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TRUST, AND BE HAPPY

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 26, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 9.

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TRUST, AND BE HAPPY

By H. W. COTTRELL

H. W. COTTRELL
As the hue of the peeling is simply outward beauty to the peach, so only is feeling to Christianity. The tint may be removed with the peeling, but the quality that was first in the seed will remain in the fruit. Thus in one moment may circumstances in the providence of God remove those gilded feelings from your Christian experience, as the peeling is removed from the peach: but, Christian, despair not, be not even discouraged, the quality remains. It is in the seed, not in the hue or the feeling. Trust. Trust the Omnipotent if you feel happy, and trust and be happy if you do not feel so. In His own good time the Lord will again gild the life. We must have the quality. For the quality, trust to the seed—not to the seeds of fancy or fiction; “but as of one,” and to the “seed, which is Christ.” “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”