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They leave no painful reflections, no remorse. Such pleasures do not
impair health or prostrate the mind, but are of a healthful nature.
Communion with and love for God, the practice of holiness, the
destruction of sin, are all pleasant. The reading of God’s Word will
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not fascinate the imagination and inflame the passions, like a fictitious
storybook, but softens, soothes, elevates, and sanctifies the heart.
When in trouble, when assailed by fierce temptations, they have the
privilege of prayer. What an exalted privilege! Finite beings, of dust
and ashes, admitted through the mediation of Christ, into the audience
chamber of the Most High. In such exercises the soul is brought into
a sacred nearness with God and is renewed in knowledge and true
holiness and fortified against the assaults of the enemy
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