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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 26, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 4.

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Endure Hardships.

By Charles Bray

As a gladiator trained the body, so must we train the mind to self-sacrifice, "to endure all things," to meet and overcome difficulty and danger. We must take the rough and thorny road, as well as the smooth and pleasant; and a portion, at least, of our daily duty must be hard and disagreeable: for the mind cannot be kept strong and healthy in perpetual sunshine only, and the most dangerous of all states is that of constantly recurring pleasure, ease, and prosperity. Most persons will find difficulties and hardships enough without seeking them; let them not repine, but take them as a part of that educational discipline necessary to fit the mind to arrive at its highest good.—Charles Bray.