Brevities by JOS. CLARKE.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 6, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 12.

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Brevities.

By JOS. CLARKE.

Evil speakers seldom realize the terrible nature of their work, until their batteries are turned upon themselves.

The more respect we have for God's will, the more regard he has for ours.

He who would claim the protection of God, must be subject to his law.

The more pains we take to keep the law of God, and to hallow his Sabbath, the more pains will he take to keep us.

The least recklessness of life, in thought, word, or deed, indicates a corresponding corruption of heart.

Impatience under restraint, and galling under reproof, all indicate but too surely that restraint and reproof are indispensably necessary.

Nicely adjusted scales, weighing with equal precision tons or grains, are the admiration of all lovers of justice. Much more do we admire the mind trained to correct modes of reasoning, and admitting only just conclusions, yet ever prepared to weigh without bias or partiality.

As light appears most beautiful when placed in contrast

with darkness, so does good seem most lovely when opposed to evil.

We all may know when a discord is produced in music, though we may not always be able to describe in technical terms what the discord is. So in human action, we see and feel the effect of evil, although it is sometimes so small that we hardly know how to describe it clearly.

JOS. CLARKE.