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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 3, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 18.

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The following beautiful thoughts have been selected and sent in to us by various correspondents, for which they have our thanks.
The worst load is a heavy heart. The worst enemy is sin; and the worst evil is the anger of God. The best book is the Bible; the best home is heaven, and the very best news that ever came into the world is that Jesus Christ came to save sinners.
The burdens and trials of life should be borne with patience, firmness, composure, humility, with faith and prayer. We should labor with zeal, but without emulation, with constancy and perseverance, but without obstinacy.
Valuable thoughts are like flocks of birds, that fly away unless you make sure of them. So spread your net for them, or they will escape you.
Our manner of presenting the truth should be as in teaching the youth, winning, agreeable, loving, condescending, free from ostentation or vanity, free from banter or defiance, but still ardent and zealous. Teach and instruct, understandingly, wisely, with clearness.
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of character it is that they admire. We shall often find this a very consolatory question.
He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice, should go a little farther, and try to plant in a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds, may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.—C. C. Colton