A Cure for Trouble

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · May 19, 1904

A Cure for Trouble

THERE is no better way of forgetting one’s troubles than by attempting to relieve some one else who is in trouble. The more one thinks of his own troubles, the more power over him those troubles gain. When he is turned away for a time from himself in the effort to help another, personal troubles may perish from lack of attention and sustenance. Miss Havergal wisely says:—

“Seldom can a heart be lonely If it seeks a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.”

However hard our own case may be, there is some one near us whose case is harder. In ministering to him, or in trying to give him comfort, we are likely to lighten his burden and our own.—Sunday School Times.