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The Folly of Formal Fasting

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 23.

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The Folly of Formal Fasting

THERE is one curious feature of the fast enjoined by certain churches during the Lenten season, and that is, those who observe the so-called fast are always so glad when it is over. There is generally a rush into a revel of worldly amusement and festal indulgence. And the same principle is prominent in all religious exercises of a merely formal character.