RELIGION

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

We have seldom read a more finished description of this heavenly principle, in easy language, than the following, extracted from the English Monthly Review :—

“Religion—that messenger of Heaven—dwells not exclusively in cells or cloisters, but goes forth among men, not to frown upon their happiness, but to do them good; she is familiar and cheerful at the tables and firesides of the happy; she is equally intimate in the dwellings of poverty and sorrow, where she encourages the innocent smiles of youth, and kindles a glow of serenity on the venerable front of age; she is found, too, at the bedside of the sick, when the attendants have ceased from their labor, and the heart is almost still; she is seen in the house of mourning, pointing upward to the house not made with hands; she will not retire so long as there is evil that can be prevented, or kindness that can be given, and it is not till the last duty is done that she hastens away and raises her altar in the wilderness, so that she may not be seen by men.”