This kind can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting.— Mark.: 29.
As bathers, hand in hand, working their way forward, battling against the incoming waves show more power by their united strength, and more courage through the silent sympathy of the friendly hand-clasp; so we, in breasting our way against the opposing thought of the world, are showing our strength by our united labors, and all are encouraged when we feel the pressure of one another's hands. I now am holding yours, and will show my sympathy for you by giving my personal experience; and, although you may not find it just what you need, some one in the line, will respond to the touch, and realize that the hand-clasp is but an outward expression of my earnest sympathy for her or him, and our cause.
When I was eighteen years old, I attended a school where I was held under a very strong thought of malice and hatred, and the consequence was that, after working in that thought for a good many weeks, when graduating day came, I was unable to fulfill my part of the program. Before this I had begun to feel the effects of the thoughts, and now they seemed to take full possession. The result was fear, a most intense fear, which made its strongest manifestation in a crowd, especially when having to stay anywhere for a given length of time.
