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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 24, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 7, No. 17.

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Mr. Wesley says, "The less knowledge you take for granted among uneducated people the better. Suppose you preach on the text, 'Unless your righteousness exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven.'—I beg you will not take it for granted that your hearers know what Pharisees are; for I met a person once, and who was quite a Bible reader, who described the Pharisees as a 'little people, not positively wicked, but inclined to mischief. I could not imagine what the woman meant, till at last the truth flashed upon me. She took them for fairies!"