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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 25, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 13, No. 1.

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HOLINESS.

No gifts, no duties, no natural endowments, will evidence a right in heaven; but the least measure of true holiness will secure heaven to the soul. As holiness is the soul's best evidence for heaven, so it is a continued spring of comfort to it on the way thither. The purest and sweetest pleasures in this world are the results of holiness. Till we come to live holily, we never live comfortably. Heaven is epitomized in holiness; and, to say no more, it is the peculiar mark by which God has visibly distinguished his own from other men—Ps. iv, 3: "The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself." As if he had said, This is the man, and that the woman, to whom I intend to be good for ever; this is a man for me. O holiness, how surpassingly glorious art thou!—Flavel.