The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-05-19
Syndicating Our Sorrows.


Syndicating Our Sorrows.
The most selfish man in the world
is the one Who is most unselfish, -
with his sorrows. He does not leave
a single misery of his untold to you,
or unsutfered by yOu,-he gives you
all of them. The world becomes to
him a syndicate formed to take
stock in his private cares, worries
and trials. His mistake is in form
ing syndicate; he should organize
a trust and control it all himself,
then he could keep every one from
getting any of his misery.
Life is great, serious problem
for the individual. All our greatest
Joys and our deepest sorrows come
to us,-alone. We must go into our
Gethsemane,-alone. We must bat
tie against the mighty weakness
within us,-alone. We must live
our own life,-alone. We must die,
alone. We must accept the full
responsibility of our life,-alone. If
each one of us has this mighty
problem of life to solve for himself,
if each Of us has'his own cares, re-
sponsibiities, failures, doubts, fears,
bereavements, we surely are play
ing towards part when We syndi-
cate our sorrows to others.
We should seek TO make life
brighter for others; we should seek
to hearten them in their trials by
the example of our courage Is bear
ing our sorrows. We should seek to
forget our failures, and remember
only the new wisdom they gave us;
we should live down our grIefs by
counting the joys and privileges
still left to US; put behind us our
worries and regrets, and face each
new day of life as bravely as we can
But we have no right to retail Oul
sorrow and unhappiness through the
community.
The business man who lets his
dyspepsia get into his disposition
and who makes every one round
him suffer because he himself is i'll
is syndicating ill-health. We have
no right to make others the victims
of our moods. If illness makes u,
cross and irritable, makes US unjus
TO faithful workers who cannot pro
test, let US quarantine ourselves sc
that we do not spread the cOntagion
Let us force ourselves to speak slow
ly, to keep anger away from the
eyes, to prevent temper showing il
the voice. If we feel that We mas
have dyspepsia, let US keep it out o
our head, let us keep it from getting
north of the neck.
Most people svmpathize too mucl
with themselves. They take them
selves as single sentence isolated
from the great text of life. The.
study themselves too much as sepa
rated from the rest of humanity
Instead of being vitality connected
with their fellOw.men. There ar
some people who surrender to sorroN
as others give way to dissipation
There is vain pride of sorrow a
we'll as of beauty. Most individual
have a strange glow of vanity i
looking back upon their past an
feeling that few others in life hav
suffered such trails, hardships an
disappointments as have come
them.
II life has not gone we'll with u
if fortune has left us disc0nsolate,
love has grown cold, and we 5
alone by the ember-; if life has bt
come to us valley of desolatiol
through which weary limbs mus
drag an unwilling body till the on
shall come,-let us not radiate sue
an atmosphere to those round us
let us not take strangers through tt
catacombs of our life, and show ii
bones of our dead past; let US NJ
pass our cup of sorrow to others. bu
if we must drink it, let us it take
Socrates did his poison hemlock,
grandly, heroically and uncomplail
ingly.
If your life has led you to dou
the existence of honor in man al
virtue in woman; if you feel tn
religion is pTetense, that spIritua
ity is sham, that life is fallur
aud death the entrance to nothing
ness; if YOU have absorbed all Il
poison philosophy of the world
pessimists, and committed the fol
Of believing it,-don't syndicate
If your fellowmau is clinging
one frail spar, the last remna
of a noble, shipwrecEat faith in G.,
and humanity, let him keep it.
not loosen his fingers from his hop
and tell him il il delusioU. He
do you know? Who told you
was sO2
III these high-tide moments Of Ii
sweep your faith in Omnipoten
into nothingness. 10 the friend
whom you have put all faith in h
uauity and humauity's God betri
YOU. do not eagerly accept the teac
iugs OF those modern freethiukC
who syndicate their Iutidelity at
much per reserved seat. Seek tot
cover Your lost faith by listening
the million voices tina; speak OF
finite wisdom, Infinite love, Oh
u.auifests themselves IL nature a