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Show Dele Carnegie Says . . . The Big Idea of Faith and Peace TTP IN PAWLING, N. Y., there is published a very small maga-" maga-" zine with a very big idea. A lot of people believe in this big idea, but few do anything about it. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, editor-in-chief of this little magazine, called Guideposts, is doing something about it every day of his life. The idea? Peace. ? - .-av - What Dr Peale urges all of us to do cannot ; but further the idea, for all he asks us to do is J within our power: to have faith. "Faith," we read W (n , from The Book, "is the substance of things hoped v! .J for, the evidence of things not seen." Ll V T If you haven't looked up the defini- .- tion of "substance," here it is: substance 2 means "the substantial part, the main fc , , iZja part," of anything. So substance is the main part when we hope. Carn"sie We live by faith. If we didn't have faith, we would accomplish nothing, have nothing, be less than nothing Sc let's cooperate with this man who is spending his life in helping all of us Let's follow some suggestions he sets fortii. and ir which he has great faith. Here are those suggestions. It will help you every day of your life to follow them to repeat to your-vAi your-vAi every morning as you start the day: 1 I will seek a change within myself that I may have inner peace. i 2 I will seek to effect, with God's help, a similar change in my family, my social group, my community. 3 I will seek to make my faith infectious that I may attract at-tract other people to God by what I am. I 4 At every opportunity, I will pray for peace, speak for peace, act for peace, and think for peace. 5 I will try to win at least two others to a similar dedication dedi-cation and charge them each to do likewise. Dr. Peale says that if this process is repeated only 31 times the entire population of the world can be reached. And it can slart with you. If you would like to have a copy, or several copies, of an . article on peace that appeared in Guideposts, write for it to Guideposts, Pawling, N. Y. You don't have to send any money to j-ret it. but every Dennv counts in printing more and more copies |