Our Casket | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · May 5, 1885

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 18

Our Casket.

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

—Hope for nothing from this world, and your soul will enjoy rest.

—Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun; and the two are never far apart.

—A test of love to God is secret prayer. If you love your friend, you will often talk in confidence to him, and get his help.

—Ask God to give thee skill In comfort's art; That thou may'st consecrated be And set apart, Unto a life of sympathy. For heavy is the weight of ill In every heart; And comforters are needed much Of Christ-like touch.

—The trial of faith is the sure way of increasing it. We ask for more faith, and God tries what we have, and that is his way of answering prayer for its increase. He brings us into trials, so that we are compelled to look only to him for help. The life of faith is a wonderful life.

—God makes the glow-worm as certainly as the star; the light in both is divine. If mine be an earth-star to gladden the wayside, I must cultivate humbly and rejoicingly its green earth-glow and not seek to blanch it to the whiteness of the stars that lie in the fields of blue.

—In making the beautiful golden inscriptions on the backs of volumes, hot type overlaid with thin leaves of gold are pressed upon them, the heat causing the gold to adhere, without which the inscription would not be permanent. It is even so in the world of thought and speech. If we would make lasting impressions upon the character of hearers or readers we should not only press upon them with the hand of eloquent earnestness words overlaid with golden thoughts, but they should be burning words from hearts aflame with love.—Rev. J. R. Goodpasture.