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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 20, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 35.

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Bad News and Good News

BAD NEWS AND GOOD NEWS.—Quaint old Thomas Fuller makes the following striking observation: "Lord, I find the genealogy of my Saviour strangely checkered with four remarkable changes in four immediate generations:—
"1. Roboam begat Abia; that is, a bad father begat a bad son.
"2. Abia begat Asa; that is, a bad father, a good son.
"3. Asa begat Josaphat; that is, a good father, a good son.
"4. Josaphat begat Joram; that is, a good father, a bad son.
"I see, Lord, from thence, that my father's piety cannot be entailed; that is bad news for me. But I see, also, that actual impiety is not always hereditary; that is good news for my son."