MENTAL OCCUPATION

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1880

MENTAL OCCUPATION.

It is of the highest importance to have the mind constantly employed on something useful. The soul, by its very nature, is active. If, therefore, the mind be not exercised about serious affairs, it will necessarily be engaged about trifles. Were this fact properly realized and practiced upon, it would save us from many evils into which we are otherwise often led. Our temptations to sin frequently grow upon us, and increase in strength, solely in consequence of our failure to furnish the mind with proper employment. In the case of children, there is reason to believe that many of them who become vicious and nuisances to society, become such solely in consequence of the neglect of their parents to furnish them with something of a profitable nature upon which to occupy their minds. Many parents leave their children to shift for themselves with respect to their mental occupation. The consequence is, in many such cases, children grow up vicious and vile. Oh, that parents were truly wise with respect to this matter !—Christian Counsellor.