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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Jul 23, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 30.

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THE devil is satisfied if he can administer error in homeopathic doses.
HE who has most of the fear of God, will be the least afraid of His fellow men.
BETTER be called a pessimist with your eyes open than be an optimist with your eyes shut.
THE arrival of the age of gold has evidently done nothing to hasten the coming of the golden age.
MAN’S way of getting to heaven is by a tower of babel; God’s way, and the only true one, is by Jacob’s Ladder.
THE law of God is not the measure of our ability to do right, but the measure of God’s ability to make us righteous.
IF you fail of the blessing that you need, it is because you are not as willing to receive it as God is to bestow it.
IN fulfilling the injunction to love our neighbor as ourselves, it may frequently be found helpful to lower our estimate of ourselves.
FOR weakness of character there is nothing better than to drink daily of the “spiritual Rock,” as did ancient Israel in the wilderness.
“If you would be discouraged, look within; if you would be distracted, look around; but if you would be strengthened, look up.”
IT is very hard work to be half a Christian, because “no man can serve two masters;” but it is twice as easy to be a whole Christian as half a Christian.
HE who will learn the things which God has revealed, will have neither time nor inclination to pry into things that God has concealed.
IF you do not know that Jesus Christ lives because He lives at your house, do you really know that He lives at all? Is your evidence on the point anything more than “hearsay” evidence, which would not be accepted in any court of law?
“HE do nothing; he very holy man,” were the words in which an Arab dragoman described to a traveler the virtues of a Moslem saint. The belief in this sort of negative “holiness” is altogether too common throughout the world.
THE progress of Mormonism in the United States is indicated by the fact that the president and the secretary of a Christian Endeavor Society in New York City recently became Mormon converts, and the erection of a Mormon temple in that city is being seriously considered. Mormons say it is no longer the policy of their Church to concentrate converts in Utah.
“THE progress made in this country during the last year in the direction of federating churches and Christian interests is remarkable,” says the Congregationalist and Christian World. “It is noteworthy,” says this journal, “that the idea is appealing to prominent and forceful ministers and laymen.” There are numerous State federations, and there is also a “national organization which serves as a bond between different State and city organizations.” The rise and progress of this Church federation movement, as a substitute for Scriptural Christian unity, is one of the signs of the times.
THE librarian of the national library in Buenos Ayres, Argentine, Señor Gáranasc, says of the colonial policy of the United States, as viewed by the South American republics, that it constitutes an attack “upon our political beliefs, and an attack delivered by the very people who had impressed them upon us, by both precept and example. We find ourselves bewildered,” he says, “like a scholar in presence of the apostasy of his teacher.” And “having lost all faith in the apostle, we are in danger of losing faith in his gospel.” He declares that “the historian will not regard it as the smallest of the crimes of American imperialism that it gave this profound shock to the souls of us South Americans.”
THERE are many kinds of salvation in the world, which are sought after by many people; but only one kind is of lasting worth; only one kind is sure to the earnest seeker.
Some are seeking salvation from poverty; others, salvation of their name and reputation; others, salvation from disease. The Jews sought salvation from the Romans, and rejected Christ. The papers to-day are full of talk about the salvation of the nation. The nations of Europe are each seeking its own salvation, and crushing the life out of individuals in the process.
For what salvation are you seeking? For what are you putting forth your most earnest efforts? Are you seeking the salvation that alone is promised in the word of God? The only promise of salvation is, “And thou shalt call His name Jesus: for He shall save His people from their sins.” Matt. 1:21.
Of little avail will every other kind of salvation be, without this salvation. “What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” But having this salvation, every other salvation must follow in due time.
Again we ask, What kind of salvation are you making the first object of your efforts? L. A. S.