Our Gospel | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 11, 1879

Our Gospel.

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

—We are more likely to lose our comforts from want of love and gratitude, than we are from want of gifts or wisdom.

—It is wise and well to look on the cloud of sorrow as though we expected it to turn into a rainbow.

—SOME men make a great flourish about always doing what they believe to be right, but always manage to believe that is right which is for their own interest.

Let us remember how The Holy One was doing good to all; And let us ever now, When on his name we call, Ask that his Spirit on our hearts may fall.

—THE imperfect Christian is governed by the law of justice. The perfect Christian is governed by the law of love, which fulfills the law of justice with delight.

—MANY a true heart that, like a dove to the ark, would have come back after its first transgression, has been frightened beyond recall by the angry look and menace of an unforgiving spirit.

—A PERSIAN philosopher, being asked by what method he had acquired so much knowledge, replied, “By not being prevented by shame from asking questions respecting things of which I was ignorant.”

—WE should accustom ourselves to view those above us without admiration or envy, and never look upon those below us with contempt. Little souls fall down and worship grandeur, without reflecting that admiration is due only to virtue and goodness.

—THAT is a morbid sort of piety which perpetually expresses a desire to get out of this world into a better, as if the only design of religion were to prepare men for Heaven. The grace of God prepares men for this life, with its responsibilities and cares, and when thus prepared, though ready to die, it is better that they should live for awhile to test their newly-received graces, and to give an example to others.