DETACHED THOUGHTS by J. Clarke

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 10, 1869

DETACHED THOUGHTS.

By J. Clarke

By anticipating the storms of winter, we provide for its necessities: so by anticipating future judgments, we realize the protection of God.

If we have a style of dress, or of deportment, for ourselves and for the church, which we lay by, adopting another for our intercourse with the world, there is danger of being considered as traitors to the cause of truth.

There is danger of sometimes being too much affected by little things; there is still more danger of considering our own faults as small, and others' great.

By inviting the Lord Jesus to take possession of our hearts, we prevent Satan from taking control of them.

It is a great virtue to take the trials of life, not merely with patience and fortitude, but pleasantly, as though we looked beyond them.

Fear of the world keeps many from the service of God; but the fear of God keeps a few from the service of the world.

It is fickleness to justify that in our conduct which we repented of yesterday.

If we pray for God to save us, let us not be hurt at the means he takes to do it for us.

To avoid low spirits, go to doing good.

Parents should never be fretful toward their children, or to any one, nor allow them to be so toward each other, or toward any one. This would prevent a host of evils.

To be wisely sensitive is a virtue; to be unwisely sensitive is a vice.

Respect for our contemporaries goes far toward securing our own safety and usefulness and happiness.

J. CLARKE.