J. V. AUSTIN by J. V. Austin

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 27, 1872

J. V. AUSTIN

By J. V. Austin

Hope.

Is there a person in the land that can truthfully say, “I have nothing to look forward to,” or, in other words, “I have no hope”? If such there be, God pity them: for life to them must be dreary. They can only look on the dark side, and everything is so dreary and gloomy that they must be perfectly miserable! But need this be the case? Can we not be happy if we choose? Do we not all know that this world is a world of trouble if we have a mind to give up to it and let every misfortune mar our happiness? Of course, we have troubles that others know not of; but do not others have troubles we know nothing about? Then let us make the best of it, cheer up and be happy. Let us look through this vale of tears, to the home that is promised us in a brighter world than this. “Hope on, hope ever.”

J. V. AUSTIN

Berkshire, Vt., Aug. 10, 1872.