The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-19
LET YOUR TROUBLES
COME UNLIMITED
BY Polly Penn.

It has been said that if we once open
the door to trouble, we receive three
visits from it-once in anticipation;
again when it actually comes, and a
third time in living it over again.
While it is true that many Of us wor-
ry unnecessarily over troubles that
never come, it is a great deal more
true that to anticipate trouble is one
of the surest ways of bringing it down
upon our heads.
To forebode evil, and especially to
give expression to the fear, creates an
atmosphere in which evil is most likely
svites disease by breaking down his sys-
condition to receive disease germs.
Whereas, If he had not given a thought
to it, he would have stayed strong and
healthy, and might have remained i'm
pervious to sickness.
It is the wife who frets and worries
lest she may some day lose her hus-
band 8 love, thus making herself unat-
tractive and Intellectual, who is most
| likely to bring that catastrophe about.
| So it is with most of those evils
| which we prophesy. 1'Behold, the thing
which [ feared has come upon me! =
What moral lies in that cry! Not the
thing which I refused to believe in;
not the thing. which cheerily persisted
| cleared THE thing to whose dark
shadow gave room in my heart; the
! thing which [, croaked about, and drew
! down around me by my very thoughts
! SO that it was bound to happen, be-
\ cause I prepared the way for it and BY
my fears gave it the very atmosphere
in which it could flourish.
It is upon this weakness that the
"fortune-teller' plays. She prophe
sizes distant happening, and by he1
very suggestion sets in play line Of
thought and conduct which go far to
ward bringing the foretold event tt
pass. Trifles are interpreted as signi
ficant events having tremendous bear
to point "" that way. And tn,
thing finally comes to pass
not because the prophet foresaw it, bu
as q natural consequence Of tn,
thoughts and actions her auguries sug
gestea. .,s> -.
Apart from the folly Of bearing
trouble twice-in anticipation as wei
as, :reality-this fact of the tremendou
power of. suggestion ought to warn u
against the habit of giving way to ou
fears and evil forebodings. Their
| is no shield SO efectual against evil a
the undaunted front, the Courageous re
| fusal to believe in shadows. Such
disposition, is its own best protecto
against trouble. Evil finds it hard t
get a foothold there. Y :
/ Even tho the shadows should mater
iallze into substance, what is the us
in. bearing trouble twice. Els
The sunshinY heart that refuses t
harbor these satanic little, imps
dread and premonition not onl
spares itself double suffering, but is in
fnitely better able to cope with til
real trouble when it comes. 2.
! AS to dwelling in the memory Q
troubles, once they are past, this ais
is supreme foolishness. :E.T ~
| Surely it is enough to bear troubl
once. Let. us not invite it by anticj
patton, nor .prolong it by remembrance
but having met it cheerfully, battle wit
it as strongly as we can, and then g
on our way; not, indeed, unmindful Q
it's lessons, but resolved that it sha]
cast no. horrid shadow either behind o
before. ~: -.r >