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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 9, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 18.

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Brief Thoughts.

By Jos. Clarke

WE cannot mend our mistakes until we fully discover them to be such.
A sinful act is offensive to God, but to justify a sin is doubly and many fold more heinous.
It is easy for a man to be generous, if he gets in the habit of it; but to take it up occasionally is difficult.
He who does wrong because some good man has erred, does not imitate Jesus Christ.
God has promised to lift up the meek, not to worldly greatness, but to favor with himself.
It is an absurdity to the worldly man, that humility is a virtue, and pride a vice; he holds to the contrary.
It is a plain truth to the Christian, that humility is a virtue, and pride a vice, one a strong virtue indispensable and pure, the other a vice hateful and fatal.
Two things cannot be more antagonistic to each other, than sin and holiness.
JOS. CLARKE.