NEVER GET ANGRY | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 31, 1877

NEVER GET ANGRY.

It does no good. Some sins have a seeming compensation or apology—a present gratification of some sort—but anger has none. A man feels no better for it. It is really a torment, and when the storm of passion has cleared away it leaves one to see that he has been a fool, and has made himself a fool in the eyes of others too. An angry man adds nothing to the welfare of society. He may do some good, but more hurt. Heated passion makes him a firebrand, and it is a wonder if he does not kindle flames of discord on every hand. Without much sensibility, and often bereft of reason, he speaketh like the piercing of a sword, and his tongue is an arrow shot out. He is a bad element in any community, and his removal would furnish occasion for a day of thanksgiving. Since, then, anger is useless, needless, disgraceful, without the least apology, and found only “in the bosom of fools,” why should it be indulged at all?—Religious Intelligencer.

PSALM OF PRAISE.

Praise the Lord of Heaven, praise him in the high, Praise him, all ye angels, praise him, stars and light; Praise him, skies, and waters, which above the skies, When his word commanded, ’stablished did arise.

Praise the Lord, ye fountains of the deep, and seas, Rocks, and hills and mountains, cedars and all trees; Praise him, clouds and vapors, snow, and hail, and fire; Stormy wind, fulfilling only his desire.

Praise him, fowls and cattle, princes and all kings, Praise him, men and maidens, all created things; For the name of God is excellent alone: Over earth his footstool, over Heaven his throne.

—T. B. Browne.