Mental Diseases by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 26, 1866

Mental Diseases.

By Editor

THESE are the most difficult of all diseases to cure. Remedies for a few have been given by a shrewd writer, and we offer them to such of our readers as may happen to be suffering from one or more of the indicated maladies. For a fit of repining, this is the true remedy: Look about for the halt and the blind, and visit the bedridden, afflicted, and deranged; and they will make you ashamed of complaining of your lighter affliction. For a fit of idleness, count the tickings of a clock. Do this for an hour, and you will be glad to pull off your coat and go to work. For a fit of passion, walk out in the open air; you may speak to the winds without hurting any one, or proclaiming yourself to be like a “city without walls.” For fits of doubt, perplexity, and fear, whether they respect the body or the mind; whether they are a load to the shoulders, the head, or the heart, the following is a radical cure which may be relied on; for it comes from the great Physician.

“Cast thy burden on the Lord, for he will sustain thee.”