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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 4, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 2.

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Mercy.

—Mercy is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mighty; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.