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the dreadful lack. Nature will come to his aid and remain at her post
until he again substitutes the false prop in her place. Some have
so benumbed the fine sensibilities of Nature that it may require a
little time for her to recover from the abuse she has been made to
suffer through the sinful habits of man, the indulgence of an acquired,
depraved appetite, which has depressed and weakened her powers.
Give Nature a chance, and she will rally and again perform her part
nobly and well. The use of unnatural stimulants is destructive to health
and has a benumbing influence upon the brain, making it impossible to
appreciate eternal things. Those who cherish these idols cannot rightly
value the salvation which Christ has wrought out for them by a life of
self-denial, continual suffering and reproach, and by finally yielding
His own sinless life to save perishing man from death.
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