themselves? But we folk who have _Jesus_ should have smoothly rounded
faces, the lines all filled up and ironed out. It reproaches Jesus before
folks for us to be as they are in this regard.

Out of the midst of a great pressure of work, with a body tired out, Dr.
Charles F. Deems, the busy pastor of The Church of The Strangers in New
York City, wrote these lines years ago:

"The world is wide,
In time and tide,
And God is quick;
Then _do not hurry_.

"That man is blest,
Who _does his best_,
And _leaves_ the rest;
Then _do not worry_."

A man should do his _best_. There should be no _shirking_. Yet I need
hardly say that here, because shirking people, lazy people do not worry.
They haven't enough snap about them to worry. But it steadies one to put
the thing just as Dr. Deems put it. "_Do your best, and_, then _leave_ all
the rest to God." And when sleep time comes, sleep.

Anxious for Nothing.

Likely as not some one will say, "We knew all that before. But how are we
going to quit worrying? That's what we need to be told." Well, I can tell
you. Sometimes a man speaks cautiously, but here one can speak with great
positiveness. There are three simple rules how not to worry. They are
infallible. I heard of a society whose purpose it was to cure worry. There
were _thirty-seven_ rules, I think. It would worry some of us a good bit
to memorize any such length of instruction as that. The remedy seems to be
on a high shelf. And in standing up on a chair and reaching there is some
danger that the chair may tip over and the last state not be an
improvement on the first.

But here are three very simple rules, easy to follow, and they will never
fail. They are not my rules, that is, not of my making, or I might not be
speaking so positively. They are given by the blessed Holy Spirit, through
our dear old friend Paul. In Philippians, chapter four, verses six and
seven, are the words that contain the rules: "In nothing be anxious; but
in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your
requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all
understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus."

The first rule is this, _anxious for nothing._ In other words, _don't_
worry. Deliberately refuse to think about annoying things. Set yourself
against being disturbed by disturbing things. Say to yourself, it is
useless, it has bad