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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, November 5, 1867

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 21

REMOVE THE ROOTS.

THE process of reclaiming a piece of wild land, is, as every one who has had experience knows, not the work of a moment, but, it may be, of many years of patient labor. The slow and tedious progress of underbrushing, felling and chopping up the timber, logging, fencing, plowing, harrowing and seeding, must all be gone through with; and often the crop returns are not adequate to the expenses incurred. For many years after the unsightly stumps remain; and after the patient husbandman thinks he has got rid of them all, his plow comes in contact with those hidden beneath the surface of the soil.

And so it is with the human heart. Overgrown with a rank production of nature's own deceitful, wicked plants, the Spirit of God begins the purifying work. Line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little. And then the stumps must be got rid of.

“He breaks the power of cancelled sin.”