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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 28, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 22.

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Things Preferable.

“It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.” Ps. 118:8.
It is better to be saved in a storm than to be lost in a calm.
It is better to have Christ’s poverty, and be rich in faith, than to have the world’s wealth, and not be rich toward God.
It is better to preach the whole gospel of Christ in a humble tent, than to preach a partial gospel in a gorgeous temple.
It is better to sit on the ground with freedom of speech, than to recline in a palace, with the lips sealed.
It is better, like the apostles, to be poor yet making many rich, than to be rich, yet starve precious souls by not giving them meat in due season.
It is better to be defeated in a good cause than to be successful in a bad one.
It is better to suffer on the side of right, than to reign on the side of wrong. Success which is the result of wrong-doing brings a curse with it.