Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene - Ellen G. White

possible for you to gain the ascendency over
appetite and debasing passion.
God has made man capable of constant
progress in everything that constitutes mental and
moral dignity. No other creature of his hand is
capable of such advancement. Man can reach an
eminence in self-control and dignity that will raise
him above the slavery of appetite and passion,
where he can stand before God as a man, his name
written in the books of heaven.
Let the light of truth shine into the mind of a
man, let the love of God be shed abroad in his
heart, and we can hardly conceive what he may be
or what God can do through him. Though a fallen
son of Adam, he may, through the merits of Christ,
be an heir of immortality, his thoughts elevated and
ennobled, his heart purified, and his conversation
in heaven. Think, O, think of the superiority of an
intelligent Christian man over a poor votary of sin!
Note the difference between man blinded by sin,
the victim of his own evil passions, and sunk in
vice, and a man reclaimed by the truth of God’s
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