p. 127 | Beauty of Solitude

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1871

Beauty of Solitude.

Unthinking heads, who have not learned to be alone, are in prison to themselves, if they are not also with others; whereas, on the contrary, those whose thoughts are in a stir and hurry within, are sometimes fain to retire into company to be out of a crowd themselves. He who must needs have company, must sometimes have bad company. Be able to be alone; lose not the advantage of solitude and the society of thyself, nor be only content, but delight to be alone and single with Omnipotency. Unto him who is thus prepared, the day is not uneasy nor the night bleak. Darkness may bound his eyes, not his imagination. In his bed he may lie, like Pompey and his sons, in all quarters of the earth; may speculate the universe, and enjoy the whole world in the hermitage of himself.—Sel.