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by James W. Alexander

Section LXXI

Love of Souls

The whole face of things would be altered in the Church, if each of its members could be possessed with a sense of his obligation to make individual efforts for the conversion of

Bonis. This is left to ministers and churcliofficers. Yet every man lias some circle of influence, and some laymen have been instruments in bringing biindrecls to the knowledge of the truth. “Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.”*

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