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EFFECT OF GOOD COMPANY

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Apr 6, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 14.

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EFFECT OF GOOD COMPANY.

Nothing makes a man so in love with purity as purity. Many a man has been lifted out of debasing sins, against which he has vainly struggled, by coming to know and love a pure, sweet woman. It is a sight of embodied goodness that makes us want to be good. Many a mother by the usefulness of her life, fills her children with a desire to be like her, that makes them in their turn unselfish. There are obscure men and women who hardly in their lives utter a word of conscientious teaching, who, by their example, do more to make people around them gentle, truthful, and Christ-like than any preacher can do. It is not those who talk about goodness, but those who are good, that are the light of the world.—Sel.