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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, November 12, 1867

OUR MERCIES.

The talents which we have received are many and great. What people breathing on earth have had plainer instruction, or more forcible persuasions, or more constant admonitions, in season and out of season? Sermons, till we have been weary of them; and Sabbaths, till we profaned them? Excellent books in such plenty that we know not which to read? What people have had God so near them, or have seen so much of Christ crucified before their eyes, or have had Heaven and hell so open unto them? What speed should such a people make for Heaven? How should they fly that are thus winged! And how swiftly should they sail that have wind and tide to help them! A small measure of grace beseems not such a people, nor will an ordinary diligence in the work of God excuse them. All our lives have been filled with mercies. God has mercifully poured out upon us the riches of sea and land, of heaven and earth. We are fed and clothed with mercy. We have mercies within and without. To number them, is to count the stars and the sands of the seashore. If there be any difference betwixt hell and earth—yea, or Heaven and earth—then certainly we have received mercy. If the blood of the Son of God be mercy, then we are engaged to God by mercy. Shall God think nothing too much or too good for us, and shall we think all too much that we do for him? When I compare my slow and unprofitable life with the frequent and wonderful mercies received, it shames me, it silences me, and leaves me inexcusable.—Christian Treasury.