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What a work we realize
to be before us and what necessity for sobriety, vigilance,
steadfastness! It is a life work, a life battle against a mighty foe
entrenched in our flesh. The powers without are strong indeed, but
the civil war within is by far the most to be dreaded. If we become
in any measure intoxicated with the spirit of the world; if we give
way to self-gratification, love of ease, pleasure, a little
indulgence of any of the old disposition of envy, malice, pride,
vainglory, vaunting of self, headiness, highmindedness, wrath,
strife, or any such thing even a little, oh, how great is the peril
to which we are exposed! |
