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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 28, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 11.

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Little Crosses

By Goulburn

Christ comes to us, morning by morning, to present to us, for the day then opening, divers little crosses, thwartings of our own will, interferences with our plans, disappointments of our little pleasures. Do we kiss them, and take them up, and follow in his rear, like Simon the Cyrenian? or do we toss them from us scornfully because they are so little, and wait for some great affliction to approve our patience and our resignation to his will? Ah! how might we accommodate to the small matters of religion generally those words of the Lord respecting the children, “Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones”! Despise not little sins; they have ruined many a soul. Despise not little duties; they have been to many a saved man an excellent discipline of humility. Despise not little temptations; rightly met, they have often nerved the character for some fiery trial. And despise not little crosses; for when taken up, and lovingly accepted at the Lord’s hand, they have made men meet for a great crown, even the crown of righteousness and life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.—Goulburn.