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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 14, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 18.

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Neglected Duty

One of the saddest thoughts that weigh upon the heart of the sincere Christian is that of opportunities for doing good which have been wasted. Their shadow returns upon the mind like a nightmare. The blanks in life contain more guilt, perhaps, than its blots. The devoted Archbishop Usher, after fifty-five years of earnest labor in the ministry, uttered the following prayer on his death-bed: “O Lord, in special, pardon me my sins of omission!”