“And this is liberty—that one grow after thelaw of his own life, hindering not another.”

My Monks of Vagabondia comprisesFact-stories selected from the old files ofthe Self Master Magazine. I wish to present thedefeated man, as he really is, to the reader whocannot fail to appreciate the humor and tragedythat makes up his wayward life. The bond ofsympathy should be awakened between us andthe so-called prodigal.

A wider publicity should be given to the uniquebut practical uplift work that I have founded andcarried on for the past five years among theseweaker brothers.

The stories explain in part the methods andplans of the Family of Self Masters.

It is—we believe—the only book in whicha writer has received his facts for his storiesdirect from a life-experience with outcast men.

Not alone that, but the volume is printed, boundand illustrated by the unexpected guests—theItinerant Monks of whom the tales are told, andwho make their home in our so-called Monastery.

The day approaches when broken men shallhave beautiful, though simple, homes of their ownmaking, modeled after the group idea of The SelfMaster Colony. They will be established outside ofthe different cities of the world, and opened hospitablyto all men who come in their hour of needor weakness, seeking Self Mastery and the peacethat accompanies it.

The proceeds from the sale of these stories gotoward the purchase and installation of muchneeded equipment for the Printshop and Bindery.With this equipment the men can work out theirown independence, industrially and socially.

When a man has lived months and years enslavedby some vicious habit—self-destructiveand careless of consequences—his sub-consciousmind is a sensitive matrix on which the sordidhistory is deeply engraved. The certain changecan come only as the man learns values andrespects them by a right life.

The sub-conscious self takes on a complete reformationslowly. An evil habit does not gain masteryover the man upon the instant nor once in controlis its grip broken by any feeble affirmationor miraculous phenomenon.

The hope comes when one turns one’s thoughtfrom the destructive to the constructive, and livesin the sight of the new born faith until wisdomlifts the darkened veil and freedom follows as itsrightful legacy.

The Self Master Colony offers an open door tothe disheartened man during the period of hisawakening to his real strength and helps himwith its constant care and sympathy back to histrue self.

ANDRESS FLOYD.