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Dwelling on Injuries

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 24, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 8.

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Dwelling on Injuries

A MAN strikes me with a sword and inflicts a wound. Suppose, instead of binding up the wound, I am showing it to everybody; and after it is bound up, I am taking off the bandage continually, and examining the depth of the wound and causing it to fester till my limb becomes greatly inflamed, and my general health is materially affected, is there a person in the world that would not call me a fool? Now, such a fool is he, who by dwelling upon little injuries or provocations, causes them to agitate and inflame his mind. How much better would it be to put a bandage over the wound, and never look at it again.