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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 15, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 31.

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Habit.

"I TRUST everything under God," said Lord Brougham, "to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly, placed his reliance; habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from a wonted course. Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child as to any of your lordships. Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth, of carefully respecting the property of others, of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, he will just as likely think of rushing into an element in which he cannot breath, as of lying, cheating, or of stealing."