p. 183 | Cure for Fits by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 24, 1870

Cure for Fits.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

[THE following good article I find in the “Union Hand Book” of the Cincinnati Times. I commend it to the careful attention of the readers of the REVIEW. D. M. CANRIGHT:]

For a Fit of Passion.—Walk out in the open air; you may speak your mind to the winds without hurting any one, or proclaiming yourself to be a simpleton.

For a Fit of Idleness.—Count the ticking of a clock. Do this for one hour, and you will be glad to pull off your coat the next and work like a hero.

For a Fit of Extravagance and Folly.—Go to the work-house, or speak to the ragged and wretched inmates of a jail, and you will be convinced—

Who makes his bed of brier and thorn Must be content to lie forlorn.

For a Fit of Ambition.—Go into the churchyard and read the grave stones; they will tell you the end of ambition. The grave will soon be your bedchamber, the earth your pillow, corruption your father, and the worm your mother and your sister.

For a Fit of Repining.—Look about for the halt and the blind, and visit the bedridden and afflicted and deranged; and they will make you ashamed of complaining of your lighter afflictions.

For a Fit of Despondency.—Look on the good things which God has given you in this world, and at those which he has promised to his followers in the next. He who goes into his garden to look for cobwebs and spiders, no doubt will find them; while he who looks for a flower may return into his house with one blooming in his bosom.

For all Fits of Doubt, Perplexity, and Fear.—Whether they affect the body or the mind; whether they are a load to the shoulders, the head, or the heart, the following is a radical cure which may be relied on, for I had it from the Great Physician: “Cast thy burden on the Lord, he will sustain thee.”