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the results in each life will be as different as are the feelings awakened by the petition; for the objective results are decided by the real desires of the heart and not by the words. Since most of the prayers are selfish and personal, looking to some outside power for help, asking for something which the petitioner really possesses, but is not conscious of possessing, the answers, like the petitions, are selfish and limited to temporary and personal likes. Should a person of quick temper pray sincerely to be cured of the habit, he will be cured as he says: "Lead me not into temptation." But should he pray through fear of the pain which an outburst of anger brings, he will find relief from present pain, but not from the cause, which will remain to bring pain again through another outburst of anger. So with sickness; a prayer for health will be answered according to the faith in which the prayer is uttered. "Lord! Save or I perish!" will bring salvation according to the thought embodied in the words expressed, and not according to the Power really dwelling within any person, potentate, or God, outside the Soul of the one who prays. God-In-You answers His own prayer. He cannot answer till you give him opportunity by making conditions by faith.

Prayer is the best method of cultivating faith, for through it one learns to "Cast his burdens" off his conscious mind and allow the thought born of the Ideal to fall into the sub-conscious, there to become the director of the conscious expression. Prayer is the state of forgetfulness of the present and of the objective self; a state of concentration and is entered into with some dominant thought which has the power of an