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Show SELF-MASTERY, HOW IT IS GAINED Rev Dr Boyd gives this "Formula for "Self-Help" in the "Emannuel Prcs " It is reprinted In "The Voice Eternal" The way to self-mastery is bo plain that the wayfaring man though a fool need not err therein The following lormula is a workable statement of the forces that bring things to pass its parallel wdth the spiritual philosophy of life is perfect You need not spend years of time and dollars In mone for lessons. Just fake hold of the handles of this mental men-tal batter and hold until Its full rower gets Into operation. Something Some-thing will happen You will learn how to help yourself There are four tactors In the formula' "The Ideal It matters not whether It be perfect health, or personal Influence In-fluence and power among men. or prosperity In your material affairs Just fill out the picture mentally Imagine yourself as in the possession of this ideal Picture yourself as be ing in the possession of this ideal Picture yourself as being surrounded by every feature of your Ideal Don I affirm that you are, when as yet you are not. but build an air castle as eomplete as your Imagination can furnish It, and t,.en go in and tak mental possession of It. Do this seven times a day The Desire Earnestly desire the realltv of your Ideal. Wishing a thing to be true Is the first step to believing that It can be true Earnestly Earn-estly desire it for your own comfort and success. Wish It to be real for the good you may be able to do unto others Long for It that you may more fully express the divine life in you, and so honor the God 'Whose you are and whom you serve.' And In another word this Is prayer, for 'Prayer Is the soul s' desire, uttered n r imnYnrocipH "The Belief Earnestly believe In 'The power that Is within both to will and to do ' Take that power Into your confidence You trust It to keep our heart beating, and blood circulating, circu-lating, tho digestive and assimilative processes, and in fact you leave to it in perfect confidence all the metabolism, metabol-ism, or changes to bo made In the body, without doubt as to the outcome out-come You He down to sleep at night without n question that It will keen your heart beating. If you had an Idea that it would stop during the night you wouldn't sleep a wink that night. Now. if you can put so much confidence in this hidden Intelligent force Inside you. Just pull out one more stop and believe that It will do these things, just as you want them done Intelligently direct it to oo things just as you want them done instead of In some haphazard way, and you will find that It will keep the confidence inviolable -c-cordlng to your faith it shall be done unto you.' "The Will This the directing agent It comes next In order, for. Faith laughs at Impossibilities, and cries. 'It shall be done' Every force in your life and outside of It, pivots finally on your Will 'Be it unto thee even as thou wilt' makes all power In heaven and In earth." subject to that will. You can be anything ou Believe ou can bo and that you Will to be Will Is the creative power It takes the unseen things and makes them appear to the eyes, or other senses It takes your ideals and erects them Into realities Rev Dr. Boyd, who will begin a series of lectures at the Church of the Good Shepherd next Sunday morning, will demonstrate that the above formula Is a scientific deduction deduc-tion from psychological fact. |