, unhesitatingly. He can not do this with a wavering,
doubting, unstable mind.

The fact that a man believes implicitly that he can do what may seem
impossible or very difficult to others, shows that there is something
within him that makes him equal to the work he has undertaken.

Faith unites man with the Infinite, and no one can accomplish great
things in life unless he works in oneness with the Infinite. When a man
lives so near to the Supreme that the divine Presence is felt all the
time, then he is in a position to express power.

There is nothing which will multiply one's ability like self-faith. It
can make a one-talent man a success, while a ten-talent man without it
would fail.

Faith walks on the mountain tops, hence its superior vision. It sees
what is invisible to those who follow in the valleys.

It was the sustaining power of a mighty self-faith that enabled Columbus
to bear the jeers and imputations of the Spanish cabinet; that sustained
him when his sailors were in mutiny and he was at their mercy in a little
vessel on an unknown sea; that enabled him to hold steadily to his
purpose, entering in his diary day after day--"This day we sailed west,
which was our course."

It was this self-faith which gave courage and determination to Fulton to
attempt his first trip up the Hudson in the _Clermont_, before thousands
of his fellow citizens, who had gathered to howl and jeer at his expected
failure. He believed he could do the thing he attempted though the whole
world was against him.

What miracles self-confidence has wrought! What impossible deeds it has
helped to perform! It took Dewey past cannons, torpedoes, and mines to
victory at Manila Bay; it carried Farragut, lashed to the rigging, past
the defenses of the enemy in Mobile Bay; it led Nelson and Grant to
victory; it has been the great tonic in the world of invention,
discovery, and art; it has won a thousand triumphs in war and science
which were deemed impossible by doubters and the faint-hearted.

Self-faith has been the miracle-worker of the ages. It has enabled the
inventor and the discoverer to go on and on amidst troubles and trials
which otherwise would have utterly disheartened them. It has held
innumerable heroes to their tasks until the glorious deeds were
accomplished.

The only inferiority in us is what we put into ourselves. If only we
better understood our divinity we should all have this larger faith which
is the d