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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 30, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 24.

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TOWARD the close of a life of devotedness to God, that eminent minister, Dr. Payson, observed that Christians might avoid much trouble and inconvenience if they would only believe what they profess—that God is able to make them supremely happy in himself, independently of all circumstances. “God has been depriving me,” he wrote, “of one mercy after another; but as one was removed, he has come in and filled up its place. Now when I am a cripple, and not able to move, I am happier than ever I was in my life before, or ever expected to be; and if I had believed this twenty years ago, I might have been spared much anxiety. If God had told me some time ago that he was about to make me as happy as I could be in this world, and then had told me that he should begin by crippling me in all my limbs, and removing me from my usual sources of enjoyment, I should have thought it a very strange mode of accomplishing this purpose. And yet how is his wisdom manifest even in this.”—Sel.