Article November 4, 1911 Issue

People do not care to hear about your aches and pains...

Utica (N. Y.) Press

People do not care to hear about your aches and pains, and are usually anxious to occupy the time telling about their own. All think that their troubles are greater than those of any one else, and there are precious few willing to obey the injunction which says: "Count your blessings." Of course pretty much everybody has more blessings than trouble, if they were only willing to look at it in that way, and troubles have a habit of growing with every narration, when as a matter of fact the sensible application of the teachings of Christian Science will pretty surely lessen and perhaps remove them altogether. Troubles are magnified by thinking about them and multiplied by talking about them.

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