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promptings of the Higher Reason, and live in accordance therewith, you will say with Carpenter:
"Lo! the healing power descending from within, calming the en fevered mind, spreading peace among the grieving nerves. Lo! the eternal saviour, the sought after of all the world, dwelling hidden (to be disclosed) within each * * * * O joy insuperable."
Chapter 3 - "LET A LITTLE SUNSHINE IN." - p. 17
The young people's song --- Good "New Thought" doctrine --- Plenty of sunshine in life, if you look for it --- Don't make a dark dungeon of your mind --- Throw open the windows of your soul --- How to let a little sunshine in.
The other night, just as I was dropping off to sleep, a crowd of young people passed along, returning from some social gathering. They were bubbling over with mirth and joy," and every girl seemed to be talking at the same time, the voices of the young men serving merely to punctuate the sentences of their fair companions. Just after they passed my window, some one started up a song, and the rest joined in. I do not know the song they sang, but the chorus went something like this:
"Let a little sunshine in;
Let a little sunshine in;
Open wide the windows,
Open wide the doors,
And let a little sunshine in."
I listened with pleasure to the words and cheerful air of the song and said to myself: "Well, that's good enough 'New Thought' doctrine for me."
The young people went on their way singing. I, now wide awake, listened and thought. The song grew fainter and fainter as the distance between us grew greater, and at last I could not clearly distinguish the words they sang, but the faint vibrations of the tune still reached me, and I imagined that I could just hear the last words of the refrain:
"Let a little Sunshine in."
Oh, if only those young people --- and all young people --- and all people young or old --- would take to their hearts these words, and "let a little sunshine in." It is not sufficient that you merely agree that the advice is good --- that you merely repeat the words mechanically --- you must make thought take form in action, and not only say the words --- not only think them --- but you must ACT them. Make them a part of your life --- incorporate the idea in your being --- train yourself into the habit of opening yourself
