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Title: Quit Your Worrying!

Author: George Wharton James

Release Date: July 4, 2004 [EBook #12813]

Language: English

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QUIT YOUR WORRYING!

BY

GEORGE WHARTON JAMES

AUTHOR OF

"Living the Radiant Life," "What the White Race may learn from
the Indian," "The story of Scraggles," "California, Romantic and
Beautiful," "Our American Wonderlands," etc. etc.

PASADENA, CALIF.

1916

TO THOSE

who are standing on the banks of worry before the ocean of God's love
I cry aloud

"COME ON IN--THE WATER'S FINE!"

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

I THE CURSE OF WORRY
II OURS IS THE AGE OF WORRY
III NERVOUS PROSTRATION AND WORRY
IV HOLY WRIT, THE SAGES AND WORRY
V THE NEEDLESSNESS AND USELESSNESS OF WORRY
VI THE SELFISHNESS OF WORRY
VII CAUSES OF WORRY
VIII PROTEAN FORMS OF WORRY
IX HEALTH WORRIES
X THE WORRIES OF PARENTS
XI MARITAL WORRIES
XII THE WORRY OF THE SQUIRREL CAGE
XIII RELIGIOUS WORRIES AND WORRIERS
XIV AMBITION AND WORRY
XV ENVY AND WORRY
XVI DISCONTENT AND WORRY
XVII COWARDICE AND WORRY
XVIII WORRY ABOUT MANNERS AND SPEECH
XIX THE WORRIES OF JEALOUSY
XX THE WORRIES OF SUSPICION
XXI THE WORRIES OF IMPATIENCE
XXII THE WORRIES OF ANTICIPATION
XXIII HOW OUR WORRY AFFECTS OTHERS
XXIV WORRY VERSUS INDIFFERENCE
XXV WORRIES AND HOBBIES

JUST BE GLAD

BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

_O heart of mine, we shouldn't worry so,
What we have missed of calm we couldn't have, you know!_

_What we've met of stormy pain,
And of sorrow's driving rain,
We can better meet again,
If it blow._

_We have erred in that dark hour, we have known,
When the tear fell with the shower, all alone._

_Were not shine and shower blent
As the gracious Master meant?
Let us temper our content
With His own._

_For we know not every morrow
Can be sad;
So forgetting all the sorrow
We have