Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-25
REALLY Do LOSE
NERVE SUFFERING
A MENTAL STRAIN
Chemistry Proves There is breaking
Down OF Tissue aS a Result of
Worry and Fear.
TOLD BY DIR. kREBS IN LECTURE
One OF Many Interesting Statements
Made at Opening Session Of the
Chautauqua-


did YOU know that people do actual
~ lose their nerve" not mentally
merely. but physically ALSO
Well. it's a fact. and one demon
strated by science. Who said so? Why.
DIT. Stanley /. krebs, psychologists
par excellence. and then some 1t was
one az the many interesting statements
he made at the opening program o.
the Rock Island chautauQua at the
Watch Tower yesterday afternoon DT
Krebs not only made the foregoing
statement. but he told how anyone can
make an experiment 10 prove il. Wash
the perS pirtiUn from the body Of a per
son suffering worry or other mental
torture and then drop nitric acid i'm
the water \ cloudy precipitate Will
form caused by the action Of the acid
on the phosphorus that the perspira
tiOu contains Try the same expert
mcur with the sweat of toll or exer-
else and there viii be no cloud in the
water because there is no phosphorus
in the perspiration. The phosphorus
in the one case comes from broken
down nerve tissue. Nerves are made
largely of phosphorus. In the other
case the sweat carries off broken down
muscular tissue and contains nitrogen.
but not phosphorus.
And so worry causes loss of nerves
"a breaking down Of the whole ner-
vous system and paves the way for
most OF the suffering to which flesh IS
prone The Psychology Of Fear and
Worry" was the subject of DR.. krebs
lecture in the afternoon.
Opened With Concert
The lecture was preceded by an
hours concert by the Royal Hawaiian
singers. six in number. who. dressed
in native costume gave a program
composed largely of native music, VOC
al and instrumental 1t was a thor
oughly enjoyable entertainment, and
each number was enc0red.
Dr.. Krebs likened fear and worry as
the twin snakes which have invaded
our Garden OF Eden. Man IS intended
for happiness. he said, and if he Is
not happy he is not normal and there
is a definite and ascertainabie cause
for il. In other words. it is his own
fault if he suffers from either worry
or fear. Happiness does not result
from physical environment but from
state OF mind. This was proven anew
by the speaker in many ways There
is a difference between fear and ter
IOr- Terror is caused by nervous re
heXes and IS often beyond control OF
him who experiences it. Fear Of God
is not of the sort which man should
seek TO avoid. for il breeds love ana
reverence But fear of man. OF the
future. OF the consequences Of our own
aCts-laCk of moral courage is mex
cusable. Worry. if not controlled,
leads inevitably to one of three things,
a nervous breakdown, insanity or sui
eide.
Four Leading CanSpS.
There are four classes of causes Of
worry. One is physical being caused
BIZ i'll health; another is ethical spring
ing from the conscience and being
caused by guilt or neglect of duty;
another is mental. springing from ig-
norance or mystery, and the other is
spiritual. being caused by a loss Of
faith in God. The speaker went into
all these classes at some length.
Discussing physical causes the
speaker showed no sympathy with
those who contend that mind is every
thing and that matter does not exist.
Every person, he contended. has a sec
ondary body OF ether This had been
proven. he said, in countless instances.
The mind can never manifest itself eX-
cept through matter and thefOre it viii
always have a body We might as
well get used 10 our bodies. DR.. krebs
declared. because We Will always nave
them 4 body Of ether does not con
form TO the laws Of matter as most Of
us know these laws. but it is Of matter
Just the same The speaker expressed
the belief that if the physical body is
uucieau or defoTmed the ether body
will have similar defects. Not an atom
Of matter ever was destroyed or ever
will be Its form may be changed SO
that no present faculty of man will re-
veal its presence to him, but il viii be
matter just the same.
Failure rot Defeat.
Failure IS not defeat. Do not be
afraid to fail. Jesus failed many
times For instance, He was unable TO
convert the Hebrews, but that does not
mean that the things He had set out to
do were accomplished that His mis-
sion on earth had been fulfilled. The
teachings Of Jesus were perfect and
the man who does not agree with them
is insane TO just that extent. The
things he said are not true because he
said them. but he said them because
they are true.
Fear attracts the thing we fear. DIT.
Erebs illustrated the point in several
ways. For instance, he told Of cases
in which persons he knew had failed
in conscious effort because they feared
they could not succeed and then sue