A Solemn Appeal - James White

agreeable or pleasant to unite with the Master and
be co-workers with him in helping the very class
who stand most in need of help. But this is the
work Christ humbled himself to do. Is the servant
greater than his Lord? He has given the example,
and enjoins upon us to copy it. It may be
disagreeable, yet duty demands that just such a
work be performed.
I have felt deeply as I have seen the powerful
influence animal passions have had in controlling
men and women of no ordinary intelligence and
ability. They are capable of engaging in a good
work, of exerting a powerful influence, were they
not enslaved by base passions. They have listened
to the most solemn, impressive discourses upon the
judgment, which seemed to bring them before the
tribunal of God, causing them to fear and quake,
yet an hour would hardly elapse before they have
been engaged in their favorite, bewitching sin,
polluting their own bodies. They were such slaves
to this awful crime that they seemed devoid of
power to control their passions. We have labored
for some earnestly, we have wept and prayed over
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