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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 18.

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Scolding.

Of all the disagreeable habits the world was ever tormented with, scolding is the most annoying. To hear a saw filed, to hear a peacock scream, or an Indian yell, is music compared with it. Since we were little children we have always felt a mortal abhorrence to scolding. And if we had been scolded as some children are, we know not that we should ever have been good for anything. It is no wonder so many children are bad. The good is all scolded out of them. It is stunted or killed by early frosts of cold, icy scolding. What a frost is to the spring buds, is scolding to all the child hearts. Scolding folks at home! How miserable! Lightning, thunder, hail, storms, and winds, rather than the hurricane of scolding. Let all the powers that be wage a war of kindness on all the scolders, that they may be overcome with a better spirit.—Sel.