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 those suggestions of a Higher Power, to which mind and intellect are sometimes deaf, a 'subliminal self,' in which religious faith and the inspirations of genius are alike rooted, and which is en rapport with another world than that of the senses. We are reminded of Tennyson's words:

Moreover, something is or seems, That touches me with mystic gleams, Like glimpses of forgotten dreams— Of something felt, like something here; Of something done, I know not where.

It is through that under-self that mental cures appear to operate.

The theory certainly contributes something to our problem, making it conceivable, even to our finite intelligence, how the Divine Life of Christ should enter into man, sick of body and sad of soul, and this quite in the line of the order and natural law of God's universe. Christ is one with the Father; He came down from Heaven to do the will of the Father; His works are done in the Father's name (John x. 25). The Father hath given the Son to have life