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Duty and Resistance to Temptation

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 12, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 2.

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Duty and Resistance to Temptation

A MAN in the path of duty is twice as strong to resist temptation as out of it. A fish is twice as strong in the water as on the shore; but a four-footed beast is twice as strong on the land as in the water. The reason is, because the water is a proper element of the one, and the earth of the other. Thy work is the element wherein thou art most able to resist temptation.—Sel.