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THE MOST UNHAPPY

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 4, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 7.

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THE MOST UNHAPPY.

Croesus, king of Persia, in conversation with two philosophers and his vizir, asked, “What situation of man is most to be deplored?” One of the philosophers maintained that it was old age accompanied with extreme poverty; the other, that it was to have the body oppressed by infirmities, the mind worn out, and the heart broken by a heavy series of misfortunes. “I know a condition more to be pitied,” said the vizir, “and it is that of him who has passed through life without doing good; and who, unexpectedly surprised by death, is sent to appear before the tribunal of the Sovereign Judge.”