FOREWORD

Responding to the oft-repeated requests of many friends who have been helped by reading the various booklets and magazine articles of the author, it has seemed best to publish them all under one cover as a more convenient way for readers to have the helps always at hand. The papers which make up this volume have been written from time to time as a result of practical daily experience. In none of them is there anything occult or mysterious; neither has there been any attempt at literature. Each number is so plain and simple that "a wayfarer though a fool need not err therein."

In revising the articles herein contained there have been a few nonessential changes; yet the Principle and its application remain the same. Truth is that which is so, and it can never change. Every true statement here is as true and as workable today as it was when these papers were written. We ask no one to believe that which is here written simply because it is presented as Truth. "Prove all things" for

yourself, for it is perfectly possible to prove every statement in this book. Every one has been proven before it was written. No book or author can solve another's problem for him. Each must work out his own salvation. Here are some effectual rules, suggestions and helps thereto; but results to oneself all depend on how faithfully and persistently one uses the helps given.

The author is grateful for the many words of appreciation which have come to her from time to time. These words are encouraging to one who is trying to solve her own life's problems, as you are trying to solve yours, by the teachings of the Master.

"Lessons in Truth," because of their effective helpfulness, have been sought for and published in five languages besides in embossed point for the blind. Let us hope that this book now sent forth with the same object of being a practical living help in daily life, may meet the same fate. H. E. C.

January 1, 1916.

FINDING THE CHRIST IN OUR

SELVES

Throughout all His teachings, Jesus tried to show those who listened to Him, how He was related to the Father, and to teach them that they were related to the same Father in exactly the same way. Over and over again He tried in different ways to explain to them that God lived within them, that He was a "God of the living and not of the dead." And never once did He assume to do anything as of Himself, always saying: "Of mine own self I can do nothing. The Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works." But it was very hard then for people to understand, just as it is very hard for us to understand today.

There were in the person of Jesus two distinct regions. There was the fleshly, mortal part which was Jesus, the son of man; then there was the central, living, real part which was Spirit, the Son of God-that was the

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Christ, the Anointed. So each one of us has two regions of being-one the fleshly, mortal part, which is always feeling its weakness and insufficiency in all things, always saying, "I can't;" and then at the very center of our being there is a something which, in our highest moments, knows itself more than conqueror over all things; it always says, “I can, and I will." It is the Christ-child, the Son of God, the Anointed in us. "Call no man your father on earth," said Jesus, "for One is your Father which is in heaven."

He who created us did not make us and set us off apart from Himself, as a workman makes a table or a chair and puts it away as something completed and only to be returned to the maker when it needs repairing. Not at all. God not only created us in the beginning, but He is the very Fountain of Life ever abiding within us, from which Fountain constantly springs up new life to re-create these mortal bodies. He is the ever-abiding Intelligence which fills and renews our minds. His creatures would not exist a moment were He to be or could he be separated from them. "Ye are