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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 2.

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Paying Tribute.

A SHORT time ago Uncle Henry told me a little story which you would, perhaps, like to hear.
“In a certain part of Scotland,” said he, “the poor people, who lived on the land owned by the wealthy man, used to come yearly to pay their rent. What do you think this was? Why, just a pepper-corn! It had been the custom for a long series of years for each one to bring this pepper-corn on a certain day. It did not cost the poor man anything, nor did it make the landholder any richer; but it was a sign of tribute which they paid to him as their master. “Now,” said my uncle, “it is just so with those who swear. Every oath is a pepper-corn, which they give to the Devil. It does neither party any good; it just shows who is their master.”—Child at Home.