The Lord Will Provide

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

The Lord Will Provide.

In a village near Warsaw, there lived a pious peasant, by name Dobry. Without any fault of his own, he had fallen into arrear with his rent, and the landlord determined to turn him out. It was winter, and evening, and the next day he was to be turned out, with all his family. As they sat in their sorrow, Dobry knelt down in their midst, and they sang:

“Commit thou all thy griefs And ways into His hands.”

Just as they came to the last verse—

“When thou wouldst all our need supply, Who then shall stay thy hand ?”

there was a knock at the window. It was an old friend, a raven, that Dobry’s grandfather had taken out of the nest and tamed and then set at liberty. Dobry opened the window, the raven hopped in, and in his bill there was a ring, set with precious stones. Dobry thought he would sell the ring; but he thought again that he would take and show it to his minister; and he, who saw at once, by the crest, that it belonged to king Stanislaus, took it to him, and related the story. The king sent for Dobry, and rewarded him so that he was no more in need; and the next year built him a new house, and gave him cattle from his own herd; and over the house-door there is an iron tablet whereon is carved a raven with a ring in his beak, and underneath the verse—

“Thou everywhere hast sway, And all things serve thy might; Thy every act pure blessing is, Thy path unsullied light!” —Exchange.