Atlanta Daily World

WORRY AND HEALTH ARE STRANGERS

When one is fretting, worrying, or grieving, the whole being is upset and sick. The appetite for food fails and all the digestive functions are impaired. Digestion begins in the saliva of the mouth, and the glands that manufacture it practically fail to secrete normally. The mouth feels dry and the food tasteless. In Proverbs 12:22 we read, "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones."

Despondency and depression are among man's worst enemies. Disease germs are always in our systems ready to spring out on us. If we are happy and our bodies are functioning normally it discourages them from actually attacking us and they are inclined to remain dormant and leave us in peace.

One of the greatest mistakes that people make is allowing their minds to brood on real or fancied wrongs that have been done to them. That warps the mind and sours the spirit. We have all met goodness and kindness along the way. Thinking of these things makes us happy and gives us a desire to rise above sordid thoughts, such as getting even or revenge for real or imaginary acts of unkindness done to us.

As we go about our daily lives we meet many who are discouraged or cast down. Sometimes a word of encouragement or cheer from a friend will lift a weight of woe from a troubled heart, and change his gloom into sunlight. Proverbs 12:25 says "Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop; but good words maketh it glad."

Human nature has not changed a bit since the creation. Man had put on a little veneer of civilization, and crack-pot evolutionists were preaching and teaching that man had come up on the road to perfection so far that in the process of evolution he would evolve himself into perfection. H. G. Wells was an exponent of such doctrines. He lived to see Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and others ordering human beings to death by the millions. H. G. Wells died a disillusioned man, but not before predicting a most awful fate for human kind.

Nothing but obedience to God's word has ever lifted man above the savage, and yet our Supreme Court has ruled that God's word must not be taught in public schools. Are we to return to complete paganism? It is not forbidden to teach in our public schools the soul destroying doctrine of evolution that cannot be proved.

Wake up, America, before you find yourself lost in the hopeless morass of pessimism, unbelief, and misery. Our only hope for peace and happiness is in God. Without belief in Him and obedience to His word, human beings cannot be normal, physically or mentally.