Big things take time and patience. The great ship lies in the harbor pointed North. A tug boat could make a sudden pull and break the great chain or tow line. Yet you could take a half-inch rope and with your own hands turn the great ship completely around by pulling steadily and patiently. The movement would be slow, but it would be sure and you would finally accomplish your purpose. Don't jerk and fret and be impatient with yourself. You have been for years perhaps worrying and thinking fear-thoughts. You have put a lot of useless and harmful material in your brain. You can't clean all your brain house in a day or a week, but you can do a little cleaning each day. You can take the faith-rope of good purpose and start to pull gently, and finally you will turn your whole life's character toward the port of success. The great crowd worries; only the few have learned the power of the will, and the benefits to be derived from mental control. Business and social duties call for strong men and woman. You can't reach mastership if you remain a slave. Your first duty is to yourself, and success or failure is your reward exactly in proportion as you exercise your will power and handle your thought habits. 14. [Sidenote: The Best Medicine.] The doctors are giving less medicine and doing more in the way of suggesting diet and exercise rules, sanitation and preventive practices. Medicine is mostly poison and its effect is to shock the organs or glands to bring about reaction. Nature makes the cure. In emergency drugs are all right, but the doctor and not the individual should settle the matter of what drug to use and the proper time to use it. When there's a pain or disease, it's due to congestion of some organ, to infection, or to improper nourishment, or improper habits. Ninety per cent of aches, pains and ailments can be cured by a dominant mental attitude and by proper attention to eating and exercise. The habitual medicine user is not cured by the medicine but by nature; the medicine simply serves as a means to establish mental control and to create confidence in the sufferer that he is to get well. Recently I spent much time in a large hospital visiting a relative who had been operated on. I know several members of the staff of doctors and nurses. I have seen many operations, some very heroic ones, and my appreciation of the good work of good surgeons is greatly augmented by the wonderful helps I have seen them bring to suffering humanity. I have talked with scores of patients and watched the progress of their cases. I have by plausible logic, mental suggestion, and good cheer to the hospital patients, brought many a smile through a mist of tears. I have seen the wonderful results of mental suggestion to the discouraged patients. To show the effects that faith-thought will produce, I will relate some instances. [Sidenote: Mental Sickness.]