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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 22, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 4

REVERENCE

In our day, this old-fashioned and most beautiful grace is less practiced than it should be by the young. Independence is so praised and so sought after that we sometimes forget that it may be elevated into a mistaken importance. No young lady can have a well-balanced character who has not ingrained within her reverence, first for God, her Creator and Redeemer; next for her parents, and afterward for all that is lovely and of good report. We should feel and practice reverence toward the aged. They have borne life's heat and burden. They have experience which we lack. True reverence will make us patient with their infirmities, and gentle toward them in their declining years. We should regard the Bible with veneration and listen with respect to all who teach it, especially to ministers, whose office it is to tell the good tidings of life. You may depend upon it that the young girl who is habitually flippant, and who laughs at things which the common consent of the world holds sacred, is not a gentlewoman. She lacks reverence.—Christian at Work.