Most of our troubles are imaginary, nine-tenths of them never coming to
us as we expected. They are mostly matters of nerve weakness.
We start something during the day, and lay awake at night worrying for
fear it may not turn out successfully. We brood over phantoms and
scarecrows, for that is what most of our worries are.
If you have started anything right, and your conscience is at rest, why
do you worry? There is no reason for it.
Or if you have used your best judgment and made your best effort to make
your venture a success, go to rest, put your trust in God and you will
sleep.
The man who loses his nerve in the middle of a railroad or any place
where there is danger, comes to grief. The life on earth is a road full
of pitfalls and unpleasant things, many of them as dangerous as a
railroad train bearing down upon us.
If you keep your nerve, you simply get out of the way of the locomotive,
or of the runaway horse, or the automobile, and keep on living.
So it is in your every-day transactions. Keep out of the way of things
than may undo you. Step aside and let them pass by. Everything works for
good in this world, what you do not accomplish some other man does, and
it helps you because everything is along parallel lines.
Where a thing is unavoidable, or inevitable, why then it is foolish to
worry, and shows poor control of your nerves.
Put your trust in God, follow the straight path, and stiffen up your
nerves.