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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 31, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 1.

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Attending Angels.

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

THERE are two Angels, which attend unseen Each one of us, and in great books record Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down The good ones, after every action closes His volume, and ascends with it to God. The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing The record of the action fades away, And leaves a line of white across the page. [Longfellow.