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021 - Faces · Heart of the New Thought

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty of the Heart of the New Thought by
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  Speaker 1: Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: That mental shizzle. During a trolley ride through a thrifty
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  Speaker 1: New England locality where church spires were almost as plentful
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  Speaker 1: as trees, I studied the faces of the people who
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  Speaker 1: came into the car during my two hours journey. The
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  Speaker 1: day was beautiful, and all along the route our numbers
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  Speaker 1: were recruited by bevies of women, young, middle aged and old,
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  Speaker 1: who were bent on shopping expeditions, or setting forth to
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  Speaker 1: make social calls. They went and came at each village
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  Speaker 1: through which our coach of democracy passed, and they represented
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  Speaker 1: all classes. The young girls were lovely, as young girls
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  Speaker 1: are the world over. Their complexion possessed that soft, tender
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  Speaker 1: luster peculiar to seashore localities. For the salty breath of
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  Speaker 1: father Niptchen is the greatest of cosmetics. Many of the
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  Speaker 1: young faces were formed in classic mold, their features clearly
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  Speaker 1: cut and refined and severe, like the thoughts and principles
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  Speaker 1: of their ancestors. Often I observed a mother and some
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  Speaker 1: female relative, presumably an aunt, in company with a young
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  Speaker 1: relative and always the sharpening and withering process of the
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  Speaker 1: years of set and unelastic thought was discernible upon their faces,
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  Speaker 1: which had once been young and classic and attractive. In
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  Speaker 1: the entire two hours, I saw but three lovely faces
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  Speaker 1: which were matured by time. I saw scores of well
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  Speaker 1: dressed and evidently well cared for women of middle age
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  Speaker 1: whose countenances were horrored, drawn, pinched, sallow, and worn beyond
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  Speaker 1: excuse for time. Sorrow and sickness are not plausible excuses
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  Speaker 1: for such ravages upon a face God drew in lines
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  Speaker 1: of beauty. Time should mature a woman's beauty as it
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  Speaker 1: does that of a tree. Sorrow should glorify it as
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  Speaker 1: does the frost the tree, and sickness should not be
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  Speaker 1: allowed to lay a lingering touch upon it until death
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  Speaker 1: calls the spirit away. Without question, the great majority of
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  Speaker 1: the women I saw were earnest Orthodox Christians. I heard
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  Speaker 1: snatches of conversation regarding church and charities, and I have
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  Speaker 1: no doubt that each woman among them believed herself to
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  Speaker 1: be a disciple of Christ. Yet where was the result
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  Speaker 1: of the loving, tender, sweet spirit of Christ's teaching? It
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  Speaker 1: surely was not visible upon those pinched and world faces,
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  Speaker 1: and those faces were certain and truthful chronicles of the
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  Speaker 1: work done by the minds within. One face said to me,
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  Speaker 1: in every line, I talk about God's goodness and loving kindness.
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  Speaker 1: But I worry over the dust in the spare room.
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  Speaker 1: I fret about our expenses. I am troubled about my lungs,
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  Speaker 1: and I fear my husband has an unreginet heart. I
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  Speaker 1: never know an hour's peace, for even in my sleep,
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  Speaker 1: I worry, worry, worry, But of course I know I
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  Speaker 1: will be saved by the blood of Christ. Another said,
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  Speaker 1: I am in God's fold well and safe, but I
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  Speaker 1: hate and despise my nearest neighbor, for she wears clothes
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  Speaker 1: that I am sure she cannot pay for, and her
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  Speaker 1: children are always dressed better than mine. I quarrel with
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  Speaker 1: my domestics, and I am always in trouble of some kind,
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  Speaker 1: just because human beings are so full of sin, and
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  Speaker 1: no one but myself is ever right. I shall be
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  Speaker 1: so glad to leave this world of war and go
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  Speaker 1: to heaven, but I hope I will not meet many
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  Speaker 1: of my present acquaintances. There another said, if I only
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  Speaker 1: had good health, but I was born to sickness and suffering,
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  Speaker 1: and it is God's will that I should suffer. Oh
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  Speaker 1: the pity of it, And to imagine this is religion.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God. The wave of new thought is sweeping over
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  Speaker 1: the land and washing away those old, blasphemous errors of
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  Speaker 1: mistaken creeds. The new thought is to give us a
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  Speaker 1: new race of beautiful, middle, aged and old people today
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  Speaker 1: in any part of the land, among rich, poor, ignorant
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  Speaker 1: or intellectual, Orthodox or materialists. The beautiful, mature face is
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  Speaker 1: rarer than a white black bird in the woods. It
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  Speaker 1: is in possible to be plain, ugly, or uninteresting in
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  Speaker 1: late life if the mind keeps itself occupied with right thinking.
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  Speaker 1: The withered and drawn face of fifty indicates withered emotions
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  Speaker 1: and drawn and perverted ambitions. The dried and sallow face
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  Speaker 1: tells its story of dried up sympathies and hopes. The
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  Speaker 1: forward face tells of acid cares eating into the heart.
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  Speaker 1: All this is irreligious, Yet all this prevails extensively in
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  Speaker 1: our most conservative and churchy communities. He who in truth
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  Speaker 1: trusts God cannot worry. He who loves God and mankind
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  Speaker 1: cannot become dried and withered at fifty, for love will
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  Speaker 1: recreate his blood and renew the fires of his eye.
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  Speaker 1: He who understands his own divine nature will grow more
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  Speaker 1: beautiful with the passing of time, for the God within
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  Speaker 1: will become each year more visible. The really reverent soul
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  Speaker 1: accepts its sorrows as blessings in disguise, and he whoso
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  Speaker 1: accepts them is beautified and glorified by them within and without?
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  Speaker 1: Are you growing more attractive as you advance in life?
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  Speaker 1: Is your eye softer and deeper? Is your mouth kinder,
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  Speaker 1: your expression more sympathetic? Or are you screwing up your
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  Speaker 1: face intense knots of worry? Are your eyes growing hopeless
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  Speaker 1: and dull? Is your mouth drooping at the corners and
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  Speaker 1: becoming a set thin line in the center? And is
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  Speaker 1: your skin dry and sallow and perished? Study yourself and
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  Speaker 1: answer these questions to your own soul, For in the
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  Speaker 1: answer depends the decision whether you really love and trust
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  Speaker 1: God and believe in your own immortal spirit, or whether
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  Speaker 1: you are a mere impostor in the court of faith.
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  Speaker 1: End of section twenty