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On Complaining About an Early Death

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 22, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 21.

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On Complaining About an Early Death

By Cicero

Some men make a womanish complaint, that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask, What time? Is it that of nature? But she indeed has lent us life as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason, then, to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition you received it?—Cicero.