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Cheerful Piety in Scarcity

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 9, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 38.

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Cheerful Piety in Scarcity

It is a fine illustration of cheerful piety which makes the best of everything, that in the early settlement of New England, when provisions were scarce, and the people did not know, from day to day, where they were to find food, one of them inviting his friends to dine had only clams to set before them, and at the table gave thanks to God, who “had given them to suck the abundance of the seas, and of the treasures hid in the sands!”