The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-29
DON'T WORRY
 DON'T HURRY

She was troubled: indeed. more than troubled: she was worried. Things had gone wrong. What should she do? Casting her eyes to the dregsing-case before her, she saw the woros: Don't worry The end shall appear"
 She then paused long enough to read the whole verse:
 Why shadow the beauty of sea or of
 With a doubt or fear? God holds all the swift rolling worlds in His hand,
 And sees what no man can as yet under That out of life here
 Comes forth into light from Eternity r,. planned plan, u.os onssr ihe sou' 96 nagr'f g9pd wcrfs enesr The end shall appear.
 How true that isl" she sighed, ;,ss as she d1 ready. I wonder if the author of the verse ever worried, or how she came to write 1t. would really like to know reception that day she was Introduced to the author. Here was her oppor- tunity to ask the question of the morn Ing, concerning the Don't Worry Fol, lowing her Impulse, she was answered to her evident satisfaction. As a re- suit. she begged that the larger audi. ence of the public might learn wna. she had learned; for through repeated thousands of leaflets privately printed. the lines had become public property. So, urged by her, as well as by the re- quest of others. and by the thought that | when God speaks through a human soul that soul is more or less bound to the human race, I am telling here how came to write Don't Worry; Any little diffidence in doing such Is light ened by the fact that the verse in the future may not suffer. as other verses have suffered, from mistaken or un- For years, the thought behind the form had dominated my life; so much so. that had been enabled to live more or less above the worry-clouds. The lated until after one of my visits to Kate Sanborn's Breezy Meadows farm in Metcalf. Massachusetts. Doubtless tsrs on % white % pIacard which meets the eye in her hospitable home influenced to the result, for at the close Of the visit. while sitting on the piazza wait station. the the 'as thought '' took oke form. I wrote 1t out hurrledly. put 1t in my pocket, and on the steam-cars to Bos- ton: ton: 1t became my own as If ,sSI some toSas Sns whether any one of the many thousands who have read the verse has ever re- peated 1t more than I or has received to ourselves, or to another. Don't Worry, without much effect; but if we stop long enough to repeat ten lines on the subject, the blood changes it's piexion. We are not just the same. Many instances I could relate to H. lustrate this. One recall on coming mon home from the White Mountains SoIa a,at at were making themselves very uncom. fortable over the trains delay. If they did not reach a Junction in time to connect with scheduled train. they evening. They paced the floor of the car in a restless manner. They were free with their criticisms. At last. the car, turned to them and said. as handed a leaflet, Don't Worry to each, That has helped me; perhaps 1t will S to Comfort them "a as it had ne me; itS for they they would not have guessed by my manner that the delay was as materially affect ing my plans as it was theirs. Seating last the perfect silence was broken by the words: True, indeed! How fool ish to worry. We can't help It." and m%edatsiy h without apparent soT reconciled to the delay. Some time elapsed. Finally the information was given that the lost time would be made up and the junction-train met. Doubt, less the young ladies enjoyed their party in the evening". But, as they confessed at parting, they had learned Many another personal experience could be told connected with the little verse. One particularly comes to mind in con- nection with the Spanish-Cuban war. employ was receiving a call from one of the returned soldiers. Happening to hear my name mentioned, the soldier. with much surprise. took up his cap, and, showing her the inside, exclaimed, Why, that is the name there. She is the one who wrote that Don't Worry which I cut out of Boston paper, a comfort ali through the war. wish I could meet her and thank her" A meeting was arranged. and many an incident of the war was learned: That other soldiers and sailors found com fort through the many copies that Mary A. Livermore. Helen Gould and others tucked into patamas, stockings, letters, many a suffering, waiting one in the hospitals has been comforted has been another cause for gratitude. It has also been joy to see that not only the but that the working, gifted souls have been blessed. One of our most famous poets recently wrote me that she had the verse pinned on her dressing table
 
 up the days problems. Knowing the dangers of the sensitive nature, when giving itself to worry, she guarded every avenue with the best help she could find, One of the finest compli ments I ever received was, when first meeting the inimitable Harriet Hosmer she said, with all her loving .enthusi- asm: Y must take by the hand the one who wrote God holds all the swift rolling worlds In His hand"
 Don't Worry and Don't Hurry" ex- claimed a successful business man one day. These are, my helps" The last words particularly fingered, and as a result, when resting not long after in beautiful Intervale, in sight of the calm. abiding mountain peaks. that thought formulated Itself into a Don't Hurry.
 Don't Hurry.
 Why shadow the calm of the progress
 of Time,
 With the hurry allure7
 The march of the ages of action
 sublime.
 Though hindered by disease, the ache,
 and the climb.
 Is steady and sure.
 With It's watchword, Endure. And ,le heart of the world Is attuned
 to the rhyme,
 That the angels assure.
 Don't Hurry
 In His calm lies the cure
 Elizabeth Porter Gould.
 Boston, Mass.
 
 For the Benefit of the State. Columbia Record.
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