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Belonging to God

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 24, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 50.

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Belonging to God

A PERSONAL friend asked Wendell Phillips, not long before his death, "Mr. Phillips, did you ever consecrate yourself to God?" "Yes," he answered; "when I was a boy, fourteen years of age, in the old church at the North End, I heard Lyman Beecher preach on the theme, 'You belong to God,' and I went home after that service, threw myself on the floor in my room, with locked doors, and prayed: 'O God, I belong to Thee; take what is Thine own. I ask this,—that whenever a thing be wrong, it may have no temptation over me; whenever a thing be right, it may take no courage to do it.' From that day to this it has been so."—Sunday School Chronicle.