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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 2, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 20.

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Read and Consider.

By A. S. Hutchins

“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” Ps. 119:105. How much bitter anguish of heart and painful regret for long years, would many have escaped, had they always carefully and prayerfully consulted the word of God, and walked agreeably thereunto, especially where God, in love and mercy to his people, has given clear counsel.
Important instruction may be received and timely warning taken by some now, by reading and prayerfully considering and cheerfully obeying the following scriptures: Deut. 7:3; Josh. 23:12, 13; Judges 3:5-8; Ezra 9:2-12; Neh. 13; Ezra 10; to which we may add but one from Paul: “The wife is bound by the law as long as the husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.” 1 Cor. 7:39. Mark, “Only in the Lord.” Saith an old author, “Study the duties of marriage before you enter into it.” For want of this, result the frequent disappointments of that honorable estate. Hence that repentance which is at once too soon, and too late.”
A. S. HUTCHINS.