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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 21, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 4.

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Like Jesus.

By Addie McWilliams

God will have a tried people, tried “even as gold is tried in the fire.” A refiner was asked how he could tell when the gold was sufficiently purified, and freed from dross. He answered, “When it reflects our image, we withdraw the heat.”
In like manner, when our trials have wrought for us a conformity to the will, and image, of Him who died for us, when can be seen in our character the reflection of Jesus, then will the heat of trial be withdrawn. Then can we look forward with happy anticipation to “that which doth not yet appear,” and say with the apostle, “We know that when he shall appear we shall be like him.” Blessed knowledge! What wisdom can exceed this; to know that fallen man may once more bear the image of God, may one day be redeemed from the curse of a violated law, and stand again as in Eden of old—in paradise restored, when the earth is made new? ADDIE McWILLIAMS.
Soldier Valley, Iowa, Dec. 6, 1874.