But a day or two ago a friend was telling me of an experience of his own life in this connection. And so instead of their begetting courage and strength in him, they brought him to a still greater realization of his own weakness and the almost worthless use of struggle. In this way the battle for him was made harder in a three-fold degree. Fear and worry and all kindred mental states are too espensive for any person, man, woman, or child, to entertain or indulge in. Fear paralyzes healthy action, worry corrodes and pulls down the organism, and will finally tear it to pieces.
Nothing is to be gained by it, but everything to be lost.
Long-continued grief at any loss will do the same. Each brings its own peculiar type of ailment. An inordinate love of gain, a close-fisted, hoarding disposition will have kindred effects. Anger, jealousy, malice, continual fault-finding, lust, has each its own peculiar corroding, weakening, tearing down effects. The time will come when it will be seen that this means far more than most people dare even to think as yet .