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Righteousness and Sin

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 16, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 18.

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Righteousness and Sin

By Jos. Clarke

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WHEN God's people walk in darkness they may be left to ensnare each other.
Righteousness hath a pure tone, recognized by its possessors.
As the assayer detects the presence of alloy in silver or gold, so doth virtue discern the presence of evil.
A good deed performed in an unbecoming manner, is generally ascribed to Satan.
As a filthy stench repels the passer by from its vicinity, so do gluttony and evil passions, grieve away the Spirit of God.
As he who domesticates the fierce and savage lion knoweth not when the terrible creature may become unmanageable. So he who nurtures a sinful propensity may at any time become its victim.
No man may know the depth of sin and iniquity and its full reward, until he receives it in the second death.
He who presses even a reform improperly, injures himself and the cause he advocates.
Sin no matter how common, how cautious, or how respectable, must finally end in disgrace.
Righteousness, however despised or persecuted, must result in peace and happiness and honor. Jos. CLARKE.