People Who Whine | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 25, 1882

People Who Whine.

THERE is a class of persons in this world, by no means small, whose prominent peculiarity is whining. They whine because they are poor, or, if rich, because they have not health to enjoy their riches; they whine because they have no luck, and others' property exceeds theirs; they whine because some friends have died and they are still living; they whine because they have aches and pains, and they have aches and pains because they whine; they whine no one knows why.

Now, a word to these whining persons: First, stop whining—it is of no use complaining, fretting, fault finding, and whining. Why, you are the most deluded set of creatures who ever lived! Do you know that it is a well settled principle of physiology and common sense that these habits are more exhausting to nervous vitality than almost any other violation of physiological law? And do you know that life is pretty much as you make it? You can make it bright and sunshiny, or you can make it dark and shadowy. This life is meant only to discipline us—to fit us for a higher and purer state of being. Then stop whining and fretting, and go on your way rejoicing.—Sel.