of the physical substance that nourishes it.

The word is the seed. The word is dropped into the spiritual Substance. It germinates. It grows. It brings forth after its kind. "Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" (Mt. 7:16).

You who farm, and you who garden, choose the seed for next year's planting from the finest specimens of this year's crop. You reject every defective seed that you detect. If you think that your own harvest does not give you the right seed for the coming planting, you send out for the best to be had. In this way you make sure of the nature of your coming crop.

If you want prosperity in your home, you will have to exercise the same intelligent discrimination in selecting your word seed that the farmer uses in selecting his seed.

When talk and talk and talk of "hard times," you are sowing "hard times" seed. By the sure law of growth and yield, what kind of harvest will you reap? If a farmer sowed thistle seed, and then complained that his field did not yield him wheat, you would say: "The foolish man! If he wanted wheat, why didn't he sow wheat?"

You can begin now to bring prosperity into your home. The first thing for you to do is to discard the words that have within them idea of poverty, and then select carefully the words that hold the idea of plenty. Never make an