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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index

Something About Celibacy

WE ARE told that Love goes where it is sent.

But the stubborn and wilful mind of the mortal man or woman is ofttimes the sender.

It seems to be the nature of a certain order of men and women to desire what is difficult and dangerous to possess.

A woman, brought up in the Protestant religion, has been thrown in close association with a Roman Catholic priest, and she has become infatuated. She imagines it to be the passion of a lifetime, and believes her whole earthly existence is to be made unhappy by this hopeless love.

She has tried separation and absence, but the love still dominates her. "Is it right, is it natural, is it necessary," she asks, "for this man to give up all ties of home, and wife, and children, to earn God's approval?

"Do you believe he is following God's will?

"Does God make human beings with natural emotions and desires and affections, and then demand that they crucify them?

"Are they any better when they do crucify them?

"This priest is the most sunny natured and cheerful man I have ever seen, but I cannot believe he is really satisfied with his life. It seems so unnatural to me! "Do you think the vows of celibacy and poverty necessary to the living of a religious life?"

In answer to these questions I can only voice my personal beliefs upon this subject. I am neither a Roman

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