The times., 1898-02-21
THE "Dos.r WORRY" MOVEMENT.
DR.. Kent Bases Sermon on Mr..
Sewa rd's Book

pies Church, preached yesterday on the
don't worry movement.
This movement said DR.. Kent, "had
its origin last fall in little book by
Mr.. Theodore Seward, entitled Don't
Worry: or The Scientific Law of Happi-
ness The author is perhaps most wide
| ly known through his earnest efforts
to establish the Worlds Brotherhood of
Christian Unity. Few people, however,
are yet capable of grasping the thought
of brotherhood in its larger relations
at least, few find in it a bond of union
for any definite action-and so Mr.. Sew
ards effort has little to show in the
way OF outward results. Still, we may
well believe that it has done not a little
TO promote kinder. spirit and to pre-
pare the way for a larger cooperation
that is surely coming. This don't worry
movement is only another method of
reaching the same end of brotherly unity
through a spiut Of iilial trust.
One may cultivate composure of man
ner and be ver' far from security of
spirit He may acquire gentleness of ex-
preston and the utmost politeness OF de-
meanor and yet all this may be nothing
more than the thin crust of conven-
tionality, which covers a very fury of
suppressed passion.
Some of the mental scientists of this
city, with whom Mr. Seward has strong
sympathy, = have been drawn to this
movement as one peculiarly adapted TO
the work they are seeking to do, and
well calculated to open the way among
all classes of people for the incubation
of The higher truths, which they feel 1t
their mission to proclaim, and so they
have had Mr.. Seward among them for
the last week.
Worry turns the healthful secretions
of the body into life-destroying poisons,
and does more 10 break down the ner-
vous system and impair the digestive and
assimilative organs, and so to induce
disease than all other causes combined.
Let us distinguish between worry and
other things with which 1t Is often con-
founded. First between worry and ra-
tional sorrow or regret. When my care
lessness has brought calamity or loss 10
another and 1 am powerless to make
amends. il would be heartless and inhu-
man in me not TO feel and express my
sorrow But, having done this, and done
all in my power to make good the loss
my ctrciessness has occasioned. am not
TO keen the burden of this constantly on
my mind, making myself a source of dis
comfort and gloom to all about me.
Again, we must distinguish between
worry and forethought We are living in
a universe of law. Life is conditional
upon conformity 10 law. and the duty
of discovering and obeying this law de-
wolves, in the very nature Of things, up
on us. There are laws OF bodily health
other than those which relate to our meu-
tai and spiritual state, and the obserr-
ance of the former is only less important
than the observance OF the latter. The
body requires wh2lesome food, pure air
rest. sleep. and failure to supply any of
these for any considerable period of time
means decline, illness, death.
WAS Frances Willard killed by worry?
believed she was killed by overwork.
She over-estimated her powers If endnr-
ance in years gone by, and hell her poor.
tired body TO the front, and at what she
thought the post of duty, by sheer cner-
ev of viii, when II was pie3ding pitiful-
IL for rest and sleep.
''II j.; said .h:t we li7w ourselves 10
b. toImented by "A thou Slnl forms Of fear
We are afraid Of catch'n-s cold, afraid 10
eat this or that. afrlil th1t something
unpleasant will happe.! u us.
But this doesn mean that we shoIld
be wholly regardless OF G cimatic condi-
tions. or of the char ictar of our food or
that we shouldn keep OR eyes about /, :
when we cross crowded street.
while we don't want worry. then. we
do need careful torethought. IFe may
be too cranky in regard to food. We
may think too much about its agreeing or
not agreeing with US. ami every form Of
anxiety is unfavorable to digestion. Eut
this doesn't mean that the necessity for
eating is all in our thought. Nor does 1t
mean that if we only thought SO brick
dust would be as nutritious as bread.
There isn't any sort OF mental or
spiritual chemistry that can change
ground glass into blood and muscle. or
even keep man healthful on 4 shajpw-
soup Diet