p. 11 | Anger's Sting

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 30, 1906

Anger's Sting

No word spoken in anger against a person is ever justified. It matters not how wrong, or unjust, or cutting, or ill-mannered, or wilfully untruthful that person may be; to give vent to one's anger in return only lowers one to the level of the other, accomplishes no good, and leaves one with a rankling sense of defeat. Most of us have put this to the test,—and then have wished we had not. The times of stress upon which all look back with most lasting satisfaction are those times when they have kept their self-control, not when they have lost it. The reason why an outburst of anger leaves such a sting with the one who gives way to it is because it is a defeat self-inflicted.—Sunday School Times.