What is your influence?

“For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous” (Rom. 5:19).
“Your zeal hath stirred up very many of them” (2 Cor. 9:2—R. V.).

Books and sermons may be resisted; even tears and entreaties may be despised; but the silent and unostentatious influence of holy lives will speak a language to the heart it cannot easily gainsay, a language which will sound on when we sleep in the dust. The dim tracery of words will be washed away and effaced from memory, but the deep lines of a beautiful example, chiseled into the heart, will remain forever. It is holiness, not the profession of it, that will give us influence both with God and men, winging our prayers with faith, and our counsels with wisdom, deriving power from above, and sending out from us currents of influence through the earth.

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