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un-evolved powers are greater than we can imagine, and to evolve those powers the acme of the New Thought ideal.

We are like the man who desires to run an engine and seeks to gain the requisite knowledge for his work. He must experiment, and so must we. He must find the motive power and learn to use it and so must we. He must be able to increase that motive power and so must we. But here the analogy ends, for while the power of an engine has a limit, the human engine has no limit.

We are veritable giants when our powers are brought to the surface. They lie within us like seed germs awaiting the touch of life, as in the tiny acorn lies concealed the mighty oak.

I once saw a slender, delicate little fellow, who had been without food for a week, perform a feat that would have tested a Samson. He had been thrown into a hypnotic sleep in a public hall and kept under the strictest surveillance during the seven days of his fast. At the end of the week he was placed in a chair and held down in it by six strong policemen. Then the man who held him in hypnotic control gave a signal and the little, frail creature sprang up and threw off those powerful men as though they had been insects. Where did his strength come from? It was certainly not resident in his flabby muscles. I have seen many exhibitions of this kind, but the one just quoted occurred in a small town and reputable citizens, among them several physicians, testified to its genuineness, while the