Show comments from dixie by E A DAVIS cleveland tenn what is fear fear is ism and dissatisfaction it produces despondency hatred worry nerv ausness moroseness anger and vacillation fear and anxiety corn those destroying forces wh ich quench hope and confidence fear and anxiety are the greatest despoilers of human happiness they are the moral mildew and the men tal blight of the personality they are the fifth columnists that sab otage dotage our best efforts and dampen courage and initiative fear and anxiety are the termites of human ciar caracter lar acter for they eat into the very vitals of human happiness and de troy the possibilities of abundant living there can be no doubt that fear is one of the greatest rages of mankind basil king in his book the conquest of fear testifies to the wide extent of this affliction everyone is living or working in fear the mother is afraid for her children the father is afraid for his business bu iness the clerk is afraid for his job the worker is afraid of his boss or his competitor there is hardly a man who is not afraid that some other man will do him a bad turn there is hardly a woman who is not afraid that things she craves may be denied her or that what she loves may be snatched away am ready to guess that all the mis enes eries wrought by sin and sickness put together would not equal those we bring on ourselves by the means which perhaps we do least to count bract we are not sick all the time we are not sinning all the tune time but all the time tune all of us or practically all of us are afraid of someone or something there is a cause for ever everything Y thing what then are the causes of this universal tear fear sins always bring dread and fear adam ar aid d tn be e were happy until they sin ned tied when god called adam in the garden he said I 1 heard thy voice in the garden and I 1 was afraid another basic cause for fear is try ing to live two days at once the solution take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall hall take thought for the things of itself sufficient cent unto the day jay is the evil thereof imagination is another basic vause of fear it can play tricks on us and get out of hand like a runaway horse borse then were they in great fear where no fear was the imaginary fear may be unreal but the worried imagination is very real dr C G jung gives us a clue to the imago ary fears about one third of my patients are suffering from no elm clin icalla definable neurosis but from the senselessness and emptiness of their own lives emptiness will fill you will the devils of fear distract ion worry and unhappiness another cause for fear is doubt au the mind of this age is skeptical we should remember however that reason is only one of the fae liwes of men the one overemphasizes rea son is headed for a fall fail there are many other reasons or |