Good Humor | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 9, 1875

Good Humor.

Good humor is a gift of temperament; it is generally the out-flow of a healthy physical organization. Therefore most good-humored people deserve little or no credit for the cheerful spirits they display amid the ordinary trials and annoyances of life. They are only enjoying their birth-gifts. But good humor may be cultivated; that is, a man can train himself into the mastery of his temper, into kindly speech, gentle manners, into an interest in the welfare of others, and above all, into hopeful views of life, until at last he will be victorious over selfishness, and become a happy man by his advancement in personal goodness. Oh, the pitiable condition of those who yield to ill-nature until they are its slaves! Discontented in youth, they become unhappy in middle life, and can expect no other fate than a miserable old age.