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Chapter 7—The Call to the Harvest
It Is Time for Us to Work
—Now, brethren and sisters, is it not
time for us to work? Is it not time for us to arouse our God-given
capabilities, to catch holy zeal that we have not had as yet? And is
it not time that we should stand as Calebs, come to the front, raise
our voices, and cry out against the reports that are going all around
us? Are we not able to possess the land? We are able in God to do a
mighty work upon the point of temperance.—
Manuscript 3, 1888
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Who Will Help?
—All around us are the victims of depraved
appetite, and what are you going to do for them? Can you not, by
your example, help them to place their feet in the path of temperance?
Can you have a sense of the temptations that are coming upon the
youth who are growing up around us, and not seek to warn and save
them? Who will stand on the Lord’s side? Who will help to press
back this tide of immorality, of woe and wretchedness, that is filling
the world?—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 40
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Our Day of Opportunity
—Intemperance of every kind is tak-
ing the world captive, and those who are true educators at this time,
those who instruct along the lines of self-denial and self-sacrifice,
will have their reward. Now is our time, now is our opportunity, to
do a blessed work.—
Medical Ministry, 25
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We Are Accountable
—We are just as accountable for evils
that we might have checked in others, by reproof, by warning, by
exercise of parental or pastoral authority, as if we were guilty of the
acts ourselves.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:516
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Revive the Temperance Work
—The temperance cause needs
to be revived as it has not yet been.—
The Review and Herald, Jan-
uary 14, 1909
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Years ago we regarded the spread of temperance principles as
one of our most important duties. It should be so today.—
Gospel
Workers, 384
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If the work of temperance were carried forward by us as it was
begun thirty years ago; [
First published in 1900.
] if at our camp
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