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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 9, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 21.

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But for a Moment

“BUT FOR A MOMENT.”—Are you sitting by an open coffin, or beside a new-made grave? Try to read through the fast welling tears these precious words which an olden-time saint traced on a stone by the wayside: “Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” If you could read that blessed line in the identical language in which Paul wrote it, you would find that the words mean, a glory exceeding all excess. Oh! what are tears, and groans, and weary days of penury, and lonely nights of bereavement, to one who is looking not at the things which are seen, but to the things which are unseen? What is coarse raiment to her for whom the white robe is waiting?