The Washington herald., 1916-11-29
When a Man Finds Himself.
ny ORIsoN SWEET MARDEN.


After nearly pint and half Of
blood had been transfused into the
veins of Mrs. Inez Milholland- Bois-
sevain from her sister and had failed
to produce the desired effect she
rallied and improved very perceptibly
on being told of the success Of the
suffrage vote during the recent Presi-
dental election.
Good news or bad news is tele-
graphed instantly to every cell of the
body and these cells are stimulated
or depressed according to the nature
of the news.
Physicians know the tremendous
power of suggestion to stimulate or
to depress, and in a desperate crisis
they give the patient the benefit of
any possible doubt, and allow him to
hope, even when after a consultation.
a number of them decide that he will
die. They know that there is every
thing in keeping up the patients hope
and courage because Of the intimate
connection between the mind and
every cell in the body, because of the
tremendous healing power of the ex-
pectation of cure.
The physicians attending Mrs Rois-
SeValn were much elated at the ralIy-
ing effect of good news upon their
patient as reports of the numbers of
suffrage votes came in.
The doctors mental prescription is
the one that does his patient most
good. The doctor who cheers vou
up, VINO encourages you, who tries to
iiit you out OF the slough of despond,
the doctor who fills you with conf
dence. hope, expectation of relief,
other things being equal, is the man
who Will help you regain your health.
All mental healing is performed BY
arouSing the latent creative powers in
the patient. 1t is not done by the
TRANSMISSION of power or healing
force from outside The recreative
torce is in the great within of the
patient. When you arouse its poten-
cies ITS latent curative power will
tend to neutralize the discordant,
| diseased conditions.
II the mental cures that are now
so common had been performed fiftv
years ago they would have been re-
garded as miracles Now they are
regarded as scientific Twenty-Five
years ago a physician who had any
regard for his reputation would have
nothing to do with these mental heal
ing methods. Now most physicians
depend more on cheering and en-
couraglng their patients than on Civ
ing them medicine
The mental faculties, the success
qualities. are as dependent on en-
couragcment as are the physical parts
OF our being. They must see hope
ahead or they Will not give out their
best. Despair very quickly takes the
vim out of the brain power.
Not only IS mans ability greatly
increased by the tonic of good chez
! little OF the stimulus of success brt
we often see tremendous change for
the better in his health, his appear-
ance, his courage, his initiative. How
often we see this illustrated when
after a hard fight for years to get a
footing. the tide suddenly turns for
man and prosperity comes his way.
A new look OF self-confdence, of ioy.
shines in his eyes, his very expression
Is that of conquerer. A sense of
power has taken the place of doubt,
despair, and disappointment. One
can detect an unwonted air of triumph
even in his walk. He has touched the
invisible springs of power that con-
meet him with his Creator and he is
new being.
When a man has lost his grip unon
himself, lost his courage. when
through a series of failures and dis
appointments he feels convinced that
he IS down and out that he cannot
possibly get on his feet, there is moth
ing you can do for him but to try to
restore his lost confidence, to arouse
his hope, to show him that, being
divine, there is something in him
which can never fail; to show him
that he and his Maker are one. and
that, working together, they are a ma
Jority in any situation.
There is no more potent success
tonic than the constant reminder of
the higher possible self involved in
every child of God. There is some
thing in every one of US infnitrlv
D1gger, stronger, more capable than
what we have yet evolved.
When man finds himself: when
he realizes the God in him, that he is
prince instead of a nobody. and
that the inheritance of a prince is his
birthright, he will not suffer any tenn
porary failure or disappointmen To
| rob him of his birthright.
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