Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

In order to get the better of worry we must remove the cause of it. As a celebrated physician has said: If your jaundiced and bile-loaded blood floods your retina, making the sky appear green and the faces of your friends a sickly yellow, it is little use assuring yourself that tEe heavens are blue and the faces of your children rosy and fresh To you they are green and livid, and will remain so until the bile is out of your system
 To get the bile out of the system is a first duty in any endeavor to con- Quer worry. Physical causes underlie more mental troubles than we used to suppose. If the human machine is out of order, if the cylinders are charged with carbon, if the motor is skipping and the brakes refuse to hold, the chauffeur is bound to have hard time. Harmonious and easy working of all the related parts must be re- stored. There must be liberal use of such remedies as fresh air. wholesome exercise, cold water and proper food The machine may have been over driven. One may have to put better oil in. the crank case and less mileage on the speedom5ter.
 It has often been noted that our worst worries clutch US at night when we are most jaded and when physical resistance is at it's lowest. The light of the morning sun dispels many a bugaboo that danced around the bed- post ifi the dark hours. Weeping may endure for the night, but joy cometh in the morning." It is because we are re- freshed and invfgorated in the morn ing and our spirits within us share the new courage and new life. Here is sug- gestion, at least, for those who have been burning the candle at both ends.
 Worry is, in the main, however, mental rather than physical disorder and our main battlefield must be in the mind. Hectic and disordered thinking must be displaced by that which is cheerful and wholesome. The princi- pie that worry is waste" must be suggested to ourselves so often that we finally believe and act on it. We gradually learn to eject fears. calm our apprehensions and take ourselves less seriously. Any motto repeated often enough will finally work itself into the texture of the mind and be- come basis of action. There are few more useful mottoes than one that suggests to us the fact that through worry we are spending on any action from three to five times the amount of mental energy necessary to perform it. All of the superluous energy rep resents the worst of waste.
 The late Booker T. Washington, in his book, Up from Slavery" made a sensible comment on his own experi- ence that should point the way for thousands of us: T think I am learn ing more and more, each year, that all worry consumes, and to no purpose. just so much physical and mental strength that otherwise might be given to effective work The same discov- cry may be made by any of us who test the matter out as simple matter of physiological bookkeeping.
 Physical health and the cultivation of mental poise make fine defenses against worry, but the invader may be elected most effectually in tke long run, through religious faith. That this Is Gods world and that men are the objects of His care, that no spar row falls unnotieed to the ground, that the very hairs of our heads are numbered, that God is love5-herein is the ultimate and sovereign cure for care.
 THE PARSoN.