SELF-CONTROL ITS KINGSHIP AND MAJESTY by WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY CHICAGO LONDON TORONTO NEW YORK EDINBURGH Republished from the _Saturday Evening Post_ through the courtesy of the Curtis Publishing Company, Copyright, 1898 and 1899, by CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY Copyright, 1899 and 1905, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street * * * * * CONTENTS PAGE _I._ _The Kingship of Self-Control_ 7 _II._ _The Crimes of the Tongue_ 18 _III._ _The Red Tape of Duty_ 28 _IV._ _The Supreme Charity of the World_ 38 _V._ _Worry, the Great American Disease_ 49 _VI._ _The Greatness of Simplicity_ 60 _VII._ _Living life Over Again_ 71 _VIII._ _Syndicating our Sorrows_ 82 _IX._ _The Revelations of Reserve Power_ 93 _X._ _The Majesty of Calmness_ 104 _XI._ _Hurry, the Scourge of America_ 113 _XII._ _The Power of Personal Influence_ 124 _XIII._ _The Dignity of Self-Reliance_ 135 _XIV._ _Failure as a Success _ 147 _XV._ _Doing Our Best at All Times_ 161 _XVI._ _The Royal Road to Happiness_ 178 * * * * * _Self-Control_ I The Kingship _of_ Self-Control Man has two creators,—his God and himself. His first creator furnishes him the raw material of his life and the laws in conformity with which he can make that life what he will. His second creator,—himself,—has marvellous powers he rarely realizes. It is what a man makes of himself that counts.