CONTAINING quotations from our replies to those writing us for help in their Spiritual problems. Each day at 12 o’clock noon, we take the names of those asking for such help in the Silence of the Spirit, and “Speak the Word” for them. Many hundreds have testified to receiving the blessings of such ministry.

REGARDING your inability to sleep, if you will try to keep your mind entirely off the matter and stop worrying about it, you will have won half the battle. It is the worry that is causing all the trouble. If you will quit that, you will find that nature will take care of the rest, for even if you do not get enough sleep as you think for two or three nights, the next night you will find you will get enough rest to make up for the others—if you do not interfere with any negative thoughts. We know of men who have gone a week or more actually without sleep, who, because they were able to keep their minds away from their bodies and from worrying about it, were in no way affected, but felt rested and strong, as if they had slept eight hours each night.

In other words, if you can keep your mind on other things, lifting it away from the body entirely and being unconcerned whether you sleep or not, you will find that nature will quickly adjust and handle the problem for you. It is your worrying that stirs up the mind and keeps it active, thus preventing its resting and your accomplishing the very thing you are seeking.

SO LONG as you hold before your mind all those things your husband did to you and you do not let them go, and keep feeding them with all your beliefs in their being so, you are really compelling him to be and do every one of them. The law is, “Whatever you think and hold in your mind as being so, outmanifests itself in your life and affairs.” Your “trying to do right” must include the cleansing of your mind of all those thoughts.

We know how hard it is, but it does no good to affirm or deny a thing, if you do not really mean it. Do you understand? Your affirming all those ideal things about him, and then in your heart denouncing and condemning him, is far worse than doing nothing about it. For you are then compelled to prove your words, which is what makes it so much harder for you.

The only way to free him is to erase all those pictures from your mind, and to love him truly with the old feeling you had in the beginning, plus an understanding now of his weaknesses and all the mistakes you