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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 6, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 20.

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Our Basket.

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

—REPROVE thy friend privately; commend him publicly.

—LIES are hiltless swords, which cut the hand that wields them.

—PEACE among men is the consequence of peace in men.—Viedebandt.

—HE who cannot moderate his grief will soon have a new grief to weep over.

—THE surest road to wealth is to bestow liberally where it is most needed.

—TO have all, and to die saying, “Is this all?” is the epitaph of many a rich and wasted life.

—THE loud tones in which some people appeal to reason, imply that reason is a great distance from them.

—THE direct and proper act of faith is of perpetual use and necessity, and then most when there is least of assurance.

—Never speak in bitter scorning, Seeking any heart to pain; As the seed is, so the blossom, And the curse comes back again.

—THE ordinary employment of artifice is the mark of a petty mind; and it always happens that he who uses it to cover himself in one place uncovers himself in another.

—ALMOST sweet is unsavory; almost hot is lukewarm. Almost a Christian is like the Ephraimites who could not pronounce Shibboleth but Sibboleth. Almost a Christian is like Ananias, who brought a part but left a part behind. Almost a Christian is like the virgins who carried lamps without oil; like the willing-unwilling son, who said he would come, and would not.—Henry Smith.

“WORLDLINGS are eager to find access to what are called ‘the higher circles’. For this they study, labor, make haste to be rich, indulge in flatteries, do ignoble homage. But after they gain access, what then? It is but vanity and vexation of spirit. ‘The fashion of the world passeth away;’ the gilded scene is but for a moment; the highest circles disappear like the fleeting vision of the night. But look at the higher circle to which saints are admitted! Here is the portraiture given by the apostle: ‘But ye are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels.’”—Zion’s Herald.