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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 23, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 34, No. 22.

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CALVIN GREEN

By Calvin Green

From Bro. Green.

"Exhorting one another, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching."
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: How many of us are heeding the apostle's admonitions? We claim to be sojourners and pilgrims here on our way together to a better land. Now those who are emigrating to another country, beguile the way by talking of the pleasure, profit, and happiness they expect to derive from their going thither. They overcome the obstacles by the way, not by petty jealousies and evil surmisings, but by encouraging one another with cheering words and united action. Shall we be any the less wise?
Oh! let us by the way enter each other's houses, not to talk of the faults of others, but to inquire of one another, of "How goes the battle?" and encourage by acts of kindness, words of sympathy, and prayer to God, for help to overcome. Let us open our hearts and tell of our weak points; points where Satan takes the advantage of us, and by confessing our faults one to another, and praying one for another, we have the promise that we shall be healed.
Praise the Lord! Then will the spirit of love enter our hearts, and that charity that thinketh no evil prevail in all our actions. Then from our lips will come gentle words, that will distil as the small rain, and the pleasant sunshine into the darkened minds of the desponding, the careless and indifferent, and, may be, encourage and effect their lives so as to glorify our Lord and Master. How much better it would be to have our conversation in Heaven, than on the things of earth; things which may answer for a purpose, but can never serve for happiness here, nor hereafter. Brethren and sisters, let us love God and keep his commandments in deed and in truth, and love our neighbor as ourselves.
Then when the pearly gates shall open, Of the city of our Lord, We shall all of us be welcomed, For the keeping of his word.

CALVIN GREEN

Battle Creek.