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The Simplest Work

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 4, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 3.

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The Simplest Work

To do the simplest work is to save religion from the most aggravated misanthropy. For a man to light his last candle and set it in the window of his cot, with the hope that it may catch the eager eye of the struggling mariner, who would give the world for light, is to please God more than to perform the most stately ceremony, as if the earth were no longer the abode of suffering humanity.—Joseph Parker, D. D.