The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-03-12
A HOT Box
Worry Keeps = Man from Doing His
Heat Work.


Beat Work.
One meets few unworried people,
Most faces bear lines OF care. Men go
anxious to their days duties, rush
through the hours with feverish speed.
and bring hot brain and tumultuous
pulse home at night for restless, I'M
refreshing sleep. This Is not only
most unsatisfactory, but Is also most
costly mode of living, for our work
and worry are both great MASTERS OF
human life.
The other night the train lost two
hours In running less than 100 miles.
eve have q hot box" was the polite
conductors reply to some impatient
passengers who begged to know the
cause of the long delays at stations
This hot box trouble Is not altogether
unknown In human life. There arc
many people who move swiftly enough
and with sufficient energy, but who
grow feverish, and are thus impeded In
their progress. A great many failures
In life must be charged to worrying
When a man worries he Is impeded In
| several ways. For one thing, he loses
his head. He cannot think clearly. His
brain Is feverish and will not act at its
best. His mind becomes confused and
his decisions are not to be depended
upon. The result Is that n worried man
never does his work as well as he should
| do II, or as he could do IL IL he were
free from worry. He Is apt TO make
mistakes. Marks OF feverishness are
sure TO be seen somewhere In whatever
he does.
Then worry exhausts vitality. All
good In life costs. Virtue goes out Of
us in everything we do that In WORTH
doing. Every exertion requires some
outflow of vital force. But for normal,
healthy action, nature provides. There
Is rec1perative energy enough to sup
ply the waste. The foundations are
filled as fast as they are drained. Tho
fiber Is renewed as fast as IL In worn
away. Worry, however, Is abnormal
and unhealthy. II eShausts vitality
more rapidly than nature can reinforce
| II. IL In like friction In machinery
and grinds away the very fiber of the
life. Worry, therefore, both impedes
| progress and makes work costly and
exhaustive. One neither accomplishes
so much nor does IL so well. while the
outlay of vitality Is greater.
| The ideal theory of life Is, therefore,
work without worry. But In IL prac-
teal idea? We have our Lords ex-
press command not TO be anxious about
anything. Our whole duty IL to do
the will of God and leave In His hands
the outworklng Of circumstances. the
shaping and overruling of oil the COM
plicated network of influences so as
TO bring about the right results. Tho
working plan for Christian life is
clearly laid down in our Lords words
"SeelS We first the kingdom of God and
] His righteousness; and all these things
shall be added unto YOU" Take, therei
fore, no thought for the morrow; for
the morrow shall take thought for the
things of itself" This ideal leaves no
place whatever for worry. II requires
single-hearted devotion 10 the interests
OF Christ's cause, the elimination OF
self and self-seeking, incorporating
loyalty to the principles OF righteous
ness and the faithful and energetic do
ing OF duty. oil duty. without regard to
pleasure or cost. That Is oil the hui
man part Then God will look upon the
consequences-will take care of us and
OF the outcome of our acts. II is the
function OF faith, when we have donc
what we can, 70 put all into the Dr.
vine hands, giving ourselves no anxiety,
while we go forward in peace and con-
fidence TO the next duty that wqits.--
Presbyterian Observer.