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Eight words that have changed the lives of thousands of people FROM THE BOOK THAT HAS BROUGHT NEW HOPE, COURAGE, ENERGY, AND SPIRITUAL STRENGTH TO MEN AND WOMEN EVERYWHERE TIIK eight wonns first traveled from China in a letter. It was written liy a young woman to a doctor who had lieen especially kind to her. '"The words are on a brass plate," she wrote, "in a beautiful Chinese pardon. When they were translated for me, I remembered the lines, in your face. How tired you looked! The nurses told me you were in the hospital practically day and night. When you receive this letter, please sit down very uietly and think about the eight words." The next day the doctor went to his oflice and announced that he was going on his first vacation in many years. (A trip that he later said probably added years to his life.) After his retirement, Dr. Frederic I. munis wrote an article about his personal experiences. He included the full text of the letter from China. No one was more surprised than he at the immediate response to the power of these eight simple words. Letters poured in from all over the world telling of lives redirected . . . of worries and tensions relaxed ... of hope and courage renewed. Words That DO Things for People The eight words that changed the lives of so many people are now included in a hook that has come to have a special magic of its own. It is called Light From Many Lamps. It is a book that searches the past for the wisdom, philoso phy, and inspiration needed for more confident living today, and a more hopeful future. In it you will find a treasury of thoughts and ideas that DO things for people. For example, do you know the Longfellow poem that Henry Ford credited with inspiring him to effort and achievement all his life and that Gandhi quoted in times of illness ami despair:1 What is the secret of self-victory that famous novelist A. J. Cronin learned from an old Scotsman just in time to save himself from failure as a writer? What are the 11 words writer David Grayson discovered (in the ancient teachings of Marcus Aurelius) that brought him victory over pain lifter months of illness. Do you know the "magic motto" an ancient monarch ordered his wise men to formulate, for guidance in his limes of distress 5 words that Robert Louis Stevenson recalled to ease his pain and which comforted Abraham Lincoln during the darkest days of the Civil War? A New Kind of Book Light Fhom Many Lamps is really a new kind of book. Its editor. Lillian Eichler Watson, searched out the lives of great men and women (and of ordinary everyday people) who in a moment of crisis had uttered a phrase or sentence, written a poem or sermon, that has enriched and changed the lives of all who heard or read it. The result is a book whose first edi tion was quickly sold out. It has been a sell-out in fourteen succeeding editions. Over one hun dred thousand copies are now in print! Light Fkom Many Lamps will be used by you for the rest of your life. You will keep it at your bedside, or on the living room table where you can dip into it when you are de pressed or worried, emotionally upset. You will read or write certain passages to friends who have had a misfortune. You will turn to it again and again whenever you need to over come fear, anger, anxiety, bitterness, sorrow. You May Examine It Free We shall be glad to send you Light Fhom Many Lamps for a week's examination. If you then feel that you are willing to part with it, merely return it and pay nolhing. (If you wish you may also order additional copies as gifts, as so many others have done.) Simply tell us, ill the coupon, bow many copies you want and mail it to: Simon and Schustkh, Inc., Dept. 510. 630 Fifth Avenue, Now York 20, New York. Send for this book today. A Single Selection May Change The Whole Course of Your Life To Your Hook seller or SIMON AND SCHUSTER, Inc., Dept. 510 630 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. I'Icj-i- send nir copies of I.h.ht Khum Ma.ny l.wtrs for iter ewiruituition. If nl convinced t hat llii- lunik ran I ir a constant source of comfort and inspiration, I may return the IxHiku) in 7 ila ami pin nothing. Otherwise 1 will keen them and remit only $.1.95 per copy, plus a few rent poslyge as pavment in full. THE CONQUEST OF FEAR - A quotation runt Emerson that re newed tin amputee's will lu live ami bronchi him success beyond his hiltk-M dreams . . . Captain Scott's in-piritip mes-age, writ ten as he faced death in the Antarctic. Holier! Ingt'rsoll's un forgetlahle words o( comfort to Ty the bereaved parent of a lit lit h..y. FAITH AND INNER CALM The J passage from Matthew that mis- J laineil Captain Eddie V. Hirken- j backer mill helped to save the J lives of seven men ... 5 worrit ibal brought a suffering invalid J aclress her urea test success and PARTIAL COTETS rtMoreri her peace of mind . . . Browning's triumph oer llie los of his wife. CONFIDENCE AND ACHIEVE MENT - The philosophy that helped Kmerson, Dickens, and Thackeray succeed . . . 9 words thai helped to make a London law clerk famous . . . how a great movie slur encouraged other to a new unri happier way of life. LOVE AND FAMILY LIFE - Klia belh Harretl's love poem, an in spiration to countless lovers , . . philosopher Will Duranl's life long search for ibe key lo happi ness anil hi discovery. .one. . . .State, , SAVI POSTAOI. CM L Hrre if rnrl.nini; .VJ. lor rarh mpy ,lro.-. then r hiII fuv .itl tupr rlurce. S.ime 7-L) rrturn firmlc 1'" full nfumi ajiplirv l ,,, CONTENTMENT IN LATER YEARS - William Lynn I'helps' ariiicc on how lo grow old grace fully , . , Cicero's philosophy on how to make old age a rich and happy fulhllmenl . . . Browning's inspiring words jor iIiot ap proaching "the la-l and best of life." HOPE FOR THE FUTURE-8 word that -ered young KDH as a gnidepo-t for the rest of his life . . . David l.ilienllial's mem orable words for tho-e who fear Ihc future . . . Oliver Wendell Holmes' prophetic vision of (he future. . . . Ami complete chaplr-rs on I'ence of Heart ami Mind, Per sonality and Celling Along Well with Others, Happiness unri The Knjoymeiit of Living, stories and quotations from such men ami women as Helen Keller . . . Iternard Harm b , . . Kpietetu". Lin Yuluiig. Kmilv Dickinson, John Donne. Marie Curie. Kahlil Cihran. Omar Khayvam, Lao Tse, H. A. Overlreet. and many others, Mf-IHA TDK kki. 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