Virtue and Its Reward

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 5, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 14.

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Virtue and Its Reward

Lord Beaconsfield said there were many people who would resolve to lead virtuous lives on the principle that "virtue is its own reward," if they could only get the reward in advance. But the trouble with those people would be that, having received the reward in advance, they would have a call in another direction, and the virtuous life would go by default.