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Happy Is He

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 30, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 16.

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“Happy Is He.”

A LADY reports this little incident:— Mrs. White had been spending the afternoon with me. She was not very cheerful company. Much of the time was spent with the story of her troubles, which, after all, seemed to me of her own making. She complained of her husband, of her children, of her pastor, and of herself.
“Oh!” said Willie, after she was in the street, “aren’t you so glad she’s gone?”
“Why, Willie?” I said.
“She is so doleful, she makes everything look so dark. Is she a Christian, auntie?”
“She professes to be,” I answered; but it was time to go to prayer-meeting, and I said no more to Willie then about it. At prayer-meeting we heard two or three men talk in a sad, dreary way, [as you have all heard persons talk in your own prayer-meeting; people who make religion seem a gloomy thing]. As we walked home, Willie said, “auntie, are Mr. French and Mr. Brown Christians?”
“I think so.”
“And do they trust in the Lord? Does Mrs. White trust him?”
“But why do you ask?”
“Because, I read in my ‘Daily Food,’ this morning, ‘The man that trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.’ They don’t seem happy a bit, and I thought they couldn’t be trusting in God.”
Was Willie right?