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The Purpose of Afflictions

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 26, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 23.

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The Purpose of Afflictions

THE great purpose of afflictions, where God is really feared, is to oblige us to cleave more closely to him, by allowing us no other source of consolation. We never value the grace of God so much as when we are obliged to have recourse to it for our support against what would be, otherwise, overwhelming.