FRAGMENTS by P. Giddings

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 12, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 53.

FRAGMENTS.

By P. Giddings

BY P. GIDDINGS.

1. Love is the electric wire that connects God to man.

2. Take care of your company. “Tis better to be the d in good than the d in devil, and the last place in the one is better than the first place in the other. “I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.”

3. The same alphabet that composes the Bible, composes also the infidel’s literature. It is all in the arrangement. The same talents that would make you a competent worker with God may be so diverted as to make you an efficient agent for Satan.

4. It takes just as much strength to lift one hundred and fifteen avoirdupois pounds of gold as one hundred and fifteen pounds of mud. Some men spend their strength in lifting the latter.

5. The person who brings you all the scandal of the neighborhood insults you. He (it is oftener she, however) is using you as the garbage box to empty his dirty trash in. Resent it with Christian dignity. Let him know that you agree with Paul when he says: “Whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”

6. What we say is the theorem; what we do, the proof.

7. You may not be what the world calls a “great man,” but you can be a good man, and all good men, and only they, are heaven’s great men.

8. I knew a man who bought with smiles and good manners what other men pay dollars for. I tell you, my young friends, good manners pay. I do not say that they buy everything, but they buy many things, and there are some things most valuable which they purchase that money cannot.