The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
SUCCESS IS YOURS"
There is No Such Thing FaureYour Body and Your Cir cumstances Are Made by Your Thought-You Would Not Be Here Today Had You Not Achieved Success as
 Far as You Have Now Come
By THORNW ELL HAYNES College esent consul of the United states
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accomplishment that crowns effort of any kind in any direction.
 You have scaled many mountain peaks | in your journey and descended into many valleys What you call failure now is only one of the valleys in your ascending progress.
 And so I say again-the very fact that you have come up through the process of evolution to the place where you now stand proves you to be a success If you are down in valley just now, what other hill. A few depressions here and there are nothing to him whose present valley Is height compared to the hill- | top farther down the range over which he has passed.
 l Did that ever occur to you, my dis heartened friend? If not let it occur to l you right now
 | Today you are a success as far as you have gone, but you have not gone far enough.
 ! Brace up and press onward and up ward, knowing that however weak, how | ever imperfect you may seem to your self, and to others, still in reality you 1 are a success. If you could look back
 into your unconscious life where 1t began as tiny bit of protoplasm, and see what 1 you have been through in your ascent
 what you have to contend with, and what | i of your success, For my part I do not believe in failure. There may be stop page or hindrance on the way to success,
 or motion may be discontinued In some one direction, but that does not mean failure by any means.
 1 Was 1t failure when Hawthorne lost 1 a position with a fixed salary and thus l found time to write that great book The Scarlet Letter? Hawthorne himself l thought 1t the worst moment of his life, but his far-seeing wife knew better. She l said to him. You have always wanted
 to write book. The time has come. I have a little money laid up that will
 support us until the book is written. "So Hawthorne wrote his book and many others to the delight of the world and his own financial benefit, but he never would have known that success had he not met first with 1 seeming failure, had he not descended into the valley in order to climb the | adjacent hill Hawthorne was fortu-
 nate in having good wife at his l elbow to suggest another channel for ] his interrupted force to flow into. You may not have a good angel at your 1 elbow, but you have one within who 1 will guide you into the new and bet | ter path
 Tt all depends upon what you | think about yourself If you see your
 
 | the dust you will crawl. If you see yourself as a god and wish to ride, Emerson says that every chip ana stem will bud and shoot out winged I feet to carry you Nothing can shut you away from ultimate success. but something can hold you back from 1t for time and that something is your 1 low estimate of yourself and your en- I folding powers The low estimate is | not the true one It is hypnotic spell l cast upon your mind by your inherited ] false beliefs. The truth about your self shall set you free.
 , "St. Paul said, Be ye transformed by 1 the renewing of your minds How | comes 1t that the renewing of your 1 mind transforms you? Is 1t because ali I your body and all your circumstances are made over to the pattern of your thought? When the pattern Is changed 1 or renewed the body and environment are changed or renewed also A noblcr.
 more ideal thought creates a nobier and more ideal body and surroundings. Thought acts on the body and envir- | onment like corrective chemical neu- tralizing an acid and purifying a fetld atmosphere.
 l 'In reading Boswell's life of Dr. ] Samuel Johnson I was surprised to learn that Johnson. even in his day, ! believed that if you talked of any tning euIIlclently It would come to pass which was but another way of | saying that thought externalizes it. l self. or that the word is creative l Begin then from this very hour to l build the mansion of your future great tness. palace of the gods, and a l body that shall glorify that palace Back of all your effort is the infinite and you will create all that your inn l agination can picture. And let this be 1 your affirmation by day and night:
 T now affirm that because I live,
 because I have life. am success I should not be here today had not 1 achieved success so far as have gone. I have overcome much to be what am now. I shall overcome more be-
 cause of the divine urge within me. l Infinite and inexhaustible power is
 mine because the great Christ teach
 CT taught that the kingdom of God is within me"
 The cross of St. George has been
 the British emblem since the four | teenth century. Before that time the | xl>~ haf~ n