LESSON SECOND - SUPREME CONTROL OF AGE
=YOUTH IS ETERNAL:= Nature never grows old. The flowers that bloomed in Eden are
blooming to-day. Just as lovely, just as sweet, just as fresh and unchanged. The roses
your life-mate brings home to you, have the same fragrance as the roses Adam brought to
Eve, if he thought of it. The lovely stars that glitter in the azure fields above you
tonight, have the same loveliness that gleamed in tremulous glory down upon the shepherds
beyond Bethlehem. The radiant, life giving rays of the sun that ten thousand, thousand
years ago warmed mother earth into vernal spring life, are the same life giving rays that
shall bring again the spring-tide. Life never grows old, it only changes form. Your life
is perpetual, then your youth may be perpetual. The human race is ever young, its units
fall off. You should be younger at sixty, than at sixteen, because you have more of life.
Growing old is a habit. People travel along the years up the hill of life, till they reach
a certain point where they begin to THINK they must be growing old. Think its time to sag.
Think its time to droop. Think its time to begin the process of decay. Then begin to talk
about it. To write letters about it. To feel around for it. To look for it in others.
Finally the habit they inherited from the race is on, and they are old. Life is endless,
but you can think it short, "The power of an endless life," is within you, but
by thinking you can turn it to the white ashes of old age. THINK YOUTH AND YOU STAY YOUNG.
=YOUTH IS GROWTH:= Keep growing and you keep young. A new idea will make you feel
younger. Develop it and it will develop you. Quicken your mental throb with new ideas.
Begin now. Stop talking about being too old to grow. You pass by trees daily, a hundred,
two hundred years old, still they are growing. The rose bush on a wall in China is
supposed to be over a thousand years old, it bears more roses now, than when it was a mere
slip of a vine of only one hundred. Gladstone at eighty-two was a growing statesman, and
elected prime minister of England for the fourth time. Cato at eighty began to study
Greek, and renewed the youth of his mind. Donald Davis is a growing hunter at one hundred
and three. Goddard Diamond was a growing teacher of health, when he was one hundred and
eleven. I know a bright, cheery lady who is just beginning a new study for decorating
china, along with her household cares, and she is eighty-eight. Also another woman who has
taken up a new process of enlarging drawings into water-colors and she is eighty-one years
young. The fig tree withered when the Master of Life found it not growing, producing,
creating. When you stop growing you will wither by the same law. Grow something, create
something, produce something and the law of youth will pervade your Being.
=YOUTH IS OBSERVING THE LAW:= Observing the law of health, the law of mind, the law of
growth, the law of harmony, the law of production, the law of expression, the law of
beauty, the law of selflessness. Keep your bodily forces up. Rebuild destroyed tissue.
Keep the system free of waste. Stop poisoning your body with anger, hate, jealousy, fear.
Keep your mind sweet. Think cheerfully. Avoid mental turmoil and excitement. Two great
enemies of youth are worry and fear. The next is selfishness. Think every morning when you
rise. This new day is new life. It is fresh from the hand of God. It is mine to use. I
will increase it unto the Perfect Day." Grow in each day, and make each day grow.
Check discord. Quit useless discussion for it weakens and withers. Stop quarreling. Check
complainings. Root criticism out of your life. You are bigger than these things. Get into
harmony. You are of the world, upon worlds, universe unto universe. Study your words to
make them have beauty, your walk to have grace, your personality to make it magnetic, your
smile to give courage and comfort, your presence to have it healing, helping, inspiring.
If there be any virtue in whatsoever things are lovely, think on those things.
