p. 16 | Good Counsel by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 27, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 21.

Good Counsel

By Editor

Good Counsel.—In speaking of some overworked mental workers, the editor of the Christian Advocate, himself a student of health laws, gives the following good counsel, which some of our hard-worked readers might do well to appropriate:—

"The best of all rules is the equilibrium rule. If one overworks in any week, let him do as much less the next week as he has done more than he should have done; and, if possible, the same principle should be applied to successive days. It would be the physical and mental salvation of many brain workers if they would split wood about two hours a day. If the use of an ax on knots is too hard, let them split kindlings, and hold the kindling with one hand and the hatchet with the other. Under such circumstances, through fear of splitting a thumb or losing a finger, they will not be able to think of their last or their next sermon, or other taxing work."