“OURSELVES”

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 35, 5 November 1928, Page 3

“OURSELVES”

LECTURE BL MRS. PHOEBE HOLMES.

The Concert Chamber was filled on Saturday night, when Mrs. Phoebe Marie Holmes gave another of her series of lectures upon public health. Speaking about the conquest of worry, fear, and timidity, she said that people must learn to master their minds. Within each of them is a generator which gave out bodily energy, and more of it than could be used. “All you have to do is to use your mind,” said the speaker, “and you’ll get what you want. If you think ‘up’ your dynamo begins to generate love, and joy, and health, hear was absence of faith. People would be surprised at the benefit which they would obtain if they banished fear. Mrs. Holmes then gave her audience a lesson in bio-chemistry, and told them that Silicon was a chemical which made us happy. Everybody who was full ot joy ate Silicon, which was very scarce in the average diet. In addition, this chemical gave sparkle to the eyes, and was good for the hair. Potassium was the great alleviator of pain, and was. the greatest healer that there was. Sodium was a cleanser, and sulphur was also a fi “people fi should eat vegetables, she stated because vegetables received the minerals from the earth, and by eating the vegetables, man received the mmewlsThe view that man got his strength fiom eating meat, was wrong, lea was a very bad stimulant, 'on account of the tannin which it contained. “No matter what is wrong pith jou, you can get every bit better, ‘.VT, Holmes, in a lecture upon self last night, “God within you, is the healer. Mau, she declared, was not like the trees, which lived from year to year, but he lived from day to day. While the body deteriorated, the mind did not do so, since it was God, and He was perfect. ffhe people who were always sick were those who were only conscious of the body, but they should be conscious only of the mind.