Speaker 1: Mental toxin and antitoxin and new toxin the microbes in
the thoughts we think. The new antitoxin thoughts may poison.
Fear causes paralysis, Hate causes insanity. Fear and hate have
killed their thousands gaits experiments. How to overcome the poison
of bad thinking in these days of toxin and antitoxin,
of poison in sausages, oysters, canned beef, ice cream, of
antitoxin serums that often are more deadly than the original toxin.
For the prevention and cure of tuberculosis, leprosy, pneumonia, typhoid fever, tetanus,
bubonic plague, diphtheria, and the rest of the list. It
requires courage to call the attention of the public to
a new toxin, even if at the same time we
furnish an antitoxin that antiitoxicates. We shudder at the thought
of microbes and bisilli, and thereby attract them to us.
We filter our drinking water after boiling all the life
out of it. We develop into microbe hunters and see
poison in everything we wear, eat, drink, or breathe. But
we overlook the microbes in the thoughts we think. We
encourage the enterprising doctor in his giddy chase after the
nimble dollar as he produces antitoxin SEMs to order. The poor,
broken down carved horse is worked over time in producing
fuelthy puss and serum for the serum miniac to inject
into our circulation. But we overlook the pure, harmless, powerful
antitoxin obtained fresh from the cells of the brain white.
Thinking that thoughts may poison is a well proven fact.
Depressing thoughts interfere with the cerebral circulation, impairing the nutrition
of the cells and nerve centers. The result is that
the organs and tissues manifest lost or impaired function. Loss
of general nutrition follows, and a breakdown is inevitable. Fear, worry, anger, envy, jealousy,
and other negative thoughts reflect themselves most disastrously in the
human system. Fear has paralyzed nerve centers and turned the
hair white over night. A mother's milk has been poisoned
by a fit of anger. Fear and hate. Father and
son have produced insanity, idiocy, paralysis, cholorina, joindice, sudden decay
of teeth, fatal anemia, skin diseases, erycipolis, and exema. Epidemics
owe their rapid spread and heavy death rate to fear
and ignorance. Epidemics may kill their dozens, fear kills its thousands.
All the brood of negative, fearful, selfish, hateful thoughts manifest
themselves in the physical conditions. Stigmata, or marks upon the
body caused by fear or desire, are quite common in
the channels of medical science and psychology. Professor Gates of
the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, in his investigation of the
effect of the mental states upon the body, found that irascible, manivolent,
and depressing emotions generated in the system injurious compounds, some
of which were extremely poisonous. He also found that agreeable,
happy emotions generated chemical compounds of nutritious value, which stimulated
the cells to manufacture energy. He says, dead and unpleasant
feelings create harmful chemical products in the body which are
physically injurious. Good pleasant benevolent feelings create beneficial chemical products
are physically healthful. These products may be detected by chemical
analysis in the perspiration and secretions of the individual. More
than forty of the good and as many of the
bad have been detected. Suppose half a dozen men in
a room. One feels depressed, another remorseful, another ill tempered,
another jealous, another cheerful, another benevolent. Samples of their perspiration
are placed in the hands of the psychophysicists. Under his examination,
they reveal all these emotional conditions distinctly and unmistakably. Remember
this is not the airy fancy of some enthusiastic mental scientists,
but is the testimony of a leading scientific investigator in
the laboratories of the Smithsonian Institution, one of the best
known scientific institutions of the world. Chemical analysis. Mind you
not transcendental imaginings. Now I have said enough about the toxin,
and some little about the antitoxin of the mind. I
might go on for hours stating example after example, illustration
after illustration, but the tale would be just the same. Now,
what are you going to do about it? Are you
going to keep on poisoning yourself and those around you
with vile, malignant thoughts, reeking with masmatic effluvia of hate,
emitting the noxious exhalation of fear and worry? Or will
you cease being a psychic pest house and begin to
fumigate and disinfect your mind? And after getting rid of
all the microbes of fear and worry, and the pelicy
of hate, jealousy, and envy. Open wide the windows of
the mind and admit the bright sunshine of love and
the bracing air of confidence and fearlessness. Come, friends, let
us get out of this habit of poisoning the air
with fear, worry, and hate thought. Let us join the
ranks of the don't Worry Company, the fearless Brigade, the invincible,
conquering army of love. Let us be bright, cheerful, and happy.
The other things are not worth while. Let us be confident, expectant, hopeful,
and fearless. These things are winners. Let us be filled
with love for all men, and we will find that
life is one sweet song. Love, faith, and fearlessness are
the ingredients of life's great antitoxin. Try it and be blessed.