The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-02-17
WORRY IS A DISEASE.
By Gen. Z. R. Brooks.

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Some people bear three kinds Of
trouble, all they ever had, all they
have now, and all they expect have.
So said Edward Everett Hale. One
who could rid the world Of worry
would render greater service to the
2ace than all Of the inventors and dis
coverers that ever lived. Col George
Johnston pointed out lawyer to me
once and said, That man is splen-
did lawyer but his intellect is clouded
by worry" This monster dogs US
from the cradle to the grave. There
is no occasion so sacred but it is there.
Unbidden it comes to the wedding and
the funeral alike. 1t is at every re-
ception, every banquet; it occupies
seat at every table. A friend pointed
man. out to me the other day and
said, ''I met him on the street no long
er than yesterday and he would not
speak to me-" 1 replied, Perhaps he
was worried" My friend said, 81
bet he was and l shall not think hard
of him." The same friend has troubles
OF his own for he told me some of
them
| No human intellect can estimate the
ucutterable havoc and ruin wrought
by worry. 1t has forced genius to do
rae work by mediocrity. 1t has caused
more failures, moe blasted hopes,
than any other one cause since the
dawn of the world.
My friends, election years bring
! forth candidates in large quantities
and those who cannot throw off worry
show defeat in their faces. A close
observer can point out the losing can
! didates ten days before the election
by the worried expession he carries
with him. What have not men done
under the pressure of worry? They
have plunged into all sorts of vice,
have become drunkards, drug fends,
have sold their very souls in their
efforts to escapt this monster.
In 1896 knew man right here in
Columbia, who would worry about his
granddaughter, little tot just three
years Old. He would look at her and
burst out crying and wonder what
would become Of her and worry HIM
self almost sick about the child's fu-
ture. This gentleman moved to
Charleston and soon died. Think of the
homes which worry has broken up; the
ambitions it has ruined; the hopes
and prospects it has blighted; think
of the suicide victums of this demon.
If thee is any cure for it when one
gets the habit, what is it?-the only
remedy is prayer; if you think 1 am
wrong try it.
Many strong man is tied down
like Gulliver by Lilliputians, bound
hand and foot by the little worries and
vexations he has never learned to
conquer. WHAT would be thought Of
business man who would keep in
his service employees known to have
been robbing him for years, stealing
little here and little there every
day? Yet one may be keeping in his
mental business house, at the very
source of his power, thief infinitely
worse than one who merely steals
money or material things; thief who
robs him of energy, saps mis- vitality,
and bankrupts him of all that makes
life worth while.
An old lady in Arkansas was always
looking for trouble. Her husband
told her one morning after having fed
the stock, "Old woman the COWS have
eaten up the grindstone," and as quick
as thought she replied, 81 told you 80,
YOU know I always said something was
gwine to happen to it and now hits