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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 18, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 16.

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Cultivating Our Temptations

Too many of us are gardeners to our temptations. We cultivate them assiduously. We do not realize that the strength or weakness of a temptation depends largely on ourselves. Every time we yield, the temptation to which we have yielded is strengthened for its next attack. Every victory we score weakens that temptation for its future work with us. The weakening and strengthening processes are uniform: it may take half a dozen victories on our part to offset the strength imparted to a temptation by a single failure of ours. And no temptation ever seems to get its death-blow in this life. But that our victories and our defeats are full of significance for to-morrow's fight is a truth to which all can testify. Let us not send cheer into the camp of the enemy! —Selected.