TO WOBBY THEY SAY "SHOO!"
And so tha Don t Worry Clrclos Aro
Q?ttla| Happy.
Kva Petty In New York Sun.
Tbera is on# thing that aomaa to
ory human, baing juat aa aura'y as
daath; that ia worry. Tha average person
looka upou death hs a n*ces?ary
aril, except wban somebody else dote
tha dying; ha viaws worry muoh in tha
same light, never stopping to think
that worry ia a master of his own
flhnnilllff Than an Inf ?? ? I - J ?
? > V mm i ww Vi |;UU|lia 1U
this eity -who are fighting worry with
all their mental, moral, end spiritual
strength, and they hope io lime to
drive it off the faoe of the earth Thev
are she members of the various Don't
Worry Cirolee, aod their ranks are fill,
tug up every day with new recruits.
There are already seven circles in work
iug order aud others will be organized
within a month.
The idea grew out of a little book en
titled '"Don't Worry; or Spiritual
Fmaneipation the Scieutlfio Law of
Happiness " Theodore F. Seward of
Brooklyn is the author, and it is salt1
that he evolved his theories from pe'sonal
experience, for he is a great n*n
to worry about things that never tappen.
Mr. Seward is an active member
of one of the circles aod takes a live
interest la all. The first oirele was organised
on Nov. 8 at the borne of Miss
Andrews, who is greatly interested in
mental seienee. A fe*r days later Don't
worry (Jlrole No. 3 vai formed by Dr.
John Hamlin Dewey, conductor of the
School of the Higher L'fe, at hie heme,
117 West Bighty-foarth street. This
circle takes the piaoe of a mid-week
meeting with Unity Congregation, of
which the Rev. Hugh O. Pentecost is
pastor. The third eirolc was organized
at Judge Cowiag's house and now meets
in St. James Episcopal Church in Madison
avenue. There is also a eircle In
eonnectlon with the Metropolitan Independent
Church, of which the Rev
'Henry Frank is pastor, aud one called
the Circle of Divine Ministry at G7 Ireing
place.
Don't Worry Cirole No. 3 is one of
the most prosperous and is a fair type
of all the others. The R*v. Hugh O.
Penteeost eonJucts the meetings.
When asked to tell about the workings,
aims, and success of the eircle he
said:
'-Don't Worry Circle No t is a very
thriving one. > As soon as it was estab
J It bed by Dr. Dewey, Unity Congregation,
which hold* lta ohuroh terrlces in
Carnegie Music Hall, adopted its ex-erci-es
ae ita mid-week meeting, Instead
of a regulation prayer or praiae
meeting. We already had the Don't
Worry InUnity Congregation, for in one
of our congregational prayers we exprera
a desire to be free fioin anger,
worry and fear, and a ocsire for ability
to rid ourselyes of a mind which sses
only the dark aide of life. Already in
our eirole we hare a membership of
about 100, and it is increasing at the
rate of fire or six weekly. As we bold
our meetings in priest* houses, we bare
about as many as we can manage in
this clrc's; so other circles will be
formed to accommodate the new cemera
"There Is no real organization in any
of the Don't Worry oircles. We sleeted
by common conseut a Treasurer and
Secretary. There ie no regular President,
thongh someone takes the lead
just to start things off. We take up a
eollestiou to pay for sending out notices
of mattings, and so on. All our <
Hustings bare been and will continue
to be eery informal. 1 see to it that
Houie one opens each meeting with a
talk or paper on some subject relating
m in? cion c worry nea. 10 KIT* an
idea of th* trend th*a* talk* I'd lik* to
*ay that H. L. Wilaon, aditor of Pu*k,
r*td a vary excellent pap*r on 'How
Not to Worry.' H* waa th* vary man
to haodle that aubjeat, for I n*v*r
ku*w a prraon who liv*a in ?uch abao)ot*
mental p*a?* as h* do**. Th*
R*t. J. M Scott, a Unitarian inlniater,
talked to ua at on* meeting about th*
th* 'Don't Worry Id*a aa Tanght by
Buddha.' I talked about the 'Don't
Worry Dootrin* aa Taught by Sooratea.'
At another meeting Dr. D*w*y
uiad* a really remarkable diaooura* on
'LJnfeiling Health and Perp?tual Youth'
aad at our laat meeting lire. A. D. Stard*vant
read a paper prepared by Dr.
Deneinore, who ie In Earop*, oo, Pow
er Through Repose.' C. V. Patterson,
one of th? editor* of the magazin*
Mind, also (rave ua a fin* talk.
"After the introductory talk or paper
everything is opto. You aek if any of
the members has recrived auy real
benefit from the meeting*? Some say
that when they joined the ciroie the
worry habit was so much a part of
them that they were miserable and
that they have been greatly benefitted
by the meetings. Tbeie Dont Worry
circles are absolutely free from bigotry.
The atheist is just as welcome as the
old lady who saddle* off all of her worries
on her Saviour.
' Oar object is to enable people of all
sorts, conditions, and beliefs to apprehend
how to be relieved from worry,
L
fear, and anger. The atmosphere of
the elrelM is out of ohter and health
ud uo one can fail to be benefitted #'
o*pt a hopeless pessimist. It is a
belpful plaoe to go, and anybody *\?
wants to sbake off tbe worry h*'1
made welcome. We try to get^ ?'
all pretence iu oar meetings, a** Q'K*
people not to say that tbey do 1 worry
if tbey do. E/ery meeting *
fereut turn There is *??>lutely no
cont'd exereised over ! direction; it
runs its own way. Or t',u* it takes
an abstract qu^nioo, another time
t^is whole stiqIuk ' demoted to personal
experiences.
"At a recent m'*'11** ? m*u appeared
who nad never there before. He
was a man w' along in years aod he
got uo and *id he had beard of the
Don't Wor/ ci-cles and thought he d
oeine to f? if l,n could hud a way to
ke?p fri?n worrying. He went on to
tell th* he owned city real estate valued
a'^^00,000 and that he worried all
the ttne for tear tuat he should lose it.
I'd like $100,000 mighty w-11, bat I
^mldn't take ic as a gift from thai
?ai if 1 had to take hie feeling of fear
with it, and I believe that all the other
members of our eiicle felt the seuie
way. He was convinced at that tlrst
maatiug that money, when it broaghr
anything bat bappineas, wtt mora of &
aria tban a bleaalng Ha baa baan at
taudtog tba meetings aver ainea aud
haa coto? hara to bare ?*T?ral loag
talka wi'h ma, and ba la winning a victory
orar worry, for now ba only taela
that faar of loaing hla proparty part of
tha tlma.
"Another tnan got up at a maating,
and to llluacrate bow ba faals that
worry is au eiaeut'al quality of human
nature, told the following rtory: 'I
own a handaoma place out at Orange,
whara I lived for toaa time. Whenever
it rained tha callar waa floods
and of oourte tuat worried naa no end.
Finally I fouDd that it would ba more
convenient for ma to lira in the city* >o
I rented my Orange house.
"Shortly after I waa comfortably settled
in town and bad my tenant* aUo
eouiforsablf fixed, a heavy three days'
rtlu set in. After it had been coming
down for a day I began to worry abont
the eellar oat in Orange. The longer
it rained the niore I worried. I eould
see the water creeping up ineh by inch
nntii finally the house was submerged
in my mind, the walls ready to fall, and
the tenants packing up to move away,
with a very poor opinion of me. At
last I eould stand it no longer, and after
two days and nights of utter wretchedness
I went out to OraDge. For some
time I didn't dare faoe the people in my
house, but finally 1 pluekcd up courage
aud rang the doorbell. The lady answered
it herself, and was as smiling as
a May morning. "How's 'he cellar!"
I mansgel to garp. "As dry as a
bine," sheausve ed sweetly. "As soon
as we came here asv husband saw that
by laying a pipe in a eertaiu way all
of tbe water could be carried off aod
the eellar kept perfectly free from
d&mpLcss." Mow, how was I to keep
from woiryiii* about that cellar?1 he
appealed to tbe circle, pathetically.
" 'You ought to have been able to go
to Orange, find your eellar full of water,
and still not worry,' retorted a bright
member, and she wae right. Worry,
yon know, wo-ildu't bail the water out
nf m ,.-11.. -
"It is perfectly astonishing," eontinued
Mr, Pentecost, "how much opposition
there fs to the idea of not worrying.
The belief prevails that civilization
pi ogresses through people's worrying.
That is false, for the worry
habit retards the growth of the individual,
aad whatever does that retards
civilisation. The don't worry idea is
lhe basis of all the religions in the
world. That is what religion was established
for. to teach people not to
worry. Jesus said, "Take no thought
for your life, wbat ye shall eat, neither
for the body, what ye shall put on. By
that he meant for us not to worry
about things. Buddha sat under a
tree, ate his little dish of dry riee, and
told the people not to worry.
"The Don't Worry Clrole opens itself
to attack, but the Don't Worry people
<lo not miad that. The cartoonist and
the naraffraiier can have all the (nnnn?
of these eirelea that they please, Wa
do not worry over their pieturaa or humoroos
aqalba in the least, bat really
enjoy them.
"People outaide of the eirelea often
auk, /How ean the habit of worrying
be conquered?' They aeein by theii
toue to resent the very Idea. It eauuot
be done without resolute and perseveiins
individual effort. With snoh effort
the habit certainly can be mastered,
for la thia day ef reason more people
than we know of live In p?rfect mental
peace. One person gets rid of th?
worry habit in one way and another in
an entirely differeut way. If you can
Set rid of the habit by worshipping a
fetish, worship the fotisli. Home people
can ouly get, rid of of their worriei
bv taking them to the Lord, ae they
say. That's the right track for tliein.
Oth? rs of us rid ourselves of the habit
by a mental process, and that's tlx
right way for us. Mr. Seward lias laid
down a (?w rain to bU book WbloJ, if
Intelligently obMrrcd, will wkawibe
habit to lose its power; and he wye
qfTietneee aud peace will take the place
of the feverieh anxiety, the undercut-1
rent of reetlese feeling whleh robe the
bomn heart of ite natural bepp'tm
and raieee the queetion ao often bej^rd,
whether life ie wi rth living. Thefulee
for conquering the worry habit are:
"1. Realize it ieanenvin* which destroys
your bappiuers.
40 Paolive iKaf aan V>A A111*6(1 hv
persistent effort.
"3 Attack. It indefinitely as Bornething
to be overcome.
"4. Roaliz; that it never has dene
and never can do the ieast good. It
wastes vitality and impairs the mental
faculties.
5 "Consider what must be involved in
the truth that God is infinite and' that
you are a part of His ptan.
"6. Memorize suuie of the Scripture
promises and recall thrm when the
temptation to worrv returns.
"7. Hrlp aud comfort your neighbor.
48. Forgive your enemies and| conquer
your aversions.
"9. Induce others to begins th# work
of emat.c<pation from the worry habit.
"Mr. Seward goes on to say. 'It will
be observed that the first six rale^ refer
to efforts we are to make for ourselves,
and the lest three concern our relations
t o others. Tbe last rule is by no as*n?
the least important. No emancipation
can be ooiuplete which does not disk to
include the neighbor- The habit of
f worrying le so oniver<al and so
deen-aearari that, aside from the fltrur
gles with our own natural tenperameut,
there la the added difficulty of
resitting the atmosphere of aug/ M j by
which American life ie pervadWl The
grea'er tbe number of our frieo ia aud
neighbors we can pe-eaade to niak?
tbe effort with ua the inore rat d auu
substantial will be our own indiridual
progress There are two reaso ia for
tbia: Giving txprtss'ou to an idia emphasize*
and eooflrmi it in ot r own
minds, committing ourselves to otbera
iuertas** our sense of rearoni bllity,
and we are, therefore, more iJJ bIt to
be faithfal to the purpose we hJro expreased
whatarer it may be."
"The don't worry reform," coi eluded
Mr. Peotecoat, "touches life on ad
s:drs. We consider the work accomplished
by the circle eonneetad with
Unity Congregation far more efTactlve
than any work we oould aceom plnh by
Holding tne r'guia ion nnuw?? rervlee.
Our membership is not luiitsd
to memoirs of ih? congregation People
of all ere* ds are asked to Bio, or
the watchword of UnitJ^^^Mfigation
la rreHQPT, liilo-vrstrt|CTHWfta#w
In religlou. However, all of Ye hi n't
Worry circles in the city ara^pen to
all interested, and they are doiLj; and
will eout.nue to do a grund workl"
Iu speaking of the lolly of wotaying
fhe author of "Don't Worry" Wives
some practical bd .ic . Hesays: '
"Worrying is the most unreasonable
habit in which a human heing can Indulge.
Th? truth of thia proposition
oan be showu by simply asking vwo
questions: 1. Does worrying increase
our happiness? The idea is tooiabeurd
to be considered. Worrying occasions
mere unhappinees than any other
oaase?perhaps more than ali^ other
aeee combined. 8. Does wori'y help
as in oar work? Howevsr important
the crisis that lies before u?, are we
prepared to utiC It any more successfuily
by c irryiug h harden of anxious
thought about ii? This question can
have but one answer. No. Oariniuds
are rendered less tit for the coming
problem by all the doubts and fears we
entertain. The insanity of the habit is
strongly emphasized by the fact that
many people worry as much over the
past as they do over the future. 'If I
had only done differently, if 1 hud only
avoided this or that mistake, they say,
with real anguish of spirit. What folly
eoul 1 bs greater than to allow vitality
to be wasted and bappinaes destroyed
by that which eannot be recalled,
changed, or In the slightest decree
modified? We also allow ourselves to
be tormented by a thousand forms of
f?ar. We are afraid of catching cold,
, afraid to eat this or that article ofjfood,
i afraid that something unpleasant will
happen to us. And what we to persistently
expect we are very apt (o get..
The stiaugest thing about I his Mavery
i is that we have come to r-*gird it
unavoidable, an essential element ol
life, a stimulus that is i?eed? d to keep
us up to the line of duty.'
Mr. Ward Ii. Smith, of Fredericks
, Uwu, Mo., wat troubled wun curoiiu
> diarrt'Oji for orer thirty j euro, ho had
1 become fully satisfied tLat it wa* oulj
) a question of a short lime until hi
i wou cl hnvoto k'v? l,P* W? '14t' boos
i treated by souiw of th- beM pliystciani
. lu Europe and Aiueric a but got uo P*r
mauviit teliof. Una day be picked uj
l a liWKNpapor and chanced to rsnd at
advertisement of Chamberlain ? Colic
Cholera and Diarrhoet Koin-ily. fili
; got a bottle of it, the tlret do?e limpet
hicu and ita continued uto cured linn
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