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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 27, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 4.

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Accept Your Lot

By Dr. Bushnell

NEVER complain of your birth, your training, your employments, your hardships; never fancy that you could be something, if only you had a different lot assigned you. God understands his own plan, and he understands what you want a great deal better than you do. The very things that you most deprecate as fatal limitations or obstructions, are probably what you most want. Choke that devilish envy which gnaws your heart, because you are not in the same lot with others; bring down your soul, or rather, bring it up to receive God's will, and do his work in your lot, in your sphere, and then you shall find that your condition is never opposed to your good, but really consistent with it.—Dr. Bushnell.