A Murmuring Father

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1868

A Murmuring Father.

A PERSON with not very ample means of support, had a large family; and being informed that a friend had drawn a prize in a lottery, he exclaimed, peevishly, “God sends meat to others—children to me.” It afterward occurred, that the Being at whose government he had so impiously murmured, sent him those riches which he had so eagerly and wickedly longed for. But as he sent him the wished-for wealth, he deprived him of the children he had complained of. He saw them, one by one, go to the grave before him; and in advanced life, and great affluence, when his last beloved daughter was taken from him, he painfully remembered his former rebellious murmurings against God.