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The Greatness of a Pure Soul

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 5, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 12.

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The Greatness of a Pure Soul

He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may. You may clothe him in rags, may immure him in a dungeon, may chain him to slavish tasks, but still he is great. You may shut him out of your houses, but God opens to him heavenly mansions. He makes no show, indeed, in the streets of a splendid city; but a clear thought, a pure affection, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster, however cunningly put together.