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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 20, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 48.

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Our Pattern.

We are exhorted to follow the example of Christ; yet how many, instead of this, take erring man for a pattern, oftener copying the vices than the virtues of this poor pattern. Many excuse their sins by the poor apology that others sin too. What but the insanity of sin could produce such fruit? Poor sinner, has Christ ever directed you to adopt any standard less than his own? Can you be so demented as to follow the example of a sinner like yourself, when you have such a noble example as Christ has given?