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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Jan 19, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 23, No. 8.

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A SENSIBLE REMARK.—Duval, the famous Austrian librarian, was once consulted upon a subject of which he was not wholly the master, by one of whose ignorance he was well aware. "I do not know," was his frank response. "Do not know!" answered the intruder, "the Emperor pays you for knowing." "The Emperor pays me for what I know," said Duval, "if he paid me for what I do not know, the whole treasury of his kingdom would not suffice."
THERE is a Gaelic proverb: "If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes."
LIFE'S GREAT NEED.—Jordan, one of the free-thinking friends of the Great Frederick, writes to him thus during his last illness: "My complaint increases so much that I no longer even hope to recover from it. I feel strongly, in my present situation, the necessity of an enlightened religion arising from conviction. Without that we are the beings upon the earth the most to be pitted."