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BLESSED ARE THE PURE

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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 15.

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BLESSED ARE THE PURE.

By J. E. Green

“Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.”
Blessed, indeed, are they who are thus pure, not alone because they shall at last enjoy the unspeakable glories of an endless life in the city of God, but because of the peace and happiness afforded them, even now in this present life. But how much is contained in those three little words, “pure in heart.” In order to be thus pure, we must be freed from all unholy thoughts and desires, from all the polluting ideas that the enemy of all righteousness and of our souls is ever too ready to suggest to the mind. It is a real affliction to be buffeted by Satan in this manner. There are those who seem to have a stock of low anecdotes always on hand, and who ever delight in peddling them out whenever or wherever they can catch a listening ear; and how such ideas stain and pollute the minds of those who hear. How such recitals cling to us, and how hard it is to keep them from the mind.
It is sweet at night to look back on the day that is past and feel that our mental visitants have all been pure. A great and glorious work is given each one of us, to take a soul all stained and polluted with sin and fit it for a home among the pure and holy angels. It is a grand work! and happy will he be who can return it to the Master in spotless purity. Thank God it can be done. Ample provision is made for us, and we may all be purified and made ready to have it said of us, “Blessed are the pure in heart.” J. E. GREEN.