WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.139 Again, for a few minutes, you and I are going 00:00:04.139 --> 00:00:06.980 to have a little heart -to -heart talk. You know, 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:11.539 I could never begin to tell you how great was 00:00:11.539 --> 00:00:17.760 the response to our previous talks on nerves. 00:00:18.980 --> 00:00:23.260 People from all walks of life have written in 00:00:23.260 --> 00:00:27.859 and expressed their appreciation of these broadcasts. 00:00:29.289 --> 00:00:33.929 You'll remember that we discovered that there 00:00:33.929 --> 00:00:39.350 was nothing wrong with your nerves. The trouble 00:00:39.350 --> 00:00:49.950 was elsewhere. We find that each nerve is a thread 00:00:49.950 --> 00:00:55.130 of living tissue and that these little fibers 00:00:55.130 --> 00:00:59.270 connect the brain cells with virtually everything 00:00:59.229 --> 00:01:04.590 every cell in the body. The best way that I can 00:01:04.590 --> 00:01:08.469 describe them to you is that they resemble the 00:01:08.469 --> 00:01:13.030 electric wires in your telephone or in your radio, 00:01:13.250 --> 00:01:16.409 except that they are composed of soft tissue 00:01:16.409 --> 00:01:22.430 instead of metal. And each one consists of a 00:01:22.430 --> 00:01:30.909 central core. that's surrounded by a membrane, 00:01:31.370 --> 00:01:37.510 thus resembling the wire in its insulating covering. 00:01:37.930 --> 00:01:41.750 That's the very best way that I can describe 00:01:41.750 --> 00:01:46.510 them to you. Now, some of these nerves carry 00:01:46.510 --> 00:01:49.930 impulses from the brain to the various organs 00:01:49.930 --> 00:01:54.069 and tissues, while others carry messages from 00:01:54.069 --> 00:01:59.140 these to the great central office bear in mind 00:01:59.140 --> 00:02:03.939 one thing and that is the fact that the nerves 00:02:03.939 --> 00:02:09.400 are only a means of communication they do not 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:16.639 govern anything if we follow a nerve from its 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:22.800 beginning perhaps at a cell in the skin we find 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:27.750 that it ends in a brain cell. And these brain 00:02:27.750 --> 00:02:33.289 cells are definite organs that play a part in 00:02:33.289 --> 00:02:38.449 the body function. But they are not the real 00:02:38.449 --> 00:02:42.889 beginning of the trouble. Keep that in mind as 00:02:42.889 --> 00:02:49.430 we continue to discuss this thing of nerves and 00:02:49.430 --> 00:02:53.349 the relationship between our nerves and the brain. 00:02:54.060 --> 00:02:57.120 The brain has been well likened to the central 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:00.620 office of a telephone or a telegraph system. 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:05.180 We might go a little further and say this, that 00:03:05.180 --> 00:03:10.400 each brain cell appears to be a minute telephone 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.319 apparatus through which messages are sent to 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:15.080 different parts of the body or through which 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:19.840 calls are received from portions of the body, 00:03:19.900 --> 00:03:23.979 different parts of the body. The stomach. or 00:03:23.979 --> 00:03:30.740 the liver, or from your fingers, or from your 00:03:30.740 --> 00:03:35.620 toes. So far, we're dealing nearly with a mechanism 00:03:35.620 --> 00:03:40.000 that we're using all the time, constantly. But 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:44.800 it is purely a mechanism. And we should so recognize 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:48.939 it as thus. Now, in all these so -called nervous 00:03:48.939 --> 00:03:52.379 conditions, the machinery is found to be perfect. 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:58.159 So the trouble must be back of that. And here 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:02.039 we come to that unseen worker within, the mind, 00:04:02.180 --> 00:04:06.680 which presides over the central office and uses 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:09.020 this wonderful mechanism to control the body. 00:04:09.419 --> 00:04:13.039 We must realize that any of these so -called 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:17.459 nervous conditions, from the simplest case of 00:04:17.459 --> 00:04:22.870 phygis to the most pronounced hysteria, is caused 00:04:22.870 --> 00:04:28.329 by some state of mind that is interfering with 00:04:28.329 --> 00:04:31.370 the orderly control of the affairs of the body. 00:04:31.870 --> 00:04:36.649 If we understand this point, we shall at once 00:04:36.649 --> 00:04:40.470 see how to deal with these conditions, and you 00:04:40.470 --> 00:04:45.009 cannot deal with the condition until you understand 00:04:45.009 --> 00:04:52.819 the working of the mind. its effect over the 00:04:52.819 --> 00:05:01.560 body. Now, let's take, for instance, the hand. 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:08.620 How often I have found that my hand is trembling. 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:13.459 And how often you have looked and you have said, 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:19.949 oh my goodness, life, my hand trembles. It must 00:05:19.949 --> 00:05:25.569 be my nerves. I must be very nervous. Something 00:05:25.569 --> 00:05:29.449 is upsetting me terribly. See how my hand shakes, 00:05:29.550 --> 00:05:33.170 how my hand trembles. Your hand trembles and 00:05:33.170 --> 00:05:37.029 you say that you're nervous. For some reason, 00:05:37.089 --> 00:05:41.589 you are not exercising a normal control over 00:05:41.589 --> 00:05:46.629 the muscles. There is a state of indecision behind 00:05:46.629 --> 00:05:52.459 all of this. And this state is in the mind. In 00:05:52.459 --> 00:05:57.560 other words, so -called nervousness is a partial 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:02.680 loss of control in the central office. And when 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:05.480 this becomes complete, we have the condition 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:09.740 that we call hysteria. We all know people, some 00:06:09.740 --> 00:06:12.860 are in our own families, who become hysterical 00:06:12.860 --> 00:06:17.339 in the slightest provocation. Do you know what 00:06:17.339 --> 00:06:24.449 it is? They simply let their feelings take charge 00:06:24.449 --> 00:06:30.769 of them and give up all self -control. Nervous 00:06:30.769 --> 00:06:36.350 diseases are not nervous at all, but are varied 00:06:36.350 --> 00:06:42.689 degrees of emotional outbreaks. No condition 00:06:42.689 --> 00:06:49.730 or set of circumstances is... In itself, a calamity 00:06:49.730 --> 00:06:54.389 to be feared. Always remember that. It is our 00:06:54.389 --> 00:06:59.910 mental reaction to it that makes it a Waterloo 00:06:59.910 --> 00:07:11.689 or a Field of Triumph. It's just like that. Oh, 00:07:11.990 --> 00:07:18.540 years ago, I can tell you just about when. As 00:07:18.540 --> 00:07:21.019 I begin telling you the incident, you can figure 00:07:21.019 --> 00:07:25.720 up and you can almost tell it every year. I was 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.459 in a little Baptist church in the state of New 00:07:29.459 --> 00:07:34.300 Jersey holding a two -weeks revival meeting there. 00:07:34.660 --> 00:07:39.720 It's been several years ago. I was young then. 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:45.490 Inexperienced. Well... I was staying in the home 00:07:45.490 --> 00:07:50.050 of one of the members, a nice little old maid 00:07:50.050 --> 00:07:56.029 who was in her seven days. And I slept in her 00:07:56.029 --> 00:07:59.850 guest bedroom while I was in the Baptist church 00:07:59.850 --> 00:08:02.310 holding a meeting. And it was during the time 00:08:02.310 --> 00:08:06.670 when the late Mr. Roosevelt was running for third 00:08:06.670 --> 00:08:13.360 term. Oh, how well I remember the incident. Miss 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:17.000 Anna, as I told you, was in her 70s, and she 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:22.920 had a friend, a very close friend, who was probably 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:28.040 seven or eight years older than herself. So you 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:32.379 see, she was elderly. And that friend of hers 00:08:32.379 --> 00:08:36.480 was absolutely dead set on the fact that Mr. 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:42.000 Roosevelt was not going to get in. As a third... 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:47.440 term president, and she set out as one woman 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:52.179 to campaign against Mr. Roosevelt taking office 00:08:52.179 --> 00:08:56.100 for the third term. Her husband was very wealthy, 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:02.360 and she spent literally thousands of dollars 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:08.820 campaigning against Mr. Roosevelt. It was just 00:09:08.820 --> 00:09:14.570 an idea that she had. Well, The night came, the 00:09:14.570 --> 00:09:19.809 election, and she was absolutely exhausted from 00:09:19.809 --> 00:09:23.950 the mental strain and the little physical effort 00:09:23.950 --> 00:09:29.049 that she had put forth, you know. And so about, 00:09:29.210 --> 00:09:31.830 oh, it must have been about 7 o 'clock in the 00:09:31.830 --> 00:09:34.230 evening, her husband said, now, you go to bed. 00:09:34.690 --> 00:09:37.690 You must get a little rest. And when the last 00:09:37.690 --> 00:09:44.070 returns come in, Why, I'll call you. And we'll 00:09:44.070 --> 00:09:47.149 get you up. You won't miss anything. And so she 00:09:47.149 --> 00:09:49.590 did. She retired to get a couple of hours of 00:09:49.590 --> 00:09:52.929 rest before what she thought was going to be 00:09:52.929 --> 00:09:58.750 a great celebration. A personal victory. Those 00:09:58.750 --> 00:10:07.789 of you who were living then know what the returns 00:10:07.789 --> 00:10:14.919 were like. Mr. Roosevelt got in for his third 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:20.159 term. And I shall never forget the telephone 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:23.840 rang in Miss Anna's house. I was there. It was 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:27.379 the husband of the woman who was at that time 00:10:27.379 --> 00:10:30.059 asleep. He said, Miss Anna, come. Come quickly. 00:10:30.700 --> 00:10:33.539 Mr. Roosevelt has gotten into office and he said, 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:38.019 it'll kill my wife. It'll kill her. When she 00:10:38.019 --> 00:10:39.779 awakens and we have to give her the message, 00:10:40.100 --> 00:10:43.559 it'll kill her. It'll be the death of her. It 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:46.600 will go to her heart and she'll suffer a heart 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:51.200 attack. Come quickly. And Miss Anna got her shawl 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:53.759 and said, Catherine, I'll be back a little later. 00:10:53.779 --> 00:10:55.480 I don't know what time it'll be. It was Miss 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:57.500 Anna who almost had the heart attack before she 00:10:57.500 --> 00:11:02.460 left the house. This is what happened. Miss Anna 00:11:02.460 --> 00:11:06.210 tiptoed into the room. with the smelling salts, 00:11:06.450 --> 00:11:14.289 and with every precaution taken that would keep 00:11:14.289 --> 00:11:17.870 the precious woman from suffering a complete 00:11:17.870 --> 00:11:23.509 collapse or having an attack of the heart when 00:11:23.509 --> 00:11:26.529 she awakened. And it was about two o 'clock in 00:11:26.529 --> 00:11:29.950 the morning. She awakened and Miss Anna was there 00:11:29.950 --> 00:11:37.830 by her side. She said, Anna, what happened? Did 00:11:37.830 --> 00:11:43.649 we win? And Miss Anna, with the smelling salts 00:11:43.649 --> 00:11:51.470 in her hand, came very near to her friend and 00:11:51.470 --> 00:12:00.730 said, I'm sorry. But Mr. Roosevelt is in for 00:12:00.730 --> 00:12:07.840 the third term. And in that moment, the portly 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:15.580 woman, with the strength of her body, raised 00:12:15.580 --> 00:12:18.980 herself up in that bed to a sitting position 00:12:18.980 --> 00:12:26.240 with her chins up in the air and her nose a little 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:32.559 higher than ever before and said, Anna? Anna? 00:12:35.430 --> 00:12:42.990 Just act like it never happened. And you want 00:12:42.990 --> 00:12:46.149 to know something? To her dying day, she never 00:12:46.149 --> 00:12:51.110 discussed it with anyone. She never acknowledged 00:12:51.110 --> 00:12:55.149 the fact that Mr. Roosevelt ever got in office 00:12:55.149 --> 00:13:01.269 for the third term. She just literally acted 00:13:01.269 --> 00:13:04.279 as... Though it never happened and her heart 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:08.120 kept right on beating, it never missed a beat. 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:14.960 Not a nerve in her body was affected. She went 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:23.019 on living just the same. As though it had never 00:13:23.019 --> 00:13:28.620 happened. That was one of the greatest lessons 00:13:28.620 --> 00:13:32.620 that I've ever learned. I have had to learn. 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:37.039 And there is never a week of my life, believe 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:40.559 me, but when something happens that could upset 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:46.559 me terribly, oh, I could go into a thousand pieces. 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:49.519 When you deal with men and women, when you deal 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:51.919 with the public, believe me, it's the hardest 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:57.399 work in the world. But I have over and over again 00:14:01.389 --> 00:14:04.429 and have done exactly the same thing that the 00:14:04.429 --> 00:14:07.830 precious little woman did, have said to myself, 00:14:08.009 --> 00:14:14.230 Catherine, just act as though it never happened. 00:14:14.669 --> 00:14:17.610 Oh, sure, it doesn't change the condition, or 00:14:17.610 --> 00:14:23.129 it doesn't change circumstances, but I become 00:14:23.129 --> 00:14:26.450 master over that thing rather than to have it 00:14:26.450 --> 00:14:30.389 master me. And it's just like that. You want 00:14:30.389 --> 00:14:33.960 to know something? A healthy, wholesome mind 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:38.200 is better than silver. It's better than gold. 00:14:38.700 --> 00:14:41.799 It's better than all the material blessings in 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:46.259 the world. That's the truth. A normal, wholesome, 00:14:46.419 --> 00:14:52.159 undivided mind. A mind that's void of fear, anxiety, 00:14:52.379 --> 00:14:56.740 worry, pettiness. A mind that's free of jealousy, 00:14:56.919 --> 00:15:02.389 free of selfishness, free of... Envy is one's 00:15:02.389 --> 00:15:06.610 greatest possession outside of one's salvation. 00:15:08.409 --> 00:15:15.990 For as a man thinketh, so is he. Hold in mind 00:15:15.990 --> 00:15:19.750 that nothing that can happen to you, even at 00:15:19.750 --> 00:15:25.889 its worst, nothing that you fear is as bad as 00:15:25.889 --> 00:15:30.240 the fear itself. For if you keep the mind intact, 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:35.100 if you keep the center of your life intact, then 00:15:35.100 --> 00:15:39.259 you can come back from anything. But if the mind 00:15:39.259 --> 00:15:46.679 is filled with worry and fear, jealousy, pettiness, 00:15:46.899 --> 00:15:52.399 littleness, then you're knocked down. You're 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:57.230 defeated by happenings. whether they are real 00:15:57.230 --> 00:16:04.590 or imaginary. And what's the answer? How can 00:16:04.590 --> 00:16:07.870 I overcome this condition? Here's the answer. 00:16:08.149 --> 00:16:13.809 By fastening your attention not on the thing 00:16:13.809 --> 00:16:18.350 to be feared, not on the circumstances or the 00:16:18.350 --> 00:16:23.710 situation around you, not on individuals or personalities. 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:35.259 But on Christ. Remember? I am his. And he will 00:16:35.259 --> 00:16:42.799 defend me. His. And he will protect me. His. 00:16:43.899 --> 00:16:53.139 And he claims me now. Against all adversaries. 00:16:54.409 --> 00:16:59.590 I am his, and none else possesses either right 00:16:59.590 --> 00:17:07.910 or power over me. I am his, and I will trust 00:17:07.910 --> 00:17:16.970 him with complete confidence today, tomorrow, 00:17:17.069 --> 00:17:22.950 and until that last day when my redemption is 00:17:22.950 --> 00:17:32.839 perfected Stand in his glorious presence. Slipping 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:36.019 to your knees just now, look up and say, Wonderful 00:17:36.019 --> 00:17:44.180 Jesus, give me a mind that is free from fear, 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:53.039 free from worry, free from jealousy. Give me 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:58.950 a... healthy mind. For this is my greatest possession 00:17:58.950 --> 00:18:04.609 outside of my salvation. For Jesus' sake we ask 00:18:04.609 --> 00:18:06.569 it. Amen.