WORK AND WORRY | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 41.

WORK AND WORRY.

A WRITER in the Christian Union, in speaking of Paris and its people, has the following:—

"The London and the New York laborer works always under protest. This is plainly written in every word and look. When he is not complaining of his hard lot, he is making demands upon one's sympathy by his dolorous appearance. He uses every means to create the impression that he is a miserable and altogether unhappy creature. How different the French laborer or worker of any sort! He is never on evidence in his own behalf, but endeavors in every possible way to disguise the fact that he is hard at work."

Whether this is true or not, there is a lesson in it. The picture drawn of the New York and London laborer is all too true throughout the world. With cheerfulness, double the amount of work can be performed at the same wear of nerve than with gloom and moroseness. It is worry and gloominess and moroseness that break down the nerves and cause unhappiness more than any amount of hard work. It pays to be cheerful, from a purely physical point of view, and it is much more satisfactory. A cheerful heart is an elixir of life to its possessor, and it "doeth good like a medicine" to others.