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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 13, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 20.

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Divine Truth.

By S. O. JAMES

WHAT is more sweet to contemplate than its existence? Nothing! What is it that takes a poor, sinful, degraded wretch, and lifts him from his poverty, his degradation, and better than all, from his pride, and makes him a humble supplicant at a throne of mercy? Divine truth! What will fit us to dwell in the presence of the great King, the Eternal One, who is too pure to behold iniquity? Divine truth! Then what should be more earnestly, perseveringly, sought for in this world? Nothing! What is more loved and sought after by the multitudes? Everything that will please the appetite, the eye, and the senses generally. Oh, what consummate folly!
Reader, have you ever thought of this seriously? You may not realize that you are in danger of losing all that is worth living for. Have you no desire to secure the friendship of him who is the author of divine truth? Oh, he is the dearest, truest friend you can have! You have often sinned against him; why not acknowledge it to him, and ask him in his goodness and mercy to restore you to innocence and the citizenship of Heaven? Ah! yes, he can easily do all this for you if you will obey his divine truth. O thou lovely gem! Heaven's best gift to man! why should so many despise thee? Why should any of us so lightly regard thee? May he who is thy author give us the spirit of wisdom, that we may more fully comprehend thy beauty and loveliness. S. O. JAMES.