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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

Keep Still and Wait

THERE was once a woman came to me for explanation, counsel and comfort --- explanation of God's seeming cruelty to her prayers, counsel upon her course of action, and comfort for her despair.

She was well past the half century mark, worn, prematurely aged, bruised, tired, discouraged.

She had been a woman of craving ambitions, mad for material pleasures and benefits, for money, place, power, prominence. All of these she had fought for, even at the sacrifice of her higher convictions and in defiance of the opinions of others.

She had obtained all the things she sought, and each one had proven to be dead sea fruit and turned to ashes on her lips.

It had all been long ago. For years she had been seeking to live quietly, peacefully and happily, and to be useful and good. And with each effort toward usefulness came disappointment. Obstacles rose in her path, discord destroyed harmony, chaos was given where she hoped for order.

And so she was bitter toward God, and believed He was cruel and spiteful, like an ignorant human being. Instead it was the debris of old desires, lying jumbled in her mind, the inharmony of her thoughts, the absolute lack of concentration, the strife, the remorse, the sorrow for herself and the fretful discontent with it all, which brought the results she deplored.

In place of sitting down in the silence and saying to her soul, "We have had our schooling, the lesson is

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