Philip Giddings

1. He reaps hunger-crop who sows hunger-seed; for Laziness and Want are father and child.

2. Hearafter is after here. The After is the fruit that Here has borne.

3. It is not the length of your prayer, but its depth; not your logic, but God's love; not your grammar, but his grace. Thought the sentence be broken, if it come from a contrite heart, it will not be despised, but prized.

4. You may have doctrinal lumber sky-heaped; that's no house. Nor can you build it with your tongue.

5. We may have heaven in our mouth, but until we get it in our feet, we do not get there. Not by talk, but by walk, saith The Follow-Me.

6. They are worse "who hold the truth in unrighteousness" than they who hold unrighteousness in truth.

7. "Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms." 1 Kings 20:24. The needs of the hour are for doers, not dudes. Those who ar merely ornamental are out of place in life's stern battle. The dignity that cannot dig—soft men of soft raiment— must give way to those who will "endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ."

8. Better the road be rough if right, be safe though not soft.

From the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, January 20, 1903

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Even so come, Lord Jesus
Linda

[This message has been edited by Linda Sutton (edited December 01, 2000).]