case, there is no love about it.

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Love is of the soul, a congeniality of spirit, an affinity of the higher self of two persons-not necessarily born counterparts of one another, but may be discovered between two out of many. There are many souls that may be congenial with yours. You are whole, not a half wandering about hunting the other half. True love results in harmonious association between two whole people who find that the best in each sustains and draws out the best in the other, resulting in co-operation and unity of interests. Such love is undying. Time nor circumstance neither can cause it to fade or wane.

Love does cover a multitude of faults. The mother cannot see the faults of her boy as others do. I said, "I would not take that woman back." But the husband, who loved her, set aside her faults and took her.

"I find more uplifting, elevating thoughts in THE LIFE than in any other magazine I am taking. Therefore I have decided to leave off the others and take yours exclusively. It does me good all through to read it. May you live always to publish THE LIFE and dispense the Truth to the people."

A. M. G.
Adona, Ark.

World New Thought Federation

OARD of Directors met Jan. 16, 1906, at Room 803, Masonic Temple, Chicago.

Members present: T. G. Northrup, H. H. Benson, Grace M. Brown, Ernest Weltmer, A. R. Heath, C. O. Boring and S. A. Weltmer. A. P. Barton would have been present but for the fact that the train upon which he was going was snowbound in Iowa for fifteen hours, causing him to arrive too late for the meeting.

Visitors present: Mrs. Chas. H. Besley, Treas.; John D. Perrin, M. A. True, B. T. Becker, C. D. Larson, John D. Strasburger, Geo. B. Charles, LeRoy Moore and others.

Subjects considered: A corps of healers; a corps of lecturers; means of advertising magazines and healers; ways and means to help each member of the Federation; membership committees, domestic and foreign, and committee on finance.

The following committee was appointed on foreign membership, with power to appoint chairman of membership committees in foreign countries: C. O. Boring, chairman; Grace M. Brown, Chas. E. Prather.

Voted that the president appoint a committee of three to take charge of the membership at large, with power to appoint chairman of membership committees for the different states. Committee not yet announced. Voted to elect a finance committee of five.

Committee: B. T. Becker, chairman; M. A. True, C. D. Larson, Jennie H. Croft, Grace M. Brown. Committee given power to select chairman of finance committees for the different states.

Voted that the president at his convenience, appoint a committee of three on program.

Voted that a committee of three on corps of lecturers be appointed to report at the next meeting of the board. Committee: LeRoy Moore, chairman; Mrs. K.

Lanphire, J. D. Perrin.

Treasurer's report showed balance of $167.65.
Corps of healers referred to lecture committee.
Secretary instructed to finish bulletin.

Publication of convention reports and proposed monthly salary of $25 for the Secretary both referred to finance committee.

Meeting adjourned subject to call of the president. Later:-President appointed on Pub. Com., A. P. Barton, chairman; H. H. Schroeder, Mr. Burrows, H. H. Brown and Paul Tyrer.

A physician in this vicinity, says the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, was recently called to a family which he found in such destitute circumstances that he gave, in addition to his prescription, a five-dollar bill. Happening in the next day he discovered that his gift had been thus spent: Three dollars to the priest, and two dollars to get another doctor.

Col. W. C. Gibbons, formerly of Minneapolis, Minn., now located somewhere in the state of New York, has gone and taken unto himself another wife. He and his former wife separated some fourteen years ago by mutual consent, he claiming a celebate life to be the only truly scientific life. Has the Colonel changed his views on this subject in his old days?

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RO. Frank E. Mason, of Brooklyn, N, Y., is quoted in January Harmony as saying:

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"It is a serious question to-day whether service to God or service to man is the the most important, when we take into consideration the peace and harmony of humanity.”

I thought all New Thought people had gotten away past that old heathen superstition about serving God. You can't serve God. What can you do for the Infinite? Does God need anything you have? God must serve the unfortunate and undeveloped among humanity through you. Supply the needs of humanity and God will get along all right.

"Well, Patrick," asked the doctor, "how do you` feel to-day?"

"Och, Doctor, dear, I enjoy very poor health intirely. The rheumatics are very distressin', indade; when I go to slape I lay awake all night, an' my toes is swelled as big as a goose hen's egg; so whin I sthand up I fall down immajit."

"Oh, my daughter!" (to a girl of six), "You should not be frightened and run from the goat. Don't you know you are a Christian Scientist?"

"But, mamma" (excitedly), "the billy goat don't know it."-Current Literature.

Doctor-I want to percus your liver.

Patient-Divil a bit o' good wud thot do, doctor; faith, an' I've bin cussin' that same ould liver for farthy years.

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