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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 23, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 18.

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Our Basket.

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

—EVERYTHING which draws man out of himself does him good.

—SOME, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

—IT is what we carry within us which determines what comes to us from without.

—I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant, as to a human being.—Charles Kingsley.

—IF persons would take to themselves a little of the good advice they are so willing to give to others, it would do no harm.

—A CHILD is laughed at when it tries to catch a shadow, and yet grown persons grasp at and catch but little else in this world.

—ALWAYS meet petulance with gentleness, and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even an elephant by a hair.

—The happiness derived from doing deeds of kindness is the purest, the sweetest, and the most lasting of all human enjoyments.

—THE Lord's love is as free as the air; full as the ocean; boundless as eternity; immutable as his throne; and unchangeable as his nature.

—WHY should a man who makes every man that owes him pay the utmost farthing, pray to God, “Forgive us our debts?” Why should he add “as we forgive our debtors,” when he will not forgive a debtor?