y will seem less colossal.

Then say: "I shall be given help to meet anything that comes to-day.
Everything will be for the best. I shall succeed in whatever I
undertake. I cannot fail."

Do not let it discourage you if the moment you leave your room you
encounter a trouble or a disaster. This usually happens. When we make
any boasts, spiritually or physically, we are put to the test. The
occult forces about us are not unlike human beings. When a school-boy
boasts of his strength, and says he can "lick any boy in school," he
generally gets a chance to prove it.

When we declare we are brave enough to overcome any fate, we find our
strength put to the test at once.

But that is all right. Prove your words to be true. Regard the
troubles and cares you encounter as the "punching bags" of fate, given
you to develop your spiritual muscle.

Go at them with courage and keep to your morning resolve.

By and by the troubles will lessen, and you will find yourself master
of Circumstances.

The Philosophy of Happiness

There are natures born to happiness just as there are born musicians,
mechanics and mathematicians.

They are usually children who came into life under right pre-natal
conditions. That is, children conceived and born in love.

The mother who thanks God for the little life she is about to bring to
earth, gives her child a more blessed endowment than if it were heir to
a kingdom or a fortune.

As the majority of people, however, born under "civilized" conditions,
are unwelcome to their mothers, it is rarely we encounter one who has a
birthright of happiness.

Youth possesses a certain buoyancy and exhilaration which passes for
happiness, until the real disposition of the individual asserts itself
with the passing of time.

Good health and strong vitality are great aids to happiness; yet that
they, wealth and honors added, do not produce that much desired state
of mind we have but to look about us to observe.

One who is not born a musician needs to toil more assiduously to
acquire skill in the art, however strong his desire or great his taste,
than the natural genius.

So the man not endowed with joyous impulses needs to set himself the
task of acquiring the habit of happiness. I believe it can be done.
To the sad or restless or discontented being I would say: Begin each
morning by resolving to find something in the day to enjoy. Look in
each experience which comes to you for some