Our Casket | AdventAI

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 1, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 1

Our Casket.

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

—SELF-SACRIFICE is part of the Lord’s refining fire, in which he prepares the gold for the building of the heavenly city.—Interior.

—“My will, not thine, be done,” turned Paradise into a desert. “Thy will, not mine, be done,” turned the desert into a paradise and made Gethsemane the gate of Heaven.—Dr. E. Pressense.

—THE best type of Christian character must be that of the man who mixes his daily work with conscience, and strives to do everything, even the most insignificant, as unto the Lord.—Examiner and Chronicle.

—THE shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and, if we observe, we shall find that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.—Socrates.

—WE see it stated that Charles Beecher, twenty-two years pastor of the South church, Georgetown, Mass., has resigned. But whether his adoption of spiritualism has led to it or not, we have not learned.—World’s Crisis.

—THE National Baptist would like to have a day of fasting and prayer to ask the blessing of the Lord on the effort to relieve the churches of their burdens; and the Christian at Work thinks fasting, prayer, and common sense might prevent churches from running into debt at all.

—ONE of our Unitarian friends at Providence handed us this most excellent thought, written on a torn leaf of his memorandum-book: “The demand now is for a science that is philosophical, a philosophy that is scientific, and a religion that is both philosophical and scientific.” Not much Christianity about that!—Index.

—THE Presbyterian Banner takes it for granted that a man who had committed four murders, or four burglaries, or four perjuries, would not be allowed to take his seat in Congress, and then with reference to the well-known Mormon delegate, wonders how a man who has four wives is esteemed worthy of a place among our nation’s law-makers.—Christian Weekly.