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Success Not Always Evidence of Good

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 14, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 20.

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Success Not Always Evidence of Good

SUCCESS as the world counts it is not always an evidence of the good accomplished. The cause of God in every age has been advanced through trials and difficulties. On a certain week in September, 1756, John Wesley recorded in his celebrated Journal: “Wednesday and Thursday I settled my temporal business. It is now about eighteen years since I began writing and printing books; and how much in that time have I gained by printing? Why, on summing up my accounts I found that on March 1, 1756 (the day I left London last), I had gained by printing and preaching together, a debt of twelve hundred and thirty-six pounds.”