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<em>"If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God."</em> Colossians 3:1<br><br>
How many there are even of those who desire to fear God who are kept down by the <em>world,</em> and to whom it has not lost its attractive power.<br><br> They are held fast, at least for a time, by worldly business, or entangled by worldly people or worldly engagements—their partners in business or their partners in life—their carnal relatives or their worldly children—their numerous connections or their social habits—their strong passions or their deep-rooted prejudices—all bind and fetter them down to earth.<br><br>
There they grovel and lie amid the smoke and stir of this dim spot which men call earth—and so bound are they with the cords of their sins, that they scarcely seek deliverance from them, or ever desire to rise beyond the mists and fogs of this dim spot into a purer air so as to breathe a heavenly atmosphere, and rise up with Jesus from the grave of their corruptions. But they shall never be <strong>buried in the grave of carnality and worldliness.