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chance for Christian Science.
Mental suggestion, powerful personality of a friend, and the personal
help such a friend can give by counsel, example and suggestion, are all
helps.
I have abundant evidence that melancholia sufferers can be restored to
peace, efficiency and poise, by proper thought direction, and by proper
physical employment.
"Pep," which has principally to do with mental efficiency, definitely
lays down rules and practical suggestions for the employment of the
mind and body. I have letters and verbal proofs in quantity proving the
efficiency of those rules and suggestions.
So wonderful have been the results, so numerous the recoveries, that
the testimonials, if published, would make the fake nerve tonic

manufacturer die of envy.
"Only your nerves." I cannot understand why the word, only, is used. It
makes it appear that nerves are of minor importance.
Nerves are less understood than anything in the human anatomy.
Experience has proved that nerves cannot be restored by dope, patent
medicines, tonics or prescriptions.
The cure must come by and through the individual possessing the
nerves and by and through the individual's power of will and mastery of
the mind.
Get the mental equipment right. Let the mind master the body. Let the
nerve sufferer get hold of himself and fill his brain with faith thought
instead of fear thought, with courage instead of cowardice, with
strength instead of weakness, with hope instead of despair, with smiles
instead of frowns, with occupation instead of sluggishness, and
wonders will appear.
The little shredded, tingling nerve ends will then commence to
synchronize instead of fight, to harmonize instead of discord, to build
instead of destroy.
The building, or coming back to a normal state, is slow; it takes time,
patience and will power, but it can be done. I know. I have been
through the mill, and I pass the word to you and try to stir you to be up
and doing, even as I did.
Your nerves can be steadied, your thoughts uplifted, your health
restored, your ambition re-established, your normality fixed.
Smiles, love and content are to be yours. Poise, efficiency, peace, your
blessings. Health, happiness and hope your dividends. All these I
promise you if you will read carefully this book from cover to cover
and follow its plain, practical teachings.

The curriculum is not hard, it is not my discovery. I am merely the
purveyor of facts, the gleaner of truth, and the selector of helpful
experiences, first of all for my own benefit and having proved the truth
in my own case and by friends to whom I passed the truths and rules.
I made bold to write books, but the writing has paid me well, not alone
in dollars, but from having done a helpful thing in writing for other
humans who have had problems, worries and nerves.
The big books on nerves are discouraging and forbidding by their
immensity and labyrinth of scientific technical terms. They are fine for
teachers, but discouraging for the layman.
The great everyday crowd is the class I want to talk to and so I
endeavor to write in plain human, sincere style from heart to heart, with
understanding, feeling, charity and sympathy.
I have felt the things you feel, and if I can by example, emphasis,
suggestion, rule or good intent, be a help to you, then I have done a
service.
Don't worry or criticize this book. Take my suggestions in the spirit
offered.

PESSIMISTS
Give Them the Cold Shoulder
The calamity howler is found in the midst of peace and plenty. This
pessimist sows seeds of discord, plants envy, generates the anarchist
spirit, and is an all-around nuisance.
A man may spend years erecting a building; a fiend can demolish it in a
minute with a stick of dynamite.
The calamity howler is a destroyer; he doesn't think, he spurts out
words. His words and arguments are simply parrot mimicry and void of

intellectual impulse, as are the movements of an angle worm.
These peace destroyers talk of their rights and they expect and demand
the same privileges and benefits that are earned by the man who uses
his head.
These ghouls are born without heads; they just have necks that grow up
and are covered with hair. These brainless mollusks are now telling the
people that the Sultan of Sulu is to capture Texas and that Japan is to
invade Indianapolis; Germany is to capture Quebec, and France is to
siege Milwaukee.
The howlers spread talk of yellow peril and black plague to follow.
They spread doubt and fear; they tell you the capitalists are awake
nights trying to starve you and that they employ inventors to discover
new methods of torture for the poor working man.
They accuse business men of grinding down the farmer, forming