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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 26, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 34, No. 18.

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INDOLENCE

The proud and haughty, who are daily seen strolling up and down the streets in idleness; who engage in no useful employment, or honorable calling, but who live as drones in society, supported by the legacies of their ancestors, are but little aware of their own insignificance and folly—the small esteem and utter contempt entertained towards them by the wise and better thinking; and of their own miserable enjoyment and false pleasure, when contrasted with the serene happiness and satisfaction of the liberal and open-hearted, who live not only to enjoy themselves, but to benefit their generation, ornament the world, and honor their Creator.