I agree with this. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carleeta Manser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:43 PM Subject: {dbilg} The Battle Against Intemperance
> > The Battle Against Intemperance > > Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived > thereby is not wise. Prov. 20:1. > > We as Christians should stand firmly in defense of temperance. There > is > no class of persons capable of accomplishing more and effecting the object > more readily than the God-fearing Bible youth. In this age the young men > of > our cities should unite in a firm, decided army to set their faces as a > flint against every form of selfish, health-destroying indulgence. What a > power they might be for good! How many they might save from becoming > demoralized because they visit the halls and gardens fitted up with music > and every attraction to allure the youth! Intemperance and licentiousness > and profanity are sisters. Let every God-fearing youth gird on the armor > and > press to the front. Put your names on every pledge. . . . Let no feeble, > weak excuse be offered to refuse to put your name to the temperance > pledge. > . . . > > Through intemperate appetite Adam and Eve lost Eden. If we gain the > Paradise of God we must be temperate in all things. Shall any blush with > shame to refuse the wine cup or the foaming mug of beer? Instead of this > being a dishonorable work, they are doing service to God in the matter of > refusing to indulge appetite, resisting temptation. Angels are looking > upon > both tempter and tempted. While sin is unmanly, indulgence of appetite is > weak, cowardly, and debasing; the denial of appetite, honorable. The > highest > intelligences of heaven watch the conflict going on between the tempter > and > the tempted. And if the tempted turn away from temptation and in the > strength of Jesus conquer, then angels rejoice, and Satan has lost in the > conflict. . . . All who understand the great conflict of Christ upon the > point of appetite in the wilderness of temptation will never lend one iota > of their influence to brace up intemperance. > > Jesus endured the painful fast in our behalf and conquered Satan in > every temptation, thus making it possible for man to conquer in his own > behalf, and on his own account, through the strength brought to him by > this > mighty victory gained as man's substitute and surety. > >>From That I May Know Him - Page 314 > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
