Worry | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 29, 1876

Worry.

Don't you know that multitudes of human beings turn away from the many blessings of their lot, and dwell and breed upon its worries? Don't you know that multitudes persistently look away from the numerous pleasant things they might contemplate, and look fixedly, and almost constantly at painful and disagreeable things? Now I put it to every sensible reader, whether there be not a great deal too much of this kind of thing. Are there not families that never spend a quiet evening together without embittering it by raking up every unpleasant subject in their lot and history? There are persons who, both in their own case and that of others, seem to find a strange satisfaction in sticking the thorn in the hand further even in twisting the dagger in the heart; their lot has its innumerable blessings, but they will not look at these. Let the view around it in a hundred directions be ever so charming, they cannot be got to turn their mental view in one of these.