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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · January 7, 1868

ONE SIN MAY DESTROY THE SOUL.

Many planks, well pinned and calked, make the ship to float; one, but one leak not stopped, will sink it; one wound strikes Goliath dead as well as three-and-twenty did Cæsar; one Delilah will do Sampson as much spite as the Philistines; one wheel broken spoils the whole clock; one vein's bleeding will let out all the vitals as well as more; one fly will spoil a whole box of ointment; bitter herb, all the pottage; one Achan was a trouble to all Israel; one Jonah, if faulty, is lading too heavy for a whole ship. Thus one sin is enough to procure God's anger, and too much for one man to commit; and if God then take an account of one sin, let men have a care of all sin.