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LIVING TESTIMONY

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 19, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 8.

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LIVING TESTIMONY.

Our life is more than our words. When Jesus said, “Ye are the salt of the earth;” “ye are the light of the world,” He was probably not thinking of the testimony we should utter, but of the life we should live. That passage follows the Beatitudes. We are salt and light, if we are meek and merciful, pure in heart, and peace-makers. Our words are finally useful only in so far as they express and interpret our lives, and so give consciousness and clearness to the unconscious impressions men have gained of us. If our words do not formulate what we are, or at least what we long to be, they are a deceit for others and a snare for ourselves. Thunder makes a noise, but lightning is the real force, and the cause of the thunder. The lightning of our life must precede the reverberations of our words.—Anon.