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Show AILiCARMlKElffi IN THE spring of her junior year in college Marjorte Morgan, 229 Kenwood Avenue. Baton Rouge. Louisiana, got a message laying that her father was dead. Without details, the knew at once that he had killed himself. She had always felt that he rnitiht. Although a brilliant man, he had never been able to come to a belief In Cod, and his health had recently been ciaeking under the strain of the accumulated yean cl the depression and the worries that he stored up within himself He had never been able to accept the slightest help from any living soul, even from those members of his family who loved him most. All during the endless train ride home through the night and during the dreary days that followed, Marjorte mind kept going around In the same bitter circle: Why did it have to happen? What could her mother or her brother have done to change the course of events' Wasn't there something they could have t'aid to Implant faith in him? Why does Cod let such things happen? CARNEGIE At such timet no amount of keeping busy or of rational analysis, or of applying any other rule to prevent anxiety and worry, will completely a'lay the bitterness, although they will help. Such a time and It comet to everyone sooner or luter calls for a complete acceptance of reality, for cooperation with the Inevitable." Facing the fact that no amount of wishful ttni:.':i'iK coul.l change what had happened, she reached out to a Source of Strength much greater than her own to our never-changing, ever-lovir.) God. and in so doing she com batted her fear and worry and bolstered her courage, and she says she believes there Is now no catastrophe catas-trophe tti.it she could not meet and face and eventually build on It a fceppier and more useful life |