RELIGIOUS ITEMS by J. Clarke

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 30, 1879

RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

By J. Clarke

Love to God and man lightens care and removes useless burdens.

Slander cannot hurt those whose hearts and lives are pure.

A resolute will, a good conscience, a sound mind, and an industrious life, give force and power, and create true happiness within and without.

Old age, if accompanied with purity of life, holiness of heart, and a cheerful countenance and conversation, is the best age of human life.

Real happiness is the result of an inward discipline of the heart, and consistent, careful outward manifestation of the life.

Faith in God leads to a candid and impartial study of his word.

This is an age of skepticism; and nowhere is it more evident, than in the rejection of the fourth commandment by the churches of the nineteenth century.

We wonder at the stupidity and malice of the Jewish Senate in condemning Christ, yet we may have condemned him in the person of his saints, without suspecting ourselves of error.

The greatest evidence of the weakness of man's moral powers is the fact that almost the whole human race are either idolaters or skeptics, or are blindly led to embrace false systems of Christianity.

Cheerful people are grateful to God for the blessings they have received; while ill-natured people look with covetous eyes upon the gifts they have not received, and are in trouble because they cannot get them.

Economy should not descend to meanness, nor should liberality be lavish of the gifts of God. J. CLARKE.