dropped into the bottomless pit. When you have thus thrown off this sense of weighty responsibility see that you do not take it again.
“Bear ye one another’s burdens” by making nothing of them.
If, at times, you find yourself in the “slough of despond” and cannot account for your state of mind, you may be reflecting some one’s despondency, and you can come quickly out by sending the word of courage, strength, and knowledge to some one who appears to be under the cloud of sorrow or misfortune. If you know no such one, then radiate quickening, invigorating beams of wisdom to the whole world, and some drooping heart will receive refreshment, and return an answering chord of relief that will set you free.
If you ever feel discouraged over a case, treat your patient for secret discouragement, or yourself for the belief of the lack of knowledge and of power.
In the regular order of six-day course of treatment this is the fifth stage of unfoldment, generally an appearance of weakness, weariness, and discouragement, and therefore the especial word is that which brings realization of the inner source of strength and knowledge, the inexhaustible supply of life, health, and goodness, the freedom from every burden.
“Be not weary in well doing.”—2 Thes. 3:13.
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