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A Saving Influence Over Associates and Unbelievers,
April 28
Exerting a Right Influence
Ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in
Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to
God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any
thing.
1 Thessalonians 1:7, 8
If you can exert a saving influence over one soul, remember there is
joy in heaven over the one that repented.... You may, by judicious effort,
be the means of bringing back the lost sheep to Jesus’ fold. Although
you may be young, you must work with Christ; with His spirit in your
heart you can do much more than it now seems possible for you to do.
If your example is Christlike, that alone, if you do not say a word,
will be a help to many. Patient continuance in well-doing will help others
to place their feet in the path of truth and righteousness.... Be careful to
start right, and then keep quietly on.
The firm purposes you may possess in carrying out good principles
will have an influence to balance souls in the right direction. There is
no limit to the good you may do. If you make the Word of God the
rule of your life, and govern your actions by its precepts, making all
your purposes and exertions in the fulfilling of your duty a blessing ... ,
success will crown your efforts.
The youth who are consecrated to God sway a mighty influence for
good. Preachers or laymen advanced in years cannot have one half the
influence for good upon the young that the youth, if devoted to God, can
have upon their associates.
The silent witness of a true, unselfish, godly life carries an almost
irresistible influence.
The unstudied, unconscious influence of a holy life is the most
convincing sermon that can be given in favor of Christianity.
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