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    My Monks of Vagabondia
    My Monks of Vagabondia
    My Monks of Vagabondia
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    My Monks of Vagabondia

    By Andress Floyd

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    My Monks of Vagabondia comprises Fact-stories selected from the old files of the Self Master Magazine. I wish to present the defeated man, as he really is, to the reader who cannot fail to appreciate the humor and tragedy that makes up his wayward life. The bond of sympathy should be awakened between us and the so-called prodigal.
    A wider publicity should be given to the unique but practical uplift work that I have founded and carried on for the past five years among these weaker brothers.
    The stories explain in part the methods and plans of the Family of Self Masters.
    It is—we believe—the only book in which a writer has received his facts for his stories direct from a life-experience with outcast men.
    Not alone that, but the volume is printed, bound and illustrated by the unexpected guests—the Itinerant Monks of whom the tales are told, and who make their home in our so-called Monastery.
    The day approaches when broken men shall have beautiful, though simple, homes of their own making, modeled after the group idea of The Self Master Colony. They will be established outside of the different cities of the world, and opened hospitably to all men who come in their hour of need or weakness, seeking Self Mastery and the peace that accompanies it.
    The proceeds from the sale of these stories go toward the purchase and installation of much needed equipment for the Printshop and Bindery. With this equipment the men can work out their own independence, industrially and socially.
    When a man has lived months and years enslaved by some vicious habit—self-destructive and careless of consequences—his sub-conscious mind is a sensitive matrix on which the sordid history is deeply engraved. The certain change can come only as the man learns values and respects them by a right life.
    The sub-conscious self takes on a complete reformation slowly.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheranboco
    Release dateAug 18, 2016
    ISBN9783736409460
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      My Monks of Vagabondia - Andress Floyd

      Table of Contents

      My Monks of Vagabondia.

      Introductory

      A JOURNEY TO OUR MONASTERY

      MARY AND THE BABY

      MY PROBLEM WITH SLIPPERY JIM

      OUR FRIEND, THE ANARCHIST.

      A BASHFUL BEGGAR

      FRITZ AND HIS SUN DIAL

      THE WAITER WHO DID NOT WAIT

      COMPOUNDING A FELONY

      THE PASSING OF SULLIVAN

      WHEN SISTER CALLED

      EDISON’S EVENING STAR

      IN THE WORLD OF WANDERLUST

      THE TWO JEANS

      My Monks of Vagabondia.

      Andress Floyd

      By Andress Floyd

      Introductory

      My Monks of Vagabondia comprises Fact-stories selected from the old files of the Self Master Magazine. I wish to present the defeated man, as he really is, to the reader who cannot fail to appreciate the humor and tragedy that makes up his wayward life. The bond of sympathy should be awakened between us and the so-called prodigal.

      A wider publicity should be given to the unique but practical uplift work that I have founded and carried on for the past five years among these weaker brothers.

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

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

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

      The day approaches when broken men shall have beautiful, though simple, homes of their own making, modeled after the group idea of The Self Master Colony. They will be established outside of the different cities of the world, and opened hospitably to all men who come in their hour of need or weakness, seeking Self Mastery and the peace that accompanies it.

      The proceeds from the sale of these stories go toward the purchase and installation of much needed equipment for the Printshop and Bindery. With this equipment the men can work out their own independence, industrially and socially.

      When a man has lived months and years enslaved by some vicious habit—self-destructive and careless of consequences—his sub-conscious mind is a sensitive matrix on which the sordid history is deeply engraved. The certain change can come only as the man learns values and respects them by a right life.

      The sub-conscious self takes on a complete reformation slowly. An evil habit does not gain mastery over the man upon the instant nor once in control is its grip broken by any feeble affirmation or miraculous phenomenon.

      The hope comes when one turns one’s thought from the destructive to the constructive, and lives in the sight of the new born faith until wisdom lifts the darkened veil and freedom follows as its rightful legacy.

      The Self Master Colony offers an open door to the disheartened man during the period of his awakening to his real strength and helps him with its constant care and sympathy back to his true self.

      ANDRESS FLOYD.

      A JOURNEY TO OUR MONASTERY

      If any pilgrim monk come from distant parts to dwell with us, and will be content with the customs which he finds in the place, and do not perchance by his lavishness disturb the Monastery, he shall be received.

      —Saint Benedict.

      A Journey to our Monastery

      man had walked the entire distance from New York to the Self Master Family. In truth, he had walked more than the entire distance, for once or twice he had lost his way—as many a man has done in other walks of Life. Painfully he had retraced his steps to the right road. The mistakes had told heavily upon his failing strength. They had made him just that much more weary with it all. No doubt mistakes are wonderfully educational; they make men wiser, and therefore better, for in the final analysis wisdom and goodness are synonymous.

      He complained bitterly at the hardness of his lot and found little comfort in the thought that he might reach the Colony too late for the evening meal.

      His friend who had met him walking aimlessly up and down Broadway assured him that there was always a coffee pot boiling on the old-fashioned cook stove in the boys’ kitchen—that the Colony House never locked its doors.

      To a man who feels that every door in the

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