The Newtown bee., 1897-03-12

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 anime into their makeup, the wonder is, not that we are sometimes sick, but that we are ever well. Just ponder few facts. In these bodies of ours there are 200 bones; 800 muscles; heart beating 30, 900, ,000 times a year; 2,000, 900 pers- piration glands; miles of arteries, veins, capillaries and nerves; and 600, 900, 900 cells in the convolutions of the gray mat ter of the brain! Don't you think that we better not undertake the herculean task of trying to regulate the working of this wonderfully constructed machine by worry and care as to how the various parts shall act? In every ton of coal, long ages ago, was stored a definite amount of heat, which, by the chemical process of combustion, can be released for the service of man. Within each bushel of wheat there is stored definite amount of food. So, in every human body, there is definite amount of stored life, normally equal to about 100 years l; but our ancestors have, by over-work and over-worry, squandered much of that amount, and we, following in their footsteps, keep on with the process of subtraction. The fire of daily duty con- sumes enough of life's best energies away; why, with useless fret and fool ish irritation, do we add to the flame?
 One, too, of the things we should not be anxious about is what other people say of us. This ought not to concern us nearly so much as what we think of ourselves. When a man comes thor oughly to despise himself, then he may indeed think that his character is wholly bad. What is what people say of us? That is our reputation. What is, what God says of us and what we think of ourselves? That is our character. And how often reputation and character, mems opinion and Gods opinion. do not agree? Judas had the reputation of be- ing shrewd business man, and so he was intrusted with the treasure bag; his ah rSt sx, hScfo Sc ha meanest of the mean and the vilest of the vile. The Pharisees had the reputa- tion of being the jealous religious lead CTS of the people; Jesus stamped their character as whited sepulchers and
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 Ananias and Sapphira had the reputa- tion of being generous givers in the early church; Peter took off the mask Of hy- pocrisy which they wore, and showed that, in character, they were liars. The commander of Andersonville prison was reputed to be doing greater service for the Confederate cause in that pest-hole of wretchedness than all the generals on the field history has written him down as merciless butcher. Most of us ad- just our actions to what other people will say about them instead of, first of all, being true to the best promntings of our own hearts. Among the many good things which President Garfield said, he said nothing better than this: 'sThere is
 one person whose good opinion I prize more than that of any other person in the world, and that person is James A. Garfield. I must eat with him, I must sleep with him, I must die with him, aye, must meet my God with him; and, if he does not think we'll of what I do and say, am indeed badly off"
 Now, since we have shown that such worrying hurts, what is to be it's remedy and it's cure? That is to come by a little exercise of memory; we are to school ourselves in remembering few things
 We are to remember that worry does no good. Worry never yet dried single tear, never yet assuaged single grief, never yet cured heart-ache, never yet poured balm in any wound, never yet lifted this weary world one inch out from its mire of helplessness toward the loving arms of God. Worry not only