DEFINITIONS,

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 21, 1877

The perfect sight of duty; thought which molds A rounded life, and its true aim beholds.

Obeisance unto greatness understood; The first step of a human life toward good.

Think what God doth for man; so mayest thou know How godlike service is, and serve also.

The shadow of a slave who turns his back On light, and cries, “The universe is black!”

The mountain’s image trembling in the lake; Look up. Perhaps the mountain does not quake.

One of the stairs to Heaven. Halt not to count What you have trampled on. Look up, and mount.

Who knows? Each year, as does the wheat-seed, dies; And so God harvests his eternities.

The condonation of a wrong. What then? Even the wrong-doers are our brother-men.

A mule with blinkers. Ay; he goes quite straight, Runs at the gate-post, and will miss the gate.

The saddle-girth of valor. Thou art wise To gird it well, but not around thy eyes.

Not the mere holding a great flag unfurled, But making it the goodliest in the world.

Be narrow!—as the bud, the flame, the dart; But narrow in thy aim, not at thy heart.

Cornelia’s jewels; blind old Milton’s thought; Job’s patience; and the lesson Lazarus taught.