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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, January 28, 1868

To READ the Scriptures, without deriving any profit for our own good, is to handle and carry a vase which contains a very precious balsam, and keep it shut without even smelling of its sweetness. Let us open it; let us apply it to our wounds—that the odor may gladden us, that its virtue may cure our infirmities, and that God may no longer reject us as hardened, obstinate, and rebellious reprobates.