A Thought for Self

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Apr 6, 1882

A Thought for Self

A THOUGHT FOR SELF.—We talk so much, and we think so much more, of the trouble we have with others, that we more than half persuade ourselves that if everybody else were just right, we could get on pretty easily in life; but the fact is, that more than half—a great deal more than half—of all our troubles, even of our troubles with others, grows out of our own faults and our own failures, and not the faults and failures of other people; and the world would not yet be half right for us, when everybody was right except ourselves. Until we get rid of ourselves, or until we are lifted above all selfish thought of ourselves there is continual trouble for us, however other people bear themselves.—S. S. Times.