Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1917 — Deadly Self-Consciousness. [ARTICLE]

Deadly Self-Consciousness.

I would rather have the gift of tremendous outpouring affection—love of God, and love of humanity—than any other gift in all the world. I desire It more than'anything else. And yet, even at those heaven-sent periods when my heart is full of love, how hard it is to express it! Of course, this is partly shyness—that curious, hampering mantle of reserve in which we are forever hastening to wrap, our spirits. How timid and anxious our little self is! Our spirit-self is forever shocking it! The stiff conventional self is constantly trying to cover up the spirit self—like a proper mid-dle-aged nurse pursuing a happy carefree baby who has adventured forth with too few clothes oh.—From the Atlantic.