Untrue to Self

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 6, 1913

CANON FARRAR

MOST of these our sufferings are self-inflicted. We are cruel to ourselves. We feather the arrows of our enemies, and make the wounds rankle, which otherwise they were powerless to inflict. We anticipate misfortunes which never come. We brood over injuries at which it would have been far wiser to smile. We neglect or despise the joys which God otherwise would freely give us. We will not know the things which make for our peace, and in things which we know naturally, like brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed, in these we corrupt ourselves. Ah, how true, how true it is that heaven seems to be “everywhere if we would but enter it, and yet almost nowhere, because so few of us can.” Alas, my brethren, all this might be otherwise, but, as we ruin our bodies by excess and ignorance, so we ruin our minds by greed and care.— Selected.