"There is good for me and I ought to have it."

Now if you said this positively, you certainly must have meant that the Good that was for you must be unmixed Good, or that in your Good there must be no mixture of evil. This would lead you to saying that the Good is Omnipresence. It really is logical to say that in omnipresent Good there can be no evil. Your words are the substance out of which your happiness or unhappiness is made. Always remember that spoken words and silent thoughts are one and the same thing.

What is not good is not true. Of course for a thing to be good it must be universally good, else it is only good for some. The Good is everywhere good and for every one good; not good only in some places or for some people. You can easily think what would be good for every one. Peace of mind, love in the heart, congenial friends, a happy home, health, strength and prosperity. All these would be good for you and for me.

Now, of course, the reality of everything is in Mind, therefore these things cannot come to us only as we have first thought them.

As soon as you have the least little desire to know Truth, you have “set sail" or started out on a voyage. Now are you going to be wrecked by the first little squall that comes up, or are you intending to go in a strong ship? A strong ship is what you want, of course, therefore you must strengthen the weak places in your character until you become perfect. "Whole every whit."

If you are sick be determined to get well.

If you are sick you have the opportunity to use your word, your faith, your courage and perseverance to speak yourself well.

If you are poor, speak the word of bounty till your daily needs are provided for.

If you feel ignorant, speak intelligence for yourself.

If you lack good judgment or are vacillating, speak strength and wisdom.

If you feel that you allow other people to influence you into doing or not doing things, against the dictates of your own judgment, speak yourself free from their mentality and affirm strength and sound judgment for yourself. No matter what you are, you can be just what you want to be if you will speak your word in faith and understanding long enough.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you."

After we think right thoughts all things are set straight for us. If the things are not set straight we have not yet thought exactly the right thoughts. All things manifest in us are the result of our thoughts.

Do you think that you can think selfish, avaricious, lustful, uncharitable, revengeful, deceitful or cruel thoughts and nobody know it? Well, indeed, you cannot. Everything that comes to you in your life is either the result of your own thoughts or the thoughts of some person or persons by whom you are influenced. Therefore, you must purify your own thoughts and strengthen yourself against, in any way, being influenced by other people's thoughts. My word for this is: "The Spirit of Truth surrounds me and guards me and defends me from within and without.”

Now some people speak their true words with so much earnestness and faith that they are very quickly healed; others speak them in a half-hearted way, and see but very little fruit of them, after a while they see that if they want to be healed they have just got to take up their word and definitely and earnestly speak it. They must speak it in love and in praise, in gratitude and in joy, in understanding and in earnestness, in hope and in knowledge, in faith and in patience, and when they have spoken it often enough, just often enough for the perfect molding of their character, lo! they are healed!

HEILBRDUN; OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH.
BY FANNY M. HARLEY
1898