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no special duty to keep their feet in the straight path, you yourselves
are responsible if they lose faith and courage and interest in the truth.
Candidates who have grown to manhood and womanhood should
understand their duty better than do the younger ones; but the pastor
of the church has a duty to do for these souls. Have they wrong habits
and practices? It is the duty of the pastor to have special meetings
with them. Give them Bible readings, converse and pray with them,
and plainly show the claims of the Lord upon them. Read to them the
teaching of the Bible in regard to conversion. Show what is the fruit of
conversion, the evidence that they love God. Show that true conversion
is a change of heart, of thoughts and purposes. Evil habits are to be
given up. The sins of evil-speaking, of jealousy, of disobedience, are
to be put away. A warfare must be waged against every evil trait of
character. Then the believing one can understandingly take to himself
the promise: “Ask, and it shall be given you.”
Matthew 7:7
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