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Temperance
the Master’s use. Go with your hands full of proper reading matter,
and your heart full of the love of Christ for their souls, reaching them
where they are.—
Manuscript 1, 1875
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Organize and Prepare for Effective Work
—We need to work
in the interests of temperance reform, and to make this question
one of living interest. This is one way in which we may become
fishers of men. A good work is being done in the circulation of
our literature. Form yourselves into companies for the prosecution
of a vigilant work. Learn to speak in such a way that you will not
give offense. Cultivate gentleness of speech. Let the grace of Christ
dwell in you richly, speaking to one another encouraging words. I
make an earnest appeal to all our people, Come into line, come into
line.—
Manuscript 99, 1908
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Sound the Warning
—God’s people are to be of a ready mind,
quick to see and to avail themselves of every opportunity to advance
the Lord’s cause. They have a message to bear. By pen and voice
they are to sound the note of warning. Only a few will listen; only
a few will have ears to hear. Satan has artfully devised many ways
of keeping men and women under his influence. He leads them to
weaken their organs by the gratification of perverted appetite and
by indulgence in worldly pleasure. Intoxicating liquor, tobacco,
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the theater and the racecourse,—these and many other evils are
benumbing man’s sensibilities, and causing multitudes to turn a deaf
ear to God’s merciful entreaties.—
The Review and Herald, June 23,
1903
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