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The True Magnet

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 31, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 7.

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The True Magnet.

Here is a simple illustration practically applied, and worthy to be pondered by those who would “preach not themselves, but Christ Jesus our Lord.” It is from that veteran minister, John Angell James:
“The power of the magnet gains nothing from the gilder’s or the graver’s art; its attraction lies in itself, and is diminished by foreign accretions. So it is with the greatest of all magnets, of which Christ spake when he said: ‘And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.’ We may draw men to ourselves by genius, eloquence, eccentricity; but we can draw men to Christ only by the attraction of the cross.”