When we use this imaging faculty aright we picture nothing save the good and true; hence we express that which is good and true in the body. The body is transformed through this "renewing of the mind." In no other way can we "present our bodies a living sacrifice" save through this direction of soul and mind faculties. There is no medicine known to-day that will bring health or salvation to any soul or body. No medical doctor can say truthfully that the system that he represents is founded on law. The law is that everything must work from within outward. We must work from the inner being to the outer. Man must be controlled by his spiritual faculties if he expects ever to be well and strong. There is no other way, for the Spirit alone quickeneth.

Faith and hope also enter into this subject. What is faith? Many think that it is belief in something that some one else has said. Others hold that faith is a belief that Jesus died two thousand years ago, and that in some way that belief will free them from all future trouble. "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." What does that mean? It does not mean the kind of belief just mentioned. We are told that "the blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin." The word blood always signifies "life." The life of Christ, as we make it manifest, is that which cleanses from all sin.

Belief in an event that occurred two thousand years ago is not going to save a man. Salvation that exempts the body is no salvation at all; for a Christian going about with a weak body is not manifesting the Christ nature. We never hear of Christ as being weak or sick. Faith is founded on knowledge, not credulity; but most of the so-called faith we have at present is founded on some one else's belief. True faith is always founded on personal knowledge; we never hear persons say they have faith in a man, and yet have no knowledge concerning him.

A true understanding of the power of God in our lives gives us both health and strength. Then our faith is real, and greater blessings may come into our lives because of our knowledge of both past and present which constitutes a living faith that shall endure forever.

Wherever we find faith, we find hope; because faith apart from hope is not conceivable. If the mind is filled with faith in God, then it is filled with hope. The person who goes about with a gloomy face, talking over depressing things, has neither faith nor hope. These qualities are essential in the life, and the more faith and hope one has in both God and man the better his life will be. The man that has little faith in his fellow man is not the one to trust. The more faith we have in one another - the more of God we recognize in one another - the better it is for us. The more of God we see in others the more of the divine we show in ourselves.

Finally, we come to the influence that one mind may have upon other minds. Every thought we think has some effect upon the lives of others. It is bound to affect other people either for good or ill; and when we realize the responsibility thus placed upon us we should use our thought-power with the greatest care. Every true thought that enters the soul is an angel that will carry peace and good-will to some other soul; and every evil and hateful thought that enters the mind is going out to mingle with the darkness and despair of other unenlightened souls. If we think true thoughts we need not care about the external word and deed. Both word and deed will take care of themselves through true feeling and thinking.

As a final summing up of what constitutes real Dominion and Power, let us realize that in true feeling is laid the foundation of a perfected "manhood." One needs to remember that thought is inwardly related to feeling and outwardly related to action. To feel, to become inspired from within, to touch the Godlife, is the highest revelation in the life of man. It is the inner illuminations.

Jesus, when asked concerning God, did not say that God is mind or thought, but said, "God is love." Then to be inspired by the spirit of love is God-like. The great creative powers resident in the life of man have their fountain-head in feeling. "To feel after God" is what one New Testament writer says. Love, faith, hope, are the powers that live eternally in the life of man. All else may change; these must endure, throughout time, throughout eternity.

From this sun of life radiates all else. Even man's thoughts must take form through his feelings. Let us begin then, with the cultivation of the highest. Let us, in so far as is possible, use loving kindness and good will to all. Let faith become a spring of living water in the life through our having faith in God, in our fellow man, and in our own ideals concerning life and things of life.

Let the spirit of hope throw sunshine about our path in life, lighting our own way and throwing light upon the path of others; thus will the kingdom of God be revealed through us, and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

In its order it is as necessary to think as to feel. God gave us minds to think, to work out our own salvation in a full and complete way. Let us stop thinking the dead thoughts of bygone generations. Let us stop thinking on the authority of another's thought. Let us know, once and for all, that through the use of our own. minds will come the truest and best solution of all questions presenting themselves to us in life. Think clearly. We must of necessity think clearly if our minds are illumined and made new from within. We must of necessity be positive in our thoughts if our minds are enlightened by the knowledge of an Omnipotent, Omniscient God, working within us to will and to do.

With our thought we shape and direct the force of life, giving it form in the outer world. Let us think, then, the God thoughts, creative and upbuilding thoughts, that make for health of mind and strength of body. Through centering our thought on the things we want to be or do the energy we use is not diverted into wrong channels, but finds perfect expression, and we accomplish what we will to accomplish. That which we will to be, we become.

Inner feeling and controlled thought produce the energy necessary for true action. "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." It is through the right use of every organ of the body, under the direction of mind, that the whole organism becomes uniformly strong, that the life-blood pulsates evenly through all parts. Throughout God's great universe action prevails. Vibration is an eternal action of life.

A tree is known by its fruits. True action is the outer expression of true thoughts and feeling. There is no faith which does not take form in works. Work is a vital necessity for the well-being of man. One who does not work can not enjoy health or happiness. One's greatest satisfaction comes in seeing his thought ideals take on visible form. Build castles in the air, but do not stop there. See them exprest on earth. Feel them, think them, and work for them. Grow mighty in doing. Through action let man, as the representative of God, become great in the world in which he lives. Remember this: that the Christ man loves, thinks, and acts.