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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
caused everything to bend to your convenience, that the possibility
that you might be inconvenienced led you to close the door which
you might have opened to advance the cause.
You acted your part, and some others felt to draw back, fearing
the expense and calculating that they would lose time in attending
meetings if the effort should be made. Christian zeal was lacking.
A world was before us lying in wickedness, exposed to the wrath
of God, and poor souls were held by the prince of darkness; and
yet those who ought to be awake and engaged in the noblest of
all enterprises, the salvation of perishing souls, had not interest
enough to call into action every means they could employ to hedge
up the path to destruction and to turn the footsteps of the faltering
ones into the path of life. Eternal life should engage the deepest
interest of every Christian. To be a co-worker with Christ and the
heavenly angels in the great plan of salvation! What work can bear
any comparison with this! From every soul saved there comes to
God a revenue of glory to be reflected upon the one saved and also
upon the one instrumental in his salvation.
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