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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 11, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 41, No. 9.

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A Soft Pillow.

By Chas. H. Brisbin

WHITEFIELD and a pious companion were much annoyed one night at a public house by a set of gamblers in the room adjoining where they slept. Their noisy clamor and horrid blasphemy, so excited Whitefield's abhorrence and pious sympathy, that he could not rest. “I will go to them and reprove their wickedness,” he said. His companion remonstrated in vain; he went. His words of reproof fell apparently powerless upon them. Returning, he laid down to sleep. His companion asked him, rather abruptly, “What did you gain by it?” “A soft pillow,” he said, patiently, and soon fell asleep.
Yes, “a soft pillow” is the reward of fidelity, the companion of a clear conscience. It is a sufficient remuneration for doing right in the absence of all other reward. And none know more truly the value of a soft pillow than those parents whose anxiety for wayward children is enhanced by a consciousness of neglect. Those who faithfully rebuke and properly restrain them by their Christian deportment and religious counsels can sleep quietly in the day of trial.
Parents, do your duty now, in the fear of God, in obedience to his law, at every sacrifice; and you may lie down on a soft pillow, assured of His favor who has said, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
CHAS. H. BRISBIN.
Weston, O., Dec. 22, 1872.