The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-07-05
The Sin OF Anxiety.

De not anxious Tor your llle.
Luke xii, %.
The great teacher does not say that
we are not to be thoughtful, or rrovi-
dent, but he insists that no
event can be provided for by anxiety,
by frettiDg over it before it comes.
Half The people on our s.: Gets look as
though life was sorry business. 1t
is hard to find good looking man or
woman. Worry is the cause of their
woebegone appearance. Worry makes
the wrinkles. worry cuts the deep,
down glancing lines on the face, worry
Is the worst disease Of our modern
times.
Care is contagious; it is hard work
being cheerful at funeral, and it is
good deal harder to keep the frown
from your face when you are in the
throng Of the worry-worn ones. Yet
we have no right 10 be dispensers of
gloom; no matter how heavy our loads
may seem to be we have no right to
throw burdens on others nor even
to cast the shadow Of them on other
hearts.
Anxiety is instability. Fret steals
away force. lie who breads tomorrow
trembles today. Worry is weakness.
The successful men may be always
wideawake, but they never worry.
Fret and fear are like L de sand thrown
into life's delicate mechanism; they
cease more than half the friction
they steal half the power.
Cheer is strength. Nothing is SO
well done as that which is done
heartily, aud nothing is so heartily
done as that which is done happily.
Be happy is an injunction not i'm
possible Of fulGllment. Pleasure
may be an accident, but happiness
comes in definite ways. 1t is the
casting out of our foolish fears that
We may have room for g few of our
common joys. 1t is the telling our
worries to wait until We get through
appreciating our blessings. Take a
deep breath, raise Jour chest, lift
your eyes from the ground, look up
and think how many things you have
for which to be grateful, and you will
find smile growing where one may
long have been unknown.
Take tho right kind of thought-for
to take no thought would be sin-but
take the calm, unanxious thought Of
your business, your duties, your diff
culties, your disappointments, aud all
the things that once have cansed yon
fear and you will fnd yourself laugh
ing at must Of them. In some you
will see bu. friends in disguise, and
in others puny foes 3ecSed out ae
giants. But begin to dread them,
brood over them, look at them with
eyes prejudiced with fear, and the
lesst difficulties rise like mountains.
In winter sone people worry them
selves into malaria over the mosqui.
toes they may meet next SIMMER.
Coming events cest their shadows
before; they cast their sunshine, too
If we look at them Alright. As s
strong man rejoices to run race, as 9
young man anticipates with joy the
coming struggle, so does the brave
heart face tomorrow, not only without
fear, but even with gladness.
Mistaken ideas of religion are re,
sponsible for great many of the un.
necessary wrinkles on the human
fsce. Too many have thought il
would be impossible to be happy in two
worlds, and so, having elected happi
ness in the one which they though,
would last longest, they have nc
choice but to be unhappy in this one.
In fact, some seem to suppose tha,
the greater their misery here the
more intense will their bliss be there.
If heaven is to be bought that way
certainly many are paying full for
it.
Burdens we all must bear, but they
need not break us. Sorrow we all
must share, but they need not nm.
make ne. They will not If we have
learned the teachers sccret Of living;
he, the man Of sorrows, was the man
who could bequeath to his friends his
joy. To him life lost its anxiety,
because the chief things Of life were