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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 28, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 4.

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Editorial Notes.

By L. A. B.

SIN is the devil’s mortgage on the soul, which he is always seeking an opportunity to foreclose.
THE true Christian is never more ready to hear what the devil has to say than to listen to the words of Christ.
IF you would realize real benefit from “mind cure,” practice that kind which consists in exchanging the mind of self for the mind of Christ.
THE pleasures of the world from which Christianity prohibits us are not half as great or as real as the sorrows of the world from which Christianity delivers us.
THE Christian pathway is a way “cast up” high above the paths of the world; and if you are in the pathway, you will feel that the fashions and follies of the world are a long way beneath you.
IF you have found the “pearl of great price,” you will not be able to hide the fact from your neighbors, nor the knowledge that the like treasure can be had where you obtained it by any and every earnest seeker.
SOME people do not know the difference between having liberty, and being led by the devil with a slack rope. Christian liberty is the ability to do rightly, the liberty of strength in the Lord. The liberty of those who serve Satan is the inability to refrain from wrong doing,—a liberty which is but another name for weakness, and which leads to ever-increasing bondage.
THE Christian pathway is a narrow one, but the Christian platform is a very broad one,—“the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” What foundation could be broader or more solid? How ever strait the way, the Christian’s foot rests on the solid and sure foundation; while the “broad way” of the world is full of holes, quicksands, and “slippery places.”
“It seems,” writes the London correspondent of the New York Sun, “according to reports cabled here of the effect of the announcement of Prince Henry’s visit on the American people, that nowhere will the condescension of a crowned head win such an adulation as in a republic.”
If this is so, it is only because popular ideals of this country are changing from a republican character to that of monarchy; and of this the evidences of late years have been many. L. A. B.