p. 112 | Detached Thoughts by Jos. Clarke

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 30, 1869

Detached Thoughts.

By Jos. Clarke

Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth. Ps. cxl, 11. Would all of us dare to offer this prayer? Might it not sometimes return upon the one who offered it?

We dare not ask God to humble us; but we may ask his aid in seeking this virtue, humility, by leading our minds to dwell upon such subjects as will lead to humility and the fear of God.

We fill our lamps often, or they would go out; so our souls do often need to be replenished with the love and grace of God, or we dwindle and expire spiritually.

We do not think it unnecessary to take food regularly, to sustain physical life: why should we think it unimportant to apply as often to our Heavenly Father, to give us our daily spiritual food.

It is a sound maxim in worldly things, that practice makes perfect. Let us try the same principle in spiritual matters.

Jos. Clarke.