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Who Are the Happy?

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 29, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 23, No. 18.

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Who Are the Happy?

Who Are The Happy?—Lord Byron said: "The mechanics and workingmen who can maintain their families are, in my opinion, the happiest body of men. Poverty is wretchedness, but even poverty is, perhaps, to be preferred to the heartless, unmeaning dissipation of the higher orders." Another author says, "I have no propensity to envy any one, least of all the rich and great; but if I were disposed to this weakness, the subject of my envy would be a healthy young man, in full possession of his strength and faculties, going forth in the morning to work for his wife and children, or bringing them home his wages at night."