Untitled article by Blind Amos

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, November 26, 1867

NURSING TROUBLES.

By Blind Amos

Some people are as careful of their troubles as mothers are of their babies; they cuddle them, and hug them, and cry over them, and fly into a passion with you if you try to take them away from them; they want you to fret with them, to help them to believe that they have been worse treated than anybody else. If they could, they would have a picture of their grief in a gold frame hung over the mantle-shelf for everybody to look at. And their grief makes them ordinarily selfish,—they think more of their little grief in the basket and in the cradle, than they do of all the world beside; and they say you are hard-hearted if you say “don’t fret.” “Ah! you don’t understand me—you can’t enter into my trials?”—Blind Amos.