completeness. For "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." And all things are right with him.

The Parsecs of old declared that ninety-nine persons out of every hundred die by reason of the evil eye. They see their own spot of pain or illness so distinctly that it expands into a sum total of shadow for them; and the sum total of shadow is the full manifest of devoid, or death. A certain commissariat in the federal army could always foretell what soldier was to be killed in the impending battle. He told this by the shadowy haze that he saw clinging to the soldier's face. After the War he could by the same token select which of his parishioners was about to pass into devoid. When this commissariat- clergyman learned of the principle of rejection, putting away, refusing death, disease, failure, on behalf of God the "o'er all victorious" then present, he spoke with great firmness to the shadowy haze whenever it claimed his attention: "Go away! l'll have nothing to do with you! Leave this man to his Life! 0 Life! Stand forth! Stand forth Free Life, bold and joyous!" And the mysterious devoid would give way to Life and Health, the rightful manifest of all mankind. Who can deny that this clergyman did perform the noble Christian Ministry, set into the form of command, "Heal the sick, raise the dead."

It is told of Pope Pius IX that his vision worked ill luck with unfortunate speed. Doubtless he was clairvoyant to troubles about to come to pass according to the law of cause and effect; and probably he knew nothing of the Trismegistian law, "If thou wouldest accurately put away contentious words, thou wouldest find free Spirit, untrammelled Life dominating." And the pope did certainly ignore John's beautifully executive treatment --