p. 24 | J. CLARKE by J. Clarke

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 2, 1872

J. CLARKE

By J. Clarke

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We may mistake wounded pride for repentance; but there is a vast difference between the two; for repentance humbles pride, and abases it; but wounded pride mourns that it has been touched, and like the viper, seeks a place and means of cure.

Never shut the door against yourself, nor let despondency color your thoughts with gloom. Too much sorrow of heart may overturn reason. It is better to think too well of our outward condition than to think too ill of it.

To imagine a man is your enemy, is the first step in making him hate you; to suppose a man your friend is often the means of turning an enemy into a friend.

David conquered his mortal enemy Saul, by waiting, and by eluding him in flight; but he overcame Goliath with his sling and smooth stone from the brook. “Circumstances alter cases;” what would be duty toward an erring brother would be folly in case of a burglar or highwayman.