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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 10, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 2.

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“DEM SUPPOSES.”

Those who are so anxious about the future as to be unhappy in the present may learn a lesson from a poor colored woman. Her name was Nancy, and she earned a moderate living by washing. She was, however, always happy. One day, one of those anxious Christians who are constantly “taking thought” about the morrow, said to her,—
“Ah, Nancy, it is well enough to be happy now, but I should think your thoughts of the future would sober you. Suppose, for instance, that you should be sick and unable to work; or suppose that your present employers should move away and no one else should give you anything to do; or suppose?”—
“Stop!” cried Nancy, “I never supposes. De Lord is my Shepherd, and I knows I shall not want. And, honey,” she added to her gloomy friend, “it's all dem supposes as is makin' you so mis'ble. You'd orter give dem all up an' jes' trus' in de Lord.”—The Presbyterian.