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MEMORABLE SAYINGS

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 14, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 17, No. 26.

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MEMORABLE SAYINGS.

“Hell is truth seen too late.”
“The approaches of sin are like the conduct of Jael. It brings butter in a lordly dish. It bids high for the soul. But when it has fascinated and lulled its victim, the nail and the hammer are behind.”
“Remember always to mix good sense with good things, or they will become disgusting.”
“Attend to the presence of God; this will dignify a small congregation, and annihilate a large one.”
“There is another life—a life which, once believed in, stands as a solemn, significant figure before the otherwise unmeaning cyphers of time, changing them to orders of mysterious, untold value.”
“Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts upon this as his rule, will not be an honest man.”
“Most people are glad to have the Bible on their side, but very few are willing to be on the side of the Bible.”
It is worth a teacher’s while to collect together, in a manuscript book, the good things he gleans from books or from men, and to treasure them as an armory of sharp arrows and well tempered blades. Pointed remarks like those enumerated above are scarcely ever forgotten. They form with the scholar in after life the axioms for self-government or home-management; they often come across the path like flashes of lightning, revealing to him his dangers, and directing him to a place of safety. What an improvement in teaching there would be if the substance of what was taught was thus shotted! The crisis of a lifetime may be safely passed, and the whole complexion of a character changed by a sentence. How important that our sentences be like the signal posts of a well ordered railway line, and not like the half effaced way-marks of a neglected high road.