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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 18, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 13.

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“A little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts and almonds.” Gen. 43:11.
—How can we expect to live with God in Heaven, if we love not to live with him on earth?
—THE chains of habit are generally too small to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken.—Dr. Johnson.
—MEN may judge us by the success of our efforts; God looks at the efforts themselves.—Charlotte Elizabeth.
—A Book just published is entitled, “Sayings and Doings of Great Men.” We notice that the “Sayings” have a large majority.—Utica Observer.
—OTHER men’s imperfections show us our own. We ought to use our neighbors as looking-glasses to see our own faults in, and mend in ourselves what we see in them.
—LIFE is a book of which we can have but one edition. Let each day’s actions, as they add their pages to the indestructible volume, be such as we shall be willing to have an assembled world read.
—DOING good is the only industry that pays fully six per cent, in these hard times, and never “passes” a single dividend. Invest more largely in it.
—A CHRISTIAN prays not that he may bend the will of God according to his own will, but in order that he may shape his will according to God’s will.—Lange.
LEAD me, O Christ, ’mid doubt or ’circling gloom, Lead thou me on; The night is dark and I am far from home, Lead thou me on. Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene—one step’s enough for me. —Faber.
—WHAT a choice word is that of our English version, a rare compound of precious things, love and kindness sweetly blended in one,—“loving-kindness!”—Spurgeon.
—MEN unfold their natures gradually, and their traits and peculiarities are called out by a variety of circumstances. As a feather may show which way the wind blows, and a floating twig the current of a stream, so may a little matter enable you to determine the true character of a man, and to know how far you can trust him, and what are his capabilities.