eir bodies that
will give them the strength and endurance which will enable them to win.

Then take the thought that you _can_; take it merely as a seed-thought,
if need be, plant it in your consciousness, tend it, cultivate it, and
it will gradually reach out and gather strength from all quarters. It
will focus and make positive and active the spiritual force within you
that is now scattered and of little avail. It will draw to itself
force from without. It will draw to your aid the influence of other
minds of its own nature, minds that are fearless, strong, courageous.
You will thus draw to yourself and connect yourself with this order of
thought. If earnest and faithful, the time will soon come when all
fear will loose its hold; and instead of being an embodiment of
weakness and a creature of circumstances, you will find yourself a
tower of strength and a master of circumstances.

We need more faith in every-day life,--faith in the power that works
for good, faith in the Infinite God, and hence faith in ourselves
created in His image. And however things at times may seem to go,
however dark at times appearances may be, the knowledge of the fact
that "the Supreme Power has us in its charge as it has the suns and
endless systems of worlds in space," will give us the supreme faith
that all is well with us, the same as all is well with the world.
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee."

There is nothing firmer, and safer, and surer than Deity. Then, as we
recognize the fact that we have it in our own hands to open ourselves
ever more fully to this Infinite Power, and call upon it to manifest
itself in and through us, we will find in ourselves an ever increasing
sense of power. For in this way we are working in conjunction with it,
and it in turn is working in conjunction with us. We are then led into
the full realization of the fact that all things work together for good
to those that love the good. Then the fears and forebodings that have
dominated us in the past will be transmuted into faith, and faith when
rightly understood and rightly used is a force before which nothing can
stand.

Materialism leads naturally to pessimism. And how could it do
otherwise? A knowledge of the Spiritual Power working in and through
us as well as in and through all things, a power that works for
righteousness, leads to optimism. Pessimism leads to weakness.
Optimism leads to power. The one who