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Sabbath: SEEK YE FIRST

The following incident in the life of Billy Bray, the eccentric Cornish evangelist, is worthy of note. On this occasion Satan came to tempt him to sit at ease on the Sabbath, saying, "You have to work hard all the week, Billy, and need one day's rest in seven, and here you are preaching three times and walking twenty miles. You ought to rest, Billy." Billy turned around to him and said, "Thee is a pretty man to give a feller advice. Thee had a good situation theeself an' lost it; and thee wants me to lose mine, too, does thee?"

The same devil that worked so hard to overthrow Billy Bray is on your track, and if you listen to him he will have you thinking of the sacrifice you have made for the worship of God and the cause of God, and get you to settle back on your oars, and become careless, indifferent, negligent, and idle, and soon you will reap what you have sown; namely, spiritual bankruptcy, and at last drop into hell, lost forever. Keep moving, and always, at all places and under all circumstances, make God's work, cause, and interests first and everything else second. Then, and not till then, can you claim the promise, "And all these things shall be added unto you." -- SELECTED