The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-28
WHAT WE THINK
People Who Kill Themselves by
Thinking Mean Things.


If you are unhappy from any cause
you are sinner We are all sinners
Our present religions don't seem to
make the majority of the professors
happy. It has told US truly to reform
our acts. 1t says little about reforming
our thoughts. The average New Eng
land deacon OF forty years ago often
d ed of consumption; because he
thought such a set of mean thoughts
they killed him. There is a scientific
truth involved in the phrase about a
mans b, ing TOO mean TO live" Mean
SIS does Kill people. It's lot so quiC|
as arsenic but it's slow and SURE. A
mean thought is mean thing put out
in the ar. It's none the less real for
for being invisible, no more than is
electricity or any unseen power
IN nature. Some houses make
you feel mean to go into
them. It's because there's so much
actual mean element floating in the air
and permeating the walls. Think mean
and you'll act mean. Every act of the
body has a mood of mind behind that
mae the act. Murder in the mind
You can't do a mead thing without
several hours mean thinking before.
Some people take several years. More's
the pity. They paw for 1t by sick
bodies. Pure, unadulterated villainv is
never well. True, it L ay be on its legs
andAabout the streets. But more peo-
pie are sick on their legs every day
than are sick in bed. Don't get angry
a. mean man. He's suffering more
than you are, unless you get angry.
Anger brings on bile. The trouble with
many people who want to reform the
world is they make themselves sick at
the start by getting angry and scolding.
No regular scold is ever well. Scolding
and anger poison the blood. TIE
thought so put out is the destructive
element. 1t draws and attracts the
same element from those scolded at.
You can pile pills all day down a
scolding woman and they won't help
her. She is profitable patient though
for the doctor.
short cases mean short fees. A good
practice needs long cases and long
purses behind the cases. Don't blame
the doctors They only give what their
patients call for. The doctor knows
that all the woman needs is rest. The
d
doctor gives the pill to satisfy the wom-
ans needs. She needs it not because
it's really necessary, but because she
thinks it is. Then it is not essary ;
Just as l need a cigar because 1 think I
d.. Put me where l couldn't get one
and I'd soon find I didn't need it. No
sound preaching is good unless the
minister takes his own medicine. | try
alwaNs to swallow my bItterest doses.
But no preacher is obliged to practice
what he breaches. I've as good a
right to do wrong as my Pensioners.
1t do, the penalty will whack me and
Whoop ne up all the same. The idea
that a man must or should practice
what he breaches to others Is ridicu-
lous. Telling a man that getting
drunk will give him a headache next
morning has nothing to do with your
getting drunk or keeping sober. You'v
told the truth. Whether you handle
the truth or not is another affair.
What is right proves itself in the
amount of happiness it brings. One
hours drunk" brings day of pain.
This is the proof that the drunk was a
sin. If you want your drink aud must
have it, and are willing to suffer for it,
you are entitled to it and it is nobody s
business but your own. All this preach
ing by others to others as to what YOU
shall do or shall not do Is so much
strength thrown away by the preacher
to the preachee.
You have a perfect right to dowrong.
You can't do wrong without getting
your little whack for it at every step.
Go on in wrong doing my friend. Go
on as long as you can stand til. l.,
Grnv in fchisOD GLObe