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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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Items of Thought.

By Jos. Clarke

SEASONS of special difficulty should cause special seasons of prayer.
An unconverted proselyte is farther from the kingdom of Heaven than the errorist in opinion, whose heart is regenerated by the love of God.
Our concessions to our superiors should not be carried so far as to corrupt our judgments.
Silent submission to events we can not hinder is better than contention or murmuring.
Uniformity in the Christian life is of the first importance; we may not be variable in our dispositions and tempers.
Men are free moral agents. God does not want slaves in his service; if he did, he might, by a kind of discipline, effect a partial reform of the wicked by strict penal laws.
Our superiors in age and station should be loved and esteemed, but not flattered.
Discouragements should not drive us from God, but nearer to him.
By repentance, we hate sin and forsake it; but we must not forget the pit from whence we were taken, lest we stumble in again.
Love without firmness is as powerless for good as firmness without love; and grace without law is as powerless for good as law without grace.
To despise the conditions of error, of poverty, or of disease, is the triumph of pride; but to pity, to reform, to wisely relieve, is the triumph of grace.
Diplomacy, in intricate affairs of church government, must be carried on in consistency with the principles of truth, or it will result in a failure. JOS. CLARKE.