HOW TO BEAR TROUBLE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2155, 1 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOW TO BEAR TROUBLE.

A philosopher advises crery man who has a heavy load of sorrow or misfortune to carry, to devote an hour every day to the study of some language or art which in happier daya would be agreeable to him, forcing himself to do this until he takes an actual interest in the occupation. The physician who wai most succossful in his treatment ot the insane in France, always enquired, when a patient afflicted with itielanc.holv m.tnid was brought to him, whether the per-on hud, when in health, any special Uste, suoh as love of dogft, birds, gatdctiing or fishing, ot' a passion for any kind of jrarne. If this wasthecas\ ohjects that would bilggest the favourite pursuits where brought before him. " When I get a patient to making flies, planting seed or quarrelling -over chess, the victory is won," he said. In all the<e remedies for the grief the motive in not to lessen the borrow, but to turn the brain from incessant brooding upon one subject. Wo must remember that our mind is affected in sorrow through the brain, which is a physical organ an mnch as the stomaoh, and in equally »übjeot to physical laws. Our first . duty, when a great grief overtakes n-«, is submUsion to God. But even the highest spiritual exaltation does not hinder damage to the material braiu by the engorgement of the blood vessels, produced by incessant dwjllwg upon a single theme. Every day we read of suicides of young people who are overwhelmed with their great misfortune in life, a disappointment in love or a failure at college. A manly struggle for submission, and after that come practical effort, suoh as those whioh we have cited, would keep them from the coward's exit from life.