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But suppose God deals not either of these ways with the backslider, but shines upon him again, and seals up to him the remission of his sins a second time, saying, "I will heal their backslidings, and love them freely." What will the soul do now? Surely it will walk humbly now, and holily all its days. It will never backslide again, will it? It may happen it will not; it may happen it will.
Another said, "If I'd lied once over that old soup-house, I'd lie again, before I'd hold still and take all that" He changed his soup-house policy for a little while; but the complaints among secession friends and white customers caused him soon afterward to backslide. Mr. Carpenter, treasurer of the Provident Aid Society, wrote a letter to George Savage that he thought might improve him.
It is generally thought that a Christian convert cannot be restored to his caste if he should backslide; and the superstition of the low-class natives is a rhinoceros shield, which it is still difficult to penetrate; but in the end the Cross will come off conqueror, as it always has and always will.
Who would have thought that so many were going to backslide, and that after five years there would be hardly more than a score of us left not counting the children, of course!"
The right time to stop bad habits is now. Some people have many pet bad habits. It is often the best policy to attack them one at a time. Those who try to conquer all at once often fail. They backslide, lose self-confidence, become discouraged, tell themselves that it is no use, for it can not be done. Begin with the habit that is least formidable.
The more heathen they convert, the more soul they save, the better business for their mission shop. But the heathen do not always wish to be 'convert; the heathen fly, the heathen skidaddle, the heathen will not remain, or will backslide. What will you do? So the holy fathers make a little game.
And you, you Milly, let all the hopes and dreams die and the faults grow and multiply. Just by letting Will backslide, forget and grow careless. "Somebody told you that patience was a pretty ornament. It is if it's the genuine article and properly used.
She would hate those who had been born and made to the title, and she would revert at times to common instincts with fierce anarchy. But one must go forward before one can backslide, and Kedzie was on the way up the slippery hill. She had greatly improved the quality of her lodgings, her suitors, and her clothes.
Is it possible for the soul that has escaped eternal burnings that has experienced the bitterness and exceeding sinfulness of sin that has felt the misery of transgression that has been brought up out of that deep and horrible pit to backslide and plunge again into misery, with his eyes open to see the smoke of their torments ascending up before him?
She took the reins into her own hands when she found that his business and strong drink did not mix well, worked him into the church, sustained his resolutions by making it difficult and dangerous for him to get to his toddy. She became the business head of the family, and he the spiritual. Only at rare intervals did he ever "backslide" during the twenty years of the new era, and Mrs.
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