Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1884 — Scolding. [ARTICLE]

Scolding.

While visiting at a friend’s house once, said a lady in thp New York'P&ifif she asked me to go to her desk for .something, and I saw ihere, on opening the lid, a motto written by herself and evidently intended for n<> one else. It said: “Do not scold; do not fret!” “Yes,” she said, in answer to an inquiring look, “1 was obliged to put it there. I wasn’t very well, little things troubled me, and it is so natural to speak of them; but I noticed that, after a little while, that when in the morning, early before school or breakfast, I began to speak of the wrong-doings of any member of the family, the wrong* doings and the tendency to speak of them increased alarHdngfyall tlifOffgh the day, and I discovered that if were silent the opposite were trne; and I began to earnestly believe, as I never did before, that mv own soft words turned away my own wrath; and isn’t that what it really means? for it fretqnentlv happens that other people’s wrath is increased by that very coarse.” It is expected that the Revised Old Testament will be ready for publication before the close of the year-