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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index


"What Is the Loving Thing to Do?"

THAT is the motto of "Fellowship," a wonderful organization founded by Benjamin Fay Mills, with no creed save "Trust and Service."

What is your idea of trust, and service?

How would you answer the question contained in the motto?

My own idea of trust is as illimitable as the word indicates. Whatever happens, to believe it is a part of the divine plan. However unpleasant, however painful, however disagreeable may be that happening or circumstance, to determine upon finding its good meaning, and to turn it to the soul's account and make it a means of character building.

Trust does not, in my interpretation of the word, include placid acceptance of conditions or events. It means using these things as stepping stones to deliverance.

When our environment is not to our liking, when we are annoyed and hurt by events, the first thing to do is to discover if we ourselves have not been the cause of these troubles. If we realize on careful analysis that we are the cause, then trust the divine forces to show us the way out.

If we find we are blameless, and the troubles come through what we call Fate, then again trust in divine power, within ourselves and beyond ourselves, to deliver us.

Meanwhile, to go upon our way doing the duty

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