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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 19, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 40.

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FAITH AND WORKS.

If you have been renewed in the spirit of your mind, and thus made a new creature in Christ Jesus, it has been by living faith. This faith must be followed by, or must produce, obedience. It cannot remain alone. It would die. It will find expression in obedience, and in every known act of obedience. Duties need not be laid upon it as requirements and obligations, things that must be done. It is driven to obedience by an inward force of its own, not by an outward compulsion. It cannot be severed from obedience any more than the fruit can be matured apart from the tree. But it must be faith in Christ, not faith in theological propositions. Men who believe dogmas may not live them; but men who have true faith in Christ will live in obedience to Christ.—Church Advocate.