INSANITY | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 28, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 26.

INSANITY.

THE large number who are going insane these days is a cause of alarm, and should lead to careful reflection. Some one has said that if things go on at the present rate, the whole world will be insane in fifty years from now.

The excitable manner in which so many people live in these days is certainly accountable for much of this insanity. Men with all eagerness and with every nerve put to the highest tension are driving business. Others are even more strongly bent on hilarious and self-destroying pleasures.

Under these conditions exhaustion comes to them, of course. But they are not willing to reform and allow their systems to be built up by rest and proper treatment. So they resort to such stimulants as whisky, wine, beer, coffee, tea, tobacco, etc. And when these more common stimulants fail, then various "nerve tonic" drugs are sought.

One might as well think of stepping over the edge of a precipice without falling, as to think of using these narcotics and stimulants without breaking down his nervous force. And when the nerves are broken down one of the common calamities that follow is insanity.

The wise man tells us "the curse causeless shall not come." This is a solid Gospel truth. Then the thing to do is to avoid the cause, and we may be sure that the curse will never come. T.