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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1879

Our Basket.

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

—IF you would render your children helpless, never compel or permit them to help themselves.

—A LITTLE girl was asked, “What is faith?” She replied, “Doing God’s will, and asking no questions.”

—WHEN people have resolved to shut their eyes, or to look only on one side, it is of little consequence how good their eyes may be.—Whately.

—To move forward and cross the “Red Seas” and capture the “Jerichoes,” we must live in peace among ourselves, and right with God. Think on these things.—L. W. C.

—PETER Mc KENZIE’S advice is good: “If you have a greedy disposition, and the devil comes to you when you are in the act of giving, and tells you, ‘You can’t afford it,’ say to him, ‘If you don’t keep quiet I’ll double it,’ and he’ll soon give it up.”

—LIBERTY is a great word; but so is duty. We must not forget, nor allow others to forget, how much of life’s happiness, sweetness, and usefulness are secured by bending to our duties, and being like Him who came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.

—IT is not hasty reading, but seriously meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.—Bishop Hall.

—I USED to observe that what was called “natural fruit” in my grandfather’s orchard was poor stuff, fit only for the swine. The valuable fruit was from grafted limbs. So the natural fruit of the human heart is sinful and worthless; it requires the ingrafting of a new principle by divine grace to yield the fruits of the Spirit. Whoever prefers to live without God, and to follow the devices and desires of his own heart, will have his teeth set on edge by-and-by when he has to eat what he has been growing and storing up.—T. L. Cuyler.