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Lord taught me many precious lessons of my littleness and
his exalted greatness...
"I should never speak of having prayed for certain persons
in connection with their conversion, etc. Oh, I am so
ashamed of my folly and weakness in often relating such
things. I thought I was doing it all to the glory of God,
but now I can see that there was some self in it...
"I have boasted too much of my health and ascribed it too
generally to my knowledge of, and prudence in, observing
natural laws. O God, forgive me this offense..."
In December of the same year, 1877, Warner wrote out a
solemn covenant with Almighty God. In part it read:
"This soul which thou hast made in thine own image is placed
wholly in thy hands; do with it as seemeth good. This mind
shall think only for thy glory and for the promotion of thy
cause. This will is thy will. O God. The Spirit within this
body is now thine; do with it as thou wilt in life and
death. This body is thy temple forever. These hands only to
work for thee..."
Warner signed his name along the left-hand margin of that
covenant---Daniel Sidney Warner. And then he appended
additional explanation:
"In signing my name to this solemn covenant I am aware that
I bind myself to live, act, speak, think, move, sit, stand
up, lie down, eat, drink, hear, see, feel, and whatsoever I
do all the days of my life to do all continually and
exclusively to the glory of God. I must henceforth wear
nothing but what honors God. I must have nothing in my
possession or under my control but such things as I can
consistently write upon 'holiness unto the Lord.'
"I humbly pray thee to so keep me that all my powers of
soul, body and spirit, my time, talents, will, influence,
words, and works shall continually, exclusively and
eternally glorify thy holy name through Jesus Christ my
Lord, and Savior. Amen and amen.
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