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SAY-WELL AND DO-WELL

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 24, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 17.

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SAY-WELL AND DO-WELL.

SAY-WELL is good, but do-well is better; Do-well seems the spirit, say-well is the letter; Say-well is goodly, and helps to please; But to do well is godly, and gives the world ease; Say-well to silence sometimes is bound, But do-well is free on every ground.
Say-well has friends—some here, some there; But do-well is welcome everywhere; By say-well many to God's word cleave, But for lack of do-well they often leave. If say-well and do-well were bound in one frame, Then all were done, all were won, and gotten gain. —Selected.