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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 9, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 11.

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Life Thoughts.

If any servant of Christ holds a position where every effort seems to tell, every word to sink into the hearts of men, let him put his whole strength to the generous toil of securing the harvest, and beware how he slackens his hand through weariness, or hearkens to any temptation to change; for life generally brings but one such harvest.
The most sublime Christian virtues are practicable in the humblest circumstances and with talent of the lowest order. Look at the beatitudes, and Luke xvii, 4, and Matt. v, 44, and similar passages, and see how open to all is the path to greatness in the kingdom of God. To reach other greatness he must climb, but this requires us to descend, to go down to the depths of humility, the simplicity of childhood. Wonderful that to become a great man,—the greatest in the highest order of greatness, “the kingdom of God”—one must become as a little child!