Don't Parade Your Troubles.
Ordinarily we receive as good treatment as we deserve. At all events, there are no good results from a constant repetition of troubles, often imaginary. Many men greatly weaken their influence by the parade on all occasions of the treatment they have received at other times in other places. It puts ammunition into the hands of the enemy. People will be disposed to think, where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. Instead of creating sympathy, which at best under such circumstances can do us no good, it creates often a feeling of suspicion. We have known ministers to greatly injure their usefulness, upon going into a new field of labor, by at once beginning the recital of the serious troubles through which they had just passed in their last charge. One result of this, often, is the speedy repetition of the same experience in the new field of labor. We are under no obligation to tell men our weak points, as these will become apparent soon enough to those with whom we come in daily contact. It is good advice in all spheres of life when we exhort them to keep their troubles to themselves. There is but one to whom we can come in perfect safety, sure that he will never misunderstand us, and will always grant relief. "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee."—Journal and Messenger.