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The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 11, 1879

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 54, No. 24

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

—CARRY your cross—don’t drag it.

—HOLY fear is the door-keeper of the soul.

—A SCAR nobly gained is a good livery of honor.

—THE soldier wastes his strength who fights his shadow.

—IT is little troubles that wear the heart out. It is easier to throw a bombshell a mile than a feather—even with artillery.

—WE deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support; strength needs it far more. A straw or a feather sustains itself long in the air.

—OUR trying to love an object is like our trying to laugh when we are not pleased: the more we try, the less we shall succeed. The trying process implies it is a thing we do not prefer.

—IF you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as, by degrees, will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

—DID you ever know a good man or pure woman utterly ruined by outside attacks upon their reputation? I never did. The abuse of a good man is commonly the head-wind that fans the fires of his own furnace, and gives him the greater headway. No true man was ever put down and kept down while he was true to conscience and to God. When character is destroyed, it is never murder; it is suicide.—Cuyler.

—EACH person may have a separate gift. Even the gift to be able to lie still and suffer is not a small one. The gift of being able to be poor and contented is not to be despised. The gift of nursing the sick, or of interesting children, should be very lovingly employed; neither ought any talent to be wrapped in a napkin. But, whatever it is, the word is, “Stir up the gift which is in thee.”