The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-12-09
WORRY ANDITS RESULTS.
Evangelist Sam Jones Talks About
Work, Worry and Rest.

other SIDE 50 many seeking woTk VINO
are thoroughly tired Of resting.
Among tine professions, lawyers, doc
tors, preachers, teachers, ct cetera, |
find them everywhere oVer"orked,
and wherever | go and IN whatever
direction | turn | find another class
seeking employment and hunting
work
But after all, the thing that is kill
ing most men IS worry. A man can
do nothing and worry, but when he
begins steady work and steady wor-
ryIng, then the candle IS burning at
bp.h ends and il IS trying on human
lie. When ,0k at the GOuld5, the
Vandtrbll's, tie A,tpIS, the BelmDnts,
ct cetera, and see how soon the lights
burn out with them, | begin TO think
Of the cares and burdens and worries
they have had Bu, who is 1t that
doesn't worry? \ man who has a tor
tune Is worried to death holding on to
| 1t, keeping up repairs and taxes and
insurance and leakage and steaiage
and r0tage. The other fellow Is wor
rying about what he hasn't got, about
paying deb's and worrying because
he has 50 u.any worries. In tact,
| ab0u! half oi humanity are never happy
| except when they are miserable. The
old maids worry because they haven t
| married. The bachelors worry be-
cause they see 50 many men who have
surrendered their liberties to the other
| sex. Children worry because they are
not grown. Grown people worry be-
cause they can't have good time like
| children do. Farmers want to move
to town; merchants want to move
to the country, and every fellow that
has got Job would like to have
an easier ipD. Every fellow out of a
Job says he will take anything he can
get.
often think Of the old legend,
when the goddess of this world called
the whole human race together on a
great festival day, and after the feast
she announced to them that she would
give each individual in the great
throng the privilege Of walking up and
dumping down in a common pile the
ills and ailments, their woes and wOr-
ries. OF course every fellow took a
hand at that, and every fellow dumped
his woes down in The pile. The fellow
that had a crooked nose dumped it
in. The fellow that had wooden leg
threw in his wooden leg. The fellow
who was deaf put in his deafness. The
fellow witn an evil conscience threw
that in. Those who had the cares Of
poverty dumped them IN, and every
fellow had something he wanted tC
| get rid Of. When all had dumped
their ailments into the pile, the god
dess said to the throng Of people: Each
of you go to the pile and pick you
out something You had rather have
than the ailment You threw into the
pile.
The fellow with the evil conscience
took the wooden leg; the fellow it had
crooked nose took the cares Of poverty
the fellow with deafness took dyspepsia:
and so on all around. Each went tc
his abiding place and thinking he had
made magnificent trade; but The
legend goes on to say that the neX'
morning at sun-up they were all back
at the pile, at the scene of the festiva
the day before, begging the goddess
to give them their old troubles back
And 50 it goes in human life Each
of US think we have the greatest cares
and burdens and troubles in the world
But all men have perhaps equally IL
great burdens as we have. In the
providence of God generally our bur
dens are adjusted to us, and we car
carry our own ailments better than we
could carry the ailments of others
When the rich lose their wealth and
become poor they are the poorest PEG
pie on earth and sometimes when a
poor fellows gets rich, he is the biggest
fool on earth.
But to go back to the subject before
US. The overworked men of thi:
country have my sympathy. | sorter
belong to that profession myself.
have realized more in the last thirt,
days that | am a well-nigh WORKOUT
man than | ever did before. | know
have worked for over twenty years
~ No, ~
cease. | am off now on my first va.
cation. | am trying to rest and find
it big job. a man who is used &c
work is mighty awkward at resting
But the limit may be reached and a
fellow will rest under the grave if he
don't on top OF the ground. Now
and then | have seen overworked mer
bite the dust and go down, and these
later days | am looking at those case:
more than ever. have advised man,
a fellow to mold up and many a fellow
has advised me to hold up, but it i
mighty hard to sidetrack fellow who
has always been used to the mar
line.
Engines wear out. steel will veal
out, and II is strange that man. who
is Ike harp of thousand chords,
will stay IN tune 50 long. But | hac
rather wear out than rust out.
never intend to worry out. | nevel
go to bed with more trouble at nigh,
than can kick off the foot of the bee
at the first lick. | could worry and
see other people worrying over wha
seems to me lesser things than | have
to carry, but | found out long ago
that while a man could make some
thing by work, that it was a losing
game TO worry. \ grea, deal of oul
trouble is borrowed trouble, or wha,
We call "hOme- made" trouble: and
home made trouble, like everything
al L