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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Jul 29, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 38.

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BAD HABITS.

Understand clearly the reasons, and all the reasons, why any habit is injurious. Study the subject till there is no lingering doubt in your mind. Avoid the places, the persons, and the thoughts, that lead to the temptation. Frequent the places, associate with the persons, indulge the thoughts, that lead away from temptation. Keep busy, idleness is the strength of bad habits. Do not give up the struggle when you have broken your resolution once, twice, ten times, or a thousand times. That shows how much need there is for you to strive. When you have broken your resolution, just think the matter over, and endeavor to understand why it was that you failed, so that you may be upon your guard against a recurrence of the same circumstances. Do not think it a little or an easy thing that you have undertaken. It is folly to expect to break off bad habits in a day, which have been gathering strength in you for years.