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Religious Miscellany

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 10, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 23, No. 24.

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Religious Miscellany.

EXTRACTS FROM THE NONSUCH PROFESSOR.

They can have no just grounds for fear, whose confidence is in God.
Life is only to be desired by those to whom death would be no gain.
How many professors are there, who would rather have sinful self satisfied than crucified?
As the power of grace comes in at one door, the love of vice will go out at another.
A sanctified Christian is a father to all in charity, and yet a servant to all in humility.
That crop that is sown in mercy shall be reaped in glory.
Men frequently discover more wisdom in laying out than in laying up.
Though the sun of charity rise at home, yet it should always set abroad.
When I consider that our hearts are no softer, I wonder that the times are not harder.
Our first fall was by rising against God; but our best rise is by falling down before Him.
An humble saint looks most like a citizen of Heaven.
He is the most lovely professor who is the most lowly professor.
Your benevolence should seek the poor, before the poor seek your benevolence.
He that hath put off the bowels of compassion, hath put off the badge of election.
Many can love at their tongue's end; but the godly love at their finger's end.
Liberality does not consist in good words but in good works.
Mercy is the queen of beauty, and the blessed offspring of the King of glory.
Though charity may make your purse lighter one day, yet it will make it heavier another.
Pride is a sinner's torment; but humility is a saint's ornament.
The cloth of humility should always be worn on the back of Christianity.
He that showeth mercy when it may be best spared, will receive mercy when it shall most be needed.
The flames of piety toward God must be accompanied with the incense of charity toward man.