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to stumbling-blocks. Their usefulness will be largely crippled, if
not utterly destroyed. Even if the young men themselves succeed in
making an unreserved surrender to God, yet they will find that they
are greatly crippled by being bound to an untrained, undisciplined,
unchristlike wife, who is dead to God, dead to piety, and dead to true
holiness. Their lives will prove unsatisfying and unhappy. These
gatherings for amusement confuse faith, and make the motive mixed
and uncertain. The Lord accepts no divided heart. He wants the whole
man. He made all there is of man. He offered a complete sacrifice to
redeem the body and soul of man. That which he requires of those
whom he has created and redeemed, is summed up in these words,
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind.... Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
God will accept nothing less than this.
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