"Don't Worry"

NZ Truth, 7 February 1925, Page 6

"Don't Worry"

What Experience Teaches

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If all the time could be reckoned up which people waste m worrying about the thing's that never happen, what a record it would make! A thing that few people realise is that the worst enemy, or one of the worst, that they meet and take along with them m the road of life is Fear. Miserable, shuddering fear. Fear of the Unknown; of to-rriorrov.- of poverty: of illness; of death. It would be difficult to talk about a thousandth i^art of the things that people fear. • Mothers are obsessed with fear for their children— some suffer real -torture because of the horrible shadow of fear that icomes over them if the children are ill, late home, away for a trip, or at ordinary times m thinking of their _ future, and many .a nervous breakdown could truthfully be traced to intangible fear — which never materialised.' The business man feara that his speculations may not turn out right, and the less' m health, he is the mere fear dominates him. . The real state of trie market has less to do with fear than nerves, for a man who is well will "buck up" even if the commercial sky is overcast. Fear is the great enemy- of the world,, arid if it could only be .cast out what a different world it would be. "Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof" is one

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of the good old sensible sayings that should be engraved m golden letters on every heart. Not that people should be careless or improvident — far from it — but when they have worked hard, thought sensibly, and done their best, let them call philosophy to their aid, and have faith that all will be well m time, and that the To-morrows will be than To-day. Fear must have been realised as a great failing and enemy, long ago, for so many of the ancient writers deal with it — and yet the world goes on shadowed always With this unnecessary quality. It is time that some Apostle of Courage arose, and went the round of the world teaching, not exactly courage — there is plenty of that when the bad things do happen — but the strength of mind that will refuse to be dominated by suppositions and imaginings of unlikely occurrences. A new Cove, perhaps, who will teach people to say not "Every day I am better and better," though that is a good, and fine saying, but rather, "Every day I am more sure that all is. well with me and the world " What a wonderful Gospel of Che^r that would ihean, and it could be done, for people are wonderfully receptive to powerful suggestions, be they good or evil.