you insist and persist.

Declare they are yours, right in the face of the worst disasters.
There is nothing so confuses and flustrates misfortune as to stare it
down with hopeful unflinching eyes.

If you waken some morning in the depths of despondency and gloom, do
not say to yourself:

"I may as well give up this effort to adopt the New Thought--I have
made a failure of it evidently----." Instead sit down quietly, and
assert calmly that you are cheerfulness, hope, courage, faith and
success.

Realize that your despondency is only temporary; an old habit, which is
reasserting itself, but over which you will gradually gain the
ascendency. Then go forth into the world and busy yourself in some
useful occupation, and before you know it is on the way, hope will
creep into your heart, and the gray cloud will lift from your mind.
Physical pains will loosen their hold, and conditions of poverty will
change to prosperity.

Your mind is your own to educate and direct.

You can do it by the aid of the Spirit, but you must be satisfied to
work slowly.

Be patient and persistent.

Old Clothes

As you go over your wardrobe in the spring or fall, do not keep any
old, useless, or even questionable, garments, for "fear you might need
them another year."

Give them to the ragman, or send them to the county or city poor house.
There is nothing that will keep you in a rut of shabbiness more than
clinging to old clothes.

It is useless to say that you cannot afford new garments.

It is because you have harped upon this idea that you are still in
straitened circumstances.

You believe neither in God or yourself.

Possibly you were brought up to think yourself a mere worm of earth,
born to poverty and sorrow.

If you were, it will of course require a continued effort to train your
mind to the new thought, the thought of your divine inheritance of all
God's vast universe of wealth.

But you can do it.

Begin by giving away your old clothes. There may be people, poor
relations, or some struggling mother of half-clad children, to whom
your old garments will seem like new raiment, and to whom they will
bring hope and happiness.

As a rule, it is not well to give people your discarded clothing.

It has a tendency to lower their self-respect and to make them look to
you, instead of to themselves, for support.

It all depends upon whom the people are and how you do it.

If you can find employment for them, a