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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 24, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 21.

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IN THE WRONG PLACE.

There are thousands of persons in places where they do not belong. The bird’s wing means air, the fish’s fin means water, the horse’s hoof means solid ground; and what would happen if the bird tried the water, and the fish tried the air, happens when men get out of their natural element. In my watch, the spring cannot exchange places with the wheels, nor the cogs with the pivots. “Stay where I put you!” cries the watch-maker, “if you want to keep good time!” Now, the world is only a big watch that God wound up, and the seasons are the hands which tell how fast the time is going. “Stay where I put you!” says our great Creator.—Talmage.