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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 12, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 9.

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Trusting God.

By Dr. Payson

CHRISTIANS might avoid much trouble and inconvenience if they would only believe what they profess, that God is able to make them happy without anything else. They imagine that if such a dear friend were to die, or such and such blessings were removed, they would be miserable; whereas God can make them a thousand times happier without them.
To mention my own case. God has been depriving me of one mercy after another; but as one is 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!—Dr. Payson.