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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 1, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 11, No. 20.

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Reverence

REVERENCE.—"I wish," said Robert Hall, speaking of a lady who was wont to talk of the Supreme Being with great familiarity, "I wish I knew how to cure that lady of her bad habit. I have often tried, but as yet in vain. It is a great mistake to affect this kind of familiarity with the King of kings, and speak of Him as though he were a next door neighbor, from the pretence of love." To this he adds, quoting an old divine—"Nothing but ignorance can be guilty of this boldness; there is no divinity but in a humble fear, no philosophy but shows itself in a silent admiration."