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Nancy Trusts the Lord

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 1, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 10.

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Nancy Trusts the Lord

“ONCE heard of a poor colored woman,” says a writer in the Times of Refreshing, “who earned a precarious living by daily labor, but who was a joyous, triumphant Christian. ‘Ah, Nancy,’ said a gloomy Christian lady to her one day, who almost disapproved of her constant cheerfulness, and yet envied it, ‘Ah, Nancy, it is all well enough to be happy now, but I should think the thoughts of your future would sober you. Only suppose, for instance, that you should have a spell of sickness and be unable to work; or suppose, your present employer should move away, and no one else should give you anything to do; or suppose—’ ‘Stop,’ cried Nancy, ‘I never supposes; Lord is my Shepherd, and I knows I shall not want. And, honey,’ she added to her gloomy friend, ‘it’s all dem supposes as is makin’ so mis’able; you better give dem all up, I just trust de Lord.’