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...that ye may obtain." Secondly, our attention is called to the preparation necessary for the contest. " Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things." How necessary it is, strictly to adhere to the most self-denying discipline as a preparation for any...

...awful possibility evidently implied in the declaration of the Apostle Paul ? Every man ' that strivcth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but ive an incorruptible : I, therefore, so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not asotie that beattth...

...fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."b Thus, the apostle Paul, — " Everyone that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it, (competitors in the ancient games,) to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore...

...words of our Redeemer we believe, " It is more blest to give than to receive." NOVEMBER 29. JZvery man that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in...now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but wc an incorruptible. THE competitors at the Corinthian games were resolutely temperate and regular...

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...admirable counsel of St. Paul: " Walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh." 1 " Every man, that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things." * And these precepts he confirms by his own example: " I (therefore) keep under my body, and bring...