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CONSISTENT CHRISTIANS

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 13, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 39.

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CONSISTENT CHRISTIANS.

By Dwight Lyman Moody

WHEN we walk with God we preach wherever we go. Our example is a sermon. And there is nothing that will impress the world like a consistent Christian life. When Jacob turned towards Bethel to build an altar unto God, "the terror of God was upon all the cities round about." When the children of Israel walked with God and trusted in him as their leader, no nation could stand before them. But when they got tired of God's company and asked for a king, a leader that they could see, he gave them Saul who stood head and shoulders above the rest of the people. He was just such a leader as carnel eyes would choose. But what was the result? A single giant, Goliah of Gath, came out and defied King Saul and all his army. In the days of Joshua when the people followed God freely, they were not afraid of the Anakim. They slew a race of giants. But now they dared not to meet this one. Such is the result of being out of communion with God. It will not do to come to Bible readings in the afternoon and go to the theater at night; to attend prayer-meetings one evening and dancing parties the next. If you want your friends to be saved, your children converted, you must be consistent as a Christian, you must let your light shine steadily before them.
—Moody.