Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-12

n0m Avnrice, from appetite, from the Va
Ti0as malign feelingA II you take these
thOuAnd little fress that thought breeda
a1d that make you unhappy; If you lay
aide physical cauFes. and come to mental
y0u viii ind that most Of them arc sel6sh,
and 20 ara malign- And when man
hoods anxiously, looking down into the
future, two things take place: FIRST, he
loses the use Of the correct instrument
II his mind-by this overheating; and,
secondly, he brings his mind under the In
1uence Of these mAlign feelings, which
seem TO rise up and take possession OF
that great untrodden pasture ground OF
the future. His mind 10 brought insiai-
susly under the dominion of these things
In critical time the man Of the house
hold goes to the window, and looks out,
ard ays: "Who can tell what those
tell what that banner meanss Who can
tell what armed host that IL that Is com
ingf"-And thousands Of men say TO Fear,
Go. sit in the window and watch :" and
Fear, sitting in the souls window, and
looking far down into the future, says: II
- something there" "What Is it,"
rupscy-trouDie Is comingr 80 LORD
o Lordi Trouble in the future. 1t IL all
trouble. Man ID born TO sorrow a. the
sparks fly upward. A few days, and full
OF trouble. o trouble! troubler And
for days and weeks the man goes round
crying, Trouble troubler What is it 2
Money. Nothing In the world but money.
IL Is avarice that has made all that fuss
shout the future-all that dust. 1t was
because it was not golden dust that the
man was troubled.
Fear still sits in the window. "What
seest thou ?" says Vanity. Whisperings
are abroad" says Fear. "Men are point
ing at you-or they will as soon as you
come TO point Of observation" 30, my
good name r. says the man "Au that
have done all that have laid up-what
will become of THAR Where is my repu-
tatiOn goingg What will become of me
when l lose It, and when folks turn away
from mes o, trouble, trouble lit Is
comingp What is it? Fear Is sitting in
the window Of the soul, and looking into
the future, and interpreting the signs
thereof To the love of appreciation in its
coarsest and lowest condition.
Fear still sits looking into the future,
and Pride, coming up, says: "What is it
that you sect" ~ see" says Fear, ''your
castle robbed. I see you topple down
from your eminence. I see you under the
base mems feet see you weakened. /
zee you disesteemed. see your power
scattered and gone" 30, Lordl what
world is this I" says Pride.
No, that man has not had particle of
trouble. Fear sat in the window and
lied. And Pride cried, and Vanity cried,
and Avarice cried-and ought to cry.
Fear sat and told lies to them all. For
there was not one Of those things, proba-
bly,, down there. Did Fear see them
Yes But Fear has kaleidoscope in its
eye, and every time 1t turns 1t takes new
form. 1t Is filed with broken glass, and
1t gives false pictures continually. Fear
does not see right. II is forever seeing
feelings Pride stimulates it and Vanity
stimulates il; and Lust stimulates il /; and
Love itself finds, sometimes, no better
business than to send Fear on its bad er-
rand. For Love cries at the cradle, say
ing, ooh the child will diet" 1t will
not die. 1t will get we'll. And then you
will not be ashamed that you prophecied
that 1t would die. You put on mourning
in advance. "Where will my family bey
Where will all my children goY What
will become of me? says Love in its
1OWCT Low WluOuL IdItu IL uS
bad as faith without love.
So Fear sits in the window to torment
the lower form Of all our good feelings
and al our malign feelings And under
such circumstances how can man do
anything? He has smoked glass before
his eyes when his feelings get before
them, and they are in morbid state.
How many times In summer has that
uuht oh full rr tnht xr
storm, and which came rising, and open.
ine. And swinging through the air. gone
by without having drop Of rain in 1t
Il was q wind cloud. And after It had all
disappeared, men took breath and said,
ave need not have cooked up the hay in
such hurry:" or, We need not have
run ourselves out OF breath to get shelter
under this tree" And how many times
have there been clouds rolled up in men g
heaven, which have apparently been full
of bolts and trouble, but which have not
had trouble in them! And when they
are gone, men forget to get any wisdom.
They do not say, Next time l will do
better" The next time they do just the
same thing. OF the thought that excited
them, that disturbed their sleep, setting
t0Oe0 WuiAlA8 0IOuAN IA CA0bSo VI
thought, when they get past 1t, they cay,
"All that suffered for nothing" But
will you be any wiser for that experience
Probably not You have the bad habit OF
looking into the future with hot brain
and you will not cure yourself Of 1t by
any amount Of fear.
Men get into state, sometimes, In
which they rather want anxiety and
trouble. As poison becomes stimulants
20 these corrosions and cares not unfre.
uuently become almost indispensable
There are many people who not only suf
Ter. but seek suffering. They look al
everything on the dark side.
Ifyou present the bright side TO them
they do not want to see that. They are
In . minor key, and they want everything
70 vail. They not only are sick, but dc
not want to get well. They DO not wan1
to have people nay to them, "You looh
better to-day than you did yesterday" i
sne aays % them, II congratulate you on
having fewer pains" they resent It, and
sey. al nave not fewer pains. I never
suffered 90 much In all my life" They
begin to have a morbid desire for sympa.
thv on account of trouble. They are very
much like what are called weeping =
trees. They have downward tendency
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