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Authority, Submission, and the Ease of Obedience

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 20, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 44, No. 17.

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Authority, Submission, and the Ease of Obedience

ONE very common error misleads the opinion of mankind, that, universally, authority is pleasant; submission, painful. In the general course of human affairs, the very reverse of this is nearer truth. Command is anxiety; obedience, ease.