Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-01
Don't Worry.

acea for worry; the disease is various and |
the remedies are various. Sometimes the |
difficulty is physical. 1t is a brain disease. |
If a physician could feel your pulse, he would |
tell you you were a little feverish. Your |
head is hot; your brain overexcited; per-
haps your digestion impaired at all events,
your nervous system exhausted. You need
chance to recuperate. Thinking even
praying, which is sometimes the most stim-
ulating form of thought, only aggravates the
trouble. Go to bed; go to sleep; get good
nights rest and in the morning the worries
will have gone where the black flies go when
cold nights come-nobody can guess where.
But perhaps you cannot sleep. Sleeplessness
is always dangerous symptom of danger
Gus disease. The trouble is not merely with
the brain, or with the digestion it is with
the circulation. Your blood is sluggish
your nervous system is used up; your mus
cular system has had little or no employ
ment. Then do something to tire the mus
cles and start the blood. Do not fall into
the delusive snare of gentle exercise; !"
that is admissible only for invalids. What
soever you do, do it with all your might.
Take tramp on the hills saw wood ride
on horseback give fifteen minutes to an
Indian club or plir Of not too heavy dumb
bells; run jump; dig in the garden; any
thing to exert your body and stop the exer-
tion Of your mind, to set your muscles into
exercise and give your nerves a rest. Get
into glow aud perspiration, and make
yourself feel thoroughly healthily tired.
Then take bath, get on clean dry clothes,
eat light meal with a good appetite, and
| go to bed and, ten chances 10 one, you will
| 90 to sleep. The cause may be more intel
lectual than physical. The mind sometimes
| gets running in certain groove and it can
| not lift itself out of its groove. 1t thinks
the same thing over and over again ;
trots round and round in the same dry, dusty
course, moots the same question, balances
again and again the same arguments pro
and con, comes to the same decision-or in
decision-and then begins once more. This
is the mental process of many patient in
the insane asylum; and it is the mental pro-
cess of more patients outside the insane asy-
lum. In such case the mind needs mo-
Hve outside itself to move il from the groove.
This is one of the uses of fiction; of so
ciety Of games; Of the home circle. Every
man must find his own intellectual pastime
that is best for him which most effectually
breaks up the stupid eddy of his thoughts
and allows them to resume their onward cur
rent With one man it is book; with
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with fourth social game; with a fifth
music. Blessed is the man whose home
gives him such employment as to turn the
current of his thoughts into new channels
whose wife knows how to make the cares of
the household and the children a sweet in
trusion, who is wise enough never TO bring
the perplexities of home business up for
evening discussion after a hard and weari-
some day, and is yet wise enough to use the
home perplexities to drive other and greater
cares away; blessed is the mau who has
learned how to enter into his children's wor
ries aud make them his own, and in making
them his own to find relief from the greater
cares of the shop and the counting-room
But the causes of worry are not always
physical; they are sometimes spiritual ther
the remedy must be spiritual Worry il
sometimes a mild form of remorse. Yor
have done wrong the memory of it rankles
you cannot get rid of the ranking. An un
confessed wrong is like splinter in th'
flesh; it testers, and the only remedy for tn,
fostering is to take the splinter out Moth
! ing but repentance aud confession can dC
that. Confess to God; confess to the indi
vidual you have wronged repair the wrons
as much as in you lies and thank God tina
he has given you conscience that will le
| you nave uO peace Nullc YOU are trdusBrcss
5 ing. The cause may be still deeper. w
Y worry when we are bent on having our owl
q way aud fear lest We shall not; we cease Il
= worry when it becomes our habitual and su
e preme wish that another shall have his owl
e way; when we learn to pray without ceas
S ing, "Thy will, not mine, be done" Tn
8 child worries because he is bent on the pic
a mic, and he fears the gathering clouds meal
t rain the man worries because his heart i
). set on preserving his commercial honor ant
o the impending crises threatens bankruptcy
e the mother worries because she wishes t
t decide whether her sick child shall live o
d die and the decision is not left to her. Th
:" remedy for this worry is to have no will bu
n Gods will to wish nothing but that hi
y kingdom should come and his will be done
e 1t is for the child to learn, am Gods child
I and he knows best when it should rain
l. is for the man TO learn, am Gods agen
5 and he knows whether l can serve him bes
S by success or bankruptcy it is for tn
G mother to realize that God alone is wis
n enough to know whether life or death is bes
d and to be able to thank God that he leave
not the responsibility of choosing to hel
Rest, recreation, confession, conservation
these are the four recipes for worry.-- Cars
tian Union.