Our Gospel | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 29, 1879

Our Gospel.

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

The surest way to be deceived is to think yourself more clever and cunning than anybody else.

To keep moths out of old clothing, it is recommended to give the clothing to the poor.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without an occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run to seed.

“Thou art not far from the kingdom of God” were solemn words, making the difference between almost and altogether.

The celebrated Lord Nelson said he owed much of his success in life to being ready for every duty a quarter of an hour beforehand.

A heart-memory is better than a head-memory. It is better to carry away a little of the life of God in our souls than to be able to repeat every word of every sermon we have ever heard.

Many a one is worn out in body, embarrassed financially, and discouraged in spirit, because he thought he could find another path than that which he felt persuaded the Lord wished him to take.

The Value of Littles.—A chain with all its links sound, except one, is not to be trusted. A pest-house, with all its rooms disinfected, except one, is not a safe place to stay in. A payment which lacks one dollar of the amount owed, is not a payment in full. He who sinks within one inch of the rope which is thrown him, perishes as surely as though he were in mid-ocean.

Be wide in your sympathies. If people have faults, failings, and weaknesses, try to overlook them. A good deal of self-righteousness gets in at times between us and our opinions of others. If half the world could see themselves as the other half see them, there would be a universal compromise on the basis of common faults, and everybody would be shaking hands with everybody else.

If you are a Christian painter, fill in the nail-holes with putty; if a carpenter, don’t leave the board unplaned because you think it won’t be seen; if a grocer, don’t sell ground Rio for Java; if a farmer, don’t sell mash-fed pork for corn-fed; if a tailor, don’t sell American cloths as fine French goods; in brief, whatever you do, remember that honesty, thorough and complete, is a prime essential to any religion whatever.

Professor Dana, the foremost of living geologists, packs a whole volume of argument into two sentences, in holding that if the first chapter of Genesis is proved to be the right and natural account of creation, then it must have been written by Inspiration. “Examining it as a geologist,” adds Professor Dana, “I find it to be in perfect accord with known science; therefore, as a Christian, I assert that the Bible narrative must be inspired.”