Eliminate Wrong Ideas, Ideals, Moods

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon. -Jonas Salk

Among the erroneous notions which it may be necessary to root out of the mind is the thought (traceable to false religious teaching) that the possession of much money is not in harmony with true religion.

It is quite true that the love of money is a root of evil, and that many who have great wealth are under great temptations to neglect their spiritual interests. But note this fact that while money loved and worshipped, and money hoarded by miserly avarice, are great evils and a source of great temptation, poverty on the other hand, has its peculiar evils and temptations, and that no position in life is free from possible temptation, while every blessing in life, by abuse, many become a curse.

Note also that the evident design of nature is abundance and not poverty so that while we may say God is the author of Beneficence and Abundance, and nature's law is certainly Opulence no one can say God is the author of Poverty.

The end nature aims at is Abundance for All and if we must find an origin for Poverty we can never trace it to divine design. The notion that sickness, suffering and poverty are in any way necessarily related to a religious life, is one of the falsest teachings ever given out in the name of religion.

God is the author of Health, Happiness, Wealth and Wisdom, and sickness, misery, poverty, ignorance, are incidents of our undeveloped condition or results of our own neglect.

No life under the blighting influence of poverty can prove the abundant life, the full-orbed, symmetrical and beneficient life, which every rational man desires. The Worry Fiend and his Allies must be routed if you are to secure that peace and inward calm so essential to efficient thinking and working.

Psychology today in trumpet tones declares that no one can enjoy health who is a victim of worry, anger, jealousy or fear. Along with these, we should put irresolution, timidity, depression, lack of confidence in one's self all of them Negative Emotions, utterly unfitting us for the conflict of life ! These emotions exhaust the life energy and leave a man only fractional strength for the stubborn ordeals of life.

People suffer more real exhaustion and loss from the evils they fear but which never happen than they do from evils that actually materialize in their lives. At an old man's funeral it was said of him he had a multitude of troubles in life, most of which never happened. What an infinite pity that the time and strength which might be utilized in grand achievements for ourselves and the world, are too often wasted in worry, fear or envy with the one result of weakness and suffering and lost opportunities of usefulness Fear has been called truly the great hobgoblin of the race.

It magnifies our foes and minifies our friends. It is always saying There is a lion in the way! Its cry is the cry of the coward servant of Elisha Alas! my Master, what shall we do It sees the foes, difficulties and magnifies them into gigantic proportions. The tearful and the unbelieving both go to the same doom according to Scripture.

The whole progress of humanity nationally and individually is a progress from the dominion of fear to the realm of faith. Fear has a strange magnetic power a thought-creative power of materializing into our outward life the very objects feared I It seems to be a magnet with great force, drawing into the orbit of the life the very object feared by the mind.

The thing that I feared, said the sacred writer, is that which came upon me. Faith, on the other hand, says with Elisha They that are for us are greater than those that be against us. Faith sees the angelic hosts ready to assist us in time of need. Let the student remember the axiom thought takes form in action and being.