sant thoughts. None of us as yet know, for none of us have been
taught in early youth, what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful
thought,--_proof against all adversity_."

And would you have in your body all the elasticity, all the strength,
all the beauty of your younger years? Then live these in your mind,
making no room for unclean thought, and you will externalize them in
your body. In the degree that you keep young in thought will you
remain young in body. And you will find that your body will in turn
aid your mind, for body helps mind the same as mind builds body.

You are continually building, and so externalizing in your body
conditions most akin to the thoughts and emotions you entertain. And
not only are you so building from within, but you are also continually
drawing from without, forces of a kindred nature. Your particular kind
of thought connects you with a similar order of thought from without.
If it is bright, hopeful, cheerful, you connect yourself with a current
of thought of this nature. If it is sad, fearing, despondent, then
this is the order of thought you connect yourself with.

If the latter is the order of your thought, then perhaps unconsciously
and by degrees you have been connecting yourself with it. You need to
go back and pick up again a part of your child nature, with its
careless and cheerful type of thought. "The minds of the group of
children at play are unconsciously concentrated in drawing to their
bodies a current of playful thought. Place a child by itself, deprive
it of its companions, and soon it will mope and become slow of
movement. It is cut off from that peculiar thought current and is
literally 'out of its element.'

"You need to bring again this current of playful thought to you which
has gradually been turned off. You are too serious or sad, or absorbed
in the serious affairs of life. You can be playful and cheerful
without being puerile or silly. You can carry on business all the
better for being in the playful mood when your mind is off your
business. There is nothing but ill resulting from the permanent mood
of sadness and seriousness,--the mood which by many so long maintained
makes it actually difficult for them to smile at all.

"At eighteen or twenty you commenced growing out of the more playful
tendency of early youth. You took hold of the more serious side of
life. You went into some business. You became more or less involved
in its cares,