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among the people. If we showed a zeal in proportion to the importance
of the truths we are handling, we might be instrumental in rescuing
hundreds, yea thousands, from ruin.
Only eternity will reveal what has been accomplished by this kind
of ministry—how many souls, sick with doubt, and tired of worldliness
and unrest, have been brought to the Great Physician, who longs to
save to the uttermost all who come unto Him. Christ is a risen Saviour,
and there is healing in His wings.
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As we see men going where the liquid poison is dealt out to destroy
their reason, as we see their souls imperiled, what are we doing to
rescue them? Our work for the tempted and fallen will achieve real
success only as the grace of Christ reshapes the character and the man
is brought into living connection with the infinite God. This is the
purpose of all true temperance effort. We are called upon to work
with more than human energy, to labor with the power that is in Jesus
Christ. The One who stooped to take human nature is the One who
will show us how to conduct the battle. Christ has left His work in our
hands, and we are to wrestle with God, supplicating day and night for
the power that is unseen. It is laying right hold of God through Jesus
Christ that will gain the victory.
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