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The Deception of Partial Obedience

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 21, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 8.

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The Deception of Partial Obedience

PEOPLE are very ready to make a little obedience go a great ways. Saul met Samuel merrily professing, "I have performed the commandment of the Lord," when he had really disobeyed it. The worst of men, those who make their living out of their sins, yet take great comfort in their compensating virtues. They imagine that if they are kind to their families they are very good people, even though they make their living by breaking up the families of other people.