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True Grace Is a Growing Principle

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 25, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 22.

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True Grace Is a Growing Principle

By Cecil

TRUE grace is a growing principle.
The Christian grows in discernment; a child may play with a serpent, but the man gets as far from it as he can; a child may taste poison, but the man will not suffer a speck of poison near him.
He grows in humility; the blade shoots boldly up, and the young ear keeps erect with confidence; but the full corn in the ear inclines itself toward the earth, not because it is feebler, but because it is matured.
He grows in strength; the new wine ferments and frets; but the old wine acquires a body and firmness.—Cecil.