Hence the willing the mind on the following day to be at peace, not to yield to irritability or temptations to quarrel, to be pleasing and cheerful; in short to develop _good_ qualities is the most easily effected process, because where there is such self-moral-suasion to a good aim or end, we feel, and very justly, that we _ought_ to be aided by the _Deus in nobis_, or an over-ruling Providence, whatever its form or nature may be.

And the experimenter may be assured that if we can by any means _will_ or exorcise all envy, vanity, folly, irritability, vindictiveness--in short all evil--out of ourselves, and supply their place with Love, we shall take the most effective means to secure our own happiness, as well as that of others.
All of this has been repeated very often of late years by Altruists; but, while the doctrine is accepted both by Agnostics and Christians as perfect, there has been little done to show men how to practically realize it.

But I have ever noted that in this Pilgrim's Progress of our life, those are most likely to attain to the Celestial City, and all its golden glories, who, like CHRISTIAN, start from the lowliest beginnings; and as the learning our letters leads to reading the greatest books, so the simplest method of directing the attention and the most mechanical means of developing Will, may promptly lead to the highest mental and moral effect.
Prayer is generally regarded as nothing else but an asking or begging from a superior power.

But it is also something which is really very different from this.

It is a formula by means of which man realizes his faith and will.