A Few Hints for 1875

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 29, 1875

A Few Hints for 1875.

It is better to live in a little, mean, two-story, frame house, than in a jail; it is a good thing, when you are talking of another man's defalcation, to make sure that you could have handled as much money, with like opportunities for dishonesty, and not fallen before temptation. If you are wondering what makes your former schoolmate's hair so gray, or what makes such a one so wrinkled, or why such another one is growing so stout, just take a look in the glass. Do not imagine, because you have resolved to practice charity and to speak well of everybody, that everybody has made the same resolution regarding you.

If you are heart-sick with regret that you were not more tender and thoughtful toward the dear ones you have lost, just try to avoid further repentance in future by being good to those still left to you. Don't put off enjoyment. If you are not ready to enjoy things as they come, when you are ready they won't come. Planning to enjoy friends and fortune in the future is a most insecure investment. The chances are wofully few that you, your friends, and the fortune will all come together in the future. If you have any good deeds to do, or happiness to enjoy, to-day is the time. It is only when we are arguing ourselves into the committing of some act where we believe the end will justify the means, that it pays to wait till to-morrow. In such a case one cannot wait too many to-morrows.—Sel.