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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 33.

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Peace and Happiness

How DIFFERENT is peace from happiness! Happiness is the result of harmony between our wants as creatures and the world without; peace is the harmony between us as spiritual beings and the Father of our spirits. The one is changeable as the objects or circumstances on which it, for the moment, relies; the other is as unchangeable as the God on whom it eternally rests. We may thus possess at once real happiness and real peace, yet either may exist without the other. Nay, more, happiness may be destroyed by God in order that the higher blessing of peace may be possessed; but never will he take away peace to give happiness. Happiness without peace is temporal; peace along with happiness is eternal.—Sel.