Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1913 — UNHOLY HORROR OF POVERTY [ARTICLE]

UNHOLY HORROR OF POVERTY

Simple Duty of Every Man Is to Get Away From Baneful Thought of His Necessities. The mental attitude determines the tendency of the life. According to this law, there is everything in Seeling rich, rich in everything that is good for us, everything that will help us to become what we intend to become. Many people have so long felt poor Ahd imagined that their lives must necessarily be dry and barren of comforts and luxuries which others enjoy that they have encouraged such conditions. The habit of feeling that you are poor and unfortunate, that the good, things of life are for others but not for you, that there is something in the universe which permits such conditions, is deadening to all the noble impulses, all that makes character, all that makes life beautiful, Orison Sweet Marden writes in Nautilus.

The way to make the idea the real is persistenly to hold the thought of their identity. The way to demonstrate abundance is to hold it constantly in the mind, frequently to say to yourself: “All that my father hath is mine,” “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want” If this is true (and you know that it is), any want or lack in your life is abnormal. If you would same effort and energy to see prosperity and to picture plenty as you do poverty you would not long be poor. You would very soon get away from these distressing conditions. But somehow the whole human race has such a horror of poverty that they concentrate upon it and attract it The man who thinks he is going to be unlucky in everything he attempts, is infinitely more likely to be so than the man who is filled with confidence, assurance and expectancy of success, because a failure atmosphere creates a negative, unproducing mentality, while a hopeful, expectant assurance, confidence, creates a productive mentality which does things, achieves.

The earth is fairly overflowing with abundance; the universe is loaded with marvelous resources of supply of which wo have not yet dreamed. Nature has no preference for the giving of her secrets, she does not give up her wealth any easier to a Rockefeller or a Carnegie, than to you or me.