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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 2, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 21.

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UP AND DOWN.

By Baptist Banner

The poorest hope of Heaven is that which is based on the words, "I have done no harm." The very stones, insects, reptiles, may say as much as that. There are two ways of measuring sin—down and up; down, by counting all the actual sins we have done—all covetings, anger, evil thoughts, selfishness, falsehoods, dishonesties; up, by seeing what we might have been, all the good deeds we might have done, the character we might have formed, the blessed, useful life we might have lived, and God intended us to live; and then placing beside this picture the life we have actually lived. This will show the number of our sins of omission. But, probably, we have omitted more of quality from our life than quantity.—Baptist Banner.