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Appendix B Typical Temperance Addresses By Ellen G. White
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a vanquished foe, and no one is excused from entering the battle
on the Lord’s side, for there is no reason why man may not be an
overcomer if he trusts in Christ. “To him that overcometh will I
grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am
set down with My Father in His throne.”
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Through the merits of Christ we are to be purified, refined, re-
deemed, and given a place with Christ on His throne. Could any
greater honor be conferred upon man than this? Could we aspire to
anything greater? If we are overcomers, Christ declares, “I will not
blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name
before My Father, and before His angels.”—
The Signs of the Times,
June 22, 29
, and
The Signs of the Times, July 6, 1891
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3. At Sydney, Australia—1893
“And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days
of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives,
they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the
ark, and the Flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it
was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they
sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out
of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed
them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is
revealed.”
Luke 17:26-30
. Now, we know that intemperance is in
our world everywhere. There is no sin in eating and drinking to
sustain us physically, and in doing that which is for our spiritual
good. But when we lose eternity out of our reckoning, and carry
these necessary things to excess, that is when the sin comes in. We
see on every side such crime, such iniquity. Is it not time that we
shall begin to study for ourselves? We have souls to save or souls
to lose. God created our first parents and placed them in Paradise.
God made only one restriction. “The fruit of the tree which is in
the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither
shall ye touch it, lest ye die.” They would forfeit their life, if they
did not obey the restriction.
Satan is represented by the serpent. The tempter is everywhere,
on every side, and when God says ye shall not, what is the result?
In many instances in the place of obeying the voice of warning they
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