Our Casket | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1879

Our Casket.

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

—THERE is no promise to unbelieving prayer.

—TIME is short; and if your cross be heavy, remember you have not far to carry it.

—TO the careless sinner God says, Fear; to the returning sinner, he says, Fear not.

—TRUE wealth consists in virtue, and not in the possession of great estates; and wisdom consists in understanding, and not in years.

“SCATTER ye seeds, and flowers will spring; Strew them at broadcast o’er hill and glen; Sow in your garden, and time will bring Bright flowers, with seeds to scatter again.”

—ELIHU BURRITT, while working and earning his living as a blacksmith, mastered some eighteen languages, and twenty-two European dialects.

—VIRTUE rarely passes unrecognized by the world. A few distorted optics may fail to recognize her features; but it would be as easy to conceal the face of the noon-day sun under a mask, as her resplendent features.

—THE spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability. It is social, kind and cheerful; far removed from that gloomy, illiberal superstition and bigotry which cloud the brow, sour the temper, deject the spirit, and impress moroseness on the manners.

—GOD bless the cheerful person!—man, woman or child, old or young, illiterate or educated, handsome or homely. Over and above every other social trait stands cheerfulness. What the sun is to nature—are cheerful persons in the house and by the wayside.

—A HUNDRED years ago a distinguished company of French infidels in the flush of their rising fame were assembled in a Parisian drawing-room discussing Christianity and denouncing it with all possible asperity. Suddenly one of the boldest among them, the famous Diderot, rose from his seat and exclaimed: “All right, gentlemen; all right! I am ready to declare all of you are clever writers and competent critics, and few in France or abroad would be able to speak or write better than you do. But still I think I might defy any of you to compose a historical tale so ingenious, and so sublime, so touching, and fit to produce such a deep and lasting influence for centuries to come, as the Gospel relation of Christ’s sufferings and death.”