Untitled article by H. A. ST. JOHN

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 20, 1867

GOT THE BLUES.

By H. A. ST. JOHN

This is in popular parlance, an expression of very common occurrence. It signifies, we understand, a discouraged and fretful condition of the mind. Nor is this affliction (for affliction it certainly is), of less frequent occurrence. Most of us know what it is from experience; and how thankful we have been to get relief from its depressing influence. Go where you will and you will find men and women suffering from this health-destroying malady. Nor are the people of God entirely free from it. But we rejoice in the fact that Christian temperance, as exhibited in the Health Reform, is working for them a permanent cure. I hope we shall soon get where the above-named expression will become entirely obsolete with us as a people.

Brother, sister, let us walk out on the firm platform of the present truth, which, as a bright and shining light, is shining brighter and brighter as we near the glorious consummation. Get the “Christian graces,” and then you will never be troubled with the “blues,” for the two are incompatible.

H. A. ST. JOHN.

Ransom Center, Mich.