SUGGESTIONS TO THOSE WHO WISH TO BE LED BY THE SPIRIT.

By Nona L. Brooks

We are where we are by Law, not by chance.
Each individual has a mission.
The God-life has been given to each; a great trust is for a great purpose.
Each may know what his mission is and can fulfill it, if he is willing to be led by the Spirit to that end.

The following suggestions are offered:
1. Lay aside ambition and personal desire.
2. Be willing to go when called and wherever led.
3. Declare steadfastly: a. That the Spirit knows what is best for you. b. That the Spirit is guiding you there - to your own place. c. That whatever is best to prepare and develop you for this mission will come through the Spirit.
4. Know: a. That each kind of work that comes to you is part of the plan and must be done heartily as unto God. b. That work is "high" or "low" not according to the kind, but according to the motive that prompts it and the disposition in which it is accomplished. The individual exalts the work. c. That the whole need in harmonizing environment, changing conditions, removing limitations and in realizing peace, plenty and success, is to work with one's own self.
5. Cultivate the habit of trustful thinking.
6. Insist on inward serenity.
7. Look upon your present occupation as God-given, and love it. Rest assured that as soon as you have fulfilled in this, the next will come.
8. Be very certain, in any responsibility thrown upon you by the Spirit, that by the same Spirit, will you be given the wisdom and strength to execute it.
9. Keep your thought from evil and your lips from guile: a. Do not read the "horrors" in the newspapers. Do not talk about them. b. Do not discuss inharmonious conditions. c. Do not worry, fear nor doubt. d. See the good in every one and in every thing.
10. Repeat often:

Self-interest does not influence me.
Impulse does not guide me.
Prejudice does not warp me.
Opinion does not bind me.
Neither family nor friends hinder me.
Self-depreciation does not limit me.
Remembrance of the past or fear of the future does not weaken me.
I do not limit God's power.
Let us have patience that, after we have done the will of God, we may receive the promise. "Sufficient unto each moment is the Wisdom and Strength thereof."