BORROWING TROUBLE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 12, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 37.

BORROWING TROUBLE.

THERE are some persons who seem fated to go through life with a constitutional tendency to despondency. We all know them, and meet them daily. They can always see a cloud when none exists. With most of these persons it is simply a matter of exercising the will. Anxiety about present troubles or prospective difficulties never brought any good to those who indulge in it. The successful ones are those who have been buoyant in spirit, and who resolutely refuse to allow the cares of life to unduly depress them. Instead of allowing the mind to brood over things that can not be helped, it should be set to work upon the duty that lies nearest to it. Worrying about matters does not improve them in the slightest degree; on the contrary, it weakens the purpose, robs the physical nature of its vitality, and totally unfits us to cope with the obstacles that lie in our path. These will come soon enough; they do not want any encouragement, and very often when they do come they are not half so formidable as we imagined they would be. Anticipation in some cases is worse than the reality.—Selected.