p. 10 | KEEPING IT TO OURSELVES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 13, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 37.

KEEPING IT TO OURSELVES.

THOSE who have the heaviest burdens to bear, talk least about them. It is the younger ones—younger in years or experience—who think their load is a little heavier than any one's else. The real burden-carriers have not time or energy to waste in talking about their hardships. The presidents of the United States, of whatever party they may be, have hardships and burdens that perhaps equal those of the average man or woman; yet presidents say little about that phase of their work. The very dwelling on the hardships or unpleasant features of one's work increases those hardships. They thrive under the cultivation of talk. No one's burdens are too heavy. We are not bidden to add our burdens to our brother's; we are bidden to bear his, and by so doing we shall lighten our own..—S. S. Times.