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The power that restores us is constantly needed to keep us - Without the spirit of God to move men they never would obey the Commands of God. Man has no Characteristic more marked than his reluctance to do the will of God. If his inclination was to obey, there would be no occasion for this prayer - "O Lord reveal thy work." Man is so sluggish in his spiritual nature, and so susceptible to influences and excitements that tend to drum him away from duty, that God has found it necessary to awaken him and check his rebellious career by counter excitement even greater in power than those operating against him without these movements of God - these interpositions - even his own people would not obey And this must ever hold true so long as the Church is governed by so little principle and is so poorly instructed as to what constitutes the Christian life. Tides of worldliness must be met by tides of religious power until the Church is sufficiently well educated in principle to hold steadily on its course. This is true philosophy and is consistent with the facts of history Ills.