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to be given to overcomers, but are not willing to endure toil, privation,
and denial of self, as did their Redeemer. It is only through obedience
and continual effort that we shall overcome as Christ overcame.
The controlling power of appetite will prove the ruin of thousands,
when, if they had conquered on this point, they would have had moral
power to gain the victory over every other temptation of Satan. But
those who are slaves to appetite will fail in perfecting Christian char-
acter. The continual transgression of man for six thousand years has
brought sickness, pain, and death as its fruits. And as we near the close
of time, Satan’s temptation to indulge appetite will be more powerful
and more difficult to overcome.
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