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TRUE PIETY

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 19, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 18, No. 25.

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TRUE PIETY.

To be the thing we seem; To do the thing we deem Enjoined by duty; To walk in faith, nor dream Of questioning God's scheme Of truth and beauty.
Casting self-love aside, Discarding human pride, Our hearts to measure; In humble hope to bide, Each change in fortune's tide, At God's good pleasure.
To trust, although deceived; Tell truth, though not believed; Falsehood disdaining; Patient of ill received, To pardon when aggrieved, Passion restraining.
With love no wrong can chill, To save unwearied still, The weak from falling:— This is to do God's will On earth,—and to fulfill Our heavenly calling