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TRUE NOBILITY

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 15, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 9, No. 11.

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TRUE NOBILITY.

If it be an ennobling fact that one can trace his lineage through a succession of illustrious nobles, how much must be the dignity which rests on one who can claim to be a child, not of the royalty that is doomed to die, but of the King of kings, the everlasting Father, who is throned on the riches and the glory of the universe. It is this conviction that dims the splendor of an earthly crown, and sheds a halo of beauty and of dignity upon the head of the orphan and the hovel of the peasant.