Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Can I Help Myself? CHAPTER III. The most important and interesting question that will occur to each is "How can I help myself?" What are the means—what is the process by which I can develop my own latent powers and secure the greatest results from the ability which I possess? How can I change the current of my life, or attain to greater proficiency in the callng which I have chosen? The first step—the starting point upward, is to discover the prime or controlling factor in life. The second step, and the one that is equally important, is to begin at once to make earnest and practical application of the knowledge gained. True growth and permanent advancement comes through applying the truth, wisdom and knowledge we acquire to every detail of life as it comes to us day by day, and the degree in which we do this, will measure the degree of our progress and u development, our success and our happiness. It is not so much what I know, what power or ability I possess, as it is how much knowledge, power and ability I put into intelligent and practical use. I may possess the highest degree of power, but if I do not use it what does it profit me? It is not what we know, or what we possess, but what we do and use that shapes our lives, moulds our character and conditions our circumstances and environment, as well as determines the measure' of success which shall come to us. I would emphasize this one point; consider it well— it is not so much the knowing, as the doing. And knowledge comes only through experience. On the material side of life, we can only know through the doing. All else is belief, which at times may amount to conviction, but until we actually do a thing, we cannot know it. When we know a thing through doing, that knowledge becomes absolute, in its degree...