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BRINGING THE TRUTH HOME

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 24, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 8.

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BRINGING THE TRUTH HOME.

Some years ago the late Horace Mann, the eminent educator, delivered an address at the opening of some reformatory institution for boys, during which he remarked, that if only one boy was saved from ruin it would pay for all the cost, and care, and labor of establishing such an institution as that.
After the exercises had closed, in private conversation a gentleman rallied Mr. Mann upon his statement, and said to him, "Did you not color that a little when you said all the expense and labor would be repaid if it saved only one boy?" "Not if it was my boy," was the solemn and convincing reply. How precious are the interests bound up in a single child! How great the value of a single life which may run on forever!