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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

Brace Up

IF YOU are discouraged and blue and life looks hard and the future hopeless to-day, do not grow cowardly and think of self-destruction as the door of escape.

You did not make yourself. You cannot unmake yourself.

By no process of reasoning can you explain this wonderful marvel of the life principle within you. Science has found all the ingredients which compose an egg chemically, and an egg which resembles the hen's product can be manufactured.

But it will not produce life. A certain low order of fish life has been produced in the chemical laboratory. But the germs spawned by the fish had first to be employed.

Nothing can produce life but that unnamable mysterious Power back of the universe. Created beings carry on the life principle through succeeding generations and centuries, but its production and creation remain God's secret. He who imagines he can destroy that principle is as great a fool as he who says he can explain it. And he is a criminal besides.

All that death does is to shift the scene of action to another form and plane.

If you are miserable and unhappy you do not become happy by going to another town or state. You carry your wretchedness with you.

It is precisely the same when you rush out of the body by your own act. If you are called out of the

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