A String of Pearls

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 9, 1872

A String of Pearls.

HOW TO REPROVE.—When we wish to reprove with profit, and show another that he is mistaken, we must observe on what side he looks at the thing; for it is usually true on that side, and to admit to him that truth, but to discover to him the side whereon it is false. He is pleased with this, for he perceives that he was not mistaken; and that he only failed to look on all sides. Now, one is not vexed at not seeing everything. But one does not like to be mistaken; and perhaps this arises from the fact that man naturally, can not see everything, and that naturally he cannot be deceived in regard to the side that he looks at, as the apprehensions of the senses are always true.—Pascal.

FOLLOWING Christ personally, individually, as well as collectively, is our great business—not following him in a certain way; not following him by giving services and ordinances and ceremonies; not following him in externate, but following him in trust, in joy, in peace, in hope, in love, in faith in the invisible. And they are the best Christians who, following Christ thus, follow him most closely.

NOT a day passes in obscurity but men and women do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer great sorrows. Of these obscure heroes, philosophers, and martyrs, the greater part will not be known till that day when many that are great shall be small, and the small great.

WHEN mothers denounce the tyranny of the family relation, and proclaim that its yoke must be thrown off, then home life will pass into a tradition.—Revolution.

No man is worth reading to form your style who does not mean what he says; nor was any great style ever invented but by some man who meant what he said.—Ruskin.

LIFE is divided into three terms: that which was, which is, which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better for the future.

THE chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex one, and in prudently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones are let on long leases.

LIBERALITY should have banks as well as streams, say some. True; but even the banks should be green and velvet. When we cannot relieve another's want, we can at least refuse with kind and courteous words.