To Nervous Women

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 30, 1910

AVOID haste and hurry; these are the things that confuse the brain and make clear judgment impossible. The besetting temptation of the nervous woman is to hurry from one duty to another in breathless haste, attempting many tasks, yet achieving none of them with dignity or freedom. When such a temptation arises, call a halt. Remain quiet for a few minutes; summon back your self-possession, and refuse to do, in one hour, work that should be spread over two.

Habituate yourself to the control of the emotions. Nothing makes such havoc of the nervous system, nothing disorganizes the inner life, like anger, fear, worry. These forces must be quelled if the soul is to maintain its supremacy, and peace of the nerves is to be enjoyed; and this is done, not, indeed, by a fiat of the will, but by substituting for these destructive emotions such constructive ones as love, aspiration after some ideal, and faith in God. -- Dr. S. S. McComb, in Harper's Bazar.