man reproved me for my interest in New Thought creeds.
"The old religion I learned at my mother's knee is good enough for me!" he said. "It is good enough for anybody!"
Yet this man's mother had always "enjoyed poor health," as the old lady expressed it, and the man himself was forever talking of his diseases, his ill luck, his poverty, which he said he had been enabled to endure only through the sustaining power of the religion "learned at his mother's knee."
It would be difficult to convince the man that had his mother taught him the creed of the "New Religion" he could have changed all these unfortunate conditions.
Life-long ill health would have been impossible for his mother, or for him.
The old fashioned religion allowed and still allows a human being to breathe like a canary bird.
Little children go to Sunday-School all their young lives, and grow up to be devout church members, and never hear one word about the importance of deep breathing.
Possibly you may think breathing lessons belong to physical culture, and have no place in religious teachings.
There is where you err.
In order to develop your whole being, you must learn how to control body and mind through the spirit.