Quit Your Worrying!

enious persons in the world. When every possible source of worry seems to be removed, they proceed

ed only with the weak, the human, the evil side of human nature. It has no place whatever in association with goodness, purity, holiness, faith, courage and trust in God. When good men and women worry, in so far as they worry they are not good. Their worry is a

thing but evil, and, therefore, without one reclaiming or red

s it to you? How necessary to your existence? How helpful is it in solving the problems that confront you; how far does it aid you in their solution, wherein does it remove the obstacles before your pathway. Find out how much it strengthens, invigorates, inspires you

essary-you will fail to find one good thing in favor of worry, and that e

e, even encourage it, in order that it might the sooner be dead. But, unfortunately, it works the other way. The more one worries the more he continues to worry. The mo

to be "careful"-taking good care, however, not to let you know that he means to make you full of care. He pleads "love" as the cause for his existence. He would have you love your child, hence "worry" about him. He thus trades on your affectio

n worry's power that they weakly respond: "But I can't help it." And they verily believe they can't; that their bondage is a natural thing; a state "ordained from the foundation of the world," altogether ignoring the frightful reflection such a belief is upon the goodness of God and his fatherly care for his children. Natural! It is the most unnatural thing in existence. Do the birds worry? The beasts of the field

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ly in the almighty sustaining power behind her. Should man do any less? Should man-the reasoning creature, with intelligence to see, weigh, judge, appreciate,-alone be uncertain o

he human heart could be removed a vast aggregate amount of worry would die instantly. No one can study

w we press our paltry little claims upon others, how we glorify our own insignificant deeds; how large loom up our small and puny acts. The

n all the "fame," the "eclat," the "renown" of the multitude. And where we have such love, friendship, and blind adoration, let us rest content therein, and smile at the floods of temporary and evanescent emotion which sweep over the mob, but do not have us for their object. I have just read a letter which perfectly illustrates how our vanity, our pride, and personal importance bring much worry to us. The writer-practically a stranger coming from a far-away state-evidently expected to be received with a cordial welcome and open arms, by one who scarcely knew him, given an important place in a lengthy program where men of national reputation were to speak, and generally be treated with deference and respect. Unfortunately his name was not placed in full on the program,-curtly initiale

or being so "sensitive," so sure that peopl

ho read my books, my magazine articles, and hear my lectures, yet I often go to cities and there are no brass bands, no committee, flowers, or banquet to welcome me. No! indeed, the indignity is thrust upon me of having to walk to the hotel, carry my own grip, and register, the same as any other ordinary, common, everyday man! Why should not my blood boil wh

ate themselves upon being filled with "laudable pride," "recognizing their own importance," and knowing that "honorable ambition" is beneficial. Nothing that causes unnece

natural. Hence he is self-conscious all the time lest he make a slip, contradict himself, lose the result he is seeking to attain. He is to be compared to an actor whose part requires him to wear a wig, a false moustache, a false chin. In the hurry of preparation these shams are not adjusted properly an

fe is one dread worry lest his, her, false appearance be discovered. And while pride and vanity are not the only sources of these attempts to

starve. Riches take to themselves wings and fly away. No one is absolutely safe, and while many thousands go through life indifferent about their expenditures, wasteful and extravagant and do not seem to be brought to time t

pensive habits of wastefulness that later on may be chains of a cruel bondage. Why forge fetters upon oneself? Far better be free now and thus culti

urrent of our lives, and if the new current seems evil, if it brings discomfort, separation, change of circumstance, etc., we worry, and worry, and continue to worry. This is lamenta

months ago he was sent East on a special mission connected with his work. Just before his return the corporation elected a new president, who "shook up" the whole concern, changed around several of

lly face the facts and accord him the most sincere and hearty support. It may be hard, but our training and discipline,-which means our improvement and advancement-come, not from doing the easy and pleasant things, but from striving, cheerfully and pleasantly to do the arduous and disagreeable ones. The other way open for my friend was to resent the change, accept it with anger, let his vanity be wounded, and b

not protest, but, when he has protested, and a decision has been rendered against him let him accept the judgment

ding to worry. Accept the inevitable, do not argue or fret about it, put worry aside, go to work

ffect defied the deafness that had come to her to destroy her happiness, embitter her life, take away the serenity of her mind and the equipoise of her soul. If there had to be a battle to gain this high plane of acceptance, she fought it out in secret, for her friends and the world never heard a word of a murmur from her. I had the joy of a talk with her about it, for it was a joy to have her make light of her affliction, in the great number of good things wherein God had blessed her. Laughingly she said: "Even in deafness I find many compensations. One is never bored by conversation that is neither intelligent, instructive or interesting. I can go to sleep under t

imself into a worse condition? No! not for a moment. Cheerfully he accepted the inevitable, got someone to read and write for him, to guide him through the streets, and went ahead with his work just as if nothing had happened, looking forward to the time when his eyesight would be r

erusal will show them the folly and futility of worry; a second will shame them because they have so little self-control as to spend their time, strength, and energy in worry; and a third perusal will

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ssing himself from the institution. A year later he returned and asked to be re-admitted. After a survey of the whole situation the superintendent decided that it was not wise to re-admit him, and that he would better secure a situation for him outside. He offered to do so and the man left apparently satisfied. Three days later he reappeared, entered the office with a loaded and cocked revolver held behind his back, and abruptly announced: "I've c

eriences of many such cases that it is both possible and probable that during the months or years of his incarceration he will continue to harbor, even to feed and foster the bitte

ey not to be worried? I got the answer for my readers from this man, and it is so perfec

ient notice. I do not wish that he should be kept in the asylum a single day longer than is fully necessary, but before I allow him to be released I must be thoroughly satisfied that he has no murderous designs on me, and that he is truly and satisfactorily repentant for the attack he made when, ostensibly, he was mentally i

have done and shall do all I can, satisfactorily, to protect myself, without any feeling of harsh

using to recognize it, but calmly, sanely, with a kindly heart looking at possible contingencies, preparing for th

ear all the time? Practical precaution, taken without enmity-note these italicized words-trustful serenity, faithful per

things he must have. For a woman,-health, love, work, and such virtues as both men and women need. She might enjoy friends, but they are not essential as health or work; she would be a strange woman if she did not prize beauty, but devoted love is worth far more than beauty or all the conquests it brings. What is the essential for a chair?-its

give as many dinners as one's neighbors, to have a bigger house, furniture with brighter polish, bigger carvings and more ugly designs than anyone else in town, to

for the essential things, the determination to have them and let non-essen

ase of the worry question. For instance, in referring to the mad race for wealth and position that keeps a man awa

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t is not a question of bread and butter. It's a question of giving the children bread and butter and sugar rather than bread and bu

uppose now because he had some other religion of his own. But if he had I never knew what it was-or anything else that was in his mind or heart. It never occurred to me that I could. He tried to love me-I remember so many times now-and that makes me cry!-how he tried to l

e. You are morbid! I knew your father intimately. He loved you beyond expression. He would have done anything for you. B

ou? You know you mustn't let them die of starvation. Why oughtn't you to expect to have them cost you thought, a

ne else-you're just killing yourself to make money that goes to get things we don't need nearly as much as we need more of each other! We're not getting a bit nearer to each other-actually further away, for we're both getting different from what we were without the other's knowing how! And w

o examine too closely the foundations of existing ideas. 'Why, Lydia, what's the matter wi

ttle more, to have a few more thoughts in common, and oh! to be trying to be making something better out of ourselves for our children's sake. I can't see that we're learning to be anything but-you, to be an efficient machine for making money, I to think of how to entertain as though we had

ia's pale face like a blow. 'I gather, then, Lydia, that what you're asking me t

and what I mean, although I'm so fumbling, and say it so badly. As for its being impossible to change things, I'v

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really care enough to have them some other way. If you really cared as much about sharing

lame you for it. But I can't help pointing out to you that it is entirely uncalled for. There are few women who have a husband as absolutely devoted as yours. You grumble about my not sharing my life with you-why, I give it to you entire!' His astonished bitterness grew a

the essentials and letting the others go. Naturally, if one wilfully and purposefully determines to follow non-essentials, he may as well

sic. Remember these facts. You are dealing with men and women, youths and maidens, of the same flesh and blood, mentality as yourself. You average up with the rest of them. Why should you be afraid? Call upon your reasoning power. Assert the dignity of your own existence. You are here by the will of God as much as they. There is a purpose in your creation as much as in theirs. You have a right to be seen and heard as well as have they. Your life may be charged with importance to mankind far more than theirs. Anyhow for what

spark of bashfulness in their condition. They are full of vanity or self-conceit. Elsewhere I have referred to one of these. Or they are hyper-sensitive in regard to their health. They mustn't do this, or that, or the other, they must be careful not t

It would do most of these people no harm to follow the advice given by Abernethy, the great English physician, to a pampered, overfed hyper-sensitive: Live on six pence a day and earn it. I have found few hyper-sensitives among the poor. Poverty is a fine cure fo

or hurry. We are caught in the mad rush and its influence leads us to feel that we, too,

y in less. Yet every morning, ever since you took this country cottage, you have had to rush through your breakfast, and rush to the depot in order to catch the train. Thus starting the day on the rush, you have continued "on the stretch" all day, and get back home at night tired out, frett

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ry of your rush? Set the alarm clock for 7:00, or 6:45, or even 6:30. Far better get up half an hour too early, than worry yourself, yo

tes many sage counsel

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31, 1915.

car coming up the hill and whistled to it from the porch, but the man who was running the car did not hear the whistle. Anyway, he didn't stop the car, and the man on the steps looked as if he

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the other man laughed and they shook hands again. And the last I saw of them they had started down the street rig

here and tearing through everything as if it was my last day on earth and there wasn't a minute left to lose, somebody wo

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t and work not only honestly but hard. But it seems to me that most of the terrific hurrying we do hasn't much to do with really essential work after all. It's a kind of habit we get into, a sort of madness, lik

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! The rains are beginning and the trees will soon be flecked with a si

heart, I'll say that to you to-day a

k together and see if we can find out. Let

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