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Messages to Young People
Special Effort Essential
God has appointed means, if we will use them diligently and prayer-
fully, that no vessel shall be shipwrecked, but outride the tempest and
storm, and anchor in the haven of bliss at last. But if we despise and
neglect these appointments and privileges, God will not work a miracle
to save any of us, and we will be lost as were Judas and Satan.
Do not think that God will work a miracle to save those weak
souls who cherish evil, who practice sin; or that some supernatural
element will be brought into their lives, lifting them out of self into
a higher sphere, where it will be comparatively easy work, without
any special effort, any special fighting, without any crucifixion of self;
because all who dally on Satan’s ground for this to be done will perish
with the evildoers. They will be suddenly destroyed, and that without
remedy.—
Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, 453
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