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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 1, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 13.

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DON'T FRET.

DON'T fret, for a fretful Christian is like a prickly pear, bitter within and irritating without. God says, "Cast all your care on me, for I care for you." "No, you don't," says the fretting Christian, "and so I'll fret over my cares."
Don't fret, for you are a witness for Christ. What is your testimony worth, if your fretting contradicts his words, "My yoke is easy and my burden light?"
Don't fret; for fretting, instead of relieving from trouble, will lay on you heavier burdens. As fear slays more people than cholera, so fretting kills more than care.
Don't fret, for God's providence governs all things. Consider the hairs of your head, the fowls of the air, the lilies of the field. Thus stay your heart on God, and thou shalt have perfect peace.
One of Cromwell's friends was a fretting Christian, to whom everything went wrong, and portended disaster. One day, when unusually fretful, his sensible servant said:—
"Master, don't you think that God governed the world very well before you came into it?"
"Yes; but why do you ask?"
"Don't you think he will govern it very well when you are out of it?"
"Yes; but why do you ask?"
"Well, then, can't you trust him to govern it for the little time you are in it?"
That shot killed his fretting.— Watchman and Reflector.