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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 2, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 28, No. 18.

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Gratitude

GRATITUDE.—A poor Protestant congregation in Lyons was trying to build a small house for their public worship. An old soldier brought all his three months' earnings. “Can you spare so much?” asked the minister.
“My Saviour spared not himself,” he answered, tears of gratitude and love trickling down his cheeks, “but freely gave his life for me; surely I can spare one quarter of a year's earnings to extend his kingdom on earth.”
Is not that a motive to open the heart?