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What Belongs to God—What to Us

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 16, 1863

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 22, No. 3.

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What Belongs to God—What to Us.

A VIRGINIA circuit preacher gives the following illustration of "faith that would remove mountains," which he heard from the lips of a negro preacher, who was holding forth to his congregation upon the subject of obeying the commands of the Almighty:
"Bred'ren," said he in his broken way, "what-eber de good God tell me to do in dis blessed book"—holding up at the same time an old and evidently much-read Bible—"dat I'm gwine to do. If I see in it dat I must jump troo a stone wall, I'm gwine to jump at it. Goin' troo it belongs to God—jumpin' at it 'longs to me."
Simple and homely as was the illustration, it had an evident effect upon the limited comprehension of the preacher's hearers.