El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-14
Learn To Be Moderate
Ii Is Not Wise to Become n Human
Iceberg or a Consuming
Flame OF sympathy.
BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox

IN THESE days Of cheerful religion
taught by metaphysical schools. II
4 is well to learn the happy secret OF
keeping a mental balance between
stoicism and Indifference and hysteria
and nerves It is wise to know how to
carry your troubles optimistically and
to avoid burdening your friends with
them.
1t is wise to know how to keep your
friends from talking continually OF
their sorrows and worries and anXieties.
and thus Increasing them
But it is not wise to become a human
iceberg. a stone or chunk Of putty.
utterly devoid Of sympathy or feeling.
I have known several people whose
natures changed from loving, helpful
warmth and tenderness to cold. stOlid
Indifference through metaphysical
studies
These people belonged to no one sect
or school j have found them among
the New Thought. the Mental Sci
enlist" the Christian Scientist" the
heOsOphist.' the Divine Being" and
the nO-nanne schools Of the metaphys-
zeal students SO it is not the fault OF
the creed, but Of the individual
1t is an unfortunate thing for the
Individual the creed and for the world
however, when such result follows
the study Of spiritual and mental laws.
Great Power in Perfect Balance.
1t gives great power to attain the
perfect balance; it is a loss of power
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hysteria-
have seen a woman who was so
full Of pity for her kind that she Wept
at the sight OF a tired, old day labOrer
on the street change so utterly after
becoming a Scientist" that she stared
like a wooden image, silently and dumb
y. when her best friend complained OF
feeling i'll
And I confess that the woman's old
condition, unbalanced nerves and ex-
travagant feeling seemed preferable TO
her later spiritual development"
The true religion lies in being al
ways sympathetic, and entering into
the state OF mind Of the unaWaxened
and the undevelOped, and then know
ing how to rouse, cheer. divert and
strengthen
1t is not lessening your spiritual
dignity to say to your friend who tells
you she is physically i'll 'Or mentally
sad, Well. tell me all about tit viii
do you good to talk 1t over with a
friend; then we viii see Of there is not
2 law by which you can be made to
feel better
Nor is it a weakness. If in the hour
of your own trial, when you are "brac-
ing up" and endeavOring to prove to
the world that all is good, all is cheer.
all is health. JOY and success" that you
let down the tense nerves and cry il
out"
Jesus wept at least once Why
should not we once in a While7 On the
cross Jesus showed suffering and even
QouDL OF Nu0u remembrance " men IL
said: Ny God. why has thou fOrsaken
meT
If such moments come to Us or to
our friends, let US not believe we or
they are utterly lost to hope. or that
they need cold reprOOfs OF stOlid indif-
ference from US
Jesus was in His last incarnation.
yet the human man suffered and doubt
ed temporarily
We are far behind Him in our de-
velopment, and it is to be cOndOned II
we have our moments OF pain and de-
preston. Let US be sympathetic with
one another first of ALI Then helpful,
encouraging, Strengthening
But remember, sympathy is the very
keynote to the great harmony which
the morning stars sing together in the
eternal spheres
without it all is acknowledgement
1913. by the New York Evening Journal
Publishing Co.