Good for Fits

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 14, 1904

For a fit of passion: Walk out in the open air; you may 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 one hour, and you will be glad to pull off your coat and work like a beaver.

For a fit of extravagance and folly: Go to the workhouse or speak to the inmates of a jail and you will be convinced that—

“Who makes his bed of brier or thorn, Must be content to lie forlorn.”

For a fit of ambition: Go to the churchyard and read the gravestones; they will tell you the end of ambition. The grave will soon be your bed chamber, and the earth your pillow.

For a fit of despondency: Look on the good things God has given you in this world, and to those he has promised to 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 a flower 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 cure may be relied on, for I had it from the Great Physician: “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.”—Selected.