Wasted Energy

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 11, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 27.

MENTAL energy is the most precious thing we know anything about. We talk about wonders accomplished by utilizing steam and electricity, and dream of the greater things to be accomplished later, when the tremendous energy wrapped in the high explosives shall have been brought under human control; but after all, the power of the mind which has mastered and harnessed these material forces is greater than all of them together.

It is pathetic that energy capable of accomplishing so much is so frequently wasted. In hurry, in worry, in fretting and apprehension, some of us are using up enough energy to run a big business, or write a magnificent poem, or relieve any amount of suffering. Conserve your energy. Don't exhaust it in imagining troubles that do not exist, or in worrying over those which are real. Don't use in a fit of temper enough energy to make your day's work grandly successful.—Anon.