afraid of a good many things during my lifetime, and most of them never happened.

The disaster I dread will do one of two things: It will happen, or it will not happen. If it does not happen, what's the use of being afraid? If it does happen, my fear will have added to its weight and unnerved me to meet it. Hence, any way you reason, fear is folly.

Let me go back to the deepest fundamental. I will not be afraid of God. When I look back over history I see that most of the cruelties, outrages, tyrannies, and superstitions which have enslaved and cursed mankind have been caused by men's fear of God. They have conceived of Hini as some inhuman monster, and in His name committed what crimes ! So, whatever my creed may be, the first article in it shall be "God is Love,' He is my Friend, He likes me, wants to help me, and feels as kindly toward me as my mother feels. He is not a snooping detective, nor a blustering policeman; neither is He any kind of Czar, Sultan or Kaiser, but as good and helpful as the best man He has made. He is the First Gentleman of the Universe. And I refuse to be afraid of Him.

I will not be afraid of Fate, Destiny, or whatever you may call it. When I am having a good time I will not say, “Something evil is sure to happen, this is too good to last," as though Destiny were my enemy, waiting to strike me, playing with me as a cat plays with a mouse.

I will not worry about what is, nor what will be. If I can help it, I will help it. If I cannot, why worry? The Chinese have a proverb:

“The legs of the duck are short,
The legs of the crane are long,
You cannot make the legs of the duck long,
Nor the legs of the crane short.

Why worry?"

I will not be afraid of poverty, nor of losing my Station in Life (as though my life were dependent on it). Says William James:

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor.

We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. We have lost the power of even imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant—the liberation from material attachments; the unbribed soul; the manlier indifference; the paying our way by what we are or do, and not by what we have; the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly—the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape. . . . It is certain that the prevalent fear of poverty among the educated class is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers."

I will not be afraid to love, afraid to trust, afraid to believe in the loyalty of them that love

From this fear I can get only jealousy, suspicion, and unrest, which I do not want. It is true, I may be deceived; but, as Spurgeon says, “He who believes everybody will be bitten, but he who distrusts everybody will be devoured."

Fear brings me things I dislike, hence I will none of it. When I am afraid, I am awkward, I do bad work, I stammer, I am shy and embarrassed. Why should I purchase such goods at today's counter? I will not !

IX. I Will Settle the Sex Question. The sex feeling is the strongest of human instincts. Its beautiful flower is in romantic affection, in the relationship of husband and wife, parent and child, and all the enduring charms of family life. These are valuable. But I know that unregulated by conscience and intelligence this feeling brings only trouble. Today I shall keep the instincts of my body in strict harmony with loyalty, honor, and decency.

X. I Will Satisfy My Conscience. Today, one day at least, I will not do anything I believe to be wrong. I will not reason about this, nor argue, nor at all befog my judgment with casuistry, because I know, absolutely, that I never do wrong without paying for it in suffering. I will not go so far as to say that never again in all my life will I do a wrong thing, that is a large contract; but I think I can manage One Day. So if there is anything especially mean I want to do real badly I will at least put it off till tomorrow. Who knows? I might drop dead. And tonight, before I go to bed, I will check up,

and see how much of this list I have kept. Even if 'I make fifty per cent, it will be something. But I should like to have one good, clean day, so that at its close I could pat myself on the back, and go to sleep saying, "Well, you've been a pretty decent sort of chapwat least today!"

THREE RULES OF FUN

Of the 100,000,000 people in the United States about 99,999,000 want to have some fun. I put at probably not over 1,000 those who are opposed on principle to anybody's having a good time, ever. These 1,000 can skip this article.

But a second fact looms up. It is that, of the myriad who would like to have fun, most of them miss it some of the time, and some of them miss it most of the time.

That reveals that you have to know how to have fun, just as much as you must learn how to play the piano, sell life-insurance, or be good. You cannot "go out and have some fun," just like that, without understanding the matter; only children can do that, and even they do not always.

Let us then address our minds to this important subject, quite as important as getting rich, or going to congress, or marrying, or purchasing a new automobile, or pursuing culture. For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and can't have any fun with it?

You must learn how to enjoy yourself, I repeat. The only thing you can do without knowing how