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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 2, 1879

Our Basket.

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

—IN the sight of God no man is poor but he who is wanting in goodness; and no man rich but he who abounds in virtue.

—TRUE politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others as you love to be treated yourself.

—GOD’s treasury is absolutely inexhaustible. He never grows weary of ministering to the needs of his people. If this were ever kept in remembrance, we should hear less of the accents of impatience and discontent, and more of the sweet language of thankfulness and praise.

—MAKE a firm-built fence of trust All around to-day; Fill the space with loving work, And within it stay. Look not through the sheltering bars, Anxious for the morrow; God will help in all that comes, Be it joy or sorrow.

—MANY a Christian trusts Christ to carry him through the valley of the shadow of death, who does not rely upon him to take him through the dread to-morrow. If you are Christ’s, you have no right to worry. He is a safe pilot. You can trust him in the shallow, quiet river as well as in the sea beyond.

—GOD will not accept the tongue alone, though it were of the most sublime orator; not the lips alone, though they were the lips of chosen Israel itself; not the head alone, though it were the head of a learned Diotrephes; but God will accept any contribution that may be entered under this head: “A broken and a contrite heart.” He will accept all the former with the latter; but he despises every surrender that does not embrace the heart.—W. Kelloway.

—“IF any one speaks ill of thee,” said Epictetus, “consider whether he hath truth on his side; and if so, reform thyself, that his censures may not affect thee.” When Anaximander was told that the very boys laughed at his singing, “Ah!” said he, “then I must learn to sing better.” Plato, being told that he had many enemies who spoke ill of him, said, “It is no matter; I shall live so that none will believe them.” Hearing at another time that an intimate friend of his had spoken detractingly of him, he said, “I am sure he would not do it if he had not some reason for it.” This is the surest as well as the noblest way of drawing the sting out of a reproach, and the true method of preparing a man for the great and only relief against the pains of calumny.