The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-20
The Inexhaustible
Power of Mind

~ G1t1L lay OylQB. O06 was a pro-
A fessional singer and dancer and
had worked the life out of herself.
the doctors said. The last moments
apparently had come. A clergyman
prayed for her. In what appeared to be
semiconsciousness she had seemed to
talk with her father and brother, who
had gone before her down to death.
Among those who watched her passing
was her betrothed, to whom she had
been promised nearly three years. They
had loved each other dearly, and the
parting was bitter. All at once the
young man exclaimed:
If she must go, let it be as my wife,
He begged the minister to marry
them. The minister was willing. The
lover aroused the girl gently He told
her he wanted her to become his wife
then and there She understood and
looked into his face with loving con-
sent. The last act of her life would be
to give him pleasure. She reused all
her fleeing senses and consciousness
to hold them long enough to say the
word which should pass her into the
beyond a bride. The word was spoken.
Her husband kissed her. and she felt
his tears upon her cheek.
Something in the supreme effort to
hold her senses while the ceremony was
great flow of life from somewhere.
who knows where? Instead of sinking
back and closing her eyes when the
rite was concluded she opened them
wide and smiled brightly at her true
lover.
Il don't think I'll die, after ALL" she
whispered.
And she did not die, though they who
watched had expected every f1uttering
breath to be her last. Supreme love and
joy had started new life currents dane
ing through her veins. She lived and
made very happy the lover who brought
her back from the borderland
An old colored man sat doing in his
chair in the doorway of his little home.
He was crippled with rheumatism. and
he had sat in that chair through most
of his waking hours for six years. He
was unable to walk and had to be help
ed from his chair to his bed and from
bed to chair.
A sudden explosion; an alarm of
fire, sheet of flame bursting from the
house next door, blistering the boards
of the colored mans shanty He felt
the heat in his face. He gave a terri
fed yell and made wild leap forward.
he who had not walked in six years.
He jumped into the street and actually
ran with nimble legs several blocks be-
fore he remembered that he was lame
and could not walk a step!
In neither his case nor in that of the
girl was there any fake OF humbug.
She was actually thought by medical
men to be dying; the colored man had
actually been unable to walk for six
years.
Many more such stories are on record.
well authenticated. Do they not prove
that there is somewhere an ever flow
ing, inexhaustible fountain of power?
Do they not show that on extraordinary
occasions. in moments of intense excite
ment, mostly of fear or joy, we tap the
fountain. we draw from it and drink
our fill of the strength Which renews all
our being? It must be so. There is no
other way to explain the sudden cures
that have been wrought by an instan-
taneous change of the mental attitude.
Now. may it not be that, without
being either frightened almost to death
or wrought upon by sudden, over
whelming joy. we may gain such con-
troll of our minds that they can draw
. from the infinite power which resides
within us? If we can, then can we
maintain ourselves in perfect health
and prolong our existence. To cultivate
in ourselves a calm sense of strength
which is equal to anything is the be-
ginning. A thought stimulus runs from
the brain down the spinal cord and
along the nerves through the whole
body If we think persistentIy the
thought of health in our bodies. this
will go far toward producing health.
The power is always there, and we may
draw on it mentally to any extent.
JANE MOSES.