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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 1, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 18.

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SELF-BROUGHT BURDENS.

By L. E. Orton

A pious lady over eighty years of age was telling me of a recent journey she had made, and congratulating herself on performing it safely. I said to her, “I suppose you trusted in the Lord, and went right ahead?” “Oh! yes,” said she, “I used judgment too. Folks need common sense in this world, as well as trust!”
She now sleeps in the grave; but how often her words have been verified before my eyes. When we blunder, and when our “best laid plans aft gang a-gley,” we have a comfortable way of calling it the Lord’s discipline, instead of rightly attributing it to our own lack of ability and perseverance.
L. E. ORTON.
Buffalo, N. Y.