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The Hidden Shoals of Life

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 25, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 8, No. 21.

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The Hidden Shoals of Life

A SHIP on the broad, boisterous and open ocean needeth no pilot. But it dare not venture alone on the placid bosom of a little river, lest it be wrecked by some hidden rock. Thus it is with life. 'Tis not in our open, exposed deeds that we need the still voice of the silent monitor, but in the small, secret every-day acts of life, that conscience warns us to beware of the hidden shoals of what we deem too common to be dangerous.—Sel.