Daniel T. Bourdeau - The Eternal Gospel Church

you are overcoming. p. 112, Para. 1, [HOLINESS].
If we would be successful in overcoming we must not work
at random, but take right hold of those sins by which we
are most likely to be overcome, considering them as our
most dangerous enemies, and not give up the battle till we
obtain the victory. Our inward foes are the worst foes that
we have. If we overcome these, we can more easily keep our
outward foes at bay; for they will have no sympathizers in
the citadel of our hearts, to divide our strength, work
against us, and overcome us. p. 112, Para. 2, [HOLINESS].
As we commence the work of overcoming, we have
unsanctified habits to contend with; but by a change of
practice, these habits are changed into sanctified habits,
which serve as helps in living holiness. p. 113, Para. 1,
[HOLINESS].
In overcoming we frequently meet with darkness produced by
ill health, trials, the powers of darkness, &c., which may
for the time being obscure the mind and eclipse the
clearness, strength, harmony, and beauty of the truth, and
the reality of the work from our view. At such times we
should not give way to discouragement, and hastily conclude
that there is no reality to the truth and to the work in
which we are engaged. As well might we conclude that
surrounding objects do not exist because we do not see them
in a dark night, as to conclude that we have not got the
truth, and that there is nothing to sanctification, when
the truth and sanctification are only shut from our view by
such causes. p. 113, Para. 2, [HOLINESS].
A knowledge of our physical and mental capacities and
deficiencies is also requisite and highly useful in
overcoming. Owing to various causes, among which the
violation of the laws of our being, and the different
practices and educations of men stand prominent, men have
physical and mental defects, which could not have entered
into the organization of man as he came out of the hands of
his wise and bountiful Creator; and there is a difference
in the capacities of different individuals. p. 113, Para.
3, [HOLINESS].
The reader only needs to fall back on his own observation
to see that men generally are not as healthy and strong as
they once were; that some individuals are stronger
physically than others; that some have comparatively strong