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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 21, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 19.

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Backsliding

BACKSLIDING.—All serious declension in religion begins in negligence of closet duties. These are meditation, self-examination, reading the Scriptures, praise, and prayer. A close walk with God insures regularity, and alacrity in performing these duties. But an indisposition for them is one of the first signs that spiritual health is failing. We can go to hell without intending to do so, without putting forth any efforts to that effect. But to go to Heaven requires prayers, self-denial, vigilance, running, wrestling, fighting.—Dr. Plumer.