Wellness Wonders Daily

“What do we mean,” asked Henry Ward Beecher, “when we say that a man ‘is made’? Is it that he has got the control of his lower instincts, so that they are only fuel to his higher feelings, giving force to his nature? That his affections are like vines, sending out on all sides blossoms and clustering fruits? That his tastes are so cultivated that all beautiful things speak to him, and bring him their delights? That his understanding is opened, so that he walks through every hall of knowledge, and gathers its treasures? That his moral feelings are so developed and quickened that he holds sweet commerce with Heaven? Oh, no—none of these things. He is cold and dead in heart, and mind, and soul. Only his passions are alive; but—he is worth five hundred thousand dollars!” What do you think when you say a man "IS MADE"?

Henry Ward Beecher puts it to us in these words: “And we say a man is ‘ruined.’ Are his wife and children dead? Oh, no. Have they had a quarrel, and are they separated from him? Oh, no. Has he lost his reputation through crime? No. Is his reason gone? Oh, no; it is as sound as ever. Is he struck through with disease? No. He has lost his property, and he is ruined. The man ruined! When shall we learn that ‘a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he possesseth’?” And the story below tells us how mistaken we may be when we say a man ‘is ruined.’ Orison Swett Marden says, “A bankrupt merchant, returning home one night, said to his noble wife, “My dear, I am ruined; everything we have is in the hands of the sheriff.” After a few moments of silence the wife looked into his face and asked, “Will the sheriff sell you?” “Oh, no.” “Will the sheriff sell me?” “Oh, no.” “Will he sell the children?” “Oh, no.” “Then do not say that we have lost every...

I AM — ? I am stored-up happiness. I lead the way to peace, power, and plenty. I bring you freedom from anxiety and worry over the living problem. I am a friend alike of the rich and the poor. I am common sense applied to life in all sorts of ways. I am a tower of strength in youth and a staff in old age. I increase hope, confidence, assurance, certainty as to the future. I was one of the chief factors in the winning of the World War. I am the best form of insurance against poverty and failure. I remove the shadow of the poorhouse. I make for health, for efficiency, for the highest possible welfare of the individual. I kill that "rainy day" dread; in fact, I do away with the "rainy day" altogether. I put hope into the heart of man, a light into human eyes that was never there before. I put people in a position to take advantage of all sorts of opportunities for investment, for advancement, to take advantage of chances that, but for me,...

I am that which is back of all achievement, which has led the way to success, to happiness, through the ages. I crossed an unknown ocean with Columbus, who without me would never have discovered America. I was with Washington at Valley Forge; and but for me he would not have succeeded in liberating the American colonies and making them a nation. I went through the Civil War with Lincoln, and guided his pen when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation that freed millions of human beings from slavery. I was with the English patriots who forced King John to sign that great charter of human rights—the Magna Charta. I was back of those who forced the French Revolution—and of those who signed the American Declaration of Independence. I was with Christ when all his disciples and friends had fled; and I cheered and comforted the martyrs at the stake—all the men and women who gave their lives to maintain the truths He taught. I crossed the ocean with Cyrus W. Field fifty tim...