It matters not what may be the cause of the trouble in the anxious mind, the results upon the body are the same. Every function is weakened, and under the continual influence of a depressed state of mind, they degenerate. Especially is this true if any organ of the body is handicapped by weakness from any other cause. The combination of the two influences will soon lead to actual disease.

The greatest barrier in the way of the healing process, especially if the malady be one that is accompanied by severe pain, is the mental depression that is associated with it, and often becomes a fa< tor of the disease. It stands in the way of recovery sometimes, more than do the physical causes, and obliterates from the consciousness of the individual the wonderful healing power of nature, so essential to recovery.

"A. most injurious and unpleasant way of looking for trouble is fault-finding, or continual criticism of other persons. Some people are never generous, never magnanimous toward others. They are stingy of their praise, showing always an unhealthy parsimony in their recognition of merit in others, and critical of their every act."

Man seems to be naturally a fault-finder, jealous if he is not as successful as his neighbor. He should strive to excel, then there would be no need for jealousy.

One cannot afford to go through life looking for trouble, for faults, for failures, or for the crooked, the ugly, and the deformed; nor can we afford to criticise or condemn others, or find fault with their mistakes and shortcomings - fault-finding, indulging in sarcasm and irony, picking flaws in everything and everybody. Looking for things to condemn, instead of to praise, is a very dangerous habit to oneself.

We all like sunshiny, bright, cheerful, hopeful people; nobody likes the grumbler, the fault-finder, the back-biter, or the slanderer. The world likes the man who believes the best and not the worst of people.

"It is just as easy to go through life looking for the good and the beautiful instead of the ugly; for the noble instead of the ignoble; for the bright and cheerful instead of the dark and gloom); the hopeful instead of the despairing; to see the bright side instead of the dark side. To set your face always toward the sunlight is just as easy as to see always the shadows, and it makes all the difference in one's character between content and discontent, between happiness and misery, and in our life, between prosperity and adversity, between success and failure.

"We must learn to look for the light then. Positively refuse to harbor shadows and blots, and the deformed, the disfigured, the discordant. Hold to those things that give pleasure, that are helpful and inspiring, and we will change our whole way of looking at things.

"A great many people think they would be happy if they were only in different circumstances, when the fact is that circumstances have little, if anything, to do with one's temperament or disposition to enjoy the world.

"People who have lost their best friends, who have all their lives been apparently unfortunate, who have struggled against odds and have themselves been invalids, yet they have borne up bravely through it all, and have been cheerful, hopeful, and inspiring to all who knew them.

"If one has been in the habit of talking down his business, the times, his friends, and everything in general, let him just reverse the process, talk everything up, and see how soon the changed thought will change the atmosphere about him, and improve conditions.

"The balanced soul is never suspicious, does not expect trouble, and rarely meets with it." - Abstract from J. Lincoln Brooks, in "Success."

Discontent. The amount of unhappiness in the world is simply appalling. Much of it is from sickness or bodily suffering, while another very large part of it is mental in character. Many individuals of the nervous temperament are naturally restless. There are many agencies tending to keep up or excite this spirit of restlessness or discontent. The newspapers by their sensationalism are responsible in a way for much of this. Talk of gold mines and every imaginative individual who reads about them wants to try his luck at once. As a result of this discontent or restlessness we find people everywhere who are dissatisfied with their lot, who think they would be happy if they could only get somewhere else, or into some other vocation. It's the old story of the "green hills far away." The one in Maine wants to live in California, the one in California wants to live in Maine. The man in England wants to come to America, the one who has come to America wants to go back to England.

A clever writer in a prominent periodical hits the nail on the head as follows: -

"They see only the thorns in their own vocations, the roses in those of others. The shop girl would be an actress; the cook would change places with her mistress; the butler with his master. The lawyer would be a doctor; the doctor, a lawyer.

"The farmer bemoans his hard lot, and longs to exchange his life of drudgery for the career of the merchant or the manufacturer. The country boy leans on his plow-handle and looks toward the city with hungry eyes. If he could only be free from the slavery of the farm, stand behind a counter and wear good clothes ! Happiness, opportunity, fortune - everything - lies yonder. Around him misery, toil, poverty - nothing desirable. The city youth rails at fate for confining him to the limits of brick walls and the dreary details of merchandise - buying and selling. Oh, if he could only go to sea and travel to distant countries, become a captain in the navy, or skipper or owner of a merchant vessel! Life would be worth something then."