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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 12, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 2.

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Vanity

Vanity—the sin's index of a small mind and a smaller heart. It flatters its victim, beyond measure, and blinds him to the ridicule and contempt of better men. He fails to see his folly, or the danger of his delusion. His feet shod with conceit, his body wrapped in self-righteousness, he honestly thanks God he is not like other men. You may tell me his weakness is a harmless folly, that it hurts nobody. Don't be too fast; vanity is one of the most prolific sources of unbelief, Sabbath-breaking, and moral stupidity, to which our depraved natures are exposed. It was vanity that killed a beautiful Absalom, strangled Haman, led Nebuchadnezzar out to eat grass like an ox, and sent many a man, and woman too, on a fool's errand. No, vanity is not so harmless a folly as some try to believe.—Sel.