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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 22, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 7.

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THOUGHTS AND DEEDS.

By M. M. Osgood

The scales of justice hang between The deed unjust and the end unseen; And a sparrow's fall in the one is weighed By God's own hand in the other laid. —Selected.
And not only deeds, but our every thought Must to the unerring scale be brought; And the impure motive or word making, Upon life's record we all shall find. But he who numbereth every hair, Who lovingly lists to the faintest prayer Of those who believe in the offering made, Hath over our wrongs Christ's obedience laid. Then we who seek meekness, in Jesus may hide. We'll not be found wanting while there we abide; For mercy and love shall then justice outweigh, And we be found faultless who henceforth obey.
M. M. Osgood.
Battle Creek, Mich.