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oil to assuage the burning, but the lady calmly wiped the
potato off her hand, refusing their remedies with a smile,
saying, "I have better medicine within me." Standing
still and lifting her thoughts above her surroundings she
remembered "I am Spirit, Mind, above all this and
nothing shall by any means harm me," the burning-sensation
wholly passed away in a few minutes. Then she
looked at her hand which had became a fiery red and saw
that it was beginning to blister and instantly she
reasoned, "The same power that delivered me from the
pain now keeps my hand from blistering" and all the
redness and blistering disappeared. The afternoon of
that same day she showed me the hand, as white and
whole as the other, while a waitress standing by said
"Yes and I saw it and it was wonderful! I am going
to look into this new teaching." What a lesson was
given there! It could not be forgotten soon.
"Love lightens labor" is an old maxim and how
true it is many a devotee, to "new thought" can testify.
Weariness takes to itself wings. The hard task grows
easy, the burden becomes light, as service to humanity
is seen to be service to God, and that everything is an
opportunity to rise above the belief in slavery, and bondage
to the flesh and enter into the original, magical
power of THE WORD, when, to speak our wish is to see
even things inanimate as well as animate respond with
loving eagerness, hastening to do our pleasure, as the
listening winds and waves joyed in quick obedience to
the voice of the Master of Love who proved by a life
of perfect service "all power is given unto me in heaven
and in earth."
'Tis pitiful the things by which we are rich or
poor—a matter of coins, coats and carpets, a little more
or less stone, or wood or paint, the fashion of a cloak or
hat; like the luck of naked Indians, of whom one is proud
in the possession of a glass bead or red feather, and the
rest miserable in the want of it.—Emerson.
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