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California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 25, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 16.

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Amends.

When a person is converted from his evil ways to Christ, he wishes to counteract the mischief he has wrought in the past, and immediately addresses himself to do it. If he has wrongfully damaged another, he humbly confesses the injury he has committed, and endeavors to repair it; if he has slandered another, he revokes the slander and brands it false; if he has defrauded another, he makes reparation; if he has led one astray, by inculcating error and false principles, he seeks to win him over to the truth and the dominion of virtue. The celebrated Earl of Rochester had been the author of many profane and lewd writings, tending to promote vice and immorality, but when on his dying bed he was "renewed in the spirit and temper of his mind," he gave a solemn charge to have them all destroyed.—Sel.