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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 24, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 46.

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VOICES.

By Helen A. Hawley

BY HELEN A. HAWLEY.
"So many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification." Everywhere voices are calling to men, trying to claim their attention, but not all may be safely heeded. The lying spirits did not pass away with the time of Ahab. Some are busy in these modern days. They tell this man that he may speculate with trust funds. They whisper to the clerk: "Borrow from the cash drawer; you can replace it before the week ends." They cheat young men into extravagant and dangerous pleasures. They even dare suggest to the Christian that he may neglect the Bible and prayer without imperiling his soul's life.
"A voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my Son, my chosen; hear him." The safe voice is the one which directs us to Christ and his words. Come when or how it will, it is God speaking to the soul.
Perhaps we need to enter into the cloud, and to fear as we enter in, that, overshadowed and overawed by it, we may turn from earthly voices, and listen to the heavenly.—N. Y. Observer.