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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · September 3, 1867

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 12

MELANCTHON.—When Melancthon was entreated by his friends to lay aside the natural anxiety and timidity of his temper, he replied, “If I had no anxieties, I should lose a powerful incentive to prayer; but when the cares of life impel to devotion, the best means of consolation, a religious mind can not do without them. Thus trouble compels me to prayer, and prayer drives away trouble.”