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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 12, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 15, No. 21.

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FIRST A CORNER AND THEN ALL.

When a sin is let in as a suppliant, it remains in as a tyrant. The Arabs have a fable of a miller who was one day startled by a camel's nose thrust in the window of a room where he was sleeping.
"It is very cold outside," said the camel, "I only want to get my nose in."
The nose was let in, then the neck and finally the whole body. Presently the miller began to be extremely inconvenienced at the ungainly companion he had obtained in a room certainly not large enough for both.
"If you are inconvenienced, you may leave," said the camel; "as for myself, I shall stay where I am."