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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 22, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 8.

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Useful and Ornamental Church Members

By United Presbyterian

SOMEBODY has spoken of the "ornamental" members of the church, meaning those who are in it, but are of no use. But he is mistaken. They are rather the "disfiguring" ones. They who ornament it, who give it its beauty, and help make it the joy of the earth are such as love it, enter eagerly into its work, strive to build it up and extend it. In saintship the useful and the ornamental are one. There is no embellishment in uselessness.—United Presbyterian.