H EA L ING A FFIRMA TIONS

Gett in g Well an d ! eep n g i Well

BY

G EORG E L PERIN

A UTHOR OF

Th e Su nny Sid e o f Li fe

How I W a s H e al e d o f Paral ysis

Wh y , F a d d er , Why

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: f o f gm t y
. or l c tira f my w en ar se e o ns o o n,

pi t d i M P i b k
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Des rres wh en exp r esse d in

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dy n a m i c m i n d f o r c es .
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ra f my w en ar se e o ns o o n,

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r n et d i M P in b k
rs . Th Opti mi t
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ea n oe s .
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Des rres wh en exp r esse d in

a flf r m a t i o n s a re

dy n a m i c m i n d f o r c es .
 C ON TE N T S
Th e Law
For ewor d .

Pr ef a c e
Af fir mation an d Conc entration .

Practicing Af fi r mations
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Th e Silence What it Mean
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s an d Ho t o
Enter .

Interlu d e 21
Af fir m ations 22 64
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You an d A u n t l e Dol ful 65

Hints on Health 7I
So me Health Don ts 76
Pa r tial B r eathing 77
Bigg er than Anything that ca n H appento Hi m 8 ]
Poise an d Power 85
A State of Mind . 88
Th e Sla v e of a Clock 89
Fo r g et It or the Ne v er Min d Phi l osophy
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92
Heali n g Scr iptures 95
A Gr oup of Healing Poems 1 05 1 1 2
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Healing Ser vice !Fo r the Cu r e of Fe ar ! I I3

H ealing Ser vice !For the Cu r e of Evil Em o
tions ! .

Healing Servic e!Gen e r al !

Healing Aspi r ation

A Healing Pr ayer
A Healing Blessing f or Close of Service
 FOR EW OR D
Th e conclusions set f or th in this book hav e been
r ea ch ed throug h stu dies eng ag ed in at inter vals of a
long an d r ather sev er e illnes s an d yet my inter est
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in so called psychic or metaphysical healing d ates

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back many year s C er tainly twenty year s ag o my

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attention was called to the f act that the so called -

tr ans cend ental movement str ongly hinte d espe ,

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ci al ly Emerson s Th e Over Soul
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at the mo d er n
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psy cholog ical conclusions inv olved in the New

Thou g ht .

Later I rea d with g r eat interest H enry Woo d

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Pr entice Mulf o r d Hor atio Dre sser an d still later

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Mr s Ed dy s books ! uite recently I have been

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helped by the reading of Ju dg e Thomas Tr owar d s

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Ed inbor o l e ctures on Psy chology as well as Th e
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Law of Mind in Ac tion by Fen wi cke L Holmes

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an d Healing by Walter Dev oe .

My d ebt of g ratitu de to al l these is something ,

thoug h they hav e b een by no means equally usef ul .

But throug h such studies I have r eached the

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conclusion of the v ali dity of metaphysical he aling .

But in saying this I do not wish to be understood

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as h aving espoused the correc tness of any one of the

numer ous cults whether it be one of the v ar iou s

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schools of New Thought su ch as M ental Healing , ,

Spi r itual Healing the Immanuel Mov ement or

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Chr istian Science .

My own conviction is that whoever wish es to

pr actice metaphysical healing will do well to stu dy
all these var ious f orms which do not diff er f u nda
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mentally f r om each other in phi losophy but only ,

in the d etails of applying the philosophy an d take ,

out of ea ch what will help him most .

I sincer ely believe in metaphysical or psychi cal

healing whether with the patient pr esent with the
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healer or absent I have ma d e this book with the

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sing le object in view of being usef ul to the aff licted .

To this en d may I not hope that this little book wi ll

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be of some ser vice both f or pr ivate use an d in

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public services .

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 P R E FA C E

In m aking this little book my one d esir e has

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been to b e of ser vice to those who long to be healed .

When I h ad become conv inced in my own illness that

I could appeal to something within I long ed with
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an almost infinite long ing to know how to express

my d esires an d to make them eff ective I pur chased
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book af ter book in the hope that I coul d fin d some

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bo dy who would teach me how to expr ess Healing
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Affir mations . While I di d fin d help it was too
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wi dely scatter ed thr ou g hout var ious books Finally.

I became convinc ed that affir m ations of my own

w ere b etter f o r me than any I could fin d ready mad e .

Nev ertheless I still b elieve that the young stud ent

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of metaphysi c al he aling w ill fi n d he l p in having a

f ew affi rmations f ormulate d f or h im All other

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m atter in thi s book b esid e the affirmati ons may b e

reg ar d ed as inci d ental an d the affi rmations as
f und amental . In f ormul ating t h e affi rmations I,

h ad fir st to f orm u l ate a l aw to whi ch ea ch affir m ation

sh ou l d b e m ad e to c onf o r m . Th e law m ay b e
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expr essed thus : Des ir es when exp res sed i n p owerf u l
aff i r m at ion s becom e Dyn a m ic M i n d F or ces This
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may not be the most f elicitous expr ession of the

law but it will at least make the pur pose of affir m a
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tions sufficiently clear .

While in my fir st planni ng of this book I h ad in

mind almost entir ely its pr ivate use later it occurr ed
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to me that some use might be made of it in p ublic

ser vices Such use will be sugg ested by a f ew
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ser vices in the back par t of the book .

Another thing per haps ought to be explained I t .

will be noticed that I have u sed the per sonal pr onoun

all the way thr oug h This has been du e to the f act
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that it was diffi cult f or me to r emember that I was

wr itin g a book at all Th e whole thing has been so
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per son al that ther e seemed a fitness in the use of the

pe r sonal pr onoun an d I hope you will be able to
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r emove the appar ent e g otism an d to excuse the

appar ent in f or mali ty by just imag ining that I am

talking with you .

Let me a g ain expr ess the hope that this little

ser ve a usef ul pu rpose among those who
ar e long ing f or help .

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 A FF I R M A T I O N A N D C ON C E N T RA T ION

To fli rm
a means liter ally to d eclare to be tr ue
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an d to concentr ate means to b r ing all the rays of

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one s thoug ht to a f o cus of intensity ; thus coneen

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t r a t i on b r ings all the s c attered f or c es of the mind to

a common center of attention .

Aff ir mat ion is but a f or m of pr ayer It is pr ayer .

without f ormal petition Th e musician makes what.

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he calls Song s without Word s ; so affirmation is
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pr ayer without supplication but it is pr ayer none ,

the less I t is o r shoul d be when joined with

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concentr ation the most ear nest f or m of pr ayer

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But you will notice that concentration may have

either a constr uctive or a d estr uctive eff ect For .

example : A man may concentr ate on his weaknes ses ,

his worries his d iseases his c ar es his sor rows his

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losses ; but if he concentr ates on his f ear s an d hatre ds

a n d wor r res he d e str oys the h armony of the mind
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a n d bo d y an d r end ers his whole o r g anism unh appy

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an d ineffi cient an d so d estr oys all prospec t of

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peac e an d succ ess an d prosperity Now just .

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because s u ch neg ative concentration is common we ,

need affirmation of a po sitive ch aracter to counter act

the n eg ative inf luenc es that ar e going on within us
an d a r oun d us all the time Thus it will be seen
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that one who makes a lar g er affirmation in a positive

way an d concentr ates upon it sets in Oper ation
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machinery which will cur e the ills of lif e ; hence this

Book of Affirmations Your affi rmation becomes a
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pr ayer to the Divine Intellig ence within you an d ,

when you concentr ate upon that affirmation it

becomes a p 05 1 t iv e str eng th in f avor of the object of
your d esi r e.

It may well be asked why we have pr ep ar ed so

many diff er ent affirmations in so small a compass .

My answer 1 3 s1 m rlar to that made by one boy to

another boy when he asked Wh y ar e ther e so many
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gi r ls in the wor ld ? Th e answer was Because there
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ar e so many boys . One affirmation appeals to one

temper ament or one cast of mind an d per haps not
at all to other people Th ese may be called simply
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sample affirmations d esig ned to help r ealization an d ,

not one in all the list pr ovi ded in this little book may
be the one t o ap p eal to you In any event it is
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better to make your own affirmation as you f eel

pr of oun dly the nee d .
be a thousand times Th e point in your g oal is
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r ealization You must hold to that an d make

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r epetition of your affirm ation until r ealiz ation comes ,

an d d o not be d iscou r ag e d i f you ar e sure you are

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r ig ht .! eep on affirming a thousand times i f

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necessar y until you g et what you d esir e Finally

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I cannot ur g e too strongly that you shall not be

disc ourag ed if a mi r acle i s not wr ought upon you
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in a moment of time . God moves in a myster ious
way Hi s wonder s to perf orm
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All I can say is you
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mu st not lose your gr ip of f aith in the Divine

Intellig ence within you He will sur ely manif est if
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you do not become Weary in well doing -

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Let me g ive you a chapte r f r om my own exper ience .

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I made this affirmation , I am Vitality It was .

not easy to see h ow with an apparently impotent

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l e an d an im p otent arm I coul d be Vitality
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d ay af ter d ay I kept making thi s affirmation until

Vitality b ecame Reality an d I began to f eel an d then
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to acqui r e power an d so came at last the r ealization

which I h ad been affirming .

But do not d eceive your self by tur ning your

mouth into an automatic machine r epeating wor ds
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that r emind one of the manner in whi ch some

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f ormal chur ch men repeat the Lor d s Pr ayer so ,

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rapi dly an d with so little thoug ht that it reminds
one of an automatic electr ic hammer that makes
one indisting uishable blur of sound Such affi r ma
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tion is wor se th an none because it not only does not

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g e t the patient anywhere but

, it m ake s a mo ckery o f
h i s own f aith
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 P RA CT I C IN G A FFIRMAT ION S
To make affi r mations anything mor e than mer e
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wor ds or lingo you shoul d r emember that they
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ar e subjec t to the

L aw of cause an d eff ect or ,

to state it mor e clear ly thus ,

Des ir es exp r es s e d in f or ce u f l ff
a i r m at ions are

dyn am i c m in d f or ces .

Remember ing this law r epeat the f ollowing

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I think health —
I think str en gth I think vital ity .

moment s silence!
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I br eathe health I br eathe s tr en gth I br eathe
vita l ity.

A moment s silence
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I f eel health I f eel str en gth I f eel vital ity .

A moment s silence
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I am health I am str en gth I am vital ity .

!A moment s silence!
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I am a temp le of the l ivin g God .

Do not f or g et the law enunciated above

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Des ir es exp r es s e d i n f or cef ul a ff ir ma t ions

dyn am ic m in d f or ces .
 THE S I L EN C E

W HA T I T M EA N S A N D H OW T O E N TE R
Th e so called silence as used by those who p r ac
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tice metaphysical healing r ests not only in logic an d

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common sense but also upon the teaching of the

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Scr iptur es By a simple test one can easily con

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vinc e himself that mental an d spi r itual power may

be stor ed by the simple d evice of shutting out the
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wor ld an d keeping quiet while Jesus said When
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thou prayest ente r into thy chamber an d shut the

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d oo r. In other wo r ds be quiet , .

Yet to the beginner in the pr actice of meta

physical healin g i t may be wise to g ive a hint or
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two about g oi n g into the silence .

For at least fif teen minutes each d ay better ,

fif teen minutes in the mo r ning an d fif teen minutes

I n the evening g o into a quiet r oom alone take an
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easy position an d h e still i t will be g ood i f you

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accompany your quiet mood with clo sed eyes an d

d eep r eg ula r br eathi n g Soon you will h ave a sense
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of d eep pea c e with all the wo r l d li f e s ca r es will slip

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away li f e s wo rr ies be f org otten an d you will say

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God is in me an d all aroun d me You w ill f eel a
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new sense of power When you have this d eep

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s ense of pe ac e an d the c onsciou s f eeling th at you ar e

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in imm ediate touch with Go d then ask God f or ,

what you d esir e Do not ask with the f eeling that

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you may or may not r eceive n or wi t h the f eeling ,

that somewher e sometime i f Go d g ets time H e wi ll

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hear you but with the f aith that God hear s an d

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answer s n ow Jesus pr omised : Whatsoever ye

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shall ask in pr ayer believing ye shall r eceive
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A n d again he said Accor ding to your f aith be it
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unto you .

Of cour se it is wise to f or tif y you r self in any

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emer g ency or f or healing another or f or self healing -

by going into the silence But if ever y man woman .

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an d chil d in the wo r l d quite in d epend ent of thei r

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religious belief s coul d pr actice g oing into the silence

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f o r fif teen minutes a d ay it woul d do much not , ,

only to establish peace an d poise but to d estr oy t h e ,

habit of hurr y an d wor r y Not only so but sever al .

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ner vous diseases woul d go quite out of f ashion an d

the d octor s coul d dr op out of thei r vocabular y
sev er al f amiliar terms Mor eover men s wor king
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power woul d be vastly incr eased an d they woul d

work without becoming tir ed f or they woul d w ork ,

with ser enity an d without f r i ction .

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 IN TE RL UDE
In another v olume in my stor y How I was
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H ealed of Par alysis I have ma d e it clear th at the
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office of the healer is exceeding ly impor tant but it ,

is only f ai r t o say that all thr oug h this tr eatment I

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mad e perpetual use o f these an d other affirmations ;

ther ef or e whether with healer o r f or self healing
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such affirmations may be used with g r eat benefit .

But do not f org et that affir mations f or med by

your self ar e even mor e usef ul than any that can be
f r amed f or you Th e f ollowing affirmations ar e
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d esig ned me r ely as a sug g estion of how t o affirm

an d how to conc entr ate on the affirmation .

I ha v e lear ne d by experience that it is d esir able ,

if convenient to lie quietly with close d eyes while

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these af fi r mations an d the par ag raphs with them be

r ea d alou d by the nu r se or s ome f rien d A n d no
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m atter even thou g h the patient lo ses c onsc i ou sne ss

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a n d g oes f ast asleep let the read ing c ontinue I t

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of ten happens that the subcons ciou s mind abs orbs

as suc c essf ully as d oes the waking min d .

GEORGE L . PER I N .

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 A F F I R M A T I ON

I am kin dn ess an d cour tesy .

In my in mos t s ou l I love others as I do myself , a nd I

f eel good will towar d a l l
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Nothing is f und amentally mor e har monizing than

kindness an d good will I h ad almost sai d that a
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Spi r it o f gr ouchiness an d c ar p m g c r iticism is wholly

inconsistent with goo d health Nothin will mor e

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quickly br ing into the s oul a sp1 r 1 t of health than an

affirmation of kindness an d cour tesy I f you want .

to r emove an enemy the sur e way is not to hunt a

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method of getting even with him but the sur e
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way is to r emove him as an enemy by affi r ming love .

Sometime it will be necessar y to put this affirmation

into a kindly d eed but when so expr essed it is sure
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to be eff ective .

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 A FFIRMAT ION
God i s the s up r eme f act i n my l f i e
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Temp or ary p a in or disease i s f

o l ittl e con seq uen ce.

Many of us make the mistake of wr ong emphasis .

We ar e thr own off ou r balance an d ma de hyster ical

by a little pain or tempor ar y illness while we f orget
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altogether the pr esence an d power of Go d We .

need to r emember the gr eat supr eme f und amental

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f act of Go d in our own lif e Th e mer ely tr ivial an d

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tempor ar y will not tr ouble us because we know that

it i s tr ivial an d tempor ar y When we f eel pain or
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the lack of har mony anywher e in our bo dies we

simply need byan act of f aith to affirm the supr emacy
o f the gr eat cr eative spi r it in o u r o wn lives Let us .

expr ess ou r d esi r es in f or cef ul affir mations an d then

r emember that such d esi r es ar e d ynamic mind
f orces.

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 A FFIRM AT ION

I am i n p ar tn ers h ip with the gr eat i

cr eat ve in tell igen ce .

I am one with the Father Ther ef or e I am hei r

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to all that Go d has mad e I have all the str en gth I

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need because God is all power I am g ui d ed in all

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that I need to know bec ause God is all wisdom .

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But in saying this I need to r emember the silence
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Every day I must list en an d listen to the intimation

o f the d ivine voice I must hear what God would
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God is all supply ; theref or e I shall not want

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God is lov e ; ther ef or e I am filled with the hi g hest

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love an d aff ection .

With such d ivine par tnership I shall always be

r ich
. But I shall remember that a par tner ship with
God implies not mer ely an owner ship in H i s r iches
but it implies also an oblig ation to do my par t ;
hence I shall ser ve the Lo r d with g ladness
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 A F FIRMAT I ON
Today I s hal l wor k conf i dently an d ther ef or e eff ect ively .

1 sh all n either h u r ry n or wor ry n or wi ll I be n er vous

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an d i r r i tahle
.

I shal l go s tr a ight ahead i n the i

cons c ous n ess that God
i s with me a n d all i s wel l .

No m an works eff ec t iv ely whose spi r it is in a

f lutter . A f un d amental condition of good wo r k an d
good health is quiet a d confid ence One needs
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n .

to wor k as i f he h ad all the time ther e is al l the ,

str ength that is need ed all the power that the job
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r equi r es Su ch confid ence can be secur ed on ly on

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condition of f aith that God is pr esent an d in char ge

o f all t h e cir cumstances Thus he may take h i s
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mi d f r om the contingenci es an d addr ess him self to

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each str oke of the task Thus the r e shall be no

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wasted eff or t thus shall ther e be no dissipation of

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power or f ailur e of ef f or t an d at the en d of the day

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one m ay wor k al most as f r eshly an d eff ectively as

when the day beg an .
 A FF I RM ATION
J oy!

My wor d today is j oy !

I m eet my f r ien ds with j oy .

I f eel j oy when I s ee the s u n .

j oy i s i n the win d as i t blo ws

The bir d s
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s on g i s j oy to me .

God i s l if e an d I am on e with
God i s all i n a ll .

Do not mer ely s ay joy Feel joy in you r i nmos t

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hear t A ct joy ! Do something to fill some othe r

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hear t with joy .

Let wo r d s an d thoug hts an d f eeling s an d action s

har monize .
 A FF I RM ATION
I am a sp ri it of love .

I am l if e eter n al .

God is love Love is Lif e eter nal Love spr ing s

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spontaneously within my spi r it an d is the lif e of my

spi r it Love is the t r an sfig ur i n g ener g y of my
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spi r it Love is the gr ace beauty an d perf ection of

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my char acter .

Her e we have linke d tog ether two gr eat dynamic

wor ds love an d l if e Not only ar e they dynami c
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when linked together but love is the g r eat h arm on iz

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ing f or ce of the univer se Wher e love abounds al l

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the f aculties an d emotions must dwell tog ether in

peace an d harmony an d not only must ther e be f or
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the healing of men the gr eat pr opulsive power of

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vital f or ce but ther e must also be t h e peace which
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p asseth un d e r stan d in g .

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 A F F I RM A T I ON

I wil l wor k with a f l in g

ee f
o r es p on s ibil ity .

have cl on e the best I can , I will leave

with God .

So shall I h ave p ower an d p eace .

Ever y man is r esponsible f or his motive an d f or

per sonal inter est in his wor k but no m an is r eSp on
,

sible f or the r es ults of his work Let each man do .

the best he c an an d leav e the r esul t with God .

Then shall he have power bec ause his str eng th shall
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not be d issipated with anxiety about r esults He .

shall have pe ace becau se he knows the results ar e

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with Go d .

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 A FF I RMA TION
I have a consc zoa sm s s o f th e a l m ighty goodn es s an d

Th is consc ousness i is a tr ansf or m i ng p o wer to m a ke

me f eel love an d kindn ess f or ever y hu m an bein g .

Th is kindness an d love wi ll a ct to g ive m e p ea ce an d

health .

Love h as be en well call ed the g r eates t thi ng in

the wor l d .

i t is the har monizi ng emoti on which binds the

human r ac e in one Because I love an d God loves
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I may say I an d the Father ar e one i n the absence .

of love it is w ar r ing o f conflicting emotions wi n

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of ten pr od uces ill h ealth Wher e love .

peace hope an d joy H ence

, .one of o ur
hig hes t aff i r m ations is to be the simple
d ecl ar ati on God i s Love
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 A F FI RM A T IO N

I will p ra ise God f r om whom al l bless in gs f low .

Whether I have what I want or not still what I ,

have is f r om Go d an d is an evid ence of H i s g ood ness

, .

No gr eater mistake coul d be made by one who

wishes to invoke the healing power of God than to
f o r m the habit of gr umbling about what he has not .

C r umbling is wholly negative .

Gr atitu d e is positive
, dynamic .

By a gr eat eter nal law which Jesus enunciated ,

the gif ts of Go d multiply thr ough gr atitud e an d use .

I t woul d har dly be putting the case too str ongly

to u r ge that ever y f ormal affirmation shoul d be
closed with a sentence of thanksg iving .

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 A FF I RM ATION

i
Do not hesitate to cond ense you r affi r mation into
a sing le wo r d It is not the number of wor d s that
.

counts it is the idea At all hazar d s let your i d ea

, .

be dynamic an d if it is dynamic ultimately it will

, ,

be eff ective I r emember when my r ig ht si d e was

.

totally par alyze d For many d ays when I coul d

.
,

see almost no si g n of li f e I g ave mysel f consolation ,

an d helped to win b ack new powe r by the simple

r epetition of this little wo r d lif e ! lif e ! lif e ! lif e !

But each repetition was like a g r eat m sp l r m g
pr ayer A n d how g ood it is to f eel the lif e coming
.

back creeping silently f r om d ay to d ay over my

,

whole r ig ht si d e bear in g new witness to the f ac t

,

that I am a chil d of God Scientific men ag r ee that .

the bo dy i s mad e up of infinitesimal c ells But what .

none of them can tell is exactly how or how r apidly

new c ells ar e mad e But I shall cling to my f aith
“

that God s power is expr essed m the g rowth of

’

cel l lif e
-
.

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 A FFI RM A TION
God is lif e !

I am om wi t h God .

Th e e ld is f all q lif e
‘
.

Let l if e aboun d i n me as it di d i n

as men lose po wer by los in g t om b with God ,

thei r sen s e of fil e by thin ki n g of li f e as

ap a r t f r m t ha n sel w s On e n eeds to
f eel t h a t h who le wor ld is thr obbing wit h lif e One .

lif e by keep ing in t w ch wi th th e g ent

f om of v i tality Never f or get tha t you are om
.

wit h God Afirm this tr uth r epeatedl y ev my da y

.
'

f ith wi ll com e
a i to
m exp r ess ion in mor e lif e
.

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 A FF I RM ATION
Tr e a t m e n t f o r Fa u l t Fi n d i n g
-

I am good wor ld
in a .

My wor ld i s govern ed by a good God .

The p eop le aroun d me are kin d an d thoughtf ul .

I wi ll aban don al l habit off au lt f in ding

-
.

The r e is no doubt that the habit of f aul t fin ding -

of ten has a ser iou s eff ect upon the b odily he al th .

One s mental attitud e towards tho se with whom he

’

is in d aily relations should be c onstruc tive an d

pos i t i ve One may e asily r eason himself into the
.

conviction that his f ault fin ding is entirely j u st I t

-
.

may be just but is it worth while ? Mu ch of the

,

f aul t fi -
n di n g d oes n o po s sible g o od bu t it do e s h av e
,

the serious eff ect of poi soning the mind of t h e one

wh o find s f au l t an d d irec tly injure s the heal th .

I f you hav e su ch a habit en d it Now , .

35 ]
 A FF I RMATION
Cr eat ive l ife i s f lowin g in to me an d thr ough me .

Cr eat ive l if e will r en ew all my j aded f acu lt ies .

Cr eat ive l ife will r en ew the en er gy of my dep leted n er ves .

Cr eative l ife will res tor e me to p erf ect Health .

When I use the phr ase Cr eative Li f e I do it

“
a d visedly under the conviction that cr eative lif e
“
is par allel with subconscious mind an d that the,

subconscious mind is indeed the buil der of the bo dy .

Th e sick man t her ef or e can never make a mistake

, ,

when he appeals to the cr eative mind within f or ,

ever y such appeal has its answer within the gr eat

cosmic cr eative mind which we call Go d I t is a
, .

pr ayer to God with a new meaning based on a

r ealization that the r e is something in man f und a

mentally cor r esponding to the natur e of Go d .

Make this af firmation a hundred times d aily an d

you will sur ely f eel the answer ing blessing .

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 A F F I RM A T I ON

I will be kin d to every man , wom an an d ch ild

whom I come in con tact .

I will be cheerf u l an d hop ef u l .

I will tr ust i n God an d br avely f ace the f utur e .

Just as the evil emotions aff ect the bo dy har m

f ully so the g oo d emotions aff ect the bo dy helpf ully
, .

While it may not be a f undamental motive to be

’

kind f or the sake of b eing well there is no question

,

that the m an who practic es kind ness will mor e

completely harmonize al l the f aculties of his natur e ,

an d keep m better bo dily health Th e v alue of.

cheerf ulness as a therapeuti c ag ent is witnessed by

the f ashion of ou r times in the ser vic e of cheer f ul
liter atur e while some of the most eminent
,

me dical wr iter s of the wor ld have d eclared thei r

belief in f aith in God as a healing ag ency .
 A FF I RMA TION
I am a temp le of the l iv ing God .

A n d the sp ir it f the A lm ighty dwel l eth

o i n me
.

Thes e wor ds : I am a temple of the l iving God ,

in a little diff er ent f or m we bg an r eading when we

,

wer e childr en in the Sunday School an d ever since ,

then at inter vals the minister has been r epeatin

,
g

them in his ser mon A n d yet it is pr etty saf e to

.

say that mos t of us have h a d no genuine r ealization

that t h e wo r ds ar e tr ue But as a motive in lif e
.
,

they ar e r eall y f und amental I am a temple of the

.

living God Th e spir it of the Almi ghty does dwell

.

in me Su ch afli r m at i on can not be hel d

.

fill ing lif e with pos itive g ood .

[ 38 ]
 A FF I RMA TION
I f l I
ee am a sp r i it of l if e vital izin g the symp athet ic
n er ve .

I con cen tr ate my atten t on i on the l ife that i s n ow

f lo w in g th r ou g h t h e en t ire n er vous system .

I wil l f eel l if e s t ir r in g all s l ugg ish cu r r en ts to pos it ive

act v i ity .

I will con cen tr at e on th is inf lowing f orce u nt il I f eel

that every l l i n my body i s
ce h
c ar ge d with i ts
v ital izing en er gy .

If I have concentr ated my attention on the lif e

that is now flowi ng thr ough the entir e nerv ous
system how can I help V italizi ng the sympathetic
,

ner ve? This is pr ecisely what affir mation an d

concent r ation do f o r one They cultivate po sitive .

vital f or ce an d br ing a f eeling o f gr owing str ength

, ,

whatever the ai lment may be C oncentr ate on .

these wo r ds an d do not be discour aged even thou gh ,

it takes a little time to observ e r esults God does .

not mock men ! eep on aff irm in g

. .

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-
1
 A FF I RM ATION

God i s my inf in ite s upp ly; ther ef ore I am f ollowed

,

a n d f il led with ever l as t in g a bu n dan ce

.

My dep en den ce i s up on God an d God n ever f a ils .

I must r emembe r that I have all I need to work

with Str ength is mine an d wis dom an d i n t elli
.

g ence I.shall wo r k e f f ectively be c ause o m n i p o

tent power 1 8 mi ne I shall wor k without hurry or

.

wor r y because I have peac e an d the consciou sness

that all is well So many people l ack the real tou ch
.

of powe r in thei r wo r k because they f eel that they

ar e on the po int o f exhausting their str en g th or

wisd om or power or health Such f ear does bu t

.

par alyze one s sk ill because it is a f o r m of atheism

’

He who woul d have any quality of g eniu s must walk

with f aith .

[ 41 ]
 A FF I RM ATION
Happ in ess today i s m in e!
I shall be happy all day l on g .

Even as God s sm ile i s ref lected i n H i s sunsh in e

’

, so

h app in ess shall be ref lected i n my own sm ile .

Blessing s on the man wh o smiles ! Not the man

who smiles f or eff ect nor the one who smiles when
,

the wo r ld smiles but the man whose smile is bor n

,

of an inne r r ad ianc e the man who sm iles when the

,

clou ds lower when f or tune f rowns when the ti des

, ,

ar e a d v erse the sunshine of whose hear t br eaks

f orth in smi les Su ch a man not only cr eates his
.

own f air wor l d but he multiplies himself an hundred

,

f old in the courag e an d str eng th an d joy o f othe r

men .

[ 42 ]
 A FF I RM A TION
I d my wor ld as an opp ortun ity f or ser vice
r egar .

I will n o lon ger clamor f or r ights but I wil l be gl ad

, o f
opp or tu n i t ies an d p r ivil eges .

A n d I will be happy .

Some people think so mu ch of their r ig hts an d so

little of their oppo r tunities th at the natur al order is
entirely rev ersed Th e m an who l iv es t o ser ve will
.

be the happy m an Th e m an wh o i s al ways cl amor

.

in g f or h i s person al ri ghts will be nerv ous f retfu l ,

an d unh appy .

When you g o f or th today g o l ooking f or opp or

,

t u n i t i es to ser v e an d not f o r the v ind i cati on of y our

,

ri ghts .

Th e m an wh o c ome s t o ser v e i s al ways welcome .

[ 43 ]
 A FF I RM ATI ON
I ih
am r c i n thought an d f eel in g .

I am r ich i n hop e an d i
asp r at on i .

I am r ich in r es ou r ces an d opp or tu n it ies .

I am r ich i n f a ith an d love .

The wor ld itself i s m in e an d God i s m in e .

Do not har bo r the thought of pover ty Whoeve r .

th in ks p over ty will be poo r Whoever thinks weal t h

.

will be r ich .

I f you ar e wor king with God as a chil d of Go d ,

then your supply cannot be exhausted Do not .

entertain the notion f or a moment that you cannot

be anything or do anything that you may wish to do .

Gr eat thi n g s ar e bor n out of g reat thoug hts .

You ar e a chil d of God .

Do not tr eat you r sel f like a pauper Th in k success . .

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 A F F I RM A T I ON

I wil l tr us t i n God .

God i s my f
r e uge an d str ength .

God i s my del iver an ce . He wil l n ever f a il me .

M any other thing s may be d esi r able con as a

v en i en c e but not as a permanent r eliance

, I f you .

a r e looking f or unquestione d help you m ay accept ,

the pr of f er ed help of f r ien ds or income or position ,

but you will not look with cer ta in r el ian ce upon any
of these .God alone satisfies You have only to .

take a step or two backwar d to see that God alone

f u r nishes all you have even your d aily b r ea d
, .

H owever r ich you may be in th in gs you ar e poor ,

ind eed without Go d God is your inexhaustible

.

supply Faith in God is ou r anchor an d we lear n

.
,

f r om a thousand voices that we can neve r dri f t

“
beyond Hi s love an d car e .

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 A FF I RM ATION
The d ivi n e l if e i s n ow f lo win g thr ough my i
en t r e

n er vous system .

I f i x my m i d n upon th is i n f lowing l if e f or ce
- -
un t il I
f l
eet h at every cel l i n my hody i s char ged with i ts
v ital izin g en er gy .

If
you ar e to be healed or do a successf ul work
anywhe r e you must dismiss f r om your mind all
,

thought of being alone I f you think of your self

.

as alone you separ ate your sel f f r om God an d f r om

,

the gr eat cr eative ener gy of the universe .

Remember ther e can be no t hing between you an d

God God is the l if e of your l if e
. .

Have f aith in the i n flowi n love a n d lif e of Go d

g .

[ 4 6 ]
 A FF I RMATION
God i s with m e everyhou r i n l ight an d i n dar kn ess .

H i s inf i n i te love a bo un ds as ten der as th at of a mother .

L i ke a ch i ld i n p a i n I cr y out to my Fath er He .

“
an s wer s , H er e my ch ild I love you
, , ever mor e .

‘
1

My little f our year o l d bo y lay sick

- -
an d r s e tless ,

d ar k. Eve r ynow an d then the chil d half sleepin g , ,

" " " “

half waking woul d cal l out Fe dd er
, Yes d ear , .
, ,

“
H ell o Padd er please say , ,

hell o to me Fad d er ever y little whil e

, , Then he .

woul d dr op agai n to sleep I have of ten thought .

that the little f ell ow was but exp r es sing a common

human instinct Th e shadows ma d e h i m lonely
.
,

an d he was mo r e comf o r table if he coul d hear an

ass ur ing voice as he jour neyed to dr eamland .

Chil dr en of an ol d e r gr owth meet the shad ows too , ,

an d i f they only h a d f aith enoug h an d knew how to

ar ticul ate the cr y woul d they not of ten say to God

, ,

“
Plea se say hell o ever y li ttle whil e confi d ent tha t ,

“ "
He woul d ans wer Yes d ear I am her e an d in
, , , ,

Him we woul d fin d peace an d r est .

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As I have said elsewher e in this volume it is not ,

the f o r m of word s which f u r ni shes the healing

p ower It is sometimes the mental pictur e Rest
. .

i n g af ter an illness of seve r al months on my sleeping

por ch in New Hampshi r e f r om wher e I could see
,

the g r eat pines lif t their d ar k g r een branche s to the

wester n s ky one day half sleep i ng hal f waking I
, , , ,

saw disti nctly on the r oof of an o ld bar n which

helpe d to make up one of the loveliest pictur es I
“
have e v er seen the word Health I t appear ed
!

.
, ,

to be in rathe r lar g e distinct letter s Shall I call

, .

it a messag e di r ect f r om Go d to my tir e d ner ves ?

At all events let me say that the pictu r e of the
,

wo r d Health has r ecur r ed again an d a g ain a n d ,

always it has br ought healing blessing Sometimes .

I have seen it on the r oof of the o ld ba r n an d many

times in the sunset clou d s above the pines Of ten .

in lar g e d istinct letter s an d then ag ain f r om the

, ,

d eep tones of pu r ple d own to the f aintest sha d es of

azur e But always when the vision has come it has
.

been like an insp ir at ion I like to believe that this

.

is one of the ways in which God has spoken to my

soul with healing power .

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Today I will open the windows of my sou l

That Love m ay enter
That j oy may en ter

Th at Good- will may enter

That Thoughtf uln es s m ay en ter
That Symp athy may enter .

If I Open the d oor wi d e these gu est s will enter my

,

very soul .

Thi s is God s worl d an d love i s ab r oa d in it waiting

'

f or a welcome Joy an d sympathy ar e al so seeking

.

a r ef u ge. Good will an d th oug htf u lness will f ollow

-
.

Ha s lif e seeme d a d ull g ray ? Has ther e been no

gleam of r ose ? These d ear g uests i f I a dmit ,

them will make a magic r e acti on in my so ul I

,
-
.

shall f eel love I shall f eel joy I shall f eel g ood will
, ,
-

an d thou g htf ulness an d sympathy an d the f eelin g ,

will be f ar r eaching Other s lives will be blessed

’
-
.

who need the cheer an d comf or t that my g u ests will

carry to them mo r e pe rhaps than I r ealize Th e
, .

sunshine that comes in at my open d oo r will be like

healing balm to my soul a n d to all other s wi t h ,

whom tod ay I come in c ontact .

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 A FF I RMATION
God sp ea ks to men .

Somet im es He sp ea ks to men thr ough me .

God i s the a uthor of my vocal or gan s .

He will heal them an d m a ke them s tron g an d ff

e ic ien t .

As St Paul teache s u s the body is not one member

.
, ,
"
but many an d yet as he says all fit ly Jo m ed
, , ,

to g ether in one This sound s like mere common

.

lace b u t when we invoke hea l ing power f or the

p ,

bo dy it is f ar mor e than commonpl ace f or just as

, , ,

the r eg ular physician may seek to reach the head or

the throat thr ough medicine taken into the stomach ,

so in metaphysi cal healing one seeks to rea ch the

,

r emotest pa r t s o f the bo dy th r ou g h thou g hts taken

into the brain on ner ve cur r ents until they r each

, ,

the d istant cell f amilies Ther e is no r ea son ther e

.
,

f o r e why cong estion in the thr oat o r lung s may not

,
,

be put to fli g ht by these positive affi r mations of

truth f or it is concentr ation upon affir mations of
,

t r uth that help to buil d the bod y But r emember .

it is not how mu ch you r ea d that aff ects your

consciousness an d not even how mu ch you may
,

know about mental states but it is how much you

,

r e ally absorb o f f aith which fin d s e xp r e ss ion in the

v ita l izing energ y of y our bein g .

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 A FFIRM A T ION

God i s my Lor d an d my God .

Ther e is too much pr aying in the second per son

plur al an d too little pr aying in the fir st per son
singular I call the f or mer pr ayer with wor d s alone
—
.
,

the latter is pr ayer with the spir itual conscious

“
ness Public pr ayer when we say ou r Father
!
.
,

instea d of my Father is peculiar ly open to this objec

“ "
tion Th e affi r mation f or which pr epar ation has
.

“
been mad e in the silence is less likely to be subject
to such cr iticism But no matter whether the
.

pr ayer be public or pr ivate the thing I u r ge is that ,

element bo r n of per sonal spi r itual consciousness of

,

Go d s ind welling p r esence

’

Once many year s ago I saw a young woman in a

, ,

Salvation Ar my meeting kneel as in the ver y pr esence

o f Go d , without obvious choice of wor d s an d in ,

pr of ound simplicity an d sincer ity pour out h er soul

“
as to h er own Go d Thus alone d oes d emonstr a
.

tion come We must speak to ou r own God Fo r

. .

sever al year s Thomas Didymus sai d My Lor d an d

“
,

my God At last ther e came a time when he sai d

!
.
,
“ "
My Lor d an d my God “

H ealing power is bor n

.

My Lor d
“
o f the spi r it of Thomas when he coul d say
"
an d my Go d .

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With all the intens ity of an ear n est m in d I des ire l if e

, .

God i s l if e Every cel l i n my body des ir es mor e l ife

. .

Ever n er ve cr ies aloud f or mor e l if e .

God will g ive me l ife more abu n dan t .

Ther e is no more f avor ite theme in the g ospel o f

Jesus Chr ist than that of Lif e Jesus ever ywher e
.

speaks lig htly or not at all of what men call d eath

, , .

But he exalts an d mag nifies lif e as if it were some

thing ver y pr ecious .

I t i s ther ef o r e r easonable to believe that ther e is

in the uni ver se a ver y abund ant supply of lif e I t .

has never been exhausted or even near ly exhauste d .

Th e ind ivi dual may f eel poor f or the lack of lif e ,

but ther e is no lack in the univer se f or God Himself

,

i s li f e
. Nor d o the atoms of whi ch the bo d y 1 8
composed e v er f or g et thei r natural hunger f o r mo r e
lif e Ever y cell in my body d esir es mor e lif e
. .

Ever y ner ve d oes ind ee d cr y alou d f o r mor e lif e .

Whate v er lack ther e may be is but a lack of contr ol .

When one has lear ne d thr oug h the law of mind he

may contro l lif e an d the r enewal of lif e by his own
thou ght he may send the bloo d whither soever he
,

will to any p ar t o f the bod y to any we ak or d isease d

,

or g an by t h e simp l e power o f thou g ht .

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 A FFIRM A TION

I am i
v tal ity !

One of the g r eatest metaphysical healers in the

country says of this affirmation :
"
Think vitality b r eathe vitality eat vitality an d
, , ,

know that you ar e the unlimited vitality of God ;

‘

thus you will become a magnet f or almighty vitality .

Think towar d each o r g an of you r bod y : You ar e

Vital ity You ar e so filled an d thr illed with vitality
.

that there is no place f or disease or d ecay in yo u .

A ll i s vital ity ! eep this up unceasingl y an d it

.
,

will make you so positively vital that health an d

!
happiness will reign thr ou ghout your whole being .

This affir mation may be elabor ated thus

I am vitality .

I think vitality .

l br eathe vitality .

I sleep vitality .

I eat vitality .

I dr ink vitality .

I know that I am the unlimited v itality of Go d .

 A FFIRM A T ION

Today I wi l l n ot wor ry .

I wi l l n ot be f
a ra id .

I will n ot
g i ve wa y to a n ger .

I will n ot y ield to en vy j ealousy , or h atr ed .

Love an d love a lon e s ha ll ru e l my l if e .

3? all

With the o l d mater i alistic i dea of lif e men ask ,

what have worr y an d f ear an d ang er envy an d ,

jealousy to d o wi th health ? But unde r the light of

the new psychology men see clear ly that nothing is
mor e vital to goo d health than to g et r i d of these
mal i g nant emotions .

This conclusion is base d upon the f act that just

as physical cond itions influence mental states so ,

mental states i nfluence physical conditions I t has .

been state d on ver y high author ity that the whole

"

bowel tr act an d pe r haps all of the vital o r g ans with ,

the secr etions of the bo dy ar e lar gely und er the ,

inf luence of the emotions Silently but sur ely the .

V i cti m of wo r r y the victim of f ear the man who

, ,

g ive s way to an g e r is sto r ing up t r ouble in the

stomach the hear t the liver an d the bowels
, , , .

These emotions ar e mo r e d an g er ous than small

p o x o r yellow f e v e r .

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 A FFI RM A T ION

I am l if e
.

I am health .

I am str en gth .

I a m wealth .

I a m f r eedom .

I am j oy .

All this I am because the abound ing lif e an d lo v e

o f Go d flows in my veins an d vitalizes my ne r ves .

He r e is a g reat d ynamic positive affi r mation whi ch

will br ing health an d st r eng th When you make .

this affir mation do it with powe r an d with f aith

, .

Let f aith you r p os it ive f a ith fi ll the seve r al wo r d s

, ,

with new meaning — I am l if e I am health I am

,
\
, ,

h
str en gt , etc .

Make this a r eal affirmation of your own positive

thou g ht by filling it W i th f a ith Make these .

affi r mations as f r equently as you c an do so , f eel ing

that they ar e vital .

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 A FFI R M A TION
I am n ever alon e .

God i s her e .

He will help m e an d heal me .

I used to r each home about the t 1 me ou r little gir l

of f ou r was g oin g to b ed Of ten I woul d spend a
.

half hour at h er bed sid e tellin her stor ies At the g .

conclusion of the stor y telling I woul d hear h er -

p r ayer an d leave h er f or the n ight On one of these .

occasions she asked many questions about God .

As she was a timi d child I tr ied par ticul ar ly to em

,

p h as i z e the thought o f G o d 5 p r esence with h er .

As I was r ea dy to leave she asked Will you please

, ,
" “
lig ht the gas bef ore you g o ? Oh no sai d I , , ,

you d on t need the g as f or Go d 1 3 with you all the

,
" “
time Even in the d ar k ? she asked Yes
!
. . ,

sai d all t h e time even in the d ar k Then she

!
.
, ,
“
d r ew a long sigh an d r eplied Well I d r ather have
’

, ,
"
gas than Go d . Dear chil d how like the r est of ,

the wo r l d she was Th e light was near an d she

.

coul d und er stand it while in spite of all my eff o r ts

,

Go d was f ar away M any a man woul d r ather

.

have gol d than Go d But the r eason f or that is

.

that he d oes not und er stand how tr ivial an d tem

p o r a r y g ol d , 1 3 n o r how f un d amental an d impe r ative
Go d 1 5 . Yet ther e will sur ely come a time in ea ch
lif e when g ol d will not buy the f und amental n eces
s i t y n or gas light the way
, Then this little chil d
.

g rown ol d e r will g la d ly he ar the voice o f G o d .

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 A FFI R M A T I O N

I tr ust i n God .

So tr ust in g I bel ieve i n mys elf

, .

Ther e i s n o r oom i n my m zn d f or the s l avery ff

o ear

Wor king with God n oth ing can def eat me

, .

In ord er to see how wid e spread 1 3 the sl av ery of

f e ar one has only to make a brief but obvi ous c at a
,

log u e of thing s men do f ear Men are af raid of .

sickness af r ai d of d eath af r ai d of acc id ent af rai d

, , ,

of poverty . They ar e anxious lest they may lose

their wor k af r ai d of p ubli c opinion af r ai d of eriti
, ,

c i sm
, af r ai d other men will not app r eciate them .

Thu s d oes f e ar h amper them an d wei g h upon thei r

mind s like t h e d ea d bo d y of a g i ant What slav ery
, .

“
c oul d be worse A s Prenti c e Mu lf or d says : Fear
.

cr ipple s the spi r it an d d iseases the body F ear is

, .

everywher e F ear of want f ear of the poorhouse

‘

.
, ,

f e ar of st ar v ation F e ar h as b ecome with million s

.

a fixe d habit
Unless f ear can b e uprooted f rom the mind it
will d o untol d d amag e I t i s an evil emoti on
. .

Ev e r y emotion g oo d an d bad alike leaves its i m

, ,

pr es s upon the bo d y I t chang es the secr etions of

.

the body an d may e v en d estr oy l if e Whoe v er .

woul d keep wel l mu st exorc ise f ear as h e woul d

exor cise any other d e v il f rom h i s mind or any other
poison f r om h i s bo d y .

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‘
 A F F l R M A T I ON

Tr e a t m e n t f or In s o m n i a
I will be calm . God i s with me . A ll i s wel l . Ton ight
I shall s leep I shall r est . . I shal l f or get al l the
resp on s ibil it ies of the day . I sh al l n ot f r et n or ,

wor ry n or be an xious
, .

Woul d you fin d a cur e f o r wor r y ? Believe in God

Almighty Believe that this wo r l d belongs to God
.
,

that you belong to Him ; that come what will He , ,

will take car e of you A f r iend of mine assur es me .

that she der ives gr eat comf or t f r om this simple

“
little speech which she makes to her sel f Go d is
, ,

her e ; I will tr ust Him A n d it is a good speech f or

!
.

"
any one to make My plans have f ailed . Never ,

mind God is her e ; I will tr ust Him

, My f or tune .

is lost Never mind God is her e ; I will tr ust

‘

, ,

H im . Yes God is her e He is mine an d I am Hi s

, , .

“
This is Go d s wo r l d I am Go d s chil d Though
’ ’

He slay me yet will I tr ust Him

, Fear hath t or .

ment Tr ust hath eve r lasting peace

!
. .

[ 60 ]
 A FFIRM A T I ON

Tr e a t m e n t f or In so m n i a
He that keep eth me will n ot s l umber .

We ar e all ly in g i n the ar ms of God .

God s heal in g love wr ap s us abou t as with a gar men t

’
.

God s heal in g l if e f lows thr ough us wh il e we s leep

’

We may lose ou r consciousness of God but God ,

d oes not lose Hi s consciousness of us We cannot g o .

out of H i s sig ht Go d s healing love d oes indeed

’

wr ap us about as with a g arment Go d s healing

’

li f e does ind eed f low through us while we sleep an d

it is g oo d f o r us with the last br eath at night to f eel
Go d s inf lowing love As a simple scienti fi c f act it
’

. ,

is pr obably true that healing g oes f orwar d mor e

sur ely while men sleep than when they ar e distr acted
by waking sig hts an d sound s .

Nothing coul d be b etter f or the sick man than

“
to say with all ear nestness as he g oes to sleep : Th e
d ivine spi r it is flowing into me an d thr ough me .

Let Th y blessing heal me an d let me not be af r ai d

, ,

f o r Und e rneath ar e the eve r l asting ar ms

‘ ’

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 an d stron g p r otect i o n is ov er

No har m can eom e to H i s bel oved .

“
He gi veth H is belov ed sl eep .

f
o th e d ay

I t is coo l an d q ui et i n m y r oom .

Ther e i s blessing in the ni g ht

Our F athe r in H eaven as we l i e down ,

ti r ed but not di s cour ag ed we t han k Thee f or ,

s
In s ome mag ic way the how of whi ch we do
,

are un co nsci ou s . It enter s into our h ear ts an d

awake r ef r eshed an d str ong f or a new d ay .

Be Th ou wi t h us wh i le we sl eep toni g ht . Am en .

[ 62 3
 A FFI RMA T ION

!F ur
o c om pr eh ensi v e afir m a t i o ns pu
ex o n d ed by
Eliz abet h Ca dy!
F ir st , God i s L if e Lo ve I n tel l i gen ce Su bs tan ce
, , , ,

Omn ip oten ce Omn ip r es en ce Omn i s cien ce

, , .

Sec ond I am th e ch i ld or m an if es tat i on of God;

,

a n d H i s l if e l ove wi s dom p o wer f l o w in to a n d th r ough

, , , ,

m e every mom en t I am on e wi th God a n d am

.
,

go ver n ed b y H i s l a w .

Thi r d I am Sp ir it p erf ect h oly h ar mon ious

, , , , .

Noth in g can h u r t m e or m a ke m e s i ck or af r a id f or ,

Sp ir it i s God an d God cann ot be s ick or h u r t or af r a id

, .

m an zf es t my r eal Self n o w .

F our th God wor ks i n m e to will an d to do wh atso

ever H e wzs hes don e by m e; h en ce I cann ot f a il , .

H er exposition is in par t as f ollows

“
I n r eality Go d is f o r ever in p r oc ess of movement
,

towar d us that He may manif est mor e f ully Himself

,

!all goo d! thr ough us Ou r af fi r ming backed by

.
,

f aith is the gr ip which connects the car of ou r con

,

scious human need wi th the ever moving cable of

Hi s po wer an d supply They who have clai med their
.

bir thr ight by thus calmly affir ming their oneness

with God know how still they can be f r om exter nal
planning an d eff o r t af ter they have called into
oper ation this marv elous power of af fi rmation
!
.

[ 64 ]
 YO U A N D A U N T I E D O LE F UL
A health conver sation in which you play the par t
of Sam H opef ul .

Enter Auntie Dolef ul Finds Sam Hopef ul

.

seated .

Auntie —Goo d mor ning Sam how ar e you ? , ,

—
Sam Perf ectly fine auntie i f I wer e any better
, ,

than I am I shoul d immediately fin d a job in a stone

quar r y .

—
Auntie That s r ather br av e talk Sam somebody
’

, ,

told me you wer e par alyze d .

—
Sam O shucks auntie may be th ey w er e
, ,

talking thr oug h their hat Anyhow par alysis is ,

only one of those big names that the d o ctors use .

Th e f act is that the r ight si d e of me was r ather ti r ed

out an d I am letting it take the r est cur e .

Auntie —Well Sam I guess you will have plenty

, ,

of time to let it r est I have heard that par alysis

.

lasts sever al year s .

—
Sam Good I g uess that old si d e of mine can
,

stand it ; besi des I thoug ht I never shoul d have a

,

chance to do any mor e r ead ing but now I ve g ot all

’

—
the time I need a g ood chance to catch up .

—
Auntie A chanc e to catch up Sam ! I g uess ,

you re just blufh n g ! But while you re catching up

’

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h ow ar eyou g oing to stand t h e ever l asting racket of
these childr en of your d aughter s ?
’

—
Sam Why g ood gr acious auntie these chil dren
, , ,

never m ake any r acket Ther e ar e only f our of

.

them an d i f they shoul d make a noise I d just tur n

’

my d eaf ear towar d them an d g o on with my r ead

i ng
. We g et on finely tog ether an d they never ,

tr ouble me
—
.

Auntie They nev er tr ouble you Sam ? Don t

’

they t alk you almost to death ?

—
Sam Good g racious no I suppose they do talk
, .

sometimes but I just don t hear them

’

.
,

—
Auntie But what do you do when they yel l ?
—
Sam Why I just think har d er an d by an d by
, ,

they stop
—
.

Auntie Well f or my par t I don t see how you

’

, ,

c an hear your self think at all when all f our of them ,

get to yelling at once

—
.

Sam Why auntie they har dly ever do all yell

, ,

at once an d if they do I just call them my quartette .

Auntie —By the way Sam how d o you like this

, ,

, ,

kind of weather ?
—
Sam Just fine .

—
Auntie Why Sam I don t believe you know a
, ,
’

thing about the weather Look out of the window

.

I 66 l
 ther e an d see it r ain Th e sun hasn t been out all
'
.

the mor n ing

—
.

Sam That s all r ig ht This is just my kind of

’
.

’
weather I don t want to g o out door s anyhow
—
. .

Auntie Why Sam Hopef ul ! what ar e you talking

,

about This is now the sev enteenth day of the

.

month an d we h av en t h ad on e really g ood d ay this

’

month .

—
Sam Why Auntie I ve looked out of the window
, ,
’

near ly ever y d ay this month an d I should turn it ,

r ight a r ound the other way I hav en t seen one b ad ,

d ay They have all been g o od d ay s

. .

—
Auntie How is Char lie s business? S omebody
’

told me that he was having r ather har d sled ding

—
.

’
Sam Well I d on t know about that He was 1 n
, .

’
yester d ay with a g ood bro ad smile an d I di dn t ,

hear him say anything about any sor t of adv er s1 t y

o r an y dullness in his busi ne ss

—
.

Auntie Yes I suppose Char l ie is a g oo d d eal

,

’
like you He hasn t sense enoug h to know when it
.

r ains ,o r to know when he i s b ad o ff He is too .

mu ch like you to ev en know when he is sick I .

suppose he woul dn t know it if he were paralyzed on

’

both sid es But f or my p ar t I don t pr opose t o be

’
.
,

indif f erent when thing s g o bad with m e .

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 —
Sam I don t call it being indiff er ent to smile or
’

take a hopef ul view of business or the weather or

one s health Th e f act is ther e ar e too many weat her
’

cr oaker s an d too many health cr oaker s I f things .

ar e not quite no r mal the best way is to take a ,

cheerf ul view of things an d addr ess oneself to the

business of abolishing f r iction Don t you think so
’
.
,

auntie ?
—
Auntie Oh that is what some f olks say but f or
, ,

my par t I pr opose to call a spade a spad e I don t

’

, .

f all f o r all this new f angle d health talk

-
.

—
Sam Well auntie don t you think it is better to
, ,
’

t alk health up than to talk it d own? I sn t it better

’

to talk hope than d espai r ? I sn t it better to look

on the sunny si de of lif e than the shady si d e? Isn t
’

it better to talk victor y than to talk d ef eat ?

Auntie —Well I ag r ee Sam that it makes one
, , ,

f eel better
—
.

Sam Yes auntie it makes one f eel better an d it

, ,

i s better
. Th e big doctor s among the me dical men
t el l us that eve r y time we have a thought or an
em o t l on 1 t has some ef f ect on the bo d y Now if .

that is so don t you think it is a mistake to paint

’

ever y case of sickness in color s of despai r ? Most of

the doctor s ar e not specialists A n d even if they .

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 wer e they don t know ever ything God made men
’

.
,

f o r g ood long lif e an d I take my stand on this f act

,
.

Go d is a better docto r than most of the doctor s .

Par alysis o r no par alysis I want to live an d I m , ,

going to keep r ight on living till my Heavenly ,

F athe r speaks the final wor d When H e says it is .

hopeless I will believe it an d not a minute bef or e

, ,
.

—
Auntie Well Sam you an d I ar e old f r iends an d
, , ,

you know as well as I d o that I am not anxious to

have you d i e .

—
Sam No auntie I know you ar e not but you
, , ,

have just g o t in the habit of looking on the d ar k si d e ,

a n d you a n d othe r people unconsciously d o a g oo d

d eal to hur r y f olks into an ear ly g r ave by exag g er ating

thei r ailments an d painting all your pictur es in
,

somber color s Fo r my par t I wond e r that any

.
,

public man 1 8 able to live at al l if he ever meets with

any bo dily illness People bur d en such a man with
.

a million tons of unhealthy gossip .

—
Auntie Well Sam I must be going it d on t
, , ,
’

look as i f it was going to stop ra ining to d ay

—
.

Sam Ther e auntie look out door s an d you will

, , ,

see that it has al r eady stoppe d .

—
Auntie So it h as well then I will g o r ig ht away
, .

But I must say you ar e a f unny f ellow .

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 —
Sam All i ght I suppose I must be br anded as
r ,

f u nny just b ecause I happ en to believe that health

!

is contag ious instead of disease I am even willing

.

“
to be called queer if it will make the wor l d a little
str ong er an d a l i ttle mor e cheerf ul Good bye
.
-
,

auntie Let us talk health up instead o f

.

“
A n d God be with you till we meet ag ain
!
.

[ 70 ]
 My next keywor d is A ss im ilat ion nutr ition is
. If
needed f or the nour ishment of the bod y assimilation ,

is need ed to make nutr ition eff ective It is not .

enough that f ood shal l pass thr ough the bod y ; it

d oes not achieve i t s en d unles s it passes into the
bloo d .

On the r oad to assimilation an d nutri ti on another

irn p o rt an t keywor d is M ast icat i on He has a r ocky
.

r oa d be f o r e him who f orms the habit of thr owing

his f oo d into his stomach in chunks Th e habit .

should be ear ly f ormed of libe r al chewing o r as our , ,

"
new di ctionar ies g ive us p er ml ss 1 0n to say Fl etcher ,

izing
!

Yet one mor e keywor d is I r r igat ion To make f oo d .

r ea dy f or ass imilation it shoul d have a f air ly liber al

quantity of flui d mi xed with it an d it will be a pr etty

,

good pr actice to let thi s flui d be taken in the f or m

of wate r , thoug h I have known some people who
h ad a p r eju d ice in f avor of o t he r kin d s of dri nk It .

d oes not militate against what I have sai d abo ut

ir r igation that it is difficult to fin d a half a dozen - -

d oc to r s who en tir ely agr ee on how much flui d shall

be taken in twenty f our hour s My own ad vice
-
.

woul d be i f you ar e going to gues s at it to make

, ,

the quantity about two quar ts an d if you do not

,

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want to g uess take a leaf f r om the book of natu r e
,

a n d dr ink when you ar e thi r sty a n d the same lea f will

,

also t el l you to eat mod er ately when you ar e hung r y .

While I am speaking on this subject of f oo d

quantity let me say that ther e is pr obably no wor se
,

habit among aver age men than the habit of gor g in g

o r ea t ing all the time a little mo r e than can be

pr oper ly di g este d an d assimilate d Th e habit of men

.

is analag ous to the f oolish mistake of t h r o wm g I nto

the mang er of a hor se five bushels of oats at one time .

Not only does such fe ed ing not nour ish on the ,

contr ar y it clog s up the system an d makes all

,

d igestion an d assimilation impossible A g oo d .

general r ule as to q u an t 1 t y 1 8 to stop eating while

you ar e still a little hungr y Many men liter ally
.

eat themselves into an ear ly gr ave A f r ien d of.

mine borr owing a simile f r om his f amiliar ity with

,

“ "
the automobile calls it Fouling the cylind er s
, .

Let us now tu r n f r om the impo r tant subject of

Assimilation to the no less impor tant subject of
El im in at ion
. Ther e a r e other means of elimination ,

but the r e ar e f ou r that ar e perf ectly obvious ; one

is Excr et ion o f waste matte r f r om the Bowels an d ,

then the ! idn eys the Lungs an d the Skin These

, , . ,

an d a f ew othe r s of le ss ob v iou s importan c e are the ,

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means by which the g r eat Cr eative Intelligence has
planne d to eliminate the poisons f r om the body .

In the inter est of health all these or gans must be

r eg ula r ly perf or ming thei r f unctions ; other wise ,

poisons ar e being stor e d somewher e an d i f stor ed

, , ,

then always m d ang er ous quantities f or any quan

,

tity whatever is d ange r ous Neither the skin n or

.
,

the lung s n o r the ki dneys n or the bowels can be

, ,

saf ely neglected ; i f they ar e neglecte d then auto ,

intoxication will sur ely ensue an d disease must

ultimately f ollow This is one r eason f or my a dvice
.

to look car ef ully to i r r igation o r water dri nking

, .

I t is har dly too much to say that i f these f our ,

sou r ces of elimination coul d always be kept active ,

then the bo dyof man woul d always be healthy .

The r e is ther ef or e little wond er that the i n

, ,

t el l i g en t physician on being called f or the fi r st time

in any case of sickness imme diately a d dresses him
s elf to these var ious sour ces of elimination f or he ,

knows that in all r eason the cause g ener ally lies

ther e an d i f he can r emov e the c ause he will of ten
r emove the d isease .

I sai d in star ting these Hints on Health that I

believe in both Mind an d Bo dy What I ha v e sai d
.

t hus f ar relates g ener ally to the Bo dy but I want ,

74 l
to say th at thou g ht an d the use of thought is pe rh aps
equally impor tant both as cause an d cure of d isease
an d in many f o r ms o f di sease f a r mo r e impo r t ant .

Whoeve r will make an intellig ent stu dy of the Sub

conscious Mind an d the Sympathetic Nervous
System cannot f ail to see that Bo dy an d Mind are
intimately linked tog ether an d that Mind has to do
with the automatic f u n ct l on l ng of the larg est par t
of the bo d ily o r g ans a n d th r ou g h the i n st ru m en
,

tality of s ugges tion an d a uto suggest ion such f unc

-

t i on i n g l s unconsciously i nfluence d an d may be

, ,

when necessar y consciously di r ecte d

, .

He r e stand s justifie d the plea of all metaphy si c al

healer s f or mental atmospher e in tr eating d isease ;
in other wor d s thei r plea that all sick people be sur
,

r oun d e d by the most cheer f ul con di tions in the

inter est of r api d r ecover y Not only so but this

“ .
,

r elation between M in d a n d Bo d y also justifies their

d eclar ation that it is vastly impo r tant in the inter est

,

of k eep in g wel l that the whole c ommunity b e p er

,

v a d e d with an atmospher e of cheerf ulness an d

optimism They pr oper ly insist that it isn t f air to
’
.

anybo dy t o th in k him f r om health into d isease a n d ,

it is not f air to the sick man that he be thoug ht

into a n early g ra v e .

[ 75 ]
 SOM E HEA LTH D ON T S ’

Denials as well as affir mations have some ther a

p eu t i c value though as it seems to me affir mations
, ,

a r e bette r than d enials But it must not be f or gotten

.

that an affir mation may take a negative f or m of

“
statement Her e then ar e a f ew will not s
’ !

.
, ,

I will not gossip

“

I will not seek employment as if I wer e making an

apology .

I will not d o my wor k in a slip sho d f ashion -

.

,
I will not f ace the past .

I will not waste my time r ea d ing about cr imes an d

mu r d er tr ials .

I will not anticipate f ailur e .

I will not talk about sickness an d d eath .

I will not miss a chance to be kind .

I will not hate anybo dy .

I will not wor r y .

I will not be sar castic .

I will not be angr y .

I will not be jealous .

I will not think evil .

I will not be af r ai d .

woul d it be to go over these Don ts each

’

Ho w
mor ning bef or e star ting the d ay? Thus you will
specifically commit you r self to these negative
affir mations .

Believe me they will d o much f o r you r health

,
.

[ 76 ]
 PA RT I A L BR EA T HIN G
Unless it be the use o f f oo d an d wate r the r e is ,

nothing mor e f und amental to g oo d health than

pr oper b r eathing Ther e is a c r iti cal moment at the
.

bir th of ever y chil d when lif e 1 8 p r oblematical Ther e .

is another cr itical moment at the en d of lif e when it

is also p r oblematical I t is all a question of oxyg en
.
. .

C an the baby a n d the ol d man secu r e o xygen enough

an d quickly enou g h to sustain li f e ?

It will ther ef o r e be seen how ver y impo r tant is

the subject of pr oper b r eathing .

Let it not be thou ght a thing inconsi stent with

the pur pose of this book that I stop to emphasize a
subject like this I h ave al r eady t r ied to make it
.

cle ar that I believ e in physical f o r ces as well as

metaphysical I have also t r ied to make it clear
.

that I hol d in the highest esteem the wor k of the

wise an d conscientious do ctors Let me a dd at this
.

point my convi ction that ther e is no class of p r o

f essi on a l men in the community who d o mo r e ab
s olu t el y unselfish wo r k than the d octo r s . My chief
d i ff er ence with them so f a r as l have any is that
, ,

many of them ar e slow to recog nize the value of

Mind Force s in the tre atment of d isease whe r eas I ,

bel i ev e th at the se f orc e s ar e exceeding ly important .

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Fur thermor e I f eel sur e that if we woul d f r an kly u se
these f or ces to th eir limit of ten it woul d not be nec
,

essa r y to r eso r t to the d oubtf ul e xpe r imen t s o f some

what expe r imental dr ugs Let me r etur n f r om this

.

di gr ess ion then to say that one of the most ob v ious

, ,

pr ecautions to take in the inter est of g ood he al t h is

to insist upon corr ect b r eathing Or d inar i ly cor
.

r ect b r eathing will be d escribed as d eep b r eathing .

"
To substitute d eep b r eathi ng f o r the o r di nar y
br eathing of the aver ag e man woul d be an immense
g ain but
, it is n t scient
o i fi c ally n o r p r actically c o r

r ec t. Th e i d eal to be aime d at is r e ally complet e

br eathing or br eathing in ever y par t of the lungs ,

the uppe r l ower an d mi ddl e r egion an d to achieve

, ,

that r esult ob v i ously r equir es some pr actice Most .

men can su r vi v e f o r a time by r ather sp asmodi c h i t

o r miss b r eathi n g in one little co ner of the lungs
-
r ,

but they cannot sur vive healthily They wi ll be .

open to all so r ts of attacks upon the var ious o r gans

of the bod y .

Let me st ep long enoug h to point out some of the

par ticul ar po ints of attack Not to br eathe cor
.

r ec t l y is an alogous to the po llution of a city s water

’

Supply We may liken man s blood supply to the

’

water Supply of a city Unless the blood can be

.

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thi s a d vice vi tiates my point of emphasis v iz
,

that Mind is in un en sely impor tant in the tr eatment

of diseases ; in other wo r ds that we ma y never
,

pr oper ly neglect the r eactions of the mind upon the

b o dy
.

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 B I GGE R T HA N A NYTH IN G THA T CA N
HA PPE N T O H IM
Mr Georg e ! ennan the f amous histor ian of cur
.
,

r ent happening s was wr iting of the heroism of

,

soldiers thou sand s of them who we r e r eturning

, ,

f r om bat t le in ever y state of mutilation carried on ,

flat car s an d suff er ing ind escr ib able tor tures but ,

never g r oani n g an d r ar ely f r owning ami d their

suff er ing When he h ad finished his d es cr iption
.

“
he a d d e d significantly I sn t it fine to see a r a ce of
’

, ,

men who ar e big g er than anything that can happen

!
to them .

Sinc e then I have thoug ht much of this phr ase

an d its meaning . For yea r s since that t i me I have
been on a tour of inspection an d I fin d that men who
“ "
ar e bigg e r than anything that c an happen to them
ar e not so ve r y r a r e a f ter all .

One day I met a man an d his wif e I h ad thou g ht .

that they wer e ver y or d inar y people at all events

no better or bigg er than aver ag e f olks but two d ays ,

bef or e I met them I lear ned that they h ad bu r ie d

the last of si x chil dr en !all they h ad! all of whom h ad
,

d ied of diphther ia within one week A n d ther e they

.

wer e g oing about thei r home without a mur mur with ,

out a complaint not even thinking of themselves

,

[ 81 ]
 “
as mar tyr s to the Pr ovi denc e of God blami ng ,

nobod y bu t quite r eady to take up the next task

,

"
an d pe rf o r m it b r avely Then I sai d Isn t it fine
’

.
,

to meet men an d women who ar e bigger than any

‘

thing that can happen to them

’

When I was quite a boy I also saw a man one d ay

stand ing in the mi dst of the dust of a threshing
ma chine in operation Su dd enly al l the machine ry
.

stopped an d an exclamation of horr o r escaped the

,

d ozen or mor e men who wer e engage d in thi s har v est

oper ation an d it was seen that both ar ms h ad su d denly
been dr awn into the cylin der of the machine He was .

stil l livin g when he was r el eased f r om his per ilous

position He wholly r ecover ed his health but bo th
. ,

arms we r e absolutely d estr oyed at t he shoul d e r He .

di d not di e an d he did not complain but in a spi r it

,

o f marvelous he r oism he still went about tasks which

other wi se woul d have seemed qu ite impo ssible an d ,

I have been thinking again What a fine thing it i s

!

to meet a man who is bigger than anything that ca n

happen to him .

Dur in g the late Wor l d War I have also be en o b serv

in g an d I have f oun d that over wi d espr ea d ar eas
,

ther e occur s this supe r ior ity of men over whatever

can happen to them f or ever ywher e thr o u g hout
,

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Gr eat B r itain an d Fr ance an d Belg iu m men by the
thousands tens of thousand s an d hundr eds of thou
,

sands have been mowed d own like g r ass bef or e a

mowing machine or wheat bef ore the reaper an d as
, ,

swath af ter swath have d isappear ed other thousands

have swept in to fill the ranks in response to an
i dea an d g ener ally without compl ai nt an d the wor l d
, ,

“
has I CJOI CC d in the f act that men have been bi g g er
’

!
than anything that coul d happen to them .

But this Spi r it has been peculiar to no c ountry

an d no r ace . M any yea r s ago while I was in Japan
, ,

ther e occur r ed a fir e on e night in Tokio when si x

thousand homes were bu r ned an d twenty thous and
people wer e r ender ed homeless Th e next d ay .

people wer e walking calmly about the d evastated

r e g ion sayin g
“
——
shikata g a nai !ther e i s no help f or
!

it! Then I saw t hat even her e without the f or m of

.
‘

“
Chr istian philosophy people coul d be bi g g er than
,

anything that coul d happen t o them .

But di d we not see the same thing il l ustrated a

little later l n San Fr ancisco wher e g r eat building s
,

almost touching the sky f ell mto heaps like a pa ck of

b r oken card s while acres upon acr e s in the burne d
,

d istrict we r e s c ar cely mo r e than heaps of ashe s an d ,

thou sand s of peopl e were r endered homel ess an d ,

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thousand s of other s fleei ng fr om the str icken city ,

an d yet
, these people who seemed at fir st to
,

have their spiri t cr ushed pul led themselves together

, ,

r ebui lt upon the ashes o f the o l d city f a ced the

!

f utur e with subli me f aith an d pr oved by thei r

"
actions that they wer e bigg er t han anythi ng that
could happe n to th em .

What is going to happen to us to me to you to

, , ,

your f amil y to you r coun tr y ? Not one of us knows

, .

But happy ar e we if when t h e happenin g comes

,

“
we ar e big g er than anythin g that can happen to us .

"
What can make us b i gg er than any thing that can
happen to us ? No f or m of wor ds sur e no f ormal
!

phi loso phy Chr istian o r oth erw1 5e but the r eality
, ,

o f f aith in the Eter nal in us . Th at can make u s

" "
bigger than anything that can happen to us .

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 P OIS E A ND P OW E R
I t is rathe r easy to see how poise is related to
power but not quite so easy to see how it is r elate d
,

also to health Th e meaning of mental an d spi r itual

.

poise can easily be illustr ate d f r om what we know of

physical poise To be well poised means to stand
.

squarely on one s f eet To lack poise means to

’
.

s tan d mo r e or less out of balance .

You see at once how this is r elated to power Th e .

m an stand ing mor e or less out o f balance or ou t of

p el se 1 3 never pr epar ed to carr y a heavy load Out .

of poise ,he is easily cr ushed to ear th ; wher eas ,

standing with both f eet squar ely upon the e ar th ,

leaning neither backwar d n or f or war d neither to the ,

rig ht nor the lef t even a small man is a marvel o f

,

physical str eng th Anothe r illustr ation of the

.

r elation between poi s e an d powe r is o f ten witnesse d

on the ball fiel d On account of being compelled to

.

act rapi dly an d while still out of position a ball

player is of ten unable to throw with accur acy or
c at ch with c ertainty Th e trou ble is he is out of
. ,

poise.

Much bad w or k both physical an d mental r esul ts

, ,

f rom lack of p oise Th e man who la cks poise is

.

e asi ly surprise d an d ther ef or e e asily def eated No .

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man who has l ost his poise can str ike a heavy blow ,

nor str ike it with p r ecl sl on Whether you be a

.

wood chopper a p r ize fighter a school teacher a

-
, , ,

mer chant or a minister the exig encies of you r work

,

call f or accur acy an d power an d the r ef o r e f o r

, ,

poise Th e d if f er ence between a putter er an d a

.

man of power is a question of poise I think it .

perf ectly saf e to say that it is impossible to fin d a

man of r eal power without poise .

I never yet have seen a man who flutter s ar ound

f r om i dea to i d ea f r om task to task f r om one f r iend
, ,

to another f r iend who was a man of r eal power

, .

Th e man of power gives the impr ession of soli dity

because he i s solid Nothing sur pr ises him nothing
.
,

d istu r bs him nothing thr ows him off his balance

, .

He i s a man of p ower because fi r st he is a man of

p o ise
.

Now it seems to me that all analogies must point

to the f a c t that poise an d health ar e also linked
tog ether A n d as a matter of f act an d obser vation
. ,

I believe it to be ver y di ffi cult f or a man to keep h i s

health who l oses his mental an d mor al poise He i s .

open to all the d istur bing influences du e to sur pr ise

an d a thousan d thing s that ought not to even anno g

or d i sturb such a man will throw him into a fl u t t e1

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 A S TA TE OF M IN D
Somebody once sai d humor ously in descr ibing
“
Boston Boston is not a place it is a state of mind
!

, , .

Without any attempt at humor one may say that

many things that happen to one in this wor l d ar e
simply states of mind For example : when a chil d
.

g oes out in the a f te r noon is r u,n ove r a n d kille d only ,

to come in saf ely a f ew minutes later that is a state ,

o f min d an d not a real f act Many of ou r ti r ed

.

f eelings ar e states of mind some of ou r pover ty

, ,

an d i f pove r ty then why not some o f our r iches

, ,

a r e also states o f mind . Let us f r ank ly a dmit when

we wor ry an d when we f ear ther e is no g enuine f act
,

behind the phenomena they ar e simply states o f

,

mind Th e physician of a sick man was asked

.

“ " “
what ails you r patient ? Oh sai d he it is , ,

nothing but a state of mind Th e patient over

.

“ ’

hear ing the r emar k said All rig ht then I ll be

, , ,

cu r ed by another state of mind an d he was , .

[ 88 ]
 THE S LA V E OF A CL O C!
I used to know a la dy who claime d that she h a d
all h er li f e been the slave of a clock an d whether ,

she was r ea dy or not the clock h ad been bossing h er

,

ar ound telling h er to do this a n d to d o that It was .

saying to h er in the mo r ning Time to g et up ! ,

“ "
At noon Time f or lunch ! I f she wer e going to
,

“
New Yo r k the exhor tation was Time to star t
, , ,

!
tr ains d on t wai t At night at an hou r which this
’

.
,

c
’

g oo d la d y thought to be about seven o clo k but ,

which was actually twelve o r half past she woul d ,

“
hear f r om some member of the f amily Twelve ,

o clock time f or bed I This g oo d woman when

’

, ,

she was p r ep ar l n g f o r an automobile tr ip wanted to ,

star t when ther e was only time enough lef t to g o

half the d istance by d aylight .

As a ma tter of f act she wasn t g r eatly tr oubled

’

by the clock but other people wer e tr ouble d an d

,

they wer e always r emind ing h er of the messag e of

the clock telling h er what the hour of the d ay or
,

nig ht might be while r eally that was the last thing

,

in the wor l d that she wanted to know So of ten .

was she reminded of t h e mes sag e of the clock t hat

she c ame at last to f ai r ly hate the wor d an d called ,

“ "
herself Th e sl av e of the cl ock She no d oubt .

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spoke ver y truly an d was a lmost infinitely i r r itated
by the r eminder s that wer e being mad e to h er but ,

she wasn t the only 1 rr1 t at ed one All those asso

’

c i a t ed with h er wer e also i rr itated because having

,
,

r esented the command s of h er maste r the clock

, ,

she i rr itated ever ybo dy else by being per petually

late an d making other people who wer e associate d
with h er anxious .

I f one r eally wants to keep well this clock slaver y

,

is r eally a sad situation but it is f ar mor e sad f o r

,

those associate d with the slave Since this little

book has d eveloped into g ener al g oo d a dvice I wish ,

to g ive a little ad vice to the woman who is the

"
slave of a cl ock. Let h er t r y the r ecommend ation
o f St Paul when he a d vise d people to live a bove the
.

law an d not u n der the law Only those ar e slaves

.

who allow thems elves to be f or ced to live un der the

law ; they immed iately fin d fr ee dom when they begi n
to live above the law In other wor ds people a r e
. ,

the slaves of the clock only when they r esent being

compelle d to keep their en ag ements or to star t on
g

time Th e moment they cease to be selfish an d br ing

.

themselves to the simple habit of being on time they ,

no long er r esent the so called slaver y to the com

-

m an ds of a cl ock When they r each the conclusion

.

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to br eak with the selfish habit of consu l ting their
own convenience an d t r y to e stablish the habit of
consulting the conv enienc e of other people an d
keeping thei r eng a g ements they g et r i d of a wor ld
,

of wea r an d tear a wo r l d of annoyan c e an d a wo r l d

,

o f f r iction an d help to restore the tatte r e d ner v e s o f

,

peop le who ar e suf f er ing f rom their asso c i ation with

the unmitig ated nuis ance of the bad habit of al ways
bein g l ate
.

MORAL : Don t b r eak the clock g i v e up your

’

own b ad habit .
 FOR GET I T

THE N E V E R M IN D PH I L OSO PHY

One of the inter esting th ings that I noticed du r ing

my f ou r year s in Japan was what many f or el g n er s
—
call the sh ikat ag a nai philos ophy Sh ikat ag a nai — .

“
means the r e is no help f or it o r to give it r ather ,

“
f r ee r end er ing Le t it pass or still fr eer r end er
, , ,

“ "
ing Never m l n d
, The r e is no d oubt that this
.

appar ently easy going philosophy help s r educe the

-

f r iction of common lif e immensely an d with r egar d ,

to a thousand tr ivial things ; I am per sua ded it is a

ver y usef ul philosophy We cannot consi der ably
.

change the ci r cums tances an d the acci dents of lif e ,

but we can sof ten an d r educe the fr iction caus ed

by these acci dents not a little Whoeve r r ed u ces .

f r iction is a benef actor an d at least the neve r

,

"
min d philosophy will help to do this Some one .

has slig hte d you or neglected you or you think they ,

have — “
Fo r get it . Somebo dy has misund er stoo d
“
you or mis r epr esente d you Never mind It is .

not wo r th while to be bother e d Or you have .

another b ad bill Sh ikat ag a nai Just f or get it

-
. .

I 92
 Somebo dy has summ ed up the whol e matter in
these f ami l iar l ines

Let s star t f or g etting !

’

Ther e ar e s o many thing s to lay away

In g r aves d ea d hates an d f ears an d doubt s that
,

flay .

A nd all these little f aults sca r ce wor th a g r oan ,

The r e ar e so many black d ays we have known !

Ther e is no use reg r etting !
Let s t r y f o r g etting
’

Let start f org etting !

'

A thou g ht of envy is no pl eas ant g ue st

“

A n d hat r e d nouri shed leav e s no pea c e or rest ;

A tea r s no thing to treasur e ; an d no str if e
’

Becomes a cor ner stone to f uller li f e .

Away with gr ief an d f r etting !

Let s start f o r g etting
’

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 H EA L IN G S C RI PTU R E S

Sur ely he shall deliver thee f r om the snar e of

the f owler an d f r om the noisome pestilence
, ;

Psalm 3 .

Ther e hall no evil bef all thee neither shall any

s ,

plag ue come nig h thy dwe ll ing Psalm IO . .

Who f o r g iveth all thine iniquities ; who healeth

all thy d iseases Psalm l o3 z3 . .

He healeth the b r oken in hear t an d b i nd eth up ,

thei r woun ds Psalm M7 : 3 . .

I h ad f ainted unles s I h ad believed to see the

g oo dness of the Lo r d in the land of the living .

Psalm 27 : I3 .

Th e Lo r d is the st r ength of my li f e ; of whom shall

I be af r ai d? Psalm 27 : I .

Bles sed be God even the Father of our Lord

,

Jesus Chr ist the Father of mer cies an d the God of

, ,

all comf or t who comf or teth us in all ou r t r ibulation

, ,

that we may be abl e to comf or t them which are in

any trouble by the comf or t wher ewith we our selves
,

ar e c omf o r te d of Go d I I Cor inthians 1 : 4

. .

I will heal thee an d ad d unto thy d ays I I ! ing s .

20: 5 6
, .

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 I will take sickness away f r om the mi dst of thee .

Ex 23 : 25
. .

O Lo r d my God I cr ied unto thee an d thou hast

, , ,

heale d me Psalm 30 2
. . .

A n d Jesus went about all the cities an d v illages ,

teaching in thei r synagogues an d pr eaching the ,

g ospel o f the king d om an d healin g, eve r y s ickness

a n d eve r y d isease among the people Matt 9 : 3 5 . . .

But Jesus tu r ned him about an d when he saw ,

h er he sai d Daughter be o f goo d com f or t ; thy

, , ,

f aith hath ma d e thee whole A n d the woman was .

made whole f r om that hour Matt 9 : 22 . . .

Then touche d he thei r eyes saying Acco r d ing to , ,

you r f aith be it unt o you Matt 9 : 29

, . . .

As they went out behol d they br ought to him a

, ,

d umb man possesse d with a d evil A n d when the .

d ev il was cast out the dumb spake M att 9 : 3 2 3 3

, . .
, .

A n d Jesus went about all the c 1 t 1 es an d villag es ,

teaching in thei r synag og ues an d pr eaching the ,

g ospel o f the kin g d om an d healin g, eve r y sickness

an d ever y d isease among the p eople Matt 9 : 3 5 . . .

A n d when he h a d called unto him his twelve d i s

c i p l es he gave them powe r against unclean spi r its
, ,

to cast them out an d to heal all manner of si ckne ss

,

an d al l mann er of di sea se Matt 1 0: l . . .

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 An d h er countenance was no more sad . I Samu el
I : 18 .

For thou hast deli v ered my soul f r om d eath m ine ,

eyes f r om tears an d my f eet f rom f alling Ps al m

, .

I I6: 8 .

Th e Lo r d is my shepherd ; I shall n ot want .

Psalm 23 : I .

Let not you r hear t be tr oubled : ye believe in

Go d believe also in me St John I 4 : I
, . . .

Th e t r ying of your f aith wor keth patience .

Th e sp 1 r 1 t of the Lor d is upon me ; he

hath sent me to heal the br oken hear ted Luke -
.

4: 1 8 .

And the power of the Lor d was pr esent to heal

them Luke 5 : I 7
. .

A n d he took him an d heale d him an d let him g o

, , .

Luke I 4 : 4 .

Jesus saith unto him Rise take up thy bed an d , ,

walk A n d immed iately the man was ma d e whole

. ,

a n d took up his b ed a n d walke d John 5 : 8 9

, .
, .

A n d he leaping up stoo d an d walke d an d enter e d , ,

with them into the temple walking an d leaping an d , ,

pr aising C o d Acts 3 : 8 . .

The r e came also a multitu d e out of the cities r oun d

about unto Jer usalem br inging sick f olks an d them , ,

I OO
wh ich were v exed with uncle an Spirits , an d they
wer e healed every on e Acts 5 : I 6
. .

I will lif t up mine eyes unto the hills f r om whenc e

cometh mine help Ps alm I 2 ] : I
. .

Who sat i sfiet h thy mouth with g ood thing s ; so

that thy youth is renewed like the eag le s Psalm
’

Li f t up thy v oi ce with str eng th ; lif t it up be n ot ,

af rai d I sai ah
.

Streng then ye the weak h and s I s aiah 3 5 : 3

. .

Str etch f or th thine hand an d he stretched it out ;

,

an d his h an d was re sto r e d whole as t h e othe r .

Mark 3 : 5 .

Then sh all the lame m an l e ap a s an hart I sai ah .

But they that wait upon t h e Lord shall renew

their str eng th They shall mount up with wing s
.

as eag les : they shall run an d not be wear y ; an d they

shall walk an d not f aint Isaiah 40: 3 I
,

I will say of the Lord He is my ref ug e an d my

,

f o r tr ess : my Go d ; in him will I trust .Thou

shalt not be a f r ai d f or the te rr or by nig ht ; n or f o r
,

the a r r ow that fli et h by d ay ; n or f or the pestilence

I OI
that w alketh in dar knes s For he sh all g ive hi s .

an g el s ch arg e o v er thee to keep thee in all thy ways

, .

Psalm II .

Say t o th em th at ar e of a f ear f ul he ar t Be str ong , ,

f ear not I sa i ah 35 : 4
. .

I h ad f ainted unl ess I h ad believe d to see the

go o d n ess of the L o r d in the l an d of the li v ing .

Psalm 27 : 13 .

I t is t h e Spirit that qu i ckeneth ; the flesh p rofit et h

nothing John 6 : 63
. .

Jesus sa ith unto him I am the way the t ruth an d

, , ,

the lif e John I 4 : 6

. .

An d we know that all thi ng s wo r k tog ether f or

g ood to them that love God Romans 8: 28 . .

He hath not g iven us the spir it of f e ar but of ,

power an d of love an d of a sound m ind I I

, , .

Tim othy I : 7 .

Behold I make all thing s new Rev Z I : 5 . . .

Tho u ar t my God an d the Rock of my sal v ation .

Seek ye fi r st the king d om of God an d his r i ghteous

ness an d al l these thing s shall be a dd ed unto you .

Matth ew 6 : 33 .

I I OZ
 For I will restore health unto thee , an I will h eal
d
thee of thy wounds saith the Lord, . Jer emi ah 30
17 .

A n d the Lord will take away f rom thee all si ckness .

Deuteronomy 7 : 1 5 .

A n d the pr ayer of f aith shall heal the sick an d ,

the Lor d shall r aise him up J ames 5 : 1 5 . .

I have loved thee wi th an ever lasting love ther e ,

f or e with loving kindness have I dr awn thee

, .

Jer emiah 3 1 : 3 .

In the sha dow of thy wings will I make my

r ef u g e Psalm 57 : I
. .

I will sing alou d of thy mer cy in the m o rm n g ; f or

thou hast been my def ence an d r ef ug e in the d ay of
my tr ouble Psalm 59: 1 6
. .

Lea d me to the r ock that is higher than I For .

thou hast been a shelter f or me Psalm 6 1 : 2 3 . , .

I will tr ust in the cover t of thy wings Psalm .

that dwelleth in the secr et place of the Most

He
High shall abi de unde r the sha dow of the Almighty .

Psalm 9 1 : I .

[ 1 04 ]
A GROUP OF HEAL IN G POEMS
 THE HA PP IN ESS FL OW E R
Di d you ever fin d the Happiness Flower ?
It isn t so har d to fin d ;
’

I t opens wi d e at the mor ning hour ,

In the mea dows of cheerf ul mind .

But it sometimes g r ows in the san dy dust

That fil ls the d ese r t of car e ,

A n d d own in the fiel d s of per f ect trust

You always can fin d it ther e .

'

I t s sweet as honey the Happiness Flowe r

, ,

Winter an d summer the same

On the difficu l t hills by tr oublous towe r ,

I t shines like a r osy flame .

Ifever you fin d the Happiness Fl owe r ,

A n d it isn t so ha r d to fin d
’

By the r ainbow s en d in an Apr il shower

’

Wher e the tear s an d smiles ar e twined ,

May it flour ish f ai r in your g a rden gr ound ,

A glisten with joy s b r i ght dew ;

’ '

May the sunshine of love the whole year r oun d

Li e war m on your flower an d you .

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 TH IN ! IN G ROS E S
When I m thinking r oses
'

In my hear t tis June ,

Shadows flee the s unshine ,

All the wor l d s in tune .

Ro se thou ght s b r ing the sol st l ce

-

Of each sunlit yea r ,

When I m thinking r oses

Happiness is here .

When I m living r oses

Gol d en g lows the way
Lea d ing into se r vice ,

St r ong er d ay by day .

Rose thou ghts know the secr et

-

Of my inne r shr ine ,

When I m living r oses

Flower 0 love i s mine
’
.

Ger tr u de Rugg

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 J U ST A SMI LE
As I was tr u dg ing down a long long str eet
, ,

A n d d r ear y ,

With a pack of car e upon my back an d f eet ,

So wear y ,

I met the su dd en flash of f r iendly smile !

I t mad e that r oad shr ink up to half a mile ,

I t mad e that queer old lo ad f all off to limbo ;

,

As dr u dg e will tur n f r om task h er ar ms akimbo

, ,

I star ed an d str aig htened it h ad come so quick ,

Th e chang e h ad been so sunny an d so slick !

Then I tr amped onwar d whistling all the while
,

What sense of comradeship in just a smile !

A n n e Clevelan d

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 FIN E TO -
DA Y

Sur e this wor ld is f ull of tr ouble

,

’ '

I ain t sai d it ain t .

Lord ! I ve h ad enou gh an d ouble

’ ’

Ra in storm have come to fr et me

'

an ,

Skies we r e of ten g r ay ;
Thor ns an b r ambles have beset me
’

On the r oa d but say ,

Ain t it fine to day !

’
-

It s to day that I am livin

’
-
,

Not a month ago ,

'

Hav in l osin taki n givin

’ ’ ’

, , , .

As time wills it so .

Yester da y a clou d of sorr ow

Fell a cr o ss the way ;
It may r ain again to morr ow ,
-
,

It may rain but say ,

Ain t it fine t o d ay !
’
-

Douglas Mollaeli .

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 HEA LI NG SERV I CE !Resp ons ive!
FOR TH E CUR E O F FEA R

Leader Fea r th ou not ; f or I am with thee ; be

not dismayed ; f or I am thy Go d : I will str engthen
thee : yea I wil l help thee : yea I will uphol d
, ,

thee with t h e rig ht h and of my rig hteousness .

Is ai ah 4 1 : 1 0 .

Resp onse B e s t r o ng a n d o f g oo d c o u r
ag e, f ear n o t ; f or t h e L o r d t h y G o d , h e
it is t h a t d o t h g o wi t h t h ee — Deu t 3 1 6 8
. .
, .

Leader What tim e I am a f rai d , I will tru st

in thee . Psa lm 56 : 3 I I ,

Response Th e L or d i s o n my s i d e ; I
wi l l n o t f ear wh a t m an c an d o u n t o m e .

Psalm 1 1 8: 6 .

Leader Be of g ood cou rag e an d he shall ,

s tren g th en your h eart al l ye th at hop e in the Lor d

, .

Ps alm 3 1 24 .

Response F o r G o d h a t h n o t g i v en u s
t h e s p i r i t o f f ea r b u t o f p o w er a n d o f
,

l ov e an d o f a s o und m i nd
, 1 1 Timothy 1 7
. .

Leader Th ou gh an ho st shou l d encamp ag ainst

m e my heart shall n o t f ear : thou g h war sh oul d
,

rise ag ain st me in thi s wi ll I be con fiden t Psa l m

,

, .

27 : 3 .

Resp onse F or i n t i m e of t r oub l e h e

s h a l l h i d e m e i n h i s p av i l i o n : i n th e

_
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 c
s e r et of h i s t a b er n a cl e s h al l h e h i d e
m e; h e s h a l l s et m e u p u p o n a r o ck .

Psal m
Leader When thou liest down thou shalt not ,

be afr ai d ;
yea thou sh alt lie down
, , an d thy sleep
shall be sweet Pr over bs 3 : 24
. .

Resp onse Wh o so ev er h ear k en et h u n t o

m e s h a l l d w el l s a f el y an d s h a l l b e ! u i et
f r o m f ea r o f ev i l Prov erbs
.

Leader Abid e thou with me , f e ar not .

I Sam u el
Resp onse Th er e i s n o f ear i n l ov e ; b u t
p er f ec t l ov e c a s t e t h o u t f ea r : b e c a u s e
f ea r h a t h t o r m en t H e t h a t f ea r et h i s
.

n o t m a d e p er f ec t i n l o v e I John 4 : I 8
. .

Leader Fol low peace with al l men an d holi ,

ness without which no m an shall see the Lord

—Hebrews 1 2 : 1 4
.
,

Response P ea c e I l eav e wi t h y o u my ,

p e a c e I g i v e un t o y o u : n o t a s t h e w o r l d
gi v et h gi v e I un t o yo u
, L et n o t yo u r
.

h ea r t b e t r o u b l ed n ei t h er l et i t b e
,

af r a i d . John

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p ew er . I t m a k es m e l ess efi c i en t No t
.

o n l y s o , b u t i t t en d s t o d es t r o y t h e n o r
m a l f un c t i o n i ng of my b o d i l y o r g an s ,
a n d t o d es t r o y my h ea l t h
—
.

Leader I will not yiel d to env y jeal ousy or

,

hatr ed .

Respons e I wi l l n o t yi el d t o en v y ,
j e a l o u s y o r h a t r ed b e c a u s e t h es e a l s o a r e
n ega t i v e emo t i o n s an d t end t o d es t r o y
my o wn p ea c e o f mi nd a n d t o i nju r e
o t h er s
—
.

Leader I will be kind to ever y man woman ,

a n d chil d with whom I come in c ontact .

Resp ons e I wi l l b e k i nd b eca u s e I wa s

m a d e f or k i nd n es s I wi l l b e k i nd ou t
.

o f s h e er gr a t i t u d e , f o r o t h er m en a r e
k i nd t o m e I wi l l l et l o v e r u l e my l i f e
. .

Leader I will be cheerf ul an d hopef u l

Resp ons e I wi l l b e c h eer f u l b ec a u s e
ch e er f u l n ess wi l l m ak e my o wn wo r k
l i g h t er I w i l l b e h o p ef u l b ec a u s e G o d
.

i s my F a t h er , an d i t i s g o o d t o l oo k
a h ea d
—
.

Leader I will tru st in God an d brav ely f ace

the f uture .

Resp onse I w i l l t r u s t i n G o d b ec a u s e
H e h a s n ev er f a i l ed m e , a n d I s h a l l s t i l l
b e wi t h H i m wh er ev er I g o I sh al l
.

b r a v el y f a c e t h e f u t u r e b eca u s e my r o a d
l ea d s t owa r d t h e c i t y o f G o d .

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 A HEAL I N G SERV I CE R
! p
es ons i ve!
Leader — I am the Way the , Tr uth , an d th e
Lif e .

Resp on se I a m c o m e t h a t y e mi gh t
h a v e l i f e a n d h av e i t m o r e a b un d a n t l y .

Leader I an d my Father ar e o n e .

Resp ons e —H e t h at h at h s ee n me h at h
s een t h e F a t h er .

Leader But let him ask in f aith nothing ,

waver ing f or he that waver eth i s like a wave of

,

the sea dr iven with the wind an d tosse d James .

Resp ons e A n d t h e p r a y er o f f a i t h sh al l
s a v e t h e s i ck , a n d t h e L o r d s h a l l r ai se
h im up James 5 : 1 5
. .

Leader A n d call upon me in the day of trou ble ;

I will d eliver thee an d thou shalt g lorif y me
‘

, .

Psalm s 50: 1 5 .

Resp on se F o r I wi l l r es t or e h ea l t h
un t o t h ee, an d I wi l l h ea l t h ee o f thy
wo und s , s ai t h t h e L o r d Jeremi ah 30: 1 7 . .

Leader Fear thou not ; f or I am with thee ; b e

not dismayed ; f or I am thy God : I will stren g t h en
J

thee : yea I will help thee ; yea I wi l l upho l d th ee

, ,

11 11 11 6 r i g ht h and of my rig ht eou sness

21 1 0
7
I saiah .

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 Resp onse —T
r u s t i n t h e L o r d wi t h al l
t h i n e h ear t ; an d l earn n o t un t o t h i n e
o wn un d er s t a n d i ng Pr over bs 3 : 5 . .

Leader Fo r the L or d thy God wil l hol d thy

thee Isai ah 4 1 : 1 3
— Be
. .

Respons e s t i ll an d k n o w t h a t I am
Go d .Psalm 46 : 1 0 .

Go d i s ou r r ef uge an d s t r eng t h , a v er y
p r es en t h el p 1 1 1 t r o u b l e —Psal m 46 : 1
—Be
. .

Leader str ong an d f g ood

o r e f ear
cou ag ,

not ; f or the Lor d thy God , he it i s th at doth go

with th ee Den t 3 1 : 6 8
. .
, .

u g e , an d und er n ea t h ar e t h e ev er l a s t i n g

Leader s
—A k
an d it sh all be g iven you
, see k , ,

m d y e sh afl fin d kn ock au d i t sh all be op en ed .

Resp ons e —Bu t

I k n o w , t h a t ev en n ow ,
wh a t soev er t h o u wi l t ask o f G od , G od
wi l l gi v e i t t h ee — Joh n

on the Lord . Psalm 27 : 1 4 .

Resp onse A n d a l l t h i n gs , wh a t so ev er
y e sh a l l a sk i n p r a y er , b el i ev i ng , y e s h al l
r ecei v e .Ma tt hew 2 1 22 .

1 1 18 J
 A HEA L I NG PRA YER

f ellow sh i p w ith books yet l i ke the chi l d who gr ows

,

ti r ed wi th ev er y playt hi ng an d ever y chil dish task

an d lonely f or a mother s love we l o ok to Thee with
’

an infinite longi ng I n our eff or t to solve the

.

p r oblems of lif e we thr ow our web of lif e hi ther an d

,

thither but it will not hold Only when at last we

, .

have thr own the thread of f aith to Thee shall the ,

d uctile anchor hol d Ou r H eavenly Father as we

.
,

go f or th into this day may we not leave Thee f or

any dr eam or phantom but may we w alk with Th ee
,

al l d ay long an d fi n d in Thee the answer to ever y

long ing an d the solution of ever y pr oblem Thou ar t .

the solution not mer ely of our f ar off pr oblems Thou -

,

ar t w ith us n ow We nour i sh t h e consciousness of

.

Th y intimate d aily an d hour ly p r esence Thou ar t .

not mer ely ar oun d us Thou art in us a li v i ng vital

, , ,

f o r ce a spr ing of ever l as ti ng lif e We have only to

, .

appeal to Th y cr eative pr esence within us to fi d n

Th ee healing all our diseases an d bin di n g up all our

woun ds We d epend upon Thee Thou gr ea t spir it
. ,

of lif e , an d we tr ust Thee entir ely Thou wi lt .

invig or ate all the ner ves of ou r bo dies an d g ive new

lif e an d power to each lif e cell Let us not f or get .

that we ar e temples of the living God ; an d so may

we hav e Th y heal ing blessing Amen . .

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 A HEAL I N G B LESSIN G FOR CLOSE
OF SERV I CE

we r ecog m ze that o u r lif e is one with Thin e nu

limited lif e an d power As w e hav e wait ed her e
.

t o d ay Th y spirit has been flowin g throu gh o u r

-
,

spi r its
.

P eop le We b el i ev e i n Th y o mn i p r es en t
l i f e ; T h y c o n s t r u c t i v e m i n d h a s b een
wi t h i n u s a n d wh i l e w e h av e wa i t ed
,

h er e Th o u h a s t b een b u i l d i ng o u r b o d i es
,

i n s t r eng t h a n d p er f ec t i o n .

Leader Thou ar t within u s a f ountain of l if e

,

flowing into ever y cell an d ev ery o r g an of our b eing .

Peop le Th o u a r t G o d wi t h i n ou r
n a t u r es a n d T h y l i f e h a s p o w er t o r e
,

g en er a t e an d h ea l my b od y .

! W a it i n s i l en ce!
Leader I praise Th y ten d er harmonizi ng lo v e ,

which h as been wi t h u s an d in us while we have

waited here tog ether .

Peop le 0 l i v i ng , l o v i ng F a t h er , t h i s i s
T h y h o l y t em p l e . M ak e i t a p er f ec t
d w el l i ng p l a c e f r o m wh i c h s h a l l r a d i a t e
T h y h ea l i ng l o v e a n d w i s d o m , t o a l l T h y
c h i l d r en .
 Leader Bless al l my wor ld v isibl e an d i n ,

visible with Th y harm onizing l ov e God is lo v e ;

, .

al l i s l o v e .

Peop le C r ea t i v e Sp i r i t wh i l e w e wa i t ,

wi t h t h e c on s ci o u s n es s o f T h y p r es en c e ,

l et u s f eel Th y s p i r i t flo wi ng i n t o o u r
sp i r i t s v i t al i z i ng
, ev er y n er v e i n o u r
b o d i es p u r i f yi ng o u r so u r c es o f l i f e
, ,

mak i ng ev er y ar t er y an d v ei n t h e c h ann el
f or l i f e gi v i ng b l o o d
-
.

Leader With God ther e is n o Sp ace God is ,

everywhere He i s here an d in t h e end s of the

.

“
earth Theref ore ab sent healing so called
. is ,
-
,

perf ectly rational God 1 3 here God is in the

. .

uttermost p arts of the e arth Theref or e we appeal .

f or a blessing upon these Th y chil dren , .

!R ea d the n am es of th os e wh o d es ir e to be bl ess ed!

Leader an d P eop l e T h o u gr ea t h ea l i ng
sp i r i t wh o a r t h er e a n d ev er ywh er e
,
.

We i nv ok e Th y b l es si ng u p on t h es e T h y ,

ch i l d r en ; wh a t ev er t h ei r n eed b e un t o ,

t h em a f o un t a i n o f l i f e C o m e wi t h .

h eal i ng o n Th y wi ng s b r o o d o v er t h em , ,

h ar mo n i z e a l l t h ei r d i s t u r b ed f a cu l t i es ,

a n d m ak e t h em w el l I n t h e name of
.

J esu s C h r i s t .

P ea c e I l eav e wi t h y ou ; my p ea ce I
g i v e u n t o yo u
A m en
.

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’
s -

H ere is a r ay fo r e v er y d ay , u
s n light fo r ev er y dark
h o ur .
-
Un i l ed P e by t
r s i
er a n .

Th e Op t i m i s t Go o d -Ni g h t
’
s

Opti mi t G
Th e s
’

s oo d -Nigh t i s f u ll f go o d things A
o .

d ught f m th w eet w at ers at th e clo se o f d ay sho u ld

—R
ra ro ese s

m k g d l pi g p
a e a oo s ee n i
ot on . ev . H en ry V a n Dy ke D D , . .

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“
c o urage men t , a n dI sen t n .

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