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Having “girded up the
loins of your mind” for a long, steady and determined effort, “be
sober”; do not allow yourself to become excited and, under the spur
of excitement, to exhaust all your spiritual vitality in a very
short time, and then to suffer a relapse into coldness or
discouragement. Strive thoughtfully to consider and prepare for a
long and patient endurance of all the discipline and trial of faith
and patience necessary to prove an overcomer and worthy of the
blessed reward promised “to him that overcometh.” The race before us
is not one to be run by fits and starts, but by “patient
continuance in well
doing”. |
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