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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 15, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 11.

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LOOKING UP.

During Dr. Payson's last illness, a friend, coming into his room, remarked familiarly, “Well, I am sorry to see you lying here on your back.”
“Do you know what God puts us on our backs for?” said Dr. Payson, smiling.
“No;” was the answer.
“In order that we may look upward.”
His friend said to him, “I am not come to condole, but to rejoice with you; for it seems to me that this is no place for mourning.”
“Well, I am glad to hear that,” was the reply, “for it is not often that I am addressed in such a way. The fact is, I never had less need of condolence, and yet everybody persists in offering it; whereas when I was prosperous and well, and a successful preacher, and really needed condolence, they flattered and congratulated me.”