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COMPULSORY RELIGION

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 4, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 14.

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COMPULSORY RELIGION.

RELIGION is chiefly, as it ought to be, a matter of compulsion. The flesh and the devil urge us to let life be controlled by our feelings. God gives us a will, and says, Use your will to compel yourself to do right whether you feel like it or not. The devil sees to it that we do not "feel like it" a large part of the time. Of course good deeds ought to be done "willingly"—that is, as the result of our will. To be willing to do right is to will to do right; and we must often will to do what we do not want to do.—Sunday-School Times.