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Show Dr. James L Vance 1 There Is something worse than being , without brakes. H is having a brake 'that declines to release. The absence ! of a brake makes us cautious on the down grades: but a brake that refuses to rel ;use nullifies our power on a dead level. This Is what sometimes happens to the air brakes on a railroad train The Shoe Is driven against th- wheel an. I atli k-. The piston falls to slip back wol relieve the pressure, and the great train Is powerless to proceed, men, to. use a railroad phrase, thc must 'bleed off the piston in order to release the brake. E ear operates n this way on human personality. It Is a brake that won't release. There arc people capable of big things, but they are held hack by fear. They possess tplcndld gifts. They f.' peerless opportunities. All they need to do Is to mov out to match th.-m- 1 against conditions. But they arc timid, distrustful of elf hesitant, overcautious. They -are. scared to try. They arc afraid they will fall afraid they will make them-Mlvea them-Mlvea ridiculous, afraid they will hurl their reputation, afraid the., will nciUc a bad Investment afraid. Just afraid 'l"he brakes are on and the train Is stalled. The brake Is fear, and It Is mi brake that won't release- What is to be done? It must be bled loose How often that i8 what It literally liter-ally costs to bo emancipated from fear! A surgical operation is needed to separate us from the terror that paralyses para-lyses effort. Fear Is not only the foe of happiness It prevents progress. It holds us back and keeps us down It mukes dwarfs out 01 giants, and gives us humiliating defeat when we might have had glorious glori-ous victory. Oon't be scared.' Steady' There lj 'nothing to be afraid of. absolutely nothing no-thing It la your imagination that peoples peo-ples that dark shadow with terrors, but thev are not there. The road is clear and the track Is safe and the futue Is waiting for you Move out |