Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-06-19
..Trouble Machine"

Ii you dIC duilOyC0, OfCi WOIhC0,
and dyspeptic, it is very easy thing
for you to start your old trouble ma
chine agoing. When your body is
over worked, and your brain is over
taxed, it is natural for everything to
look blue. When you get up in the
morning with this nervous depression,
you feel you are nobody and never
will be anybody, nobody loves you or
never will love you, you never did
anything and you don't care whether
youeever will do anything. Unless
you have good dose of religion or
fine self-control, while in this gloomy
state, you are likely to return the
greetings of your wife with a growl
and snarl, and land some of your
children over in the corner of the
room with a back handed lick. But
after you get your breakfast, breathe
some fresh air, take some good exer-
else, and meet some happy faces on
the street, everything seems different
ly to you and you say what fool l
was this morning." There are some
women who keep their old trouble
machines running from morning till
night. They are worrying, fretting
and 'stewing about this and about
that. If they have lun out of real
trouble, they will think up some
Imaginary troubles. When you come
Elm contact with men and women who
put in a good share of their time run
ming their old trouble machines, you
feel like you want to take train and
go to the furthest ends of the earth.
Some people will take their troubles
to bed with them and toss all night
with a feverish brain. Your bed was
made to sleep in, not to run your
trouble machine. When you begin
to feel blue take a good run, get your
soul in communion with nature, read
a humorous book, try to meet some
happy faces, don't worry and fret.
1t is the worst thing for yourself and
those around you. Don't look with
worry into the future. Don't be like
the old maid who was sitting on the
banks Of river crying. Someone
coming along asked her what was the
matter. She said she was thinking
what an awful thing it would be, if
she should get. married and have a
baby and it should fall in the river
and drown.
Try to be master of yourself to-
day; today is your kingdom, not to-
morrow: you are thief if you touch
tomorrow; tomorrow belongs to God;
tomorrow is not yours until God con-
verts it into today. You have enough
to do if you meet today's duties sue
cessfully. If you subordinate your
lower nature to your higher faculties,
if you endure your crosses today with
Joy, if you find the philosophy of con-
tentment in today, you have made
the best preparation for tomorrow.
Every hour and every day is joined
to what comes BEFORE. just like one
bone. articulates into another. Each
tomorrow is a logical consequence of
"a right. today or wrong today as the
. case may be.
. In order to be successful, you must
look into the future and plan. Your
foresight into the future, must be
done with view of better fitting you
.sfor the duties of today. Just like a
pilot will take; his headlands far down
the stream in order to better guide
his keel along the tortuous and twist
ing channel. But never look with
worry into the future, for things you
fret about hardly ever come true.
Extract of a sermon! Sunday morn
ing by Rev. F. P. Jolly at the Presby
terrain church.