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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 18, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 12

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TRUSTING GOD.

When Whitlocke, in 1653, was about embarking for Sweden, it is said he was greatly distressed, as he rested at Harwich at night, while reflecting on the distracted state of affairs in England; so much so that he could not sleep. As he walked the floor in excitement, his Christian servant said to him,—
“Pray, sir, may I ask you a question?”
“Certainly,” was the reply of the ambassador.
“Pray, sir, don’t you think God governed the world very well, all the time before you came into it?”
“Undoubtedly,” was the answer.
“And, sir, don’t you think he will govern it just as well when you are gone out of it?”
“Certainly,” said Whitlocke.
“Then, sir, don’t you think you can trust him to take care of it over night, and that it will be safe in his care, while you can go to sleep?”
It becomes us to realize that God rules, just as certainly as that he exists. Is there not enough in this to quiet our anxieties, and to banish all groundless and useless forebodings? After we have faithfully and humbly done our duty, may we not then leave ourselves, our families, our friends, the country, the church—may we not leave all these with God, feeling, the while, that they are all safe in his hands? Why should we be bending double under our burdens, when it is written for our comfort and help: “Cast thy care upon the Lord!” —Selected.