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Cut the Shore Lines

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 13, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 7.

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Cut the Shore Lines.

WHEN a new ship is launched there are loose ropes that hang from her landward side to keep her near the shore. How much this is like thousands of professing Christians! They have everything they need for sailing, but they are bound to the shore. The engine may turn the wheels, the wind may fill the sails of heavenly desire, but so long as these shore-lines are not cut, the ship will stay just where she is. Let go of the world! Your craft will rot by the shore in spite of all effort, unless you cut loose. Shore-lines have ruined many a soul. You must let go! The harbor is on the other side of the sea. You are not to drop anchor, nor furl the sail, until you reach the other shore. "For so an entrance shall be administered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." 2 Pet. 1:11.