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Guard Against Little Deceptions

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 4, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 18.

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Guard Against Little Deceptions

OFTTIMES the first intimation that a person has of his decline from piety and virtue, is the sudden realization that he is slipping into the practice of little deceptions and petty hypocrisies. He has lost something of his former candor and truthfulness; he is no longer promptly loyal to his conscience, but engages frequently in argument with his own heart, striving to make to himself the worse appear the better reason. He is in peril, and has need to be greatly alarmed. "Set a double guard on that point, to-night!" cried an officer, when an attack was anticipated.—Sel.