p. 339 | FRAGMENTS by Eugene Leland

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 2, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 22.

FRAGMENTS.

By Eugene Leland

BY ELDER EUGENE LELAND.

WE never can do what we ought to do until we are what we ought to be.

God wants us to exercise faith in his requirements as well as in his promises.

Look to Jesus. Satan would have us look to ourselves; but in looking to ourselves we become discouraged on account of our failures, or puffed up on account of our successes. Look to Jesus.

Children love to imitate what they see their parents do. Let us then love our enemies, bless them that curse us, do good to them that hate us, and pray for them that despitefully use us and persecute us, that we may be the children of our Father which is in heaven. That is the way he does, "for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."

The gospel of Christ will save the sinner, and the law will witness to that salvation; but

when the salvation of the gospel is rejected, the law will condemn the sinner, and the gospel will witness to that condemnation.

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