Discontent

"DISCONTENT has succeeded in turning away many from the better land, by suggesting worldly motives, and proposing the objections of worldly minds. DISCONTENT meets many of us day by day. And as this kind of temptation is frequent, so the answer of FAITHFUL is important: he pleads a full and final break-off of kindred and acquaintance; and this severing of the ties of friendship is mutual—'they have disowned me, and I also have rejected them.' He therefore has no more duties of friendship to perform towards them; nor can they now demand that he shall so shape his conduct as to please them. Their pleasures are not his pleasures now; nor are their ways his ways. He likes what they dislike; they hate what he loves."[1]