The Washington herald., 1916-11-10
Next Time You Think You Are 4 FaiIur,
De oRIsoN SWEET MARnEN.

ny oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
There is nothing that will take the grit out of
a man. nothing that will timber his backbone quite
so quickly as giving in to sdiseoufaeemnt. Few
people are sufficient masters of themselves to do
good work when they are in blue, discouraged
condition. Most of Us simply quit or do very
indifferent work when we are suffering from the
blues
The next time you feel as If the bottom had
dropped out of everything and you are right up
against il, don't make matters worse by allowing
yourself to get down into the dumps, to spend
nights worrying and fretting and days anticipating
evils ahead. Don't allow the traitor doubt which
has made such havoc in your past life to push you
deeper and deeper into the slough of despond.
Positively refuse entrance or harbor in your
mind to any OF the enemies of your peace, your
happiness, your efficiency or your success. Brace
yourself up by electromagnetic treatment.
This is the time when you need your mental
friends, when you need to kill your mental en-
emes-doubts and fears, anxietes and terrors-
with their antidotes This is the time you need
hope and courage and expectancy Of good things
to come to you. You don't want any more blue
devils, any more enemies of your welfare in your
mind; you want your friends; you want to neu-
tralize all that is black, ugly, disheartening and
discouraging in your mental kingdom and in your
environment. This is the time to make connec-
ton with all that is strong and uplifting, to put
up your trolley pole which you have allowed to
drop, and tap the omnipotent current which will
carry you above and beyond doubt, fear and
despondency.
The most effective way to do this, to over
come the temptation to play the coward because
Of discouragemnt. is to get to some place where
you can be alone and have good heart-to-heart
talk with yourself. Your pain, your dependency
and anxiety come from your negative mind. You
must change your mental attitude make your
mind positive, creative, instead of negative, by
peated affirmation of your brthrght your her
itage of divine power and happiness.
Say to yourself: 81 am Gods child, and my
Father never created me to be miserable down
hearted, discouraged creature. He made me to
look up, to be courageous, cheerful, happy. / am
all these l am one with my Father; master OF
myself, my thoughts and moods; am a success
I believe in all good. Nothing can harm me so
long as keep my connection with my Creator.
That l am resolved to do. l and my Father are
one. l am one with Him now and forever.
am joy and gladness. Gloom and dependency
cannot enter my mind while the Father abides in
me and in Him. And never again shall l harbor
the enemies of my health and happiness Never
again shall lose my connection with the Maker
of all good, Greater of all things"
Talk to yourself in the same dead-in-earnest
way that you would to your child to a
dear friend who was deep in the mire of de-
spondency, suffering tortures from melancholy.
Drive out the black, hideous pictures which haunt
your mind. Sweep away all depressing thoughts,
suggestions, all the mistakes all the disagreeable
past; just rise up in arms against the enemies of
your peace and happiness, summon all the force
you can muster and drive them out. Negative
diseordant thoughts cannot exist in the presence
of their opposites. After even one good heart-to-
heart talk with yourself you will be ashamed to
be such coward to give way to the blues, to
think of turning back from your resolution, or
lying down and giving up hope, in obedience to
a mood
1t is a great thing to start out in the morning
with definite understanding with ourselves that
we are going to have not only an agreeable but a
successful day; that are not going to allow
moods feelings, or ordinary troubles which
have hitherto upset u.s. little vexations to which
we have been slaves, to interfere with our work
or happiness for that day.
Many people seem to think that it is useless
to make resolutions of this sort because they are
always breaking down; but it is perseverance in
spite of failure, getting up every time one falls
down, that always wins out in the end. 1t is the
man who is always resolving and trying his level
best to carry out his resolution that does the best
To refuse to make resolutions because are
liable to break them is to acknowledge that we
are incapable of running ourselves, that we are
not in our own control