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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 8, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 7.

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TRUST

By Albert Stone

TRUST in God enters largely into the formation of the Christian character. That God is worthy of the confidence of his intelligent creatures is so evident, both from the light of nature and of revelation, that to question it is a sin of no small magnitude. He who has not a firm, settled trust in God, is voluntarily out of his proper place in the universe, and is as a wandering star, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
There are ample grounds on which to base this invaluable Christian grace. The world we live in, fitted up with infinite skill and intelligence for the convenience, comfort, and support of men, bears testimony to the power and goodness of God. The heavens declare his glory, and the firmament showeth his handiwork, and the tendency of what our eyes behold in the visible creation is calculated to inspire the highest degree of confidence in the Creator. He causes his sun to shine on the evil and on the good, and refreshing showers to fall on the plantations of the just and of the unjust.
His inspired word clearly defines our relation, duty, and obligation to him, while it extends to us the wisest counsels and precepts. The plan of salvation reveals his unbounded mercy, love, and goodness. The remarkable fulfilling of the predictions of the prophets in relation to the coming of Christ and the end of the world, with the foretold signs of that event; the unsettled state of the world in everything that pertains to human welfare; the distress of the nations and their warlike attitude; the unpitied cries of the defrauded laborer; the starvation of many thousands by famine; the unprecedented increase, in high places, of every form of sin and crime; the dark shades of human depravity looming up everywhere; the prevalence in every Christian country of demonology in the form of modern spiritualism,—these all, with one united voice, call upon mankind to seek some sure refuge from the impending storm that is destined to sweep from their moorings, with the besom of destruction, every human organization, together with the proud, and all that do wickedly.
God only is such a refuge, and a practical trust in him is the only surety of his favor and protection.
“They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth forever.” ALBERT STONE.