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win through concentration, but it is a concentration that costs them the pleasure of living. Business attention is concentration. Business care follows them home, absorbs the domestic virtues. It follows them to church and deadens the sound of sermon and hymn. It follows to them later and obstructs the view of stage. It follows to bed and prevents sleep. This is concentration. Through habit, it has become involuntary. When any concentration becomes wearisome, when we wish it would leave us, it has then become unwholesome. Thoughts connected with limitations will so become. Any thought limited to the external, when held long, will cause weariness of the flesh. Business men, professional men, are prone to let their thought born of necessity rule them. Success in any sense cannot be his who does not rule himself, that is, does not choose his thoughts. Involuntary concentration is slavery, is disease and death.

Voluntary concentration is mastery, is health. Concentration upon a thought you chose and then laying it aside and taking up another, is Self-Control, is POWER. Concentration is only Paying Attention to a Chosen Thought, paying Attention to the thought you have chosen for the time. To illustrate: A procession passes the window. I see it, but pay no particular attention to any one person. Something attracts my attention and, to that particular thing or person, I direct my attention and I see only that. My attention is concentrated upon that and it absorbs my whole thought. I know, however, that the procession is passing. I may later recall much that passed. That is a secondary attention. All that passes before the eye is photographed upon the psychic sense, so that, while the conscious mind is paying attention to one person, the sub-conscious is paying attention to all that is present. To concentrate, is to let the conscious will hold to the one thought out of the procession of thoughts that are all the time passing in the mind. Other