Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-08-31
SATURDAY MIGHT.

1t is not so mnch !" Labor" as Care
that wears out the life. If a person be
not deprived Of adequate nourishment,
-yictuals, air and water-labor Of the
most severe character can be performed
for a long period Of time by the man
who commences it in health. But care
is the devil that haunts the life out Of u
man or woman with astonishing rapid
ity. A person that is always burdened
with care must have an iron constitu-
ton to bear up under the load to three
score years and ten. In nine cases out
Of ten the care-worn are fretted for COM
parativs trifes. 1t seems to be in the
di~spensation, for America. Many peo-
pie confound c%hesrfulness with care
lessness ;-'carelessness' not signifying
simply without care but q slovenly
disregard or neglect Of the duties or
proprieties Of ones station,-the deri-
vative not being synthetic, in this in
stance. 1t is certain that care does no
man MOI his work any good. A pro-
found sense Of responsibility, both civil
and moral, is Of the highest importance
to the building Of q noble maturity or
the accomplishment Of grand design
in the social world. But that sense
which may be described as constant
sslf-distrust mingled with envy and hate
-care-is u thoroughly declaring els-
ment in character. Dyspepsia is a great
mother Of care. The head aches from an
overloaded stomach, and then tribes
light as air discourage and ~dishearten.
There is an ever present pain to the
head, and nature resisting the tendency
to illness with all her powers saves many
from being crazed hypochrondriacs, who
break down all protests to become
care carriers.
1t is claimed to be one Of the glories
Of Christianity that it brightens life by
killing care, with its hopes and the aid
rendered diyipsly through its ministra-
tons. Cast all your care upon Him,
Christ, says the Apostle. He will care
for you; he will bear that burden, if,
really, burden il be. Forbid the imag-
lining Of evil timss; or if distressed BY
woe of any kind, not physical, make the
effort direct for relief from it, and do not
sit repining. All noble joy comes Of
energy; and when the heart is filled
with a sense Of work done as we'll as
strength permits, there is no room for
mswkish mourning.
We are more positively assured by
observation every day, that the persons
most free from care are those who do a
considerable amount Of manual labor
every day, or secure its equivalent in
gymnastic exercises. This goes back,
partly, to the attributed Seat Of the
sentiment in the stomach. You do not
often find a chronic lsmenter and fore
boder in a laboring man or woman.
Rest without care we should have on
the Sunday. Yet to some, to mahy the
frat day Of the week is the most weari-
some Of all. 1t is with them o day Of
melancholy, in which to brood over real
or fancied misfortunes. II so you are af-
Hicted, you should commence breaking
up the habit Of converting the Rest-dsy
into q period Of glomy "reminiscences.
Most Of tohse so afflicted, having such
habits, can reform and rejoice if they
but Gill. Not in dissipation-which
misanthropy often breeds or fosters
but in simple endeavors to analyze the
morbid feelings which trouble and de-
press the mind and body, in the light Of
common sense. Come now you will
find your care is avarice. When you
think of it fairly, judging from the po-
sition of your fellow men, you are "well
enough off," and what use is there in
burdening your mind with anxious fear
that you will not make such or such a
sum next week. If q person will only
recognize the gill that does most beset
him." in temper and disposition, and
firmly resolve to overcome it, he has
doue more than half the work Of spirit
ual renovation that is required to make
him q truly healthy human being.
tits p~rofane we confess, and incongru-
u with immediate scriptural observa-
tons, but we cannot forbear from say
ing here, that there is a vast amount of
excellent mental health philosophy
compressed in that sentence ofToodles':
"An honest man, an honest man, an hon
est man, an honsst man is q man who
don't care q damn-is an honest mar ~
When we were young 'uns, how ut
terly impossible it seemed to US that
there was a practical definition in life
to the word we have so frequently
spoken. We could understand the
words so often and wrongly used as sy-
nonyms: Prudence, carefulness, eau
ton, etc. Yet there are little children
whose lives arc made the impersonstion
Of care. See how old they are in youth!
So it should not be with the little ones
Of America. Let it not be so with chill
dren in our communities. And if the
burden or the disease, SO named, afiict
them in the week holidays, let Sunday
at the home, relieve them by rest, and
sweet, cheerful influences. Let not the
next generation be wrinkle-furrowed
with care before the bloom of youth
should have faded from the cheek. Men
and women should have the pleasant
spirit of play in them until they die.