What Does the Injury by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 30, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 18.

What Does the Injury.

By Editor

An exchange, the name of which we do not now recall, has the following helpful note, which the impulsive ones among our readers would do well to consider: "What breaks the shaft of a great ocean liner is not the work it does in driving the ship forward through the sea, but the tremendous speed at which it is driven when the waves lift the stern into the air and it is doing no work whatever. It is so with the most perfect of all machines, the human body. It is not work that wears us out or suddenly snaps the cord, but rather it is the extra strain we put upon the machine by the waves of passion and folly that sweep over us. A fit of anger puts a greater strain upon the heart than a whole week's work, and drink takes a fearful toll from the human machine. We have noted that those who live long and happily are those who have lived tranquilly, and circumscribed their desires within due bounds."