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The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 4, 1879

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 54, No. 23

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“A little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts and almonds.” Gen. 43:11.

—By the streets of by-and-by one arrives at the house of never.

—The Scriptures have lights in them that are not seen by common gazers.

—The star that sets may rise again, but the star that falls is forever lost.

—A word unspoken is a sword in the scabbard; a word uttered is a sword in another’s hand.—Quarles.

—Do not take away from any one opinions that render him happy, if you cannot give him better ones.

—Study pure and holy walking, if you would have your confidence firm, and have boldness and joy in God.

—The man who when he is alone and without witnesses is the same as when he is in public, is nearly always an honest man.

—Engage not hastily, as a party, in a difference between others, but reserve thyself impartial and unengaged, that thou mayest moderate between them.

—You can no more exercise your reason if you live in constant dread of ridicule, than you can enjoy your life if you live in constant fear of death.

—By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of Heaven.

—Value no man for his opinion, but esteem him according as his life corresponds with the rules of piety and justice; a man’s actions, not his conceptions, render him valuable.

The history of the world teaches no lesson with more impressive solemnity than this; that the only safe guide of a great intellect is a pure heart; that evil no sooner takes possession of the heart, than folly commences the conquest of the mind.—C. C. Bonney.