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                    “One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement… It is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of
                    
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                    One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragementIt is easy to laugh at mens ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 26, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    No Higher Duty
Henri Nouwen, the great spiritual writer was going to a monastery for a
retreat. The monks observed vows of silence and the retreat was to be
meditative and prayerful. Nouwen was delayed and was late getting to the
monastery on that miserable, rainy night. He rang the bell, well
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 4, 2008
                
                
                
                    The Labor of Love is Not a Duty
It is not something we have to do. It is not even something we ought to do. Loving God as we worship can never be done because we know we ought to do it. Now sometimes we need to fake it until we make it. Sometimes we need to do it even if we don't feel like it.
                    
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                    Contributed by Spencer Miller on Jun 16, 2013
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I remember listening to a sermon illustration given by the powerful proclaimer, Rev. Dr. A. W. Mays of Austin, Texas.
He told us of an incident that took place in his hometown of Austin concerning a streetlight.  In Austin there was a high crime area, and the residents of the community petitioned
                    
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                    Contributed by Daniel Becker on Sep 15, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy
                    
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                    Contributed by Robert Garrett on Aug 8, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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“THE COST OF DODGING DUTY”
I have read of a king who placed a heavy stone in the road and hid to see who would remove it.  Men of various classes came and worked their way around it,  some loudly blaming the king for not keeping the highways clear, but all dodging the duty of getting
                    
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                    It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their own independence upon the overruling power of God . . . and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proved by all history, that those
                    
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