Editorial October 30, 1902 Issue

Anticipated Troubles

WHEN we learn that the present moment is the only moment, and that this moment's demonstration is the whole demonstration, we shall have come into possession of our whole inheritance. It is not the present obstacle that cannot be removed, not the present duty that cannot be performed, not the toil of this hour that fatigues. It is the anticipated obstacle, duty, or toil that wearies and discourages.

As the shadows of evening deepen and darken in the gathering twilight, we may forget that with to-morrow will come to-morrow's glad sunlight; likewise we are liable to forget that with each coming duty will come strength for its performance.

Mortal mind, even while sleep should knit "up the ravel'd sleave of care," busies itself by throwing up imaginary impassable barriers of work and worry, and he who listens to the tempter rises from his couch weak and weary. What is weary? Not matter, for the body has been lying quiet and undisturbed; not mind, for mind reflects Mind and knows no weariness from action. The busy-body, as well as the sufferer, is the counterfeiter, mortal mind.

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