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Tears and Laughter

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 2, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 5.

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Tears and Laughter

TEARS AND LAUGHTER. — God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness; and laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.