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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 10, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 24.

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“Best Things.”

The best theology—a pure and beneficent life.
The best philosophy—a contented mind.
The best law—the golden rule.
The best education—self-knowledge.
The best statesmanship—self-government.
The best medicine—cheerfulness and temperance.
The best art—painting a smile upon the brow of childhood.
The best science—extracting sunshine from a cloudy way.
The best war—to war against one's weakness.
The best music—the laughter of an innocent child.
The best journalism—printing the true and the beautiful only, on memory's tablet.
The best telegraphing—flashing a ray of sunshine into a gloomy heart.
The best biography—the life which writes charity in the largest letters.
The best mathematics—that which doubles the most joys and divides the most sorrows.
The best navigation—steering clear of the lacerating rocks of personal contention.
The best diplomacy—effecting a treaty of peace with one's own conscience.
The best engineering—building a bridge of faith over the river of death.—From the Annual of Phrenology and Physiognomy.