Gratitude and praise promote physical and spiritual health, while resisting melancholy is a spiritual duty.
Draft interpretation · MH 251.3
Original passage
Nothing tends more to promote health of body and of soul than does a spirit of gratitude and praise. It is a positive duty to resist melancholy, discontented thoughts and feelings—as much a duty as it is to pray. If we are heaven-bound, how can we go as a band of mourners, groaning and complaining all along the way to our Father's house?
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