282 THE TEMPER AND PASSIONS. 



Besides robbing ourselves of comfort and health, 

 and becoming hateful to ourselves and to all around 

 us, by passion and bad temper, we also unfit our- 

 selves for performing our private and public duties. 

 The passionate man and the passionate child 

 leads to the passionate man is not fit to mingle in 

 society. He is always making himself enemies, 

 and giving pain to his friends and family. Nor is 

 this all; every one who indulges in bad temper, and 

 gives way to morose and sour feelings, sets a mis- 

 chievous example to all around him, and spreads a 

 baneful influence over the whole range of his con- 

 nexions. The affections become weakened con- 

 fidence is destroyed health is injured nervous 

 and painful diseases are created, and comfort and 

 happiness are banished from his dwelling. 



To a man of this miserable disposition, the 

 troubles which all must expect to go through in 

 this life, become so many sources of torment; and 

 all the common evils of life are changed into real 

 misfortunes. Whilst the cheerful and thankful 

 man passes his days in such happiness as we are 

 fitted to enjoy, the other is gloomy and dissatisfied, 

 and makes his home cheerless. His countenance 

 is clouded, and his gait sluggish; his body loses its 

 healthy tone, and his mind is incapable of receiving 

 those impressions from the external world, which 

 our all-bountiful Creator has sent to minister to our 

 health and pleasure. 



Always bear in mind, therefore, that if you 

 would preserve health, you must be good-tern- 



