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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 30, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 31.

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CONTRITION

By Charles D. Bell

THE contrite heart,—this in God's eyes Is the most welcome sacrifice; With this no other can compare; None is so costly, none so fair, All other gifts it far outvies. No sweeter songs than those sad sighs That from a broken spirit rise, When penitence reveals in prayer The contrite heart.
God loves these low impassioned cries; He hears them in His paradise; It matters not when breath'd, or where, With angels' songs His ear they share, For in their pleading He descries The contrite heart.
— Charles D. Bell, D. D.