p. 110 | Prescriptions

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 9, 1876

Prescriptions.

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

For a fit of Idleness.—Count the ticking of a clock; do this for an hour and you will be glad to pull off your coat the next and go to work.

For a fit of Extravagance and Folly.—Go to the work-house and speak with the 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 a churchyard and read the grave-stones; they will tell you the end of ambition. The grave will soon be your bed-chamber, the earth your pillow, corruption your father, and the worm your mother and sister.

For a fit of Despondency.—Look on the good things which God has given you in this world, and to those which he has promised 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 flowers may return into his house with one blooming in his bosom.

For all fits of Doubt, Perplexity, and Fear.—Whether they respect 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 Physicians: “Cast thy burden on the Lord, and he will sustain thee.”