Pearls | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 17, 1857

Pearls.

It is easier to declaim against a thousand sins in others, than to mortify one in ourselves.

If no sin were punished here, no providence would be believed; if every sin were punished here, no judgment would be expected.

The pebbles in our path weary us, and make us sore-footed, more than the rocks that only require a bold effort to surmount.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something;

the strongest, by dispersing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything.

Thou canst not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou mayest a friend into an enemy.