Words of Wisdom

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 3, 1864

WORDS OF WISDOM.—I have been young and now am old, and as I stand before God to-night, I declare that nothing I have ever given in charity is regretted. O no! It is the riches we keep that perish; that which we give away abides with us forever; it impresses itself on our characters and tells on our eternal destiny; for the habit of charity formed in this life, will accompany us to the next. The bud which begins to open here, will blossom in full expansion hereafter to delight the eye of angels and beautify the Paradise of God. Let us, then, now, and on every occasion hereafter, practice that liberality which in death we shall approve, and reprobate the parsimony we shall then condemn.