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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 7, 1879

Off Basket.

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

—A LITTLE leak will sink a big ship.

—LET a man overcome anger by love, evil by good, the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth.

—THAT only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

—EVENTS are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes.

—TEMPERANCE and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents his excess.

—A HOLY life has a voice. It speaks when the tongue is silent, and is either a constant attraction or a continual reproof.

—MEASURE Christianity by the teachings of the Saviour, and not by the shortsighted, selfish practices of a few of his unworthy followers.

—LET us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us, and endeavor to excel them by avoiding what is faulty and imitating what is excellent in them.

—LEISURE is time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never; so that, as Poor Richard says, a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.

—THE famous old Dr. John Brown, who was of old the minister at Haddington, England, was in the habit of talking to his divinity students in a way which might wisely be followed by some of the professors of the present time. He would say to them, “Young gentlemen, ye need three things to make ye good ministers; ye need learning, and grace, and common sense. As for the learning, I'll try to set ye in the way of it; as for grace, ye must always pray for it; but if ye have na brought the common sense with ye, ye may go aboot your business.”