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and crippling the growth and development of the moral faculties.
There is no encouragement given to any of the sons or daughters of
Adam that they may become victorious overcomers in the Christian
warfare unless they decide to practice temperance in all things. If
they do this, they will not fight as one that beateth the air.
If Christians will keep the body in subjection, and bring all their
appetites and passions under the control of enlightened conscience,
feeling it a duty that they owe to God and to their neighbors to obey
the laws which govern health and life, they will have the blessing of
physical and mental vigor. They will have moral power to engage in
the warfare against Satan; and in the name of Him who conquered
appetite in their behalf, they may be more than conquerors on their
own account. This warfare is open to all who will engage in it.—
The
Signs of the Times, October 2, 1907
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