Beautiful Sentiment

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 7, 1871

Beautiful Sentiment.

The late eminent Judge, Sir Allen Park, once said at a public meeting in London: “We live in the midst of blessings till we are utterly insensible of their greatness, and of the source from whence they flow. We speak of our civilization, our arts, our freedom, our laws, and forget entirely how large a share is due to Christianity. Blot Christianity out of the pages of man’s history, and what would his laws have been—what his civilization? Christianity is mixed up with our very being and our daily life; there is not a familiar object around us which does not wear a different aspect, because the light of Christian love is on it. Not a law which does not owe its truth and gentleness to Christianity—not a custom which can not be traced, in all its holy, healthful parts, to the gospel.”—Sel.