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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 27, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 13.

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“A little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts and almonds.” Gen. 43:11.

UNREASONABLE haste is the road to error. To extol one’s own virtue is to make a vice of it.

A KIND “No” is less offensive than a rough “Yes.”

A JUDICIOUS silence is better than truth spoken without charity.—DeSales.

AN ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.—Bossuet.

To rule one’s spirit is the first step under God toward ruling one’s destiny.

TRUTH is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies.—Dryden.

THE Lord’s work is not humdrum, routine work, that may be done carelessly and without thought and effort.—Christian Observer.

EVERY saintly old man, wherever he may be found, is a living witness to the truth of religion, and to the worth of a righteous, godly life.—Evangelist.

THE conversion of a soul is often attributed to means which appear to be more efficacious than others, simply because they were the last in the series of influences by which the person was influenced.—Christian World.

BLESSED is the man who knows enough to keep his mouth shut. Some people live sixty years without learning the art. Indeed, the older they grow the wider their mouths open. A man or woman who is a gabbler at forty-five is a dreadful affliction to a house, or church, or community.

HE that knows how to pray, has the secret of safety in prosperity and of support in trouble; the art of overcoming every enemy, and turning every loss to a gain; the power of soothing every care, of subduing every passion, and of adding a relish to every enjoyment.—William Jay.

IF the banks and bed of a river are formed of black mud, the stream which flows through them, though it may have been very clear and bright when it first bubbled up at the fountain, will soon become thick, and dark, and muddy. So the thoughts which pass through an impure mind, a mind loving what is vile and evil, become unholy and impure.