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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 8, 1859

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 14, No. 16.

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Brevities.

By J. Clarke

HARSHNESS, in rebuke, is like a surgeon who would use pincers instead of forceps, or an awl instead of a lance.
Lending. Some are willing to borrow, but their own property is so nice and choice that it would soon be ruined by being lent, so they refuse to lend, even to those who have rendered to them most signal benefits. "Give to him that asketh thee."
Scolding children and others, for their faults, will remedy them just as an application of hot water would cure a burn. "A soft word breaketh the bone."
People often grant needless favors to the rich and the able, while the poor, the weak, the friendless and the feeble are neglected, unnoticed and forgotten. "He that giveth to the rich shall surely come to want."
Many people who would know how to put a true value upon a farm, or a village lot, or a horse, will sell their best interests for a cigar or a paper of tobacco. J. CLARKE.