CALMNESS OF MIND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 88, 21 April 1913, Page 3

CALMNESS OF MIND.

First in health, as in every other phase of life, stands the mind. A mind cluttered with evil, envy, worry, fear, complaint, irritation, anger, is no competent superintendent of the body, any more than a school teachey with the same feelings would be fitted to train gentle, well-behaved, selfcontrolled children. The mind, then, must bo kept clean and sweet and calm. To be obeyed, it must give its orders clearly and without confusion. ' Few of us will rise to object that we could not be pure and amiable in thought, but a great majority will promptly cry: “But I cannot help worrying, because I have' so much to worry about!’ Worry is part 1 of the lost motion of the world: it never accomplished anything. No sane man or woman will sit and turn the crank of a churn, hour, in and hour out, knowing the churn to bo eippty and the action futile.'’ Yet|wpiwho worry do practically this, .ji ll —......:: { 4 ! **\ i; i 4 ' I . r } ■ : * '*t- ': *