p. 16 | Don't Whine

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1911

Don't Whine

Good people have a right to cast their burdens on the Lord. But nobody has a right to attempt to impose upon the Lord by the presentation of fictitious burdens, or to come into the divine presence whining and finding fault with the allotments of Providence. Some people get into the habit of whining. They might have got into the way of it sometime when they were really in trouble, and have forgotten to change their tone with their changed circumstances. I have known some persons to get so addicted to this thing that they would use the same whining tone in ordinary conversation, even when speaking upon the most joyous and cheerful topics. Sometimes I imagine they think it pious, a sort of holy tone. It is as far from the expression of the robust, cheerful, loving, hopeful, grateful holiness of the Bible as the whine of the spaniel is from the songs of the happy birds of spring. So far from being holy, it is an abomination in the ears of the God of love. The croak of the raven or the snarl of the wolf is music in the ears of the Giver of every good and perfect gift, in comparison with this whine. Weep if you are afflicted. Groan if you are in pain. Cast your burdens on the Lord. He will sympathize with you and sustain you. He has promised it. But God has no promise for them that whine. Whatever you do, then, don't whine.— Christian Herald.