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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 10, 1871

A Great Favorite.

By C. P. A. W.

What a favorite is found in one's own self. If we are sinned against, if unjust words are spoken concerning us, what an intensity of feeling is aroused within. And yet, calmly and quietly we can see our fellow-beings sinning against Christ. We can see him so neglected that it seems as if all thought of him had passed away; and we—do we never join in the neglect of him?

Our standard of Christianity is too low. We need to elevate it in order to gain a height where we can suffer for well-doing, and endure in patience for Christ's sake; where, for his sake, we can do anything that the Father requires of us.

It is worse than useless to profess to follow him, if we do not cultivate within ourselves a Christian spirit. If we cannot, in fact, understand the nobleness of soul that caused him to exclaim, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” His delight did not consist in dwelling upon his grievances and his afflictions, but in doing the will of his Father.

C. P. A. W.

New Bedford, Mass.