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CAN I ATTAIN UNTO IT?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 23, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 46, No. 12.

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CAN I ATTAIN UNTO IT?

Victory is a fine watchword for armies, and sounds well in poetry. Why not make it the daily aim? The combination of outward circumstances and inward temperament furnishes abundant foes and obstacles, and we are either conquered or conquerors continually. To maintain cheerful serenity in spite of discomforts, failures, and opposition of every sort, is to approach divinity. To hope, though disappointment thrusts us through and through; to strive, though failure is our daily portion; to toil, and see no fruit; to love, and be unloved; this is to be victorious indeed. It is sublime to conquer defeat.—Sel.