"How To Develop Positive Thinking, Right and Wrong Thinking & Their Results..."

It is easily understood how the old writer, who thought God was a tyrant ruling in anger and desiring vengeance, could readily believe that "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."

No doubt that writer really meant what we mean when we use the same word; but he was woefully wrong in his conception of God's character.

His declaration and the ideas which caused it were widely prevalent not so very long ago, and have aided immensely in leading hosts of mankind into false opinions and their consequent erroneous actions.

There is a similar error in all those forms and actions of government which rest on fear for their motive and efficiency.

It is not possible for any one, either child or man, to do his best nor to be his best when under the dominion of fear; and yet not only parents, but both Church and State, have held that fear is salutary and have acted on that proposition.

Untold millions of lives have been dwarfed and perverted, and laudable plans without number have been thwarted or abandoned because of needless fear.

Hurry needs no definition.

It arises from the recognition that a certain object must be accomplished, or a certain amount of work must be done, in a given time.

If the time is sufficient, there is no feeling of haste.

If the time seems insufficient, there follows a recognition of the necessity for haste, and the result is hurry.

This grows out of the doubt which creates the fear that the work may not be accomplished in the required time.

Hence, it is clear that the root of hurry is doubt or fear. The verbal expression of the idea takes some form of the declaration: "I am afraid I cannot finish in time," which is the natural language of haste and reveals its discordant character.