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Affliction and Earthly Hopes

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 15.

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Affliction and Earthly Hopes

WHEN comfort surrounds us, and health and prosperity is our portion, we are apt to paint bright pictures of the future of our lives here below. Our earthly plans absorb our thought and we are in danger. Our loving God sees our peril, and instead of letting us be destroyed, he destroys our hope. Like a rude stone, through our design for future earthly comfort, comes an affliction, a sickness, a loss, a disappointment—something which God knows to be best fitted for the purpose.