A Few Mistakes | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1879

A Few Mistakes.

The Boston Transcript discourses thus to morbid complainers:—

It is a mistake to suppose that the dismally pious man has had a change of heart. The change is in his liver, if anywhere. It is a mistake to suppose that your friend is consumedly interested in your eloquent description of your liver troubles. On the contrary, he is excessively anxious to tell you of his catarrh. It is a mistake to suppose that physicians know how to treat your constitutional disorders as well as you do yourself. You know well enough what is best for you, but you dislike to undergo the proper regimen. You employ a doctor, paying him for shouldering the responsibility of your sickness, and handicap his efforts with all your unhealthful habits and practices.