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Temperance
drunkard? It is stained with the blood of souls, and the curse of
God is upon it. God says, “For I the Lord love judgment, I hate
robbery for burnt offering.” The church may praise the liberality of
one who gives such an offering; but were the eyes of the church
members anointed with heavenly eyesalve, they would not call good
evil and iniquity righteousness. The Lord says, “To what purpose
is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? ... When ye come to
appear before Me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread My
courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination
unto Me.” “Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say,
Wherein have we wearied Him? When ye say, Everyone that doeth
evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delighteth in them; or,
Where is the God of judgment?”—
The Review and Herald, May 15,
1894
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Conditions Which Call for God’s Judgments
—Because of
the wickedness that follows largely as the result of the use of liquor,
the judgments of God are falling upon our earth today. Have we not
a solemn responsibility to put forth earnest efforts in opposition to
this great evil?—
Counsels on Health, 432
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A Reformation Due
—There needs to be a great reformation on
the subject of temperance. The world is filled with self-indulgence
of every kind. Because of the benumbing influence of stimulants
and narcotics the minds of many are unable to discern between the
sacred and the common.—
Counsels on Health, 432
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God’s Call to Help the Inebriate
—Your neighbor may be
yielding to the temptation to destroy himself by liquor drinking
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and tobacco using. He may be burning up his vital organs by fiery
stimulant. He is pursuing this course to the ruination of himself
and his wife and children, who have no success in trying to stay the
feet that are traveling the road to perdition. God calls upon you to
work in His vineyard, to do all in your power to save your fellow
creatures.—
Manuscript 87, 1898
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As we face these things, and see the terrible consequences of
liquor drinking, shall we not do all in our power to rally to the help
of God in fighting against this great evil?—
Evangelism, 265
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