p. 63 | The Best Relics

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 21, 1878

The Best Relics.

A Popish preacher in the Strand was bewailing some time ago the barrenness of the country in religious privileges. “Some countries,” he said, “have the bone of one saint, some the relic of another, but here there is nothing, no vestige of the blessed saints!”

“Ah,” thought a passer by, “but we have, though! we have the best relic of the saints we could have! we have the first promise that cheered the heart of man, if we have no relic of the first man to whom it was given. If we have not a fragment of the harp of David we have the sweet sounds that David’s harp gave forth. If we have not a portion of the thorn which tried St. Paul, we have the comfort he received, ‘My grace is sufficient to thee,’ etc.; we have the arrow that first pierced him, ‘Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me;’ and the balm which healed him, ‘I am Jesus.’”