The Advocate and news., 1899-02-01

voice Of this irritating memory or fear,
looms up so loud as to deaden outside
voices, there is danger to the indiVid-
ual. When all day, every hour, every
moment, there is the dull, insistent
numb pain Of something that makes IT.
self felt through above and below all
our other thinking, we must know that
we are worrying. Then there is but one
thing to dove must stop that worry;
we must kill it.
The wise men Of this wondrous CEN
tury have made great discoveries in their
interviews with nature. They have dis
covered that everything that has been
created has it's uses. They will teach
you not to assassinate flies with paper
coated with sweetened glue, for "the
| flies are natures scaVengers." They will
tell you just what are the special du-
ties and responsibilities Of each Of the
microscopic microbes with telescope
names. In their widest moods Of sci
entifc enthusiasm they may venture to
persuade you into believing that even
the mosquito serves some real purpose
in nature, but no man that has ever
| lived can say a good word about worry.
Worry is forethought gone to seed.
Worry is discounting possible future sOr-
rows so that the individual may have
present misery. Worry is the father of
insomnia. Worry is the traitor in our
camp that dampens our powder, weak
ems our aim. Under the guise of help
ing us to bear the present, and to be
ready for the future, worry multiplies
enemies within our own mind to sap
our strength.
Worry is the dominance of the mind
by single vague, restless, unsatisfied,
fearing and fearful idea. The mental en-
ergy and force that should be concen-
trated on the successive duties Of the day
is constantly and surreptitiously abb
stracted and absorbed by this one fixed
idea The full, rich strength Of the un-
conscious working of the mind, that
which produces our best success, that
represents our finest activity, is tapped,
led away and wasted on worry.
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Worry must not be confused with anx-
iety, though both words agree in mean
ing, originally, Choking" or "stran-
Cling" referring, of course, to the throt-
tling effect upon individual activity
Anxiety faces large issues Of life Sc
riously, calmly, with dignity Anxiety
always suggests hopeful possibility; 1t
is active in being ready, and devising
measures to meet the outcome. Worry
is not one large individual sorrow; it is
a colony Of petty, vague insignificant,
restless imps Of fear, that become inn
portant only from their combination,
their constancy their iteration.
When death comes, when the one we
love has passed away from us, and the
silence and the loneliness and the emp
tiness of all things make us stare dry
eyed into the future, we give ourselves
up, for time, to the agony OF isolation.
This is not petty worry that we must
kill ere it kills us. This Is the awful
majesty of sorrow that mercifully be-
numbs us, though 1t may later become,
in the mysterious working Of omnipo-
tence, a re-baptism and a regeneration.
1t is the worry habit, the magnifying Of
petty sorrows to eclipse the sun OF hap
piness, against which l here make pro-
test
To cure worry, the individual must
be his own physician; he must give the
case heroic treatment. lie must realize,
with every fibre of his being, the utter,
absolute uselessness of worry. He must
not think this is commonplace bit
of mere theory; it is reality that he
must translate for himself from mere
words to a real, living fact He must
understand that if he spend whole
series OF eternities in worry, it would
not change the fact one iot or title. II
is a time for action, not worry,
because worry paralyzes thought and
action. too. II you set down
column of figures In addition, no
amount of WORRY can change the sum