Our Casket | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 8, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 15

Our Casket.

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

—To be a well-rounded Christian man or woman includes the highest graces of true gentility.—S. S. Times.

—The little mishaps of each day, if pondered, may remind us of a neglected season of prayer, or a hasty word to the family at home.—Christian Observer.

—At the final reckoning, the little things done in a loving Christian spirit will surprise us by the magnitude of the reward they bring.—Religious Herald.

—That class of men whose business it is to carry elections has been the enemy of republics ever since republics began, and this class is coming into existence in this country in alarming numbers and power.—Joseph Cook.

—The sixth commandment refers to our own lives as well as to those of others; and if we can carry on our business only by overdrawing the capital of our strength, it is plain that we should abridge our trade at almost any sacrifice, and seek a larger amount of rest.—W. M. Taylor, D. D.

—A very learned man once asked Luther how he would be able in the day of Judgment to bear the responsibility of having rejected the opinions of so many learned men. With a smile he replied: “In this manner I will do it: Dear Lord Christ, I will say, I well knew that they were all learned men, but I acted so foolishly and had such confidence in thee, that thou, O Christ, wert more learned and wise than they and the whole world. If thou then didst deceive me, I am indeed deceived.”

—Christian faith is, then, not only an assent to the whole gospel of Christ, but also a full reliance on the blood of Christ, a trust in the merits of his life, death, and resurrection; a recumbency upon him as our atonement and our life, as given for us, and living in us. It is a sure confidence which a man hath in God, that through the merits of Christ, his sins are forgiven, and he reconciled to the favor of God; and, in consequence thereof, a closing with him, and cleaving to him, as our “Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption;” or in one word, our Salvation.—John Wesley.