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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 7, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 26, No. 23.

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Unsanctified Talent

By Arrowsmith

UNSANCTIFIED TALENT.—Knowledge and good parts, managed by grace, are like the rod in Moses' hand, wonder-workers, but turn to serpents when they are cast upon the ground, and employed in promoting earthly designs. Learning in religious hearts, like that gold in Israelites' ear-rings, is a most precious ornament; but if men pervert it to base, wicked ends, or begin to make an idol of it as they did a golden calf of their ear-rings, it then becomes an abomination. —Arrowsmith.