Cease from anger, and forsake wrath : PSALM XXXvii. 8. All thoughts of ill; all evil deeds, The action of the nobler will; - H. W. LONGFELLOW "MA AY not the elimination of anger and worry take away some of the stimulation to effort that is necessary to human progress ?” "Assuredly not. The absence of anger and worry is an evidence of strength and not of weakness. So-called righteous anger is a weakness in the presence of judicial calm. Without anger and worry one is stronger to ward off a blow, administer a correction, or protect a principle. The emancipated mind is as eager for effort as a child is for play. Freed from anger and worry one can shovel more dirt, plough more furrows, perform every duty better, and with less fatigue, than if under their influence." HORACE FLETCHER For fear is nothing else but a surrender of the succors which reason offereth. WISDOM OF SOLOMON xvii. 12. There is no storm but this Of your own cowardice That braves you out; You are the storm that mocks Besides this fear of danger there's no danger here, MANCIPATION, or, a perfectly de-angered and de-worryized mind, can only be secured through conviction of its possibility, and not simply through an intellectual admission of its possibility. Faith is the pre-requisite of every successful accomplishment in life. Knowledge and the appreciation of the power of the mind over phantoms of its own creation, and confidence to expel them, is as necessary in menticulture as is the confidence of the gymnast in performing wonderful feats of menti-physical skill. The condition required for growth to Emancipation, is that of perfect faith and confidence, born of knowledge of the power God has given us to "cast out evil," and in that condition, Emancipation, when attained, can be anchored safely, protected from any of the battling and surging elements of discord from without. HORACE FLETCHER God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.— PAUL. (2 TIMOTHY i. 7.) When shall I see the welcome hour WESLEY PROFESSOR ANGELO MOSSO, the emi nent physiologist of Turin, Italy, who has experimented with the condition and results of fear, states that, unconsciously or consciously, the effect of fear is found to be disarrangement, which allows or causes inflammation, fever and other unhealthy conditions that are favorable to the nesting of the microbes of special diseases, such as are sometimes found in the air or in the water that we take in, and which are ever waiting for a chance to nest and breed. An eminent English physician has also communicated to a leading English magazine a belief that fear directly attacks the individual molecules of the body and causes a disarrangement, a relaxation, a letting-go condition of the molecules in their relation to adjoining molecules, and that the relaxed condition is that in which disease originates. He states that there are means of communication within the body that are as direct and distinct as are the wires that convey the electric fluid from point to point, and that they connect the brain or nervous centres with each pair of molecules. By these means the sense of fear travels, weak or strong, in response to every pulse of its activity. HORACE FLETCHER Faith, hope and love are purifiers of the blood. They have a peptic quality. They open and enlarge all the channels of bodily vitality. As was learned long ago, "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." And the self-control which keeps reason on the throne and makes passion serve is the best of all domestic physicians. CHARLES G. AMES Come O friend, never strike sail to a fear! into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.... He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. EMERSON A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. It is in the cracks, crannies and gulfy faults of our belief — the gaps that are not faith that the snow of apprehension settles, and the ice of unkindness forms. GEORGE MACDONALD Week Ninth THE ELYSIUM OF HIGH THINKING Prelude THE SOUL The soul does its own life to Nature give, E'en as the sun, by gazing on a cloud, Fills each dark fold with showers of golden light; So, when the storms of life are beating loud, May one true thought make all around it bright. |