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Influence
"Be thou an example." 1 Tim. 4:12. The book of
our life is not the making of our own character and
destiny only, but it is also helping to make that of
another. It is a serious thing to live. There is a
wondrous power in personal influence. Your life is helping
to mold some other life, and often the one that is dearest
to you. What we are goes to help make another what they
are. What we are engraves itself upon the life of our
friend or brother. The conduct of the parents is being
written in the lives of the children. We are contributing
to the world's good or bad. A bad man is a dangerous man.
We have no right to live as we please. Our children, our
friend, our neighbor has a right to demand a good life of
us for their own sake. The boy has a right to say,
"Father, for my sake I demand you to live a pure
life." It will be a bitter thing to start a child
wrong in life by some unholy conduct. It is not an easy
thing to heal the wound our wrong conduct has made in the
life of another. We may, by repentance and begging
forgiveness, heal the wound, but it will be hard to remove
the scar. A deed can be forgiven, but it cannot be
changed. It is in your power now under grace to make your
future record clean and pure. Will you do it?
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