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 should never turn back. “Let not that man who wavers think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.”

A colored student once made this wonderful statement, “When I asks the Father for anything, I puts my foot down, and I says: Father, I’ll take nothing less than I’ve asked for, but more!” So man should never compromise: “Having done all—Stand.” This is sometimes the most difficult time of demonstrating. The temptation comes to give up, to turn back, to compromise.

“He also serves who only stands and waits.”

Demonstrations often come at the eleventh hour because man then lets go, that is, stops reasoning, and Infinite Intelligence has a chance to work.

“Man’s dreary desires are answered drearily, and his impatient desires, long delayed or violently fulfilled.

For example: A woman asked me why it was she was constantly losing or breaking her glasses.

We found she often said to herself and others with vexation, “I wish I could get rid of my glasses.” So her impatient desire was violently fulfilled. What she should have demanded was perfect eye-sight, but what she registered in the subconscious was simply the impatient desire to be rid of her glasses; so they were continually being broken or lost.

Two attitudes of mind cause loss: depreciation, as in the case of the woman who did not appreciate her husband, or fear of loss, which makes a picture of loss in the subconscious.