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by James W. Alexander

Section XXXVIII

General Retrospect

Look back from this point, my dear Christian friend, upon what you have done. Even in the view of the world, you are no longer your own. You have publicly given yourself away to Christ, to be his servant for ever He has brought you into his banquetting house, and his banner over you has been love.f

* Isa. 48: 17. f Cant 2: 4.

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Yet many, having proceeded thus far, have gone back. “No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of G-od.”* Every thought, word, and act of your future life, is to be in the character of an avowed disciple of the T^ord Jesus. And for ability so to walk, you have need to cry importunately for the aids of the Holy Spirit.

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