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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 10, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 37.

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Editorial Notes.

By L. A. S.

PUT sinners into a paradise, and they would not rest satisfied until they had converted it into a hell. Hell is the natural choice of the carnal mind, hence the existence of such a place cannot be blamed on the Almighty. The Lord gives the wicked only what they choose, and adds death to it to make their choice more tolerable.
JESUS CHRIST is the Tree of Life to which the descendants of Adam have had access since the expulsion from Eden.
THE Lord wills that we should be “strengthened with all might,” but not that we may exhibit it for our own glory, but only that we may manifest it “unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness.” We need not ask the Lord for strength unless we are willing to meet trials. The strength of the Almighty must be exercised according to the will of the Omniscient.
IT was in the fiery furnace that the three Hebrew captives met with One who was “like the Son of God,” and had the most blessed experience of their lives. That meeting made the fiery furnace the best place they were ever in. And so may we, if we have living faith, meet God in the furnace of “fiery trial.”
BECAUSE the devil leads his captives with a loose rope, they imagine they have great freedom; but they are at liberty to go only where the devil wants them to.
THE service of the Lord is not slavery, but the only thing that frees man from slavery. The Lord will have no one in heaven who does not possess perfect freedom to do as he pleases. L. A. S.