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The Holiness Needed

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 29, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 5.

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The Holiness Needed.

By Theodore L. Cuyler

For the holiness that fights against sin, battles with temptation, keeps unspotted from the world, and lays self on the altar, there is a crying need in our time. It is a sympathetic spirit going about doing good, yet it has no sympathy with evil customs and the fashions of the world. It strives to keep clean. Against the downward pull of the world it braces itself and says, "If others do this, yet will not I." It dares to be singular and unfashionable. It keeps out of places where it would be smirched, and finds such enjoyment in its prayer-service, its Bible-study, its deeds of charity, and in the innocent joys of life, that it does not hanker after the playhouse and kindred sensualities. Walking in the Spirit, it does not stoop to the lusts of the flesh.—T. L. Cuyler.