The next morning, he found he had smashed the glass of a bookcase and the window had remained closed during the whole night. He had _supplied himself with oxygen, simply by his thought of oxygen_. When a student starts out to demonstrate, he 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. When a student is able to let go of his problem (cast his burden) he will have instantaneous manifestation. For example: A woman was out during a very stormy day and her umbrella was blown inside-out. She was about to make a call on some people whom she had never met and she did not wish to make her first appearance with a dilapidated umbrella. She could not throw it away, as it did not belong to her. So in desperation, she exclaimed: “Oh, God, you take charge of this umbrella, I don’t know what to do.” A moment later, a voice behind her said: “Lady, do you want your umbrella mended?” There stood an umbrella mender. She replied, “Indeed, I do.” The man mended the umbrella, while she went into the house to pay her call, and when she returned, she had a good umbrella. So there is always an umbrella mender at hand, on man’s pathway, when one puts the umbrella (or situation) in God’s Hands. One should always follow a denial with an affirmation. For example: I was called on the ’phone late one night to treat a man whom I had never seen. He was apparently very ill. I made the statement: “I deny this appearance of disease. It is unreal, therefore cannot register in his consciousness; this man is a perfect idea in Divine Mind, pure substance expressing perfection.”