KEEP YOUR NERVE
Most of our troubles are imaginary, nine-tenths of them never coming to us as we expected. They are mostly matters of nerve weakness.
We start something during the day, and lay awake at night worrying for fear it may not turn out successfully. We brood over phantoms and scarecrows, for that is what most of our worries are.
If you have started anything right, and your conscience is at rest, why do you worry? There is no reason for it.
Or if you have used your best judgment and made your best effort to make your venture a success, go to rest, put your trust in God and you will sleep.
The man who loses his nerve in the middle of a railroad or any place where there is danger, comes to grief. The life on earth is a road full of pitfalls and unpleasant things, many of them as dangerous as a railroad train bearing down upon us.
If you keep your nerve, you simply get out of the way of the locomotive, or of the runaway horse, or the automobile, and keep on living.
So it is in your every-day transactions. Keep out of the way of things than may undo you. Step aside and let them pass by. Everything works for good in this world, what you do not accomplish some other man does, and it helps you because everything is along parallel lines.
Where a thing is unavoidable, or inevitable, why then it is foolish to worry, and shows poor control of your nerves.
Put your trust in God, follow the straight path, and stiffen up your nerves.