KEEP IT TO YOURSELF

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 29, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 18

KEEP IT TO YOURSELF.

You have trouble—your feelings are injured, your husband is unkind, your wife frets, your home is not pleasant, your friends do not treat you fairly, and things in general do not move pleasantly. Well, what of it? Keep it to yourself. A smouldering fire can be found and extinguished; but when the coals are scattered, who can pick them up? Bury your sorrow. The place for sad and disgusting things is under the ground. A cut finger is not benefited by pulling off the plaster, and exposing it to somebody’s eyes. Tie it up, and let it alone. It will get well sooner than you can cure it. “Charity covereth a multitude of sins.” Things thus covered are often healed without

a scar; but once published and confided to meddling friends, there is no end to the trouble they can cause. Keep it to yourself. Troubles are transient; and when a sorrow is healed and past, what a comfort it is to say, “No one ever knew it until the trouble was all over.”