s they would banish a temptation to do evil. I would
teach them that bad food, bad drink, or bad air makes bad blood; that
bad blood makes bad tissue, and bad flesh bad morals. I would teach
them that healthy thoughts are as essential to healthy bodies as pure
thoughts to a clean life. I would teach them to cultivate a strong
will power, and to brace themselves against life's enemies in every
possible way. I would teach the sick to have hope, confidence, cheer.
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our
possibilities. No man's success or health will ever reach beyond his
own confidence; as a rule, we erect our own barriers.
"Like produces like the universe through. Hatred, envy, malice,
jealousy, and revenge all have children. Every bad thought breeds
others, and each of these goes on and on, ever reproducing itself,
until our world is peopled with their offspring. The true physician
and parent of the future will not medicate the body with drugs so much
as the mind with principles. The coming mother will teach her child to
assuage the fever of anger, hatred, malice, with the great panacea of
the world,--Love. The coming physician will teach the people to
cultivate cheerfulness, good-will, and noble deeds for a health tonic
as well as a heart tonic; and that a merry heart doeth good like a
medicine."
The health of your body, the same as the health and strength of your
mind, depends upon what you relate yourself with. This Infinite Spirit
of Life, this Source of all Life, can from its very nature, we have
found, admit of no weakness, no disease. Come then into the full,
conscious, vital realization of your oneness with this Infinite Life,
open yourself to its more abundant entrance, and full and ever-renewing
bodily health and strength will be yours.
"And good may ever conquer ill,
Health walk where pain has trod;
'As a man thinketh, so is he,'
Rise, then, and think with God."
The whole matter may then be summed up in the one sentence, "God is
well and so are you." You must awaken to the knowledge of your _real
being_. When this awakening comes, you will have, and you will see
that you have, the power to determine what conditions are externalized
in your body. You must recognize, you must realize yourself as one
with Infinite Spirit. God's will is then your will; your will is God's
will, and "with God all things are possible." When we are able to do
away with a
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