Jesus declared that "we should know the truth, and the truth would

make us free." That truth was the power which He exercised. He had so

perfect an understanding of truth that it gave Him absolute dominion

over evil, enabled Him to heal diseases of every nature, even to raise the

dead. The power that He exercised then was not confined to His time,

nor limited to His own immediate followers. "Lo, I am with you always,"

He said, "even unto the end of the world." And He is just as available to

us now as He was to His own disciples 1900 years ago.

"I have given you power to tread serpents and scorpions under foot and

to trample on all the power of the enemy; and in no case shall anything

do you harm."

That gift was never meant to be confined to His own disciples or to any

other one group. God has never dealt in special or temporary gifts. He

gives to all—to all who will accept—to all who have an understanding

heart.

All sickness, all poverty, all sorrow, is the result of the incorrect use of

some gift of God, which in itself is inherently good. It is just as though we

took the numbers that were given us to work out a problem, and put

them in the wrong places. The result would be incorrect, inharmonious.

We would not be ex-pressing the truth. The moment we rearrange those

numbers properly, we get the correct answer—harmony—

the truth! There was nothing wrong with the principle of mathematics

before—the fault was all with us, with our incorrect arrangement of the

figures.

The Only Power

He who is looking for wisdom, power, or permanent success, will find it

only within. Mind is the only cause. Your body is healthy or sick

according to the images of thought you impress upon your subconscious

mind. Ii you will hold thoughts of health instead of sickness, if you will

banish all thoughts of disease and decay, you can build up a perfect body.

Dr. William S. Patten of New York says, "To know and to understand the

organization of mind and to recognize the action of mind is the first and

the only requisite of a sound body."

But whichever it is, it is FEAR that starts it. You visualize, consciously or

unconsciously, the disease that you fear, and because that is the image

held before your thought, your body proceeds to build in accordance

with that model. You believe that disease is necessary, that you have got

to expect a certain amount of it. You hear of it every day, and

subconsciously at least you are constantly in fear of it. And through that

very fear you create it, when if you would spend that same amount of

time thinking and believing in the necessity of HEALTH, you would

never need to know disease.

Disease is not sent by God. It is not a visitation of Providence. If it were,

what would be the use of doctoring it? You couldn't fight against the

power of God!

God never sent us anything but good. He never gave us disease. When we

allow disease to take hold of us, it is because we have lost touch with

God—lost the perfect model of us that He holds in mind. And what we

have got to strive for is to get back the belief in that perfect model—to

forget the diseased image we are holding in our thought.

Remember the story of Alexander and his famous horse, Bucephalus? No

one could ride the horse because it was afraid of its shadow. But

Alexander faced it towards the sun—and rode it without trouble. Face

towards the sun and the shadows will fall behind you, too. Face towards

the perfect image of every organ, and the shadows of disease will never

touch you.

There is no germ in a draft capable of giving you a cold. There is no

bacteria in exposure to the weather that can give you a fever or

pneumonia. It is you that gives them to yourself. The draft doesn't reason

this out. Neither does your body. They are both of them merely phases of

matter. They are not intelligent. It is your conscious mind that has been

educated to think that a cold must follow exposure to a draft. This it is

that suggests it to your subconscious mind and brings the cold into

being.

THESE PEOPLR ARE SICK

YOU…ARE NOT!

Every form of disease or sickness is solely the result of wrong thinking.

The primary law of being is the law of health and life. When you

recognize this, when you hold before your mind's eye only a perfect body,

perfect organisms functioning perfectly, you will "realize the truth that

makes you free."

Farnsworth in his "Practical Psychology" tells of a physician who has

lived on a very restricted diet for years while at home. But about once a

year he comes to New York for a week. While here, he eats anything and

everything that his fancy dictates, and never suffers the least

inconvenience. As soon as he gets home he has to return to his diet.

Unless he sticks to his diet, he expects to be ill—and he is ill. "As a man

thinketh, so is he." What one expects to get he is apt to get, especially

where health is concerned. For matter has no sensation of its own. The

conscious mind is what produces pain, is what feels, acts or impedes

action.

Functional disorders are caused by certain suggestions getting into the

subconsciousness and remaining there. They are not due to physical, but

to mental causes—due to wrong thinking. The oasis of all functional

disorders is in the mind, though the manifestation be dyspepsia,

melancholia, palpitation of the heart, or any one of a hundred others.

There is nothing organically wrong with the body. It is your mental

image that is out of adjustment. Change the one and you cure the other.

BE STRONG IN THE LORD!

You cannot receive good while expecting evil. You cannot demonstrate

plenty while looking for poverty. "Blessed is he that expecteth much, for

verily his soul shall be filled." Solomon outlined the law when he said:

"There is that scattereth, and increaseth yet more;

And there is that withholdeth more than is meet,

but it tendeth only to want.

The liberal soul shall be made fat;

And he that watereth shall be watered also himself."

The Universal Mind expresses itself largely through the individual. It is

continually seeking an outlet. It is like a vast reservoir of water,

constantly replenished by mountain sp rings. Cut a channel to it and the

water will flow in ever-increasing volume. In the same way, if you once

open up a channel of service by which the Universal Mind can express

itself through you, its gifts will flow in ever-increasing volume and YOU

will be enriched in the process.

This is the idea through which great bankers are made. A foreign country

needs millions for development. Its people are hard-working, but lack

the necessary implements to make their work productive. How are they

to find the money?

They go to a banker—put their problem up to him. He has not the money

himself, but he knows how and where to raise it. He sells the promise to

pay of the foreign country (their bonds, in other words) to people who

have money to invest. His is merely a service. But it is such an invaluable

service that both sides are glad to pay him liberally for it.

In the same way, by opening up a channel between universal supply and

human needs—by doing your neighbors or your friends or your

customers service—you are bound to profit yourself. And the wider you

open your channel- the greater service you give or the better values you

offer—the more things are bound to flow through your channel, the more

you are going to profit thereby.

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How Satanic of You…

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God. This is the first and the greatest

Commandment." Thou shalt show thy love by using to the best possible

advantage the good things (the "talents" of the par-able) that He has

placed in your hands. "And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy

neighbor as thyself." Thou shalt not abuse the good things that have been

provided you in such prodigality, by using them against your neighbor.

Instead, thou shalt treat him (love him) as you would be treated by him.

Thou shalt use the good about you for the advantage of all.

If you are a banker, you've got to use the money you have in order to

make more money. If you are a merchant, you've got to sell the goods

you have in order to buy more goods. If you are a doctor, you must help

the patient you have in order to get more practice. If you are a clerk, you

must do your work a little better than those around you if you want to

earn more money than they. And if you want more of the universal

supply, you must use that which you have in such a way as to make

yourself of greater service to those around you.

"Whosoever shall be great among you," said Jesus, "shall be your

minister, and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of

all." In other words, if you would be great, you must serve. And he who

serves most shall be greatest of all.

If you want to make more money, instead of seeking it for yourself, see

how you can make more for others. In the process you will inevitably

make more for yourself, too. We get as we give—but we must give first.

It matters not where 'you Start you may be a day laborer. But still you

can give—give a bit more of energy, of work, of thought, than you are

paid for. "Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile," said Jesus, "go with

him twain." Try to put a little extra skill into your work. Use your mind to

find some better way of doing whatever task may be set for you. It won't

be long before you are out of the common labor class.

There is no kind of work than can-not be bettered by thought. There is

no method that cannot be improved by thought. So give generously of

your thought to your work. Think every minute you are at it—"Isn't there

some way in which this could be done easier, quicker, better?" Read in

your spare time everything that relates to your own work or to the job

ahead of you. In these days of magazines and books and libraries, few are

the occupations that are not thoroughly covered in some good work.

Remember in Lorimer's "Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son,"

the young fellow that old Gorgan Graham hired against his better

judgment and put in the "barrel gang" just to get rid of him quickly?

Before the month was out the young fellow had thought himself out of

that job by persuading the boss to get a machine that did the work at half

the cost and with a third of the gang. Graham just had to raise his pay

and put him higher up. But he wouldn't stay put. No matter what the job,

he always found some way it could be done better and with fewer people.

Until he reached the top of the ladder.

There are plenty of men like that in actual life. They won't stay down.

They are as full of bounce as a cat with a small boy and a dog after it.

Thrown to the dog from an upper window, it is using the time of falling

to get set for the next jump. By the time the dog leaps for where it hit, the

cat is up the tree across the street.

The true spirit of business is the spirit of that plucky old Danish sea

captain, Peter Tordenskjold. Attacked by a Swedish frigate, after all his

crew but one had been killed and his supply of cannon balls was

exhausted, Peter boldly kept up the fight, firing pewter dinner-plates and

mugs from his one remaining gun.

One of the pewter mugs hit the Swedish captain and killed him, and

Peter sailed off triumphant!

"Now, why am I so sure of this law? How can you be sure? I have

watched it work; it works everywhere. You have only to try it, and keep

on trying it and it will prove true for you. It is not true because I say so,

nor because anybody else says so; it is just true. Theosophists call it the

law of Karma; humanitarians call it the law of Service; business men call

it the law of common sense; Jesus Christ called it the law of Love. It rules

whether I know it or not, whether I believe it or not, whether I defy it or

not. I can't break it! Jesus of Nazareth, without reference to any religious

idea you may have about Him, without consideration as to whether He

was or was not divine, was the greatest business Man that ever lived, and

he said: 'Give and ye shall receive—good measure, pressed down, shaken

together, running over!' And this happens to be so—not because He said

it—but because it is the Truth, which we all, whether we admit it or not,

worship as God. No man can honestly say that he does not put the truth

supreme.

"It is the truth—the principle of giving and receiving—only there are few

men who go the limit on it. But going the limit is the way to unlimited

returns!