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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 2, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 15.

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PATIENCE

By D. F. Ewen

“In your patience possess ye your souls.” Luke 21:19. It is easy for a man to profess attachment to a good cause, when that cause meets with the general approbation. It is an easy thing to boast of virtue that has never been tried by temptation, and to exult in fortitude that has never had to bear the storm of opposition; but true fortitude is found to consist in supporting evils with resignation, and in enduring opposition with resolution and dignity. “He that loseth wealth,” says the Spaniard, “loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit, loseth all.” The man of fortitude, strong in conscious integrity and the knowledge of the right, though wealth may desert him, though his friends may forsake him in his greatest need, yet possesses his soul in patience; he rejoices that his soul is free. The cause of truth he knows can never fail. This makes him magnanimous both to do and dare. D. F. EWEN.