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PURITY OF LIFE.
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Purity is a won! that has a chaste
and immah iilate it
It seems to me. that when I hear it
fallim; from a morally corrupt man s
lips, that 1 can almost seethe different
letters form into tear drops of shame,
ami fall to the ground, tainting the
soil with corruption and when I hear
tlm word spoken by a Christian gentle
man or lady, the constituent letters
crystallize int> beautiful raindrops of
faith and integrity, which fashion a
lovely mist environing golden letters
of honor.
' »h' lovely beauteous mist.
Dressing inimaleulate letters,
I nfold to us thy golden gist,
Enchain us now. with thy silver let
ters.
Make us pure, with holy satiation.
Fertilize the seed we sow.
Send thy rain drops of pnritication.
And make us white as the dazzling
snow
In studying the theme and text, the
first question that naturally arises, is:
What are t he constituents of purity and
impurity?
Il is generally conceded by intelligent
people, that where, faith, hope ami
charity abound, there we find purity;
and where doubt, malignancy, pessi
mism and intemperance abound, there
we find impurity.
Life is a ladder, faith is tirm belief
that something awaits us at the top,
Hope is the energy invested ill us. by
means of which we strive to attain the
topmost round Charity is a spirit, by
virtue of which, we reach down and
help some one up the long and toilsome,
weary ascent, and lie or she. who ex
dibits these attributes most, and prac
ticesthem. it is. that furnish evidence
of purity and will surely reach the
top of the ladder, there to find elysian
lands of eternal rest, beauteous realms
beyond the jeweled heavens
hi Hom 12 11 13 s we have purity
portrayed in the words
"Not slothful in business, fervent in
spirit, serving the Lord "
< >we no man anything, but to love
one another, for he that loveth another
hath fulfilled the law."
Mammons bright allurements, dissi
pations merciless destruction, and am
bitions glittering pictures, are fertile
progenitors of impurity.
The rich young ruler, wanting in
nothing, living uprightly and honestly,
esteemed and admired, rich and courted
and allot' the decalogue, except the first
of the commandments, is an illustra
tion of impurity reflected from mam
mons shining helmet.and as all sensible
people fully realize the destructive
qualities of impurity and 'the intrinsic
value of purity.and generally desire the
latter, but through the weakness of the
flesh, fall short of their desires, we
deem it expedient to elucidate a tew
observations on.
METHODS OF OBTAINING PURITY.
In Rom 13:13. "Let us walk lion
estly as m the day; not in rioting ami
drunkenness, not in chambering and
wantonness, not in strife and envying.
In .lames 4:7 Submit yourselves
therefore to God. Resist the Devil, and
he will Hee from you " And in this pas
sage lies the complete solution of the
question "How to obtain purity." 1
I’eter 4:7. But the end of all things is at
hand, lie ye therefore sober, and watch
unto prayer. Rom. 12:21. “Be not
overcome of evil, but overcome evil
with good
z\nd the above quoted verses consti
tute not only methods of obtaining
purity, but also exhortations to resort
to the same.
Cultivate ambition, purify the same,
and it will grow, purifying your life.
Be ambitious of making your lives
pure in purity lies honor and dis
tinction. Concur not with the Pessi
mist in the view. that Christ meant to
condemn pure ambition when he said.
"Whosoever will be chief among you.
let him be the servant of all; but rather
agree with the optimist in the position,
that Jesns meant to encourage
and energize ambition by pointing
out a means of its gratification.
Follow the aspiring ambition of
Moses. Joshua. Elijah. Daniel. Isaiah
and David, and as God sanctioned their
efforts and inspired them onward and
upward, so will he purify your life, and
allow you to dip the pen of your wishes
in crystal fountains of distinction, in
scribing your name indellibly in glori
ous and living characters, both upon the
pages of this world s history and the
golden record books of Heaven.
Follow John the Baptist in his ambi
tious impulses to lift the galling yoke
of Roman despotism from the neck of
his p -ople. and revive their dead hopes
and Christ will lift the yoke of sin from
your neck washing your souls clean
wit h ins blood, purifying your lives and
send: ng the spirit to inspire you to no
ble deeds.
Copy the example of Paul in the in
sp,ration of his pure and holy ambition
to become a mighty man in Christ's
vinevard. and you will be led by the
purity thus obtained and the resolu
tions made thereby to the pinnacle of
righteous distinction.
Aspire highly'and be eagerly desirous
of chaste lives, and God will shower
upon you rain drops of purification, lift
ing you higher and higher day by day,
until you pass through pearly gates sup
ported by angelic wings into ttie de
lightful realms of heaven. ,
Lastly comes the greatest of all ninth'
oils of purification:
In seasons when importunate and se
ductive temptations, clad in the armor
of worldly enticement, assail the mind
incessant in solicitation, breeding cor
ruption. increasing passion and endan
goring chastity, when pleasure whispers
in the ear sweet songs of indolence;
gentle persuasions for voluptuousness
inviting sensual indulgence and riotous
living, wni'ii impurity is lurkingin the
shadows of your path of life and sa
tanie spiders are weaving unchaste webs
in your brain to catch pure thoughts
turn towards the table of Christ and
behold your only means of deliverance
and purification in the broken body and
spilled blood of Jesus, partake of the
same and be free.
Concluding our observations on the
constituents of purity and the methods
of acquiring the same, we naturally
pass to the topics:
Blessings at lending purity and evils
attending impuriy.
BLESSINGS ATTENDING PURITY.
In this topic is comprehended both
spiritual and material blessings.
That purity will mould the body into
physical beauty, furnish health, bring
roses to the cheeks and brilliancy to the
eye. furnishing comfort, enjoyment and
long life is a generally conceded axiom,
and that the same will gradually form
the wings of an angel, which, when
grim death has left his fatal sting, will
bear us away from the realms of mor
talitytoa home beyond the silver moon
ami twinkling stars, is a truth with its
weight resting upon Gods word as a
foundation.
Students of mythology will remem
her the story of Edymion, a beautiful
youth, who fed his llock on Mount Lat
mon, and who was as pure as the glint
ening dew, clinging to the canopy of
leaves that covered the site of his daily
slumbers ami whose young heart
swelled with the breezes that blew his
locks into waves of beauty, ashamed
not to commune with nature as fair as
she.
You will remember how Diana, the
moon's cold heart, was warmed by his
surpassing beauty, and she came down,
kissed him. and watched over him
while he slept; and Jupiter, under in
spiration of like causes, bestowed upon
him the gift of perpetual youth; and
Diana guarded his fortunes to increase
his flock, and protect them from the
wild beasts.
When you make your lives pure you
become far more beautiful in God’s
sight than even Edymion to the imagi
nation of the ancients.
You will sleep calmly and sweetly
under the intiuence of your chastity,
the Holy Spirit will look down upon
your sleeping heart, kissing the same
into holy energy. Jesus will take care
of your fortunes to make you eternally
rich, and God will bestow upon you the
gift of perpetual youth.
Oh' what incentives to purity'
We all remember the story of Daniels
abstainance. how he purposed in his
heart that he would not defile himself:
the reward he received for keeping his
purity: how his countenance at the end
of ten days set apart for proving, 'ap
peared fairer and better than all the
children who eat of the kings meat;
how he was found to be ten times better
in matters of wisdom and understand
ing than all the magicians and astrolo
gers that were in his realm; how he
interpreted the dream of Nebuehan
nezzar and received general and glori
ous blessings for his purity.
What an incentive in this do we find
With purity is associated a resolution
to rely upon God, his wisdom, power
and protection.
Heaven is the home of purity, the
path of purity will lead you safely into
Heavens charms.
Life in purity is rendered pleasant
amid sorrows and sun beams of hope,
continually shine through clouds of
gloom.
Purity will plant in your heart
seeds of virtue which are sown in heav
en before they are planted in your
heart and they will grow with increas
ing vigor, and blossom in your lives
producing fruit supernal in beauty and
flavor.
Peace. Hope and Joy will lead you by
the hand, pointing out your path in
life, proving delightful companions on
your journey to paradise, and finally
usher you triumphantly into Heavens
elysiutn realms.
EVILS ATTENDING IMPURITY.
In discussing the evils attending im
pure lives, we shall divide the same in
to two topics.
PHYSICAL EVILS—MORAL EVILS.
You remember that Daniel's physical
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reason for abstinencH from the debauch
ery of the heathen court, was bis
knowledge of the fact, that the sting
of moral corruption ami physical debil
Ration lay in the use of intoxicating
liquors, and over eating was a physical
curse. He knew that simple food,
taken moderately, and total abstinence
from intoxicants, would develop him
into perfect physical manhood and en
joyment of health, and he knew that a
healthy body aids greatly in the foun
dation of a strong, active brain, ami he
purposed in his heart that he would not
defile himself.
The delicate machinery of the body
illustrates and exemplifies clearly the
folly of intemperance. David says: “ I
am fearfully and wonderfully made."
The body is a machine, ami health is
the engineer that keeps it in running
order.
No machine was ever made so delicate
and adjusted so cares ully as the human
body; innumerable little portions of the
same bones, muscles, tissues, etc., all
have their functions.
It is therefore of great importance
that you have a good engineer. Every
time you overeat yourself, in a glut
tinous passion, every time you act the
beast ami intoxicate yourself, every
time you dissipate in any shape or
form, or manner, yon are injuring
your machine ami thereby incapacita
ting your engineer.
These thoughts also show the folly of
impurity, in that we do not belong to
ourselves.
In I ('or. <»:19 “What, know ye not
that your body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you. which ye
have of God, and ye are not your
own ? ”
Therefore my friend, if there is one
in my hearing given to intemperance, if
you have not enough regard for the first
law of nature to be temperate in all
things, remember the fact that you are
handling property that is not your own
and govern yourself accordingly.
Resist the Devil ami he will flee from
you.
The sure and certain reward of dissi
pat ion is physical debilitation.
Oh. how many young men in the
prime of beautiful physical manhood
have walked the streets of their native
cities, honorable, upright, manly, only
to take the roses out of their cheeks
with poisonous intoxicants, destroying
their vitality with excessive dissipa
tion, ami after some time, walk the
same streets they walked in I
young manhood, consumptive wrecks.
Take warning by-history young men.
Mv imagination pictures to me now.
the Devil hovering over some young
heart, endeavoring to gain an ascend
ency over the same. My imagination
pictures further, tis an excruciating
thought, some future day some young
man around me now in the prime of
youth, the pride of his parents, and the
hope of some lovely girl, now encircled
with friends; I see him at some future
day. reeling into the gutter in a drunken
stupor, receiving the kicks ami cuffs
of a cruel world, his friends gone; but
does the picture end here? No; would
to God that it did. I see some young
lady now in the summer time of life’s
bright charms, fair and admired, I see
her in some delapidated cottage, the
wife of that drunken wretch in yon
gutter. Take warning young men; use
your influence for the better young
ladies, take the jug out of your closet
my brother, make your lives pure.
We sutler spiritually from impure
lives. In Romans 11:23, we have the
words: for the wages of sin is death.
That impure living is a sin is an
axiom undoubted. That the wages of
sin is death, is a divinely inspired
Are you earning wages now, my tin
converted friend? If you are you are
sure to get paid.
Oh, why not give your consent to
being buried with Christ in baptism to
rise and walk in newness of life.
Sin is sweet but has a sting, and that,
sting is eternal death.
A traveler was once passing through
one of the most beautitul sections of
Georgia, and one morning he arose
from a night's repose and peaceful
dreams to enjoy nature clothed in her
most beautiful garment.
The majestic grandeur of a neighbor
ing forest, the trailing course of a fresh
water stream, fed by brooks and rivu
lets, threading with silver the green
verdure of distant fields, the enormous
ness of an optically enlarged mountain
coming into view at the disappearance
of twilight ; sweet toned songsters of
spring are tilling the air with their me
lodious warbles, and a neighboring field
of Howers breaths the essence of inspi
ration into the air to fill us with elysian
thoughts; the scene is impressive, grand,
lovely, and inspires the traveler to the
exclamation: Oh. God. how great is thy
handiwork!
Presently after breathing a prayer of
thanks of God for natures beauties,
he noticed a bee. busily at work on the
petal of a wildHower, and he thought,
yes. that bee is gathering some of
nature's sweetness; yes. I can go to that
bee's home in the trunks of yon majes
tic oak. and if securely masked, can
procure and partake of the honey; but
if 1 am not so masked. 1 will receive
the sting of the bee lean go forth in
life in quest of happiness, honor, attd
wealth the honey of life and if lam
securely masked with purity. 1 can par
take of the sweetness of the same; hut
if impurity has put asunder purity, I
will receive the sting of the great bee of
creation, the Devil. Put on the mask
of purity and you will be able to snatch
honor from its lofty seat, blessings from
a throne of grace will pour upon your
head, and eternal bliss will be
yours to enjoy.
To those whose lives are pure as
crystal snowflakes, whose conscience
burn not with a remorseful fire, whose
actions are as pure and holy in private
as when surrounded by associates
whose hearts have been cleansed in re
demptions fount and few are the taints
that blemish the same. I come'with bright
pictures of encouragement, happiness,
prosperity and health on my left, and
Heaven's delights on my right.
To those whose hearts are sown in
impnity. whose hearts are blackened
with dissipation s merciless hands, to
those to whom seasons of sloth and in
dulgence in base animal passions are
seasons of happiness and constant prac
tice. whose hearts and souls are black
ened in the sight of God. and who are
dead in trespasses and strangers to
purity. 1 come to tell the story of Jesus
and his love; how he died on calvary
that those same hearts and souls might
be cleansed. Why not accept the same
as your guide, my unsaved friend?
If you do not become pure and accept
Christ as your Savior, with golden op
portunities strewn around your path,
on every hand, with sign boards in
every church in the land, a warning in
every remorseful thought, an example
in the life of every good, pure man or
woman, the multitude of curses sent by
God upon sinful people through famines,
epidemics, etc., and an exhortation from
every pulpit in christendom. What
can you expect, what are you expecting
in that final day when the court of
heaven has assembled? The glorious
Judge is upon his seat of grandeur and
sublimity. The Devil, as attorney for
the prosecution, is endeavoring to send
you to perdition. The Angel of Mercy
is endeavoring to give you a birth in
heaven. The Angel of Death, as sheriff.
is holding you with the manacles of the
tomb. When a grave and serious jury
of angels after all your past actions,
good ami bad have testified as witness
es, shall retire to make up a verdict,
What can you expect if you are im
pure?
Yes, they have tried you. The jury
has returned. Preceded" by streams of
tears the foreman reads the verdict of
guilty of sinning before God and man,
and never repenting, and I hear the
sentence of a merciful but just God, as
he says: eternal woe, misery, sorrow,
suffering, is the sentence of the pris
oner; and I can hear your voice when
yon view the splendor of the kingdom
of God: Oh, Father, had I only known,
I would not be thus' Yet in the flesh
you looked and did not see, turned a
deaf ear to the gentle exhortations of
the disciples of Jesus, and now it is too
late.
Another prisoner of the grave has
been tried; a good and pious man, and
when the jury has returned. 1 can see
the face of the angel, shining as the
sun, smiling, happy, joyful, and I can
hear the divine, heavenly music of an
angelic chorus, shouting and singing,
amid delightful strains from celestial
instruments, played with wonderful,
immortal skill. I can hear the glad joy
ful notes of the great heavenly choir
singing: Oh, welcome home' welcome
home! Come thou disciple of Jesus.
Oh, come thou sufferer for Christ 's sake.
By nature of the blood of thy Redeemer
thou art whole; enter therefore into the
blessings of thine infinitely glorious in
heritance. And the face of God. in
stead of being grave and stern, is beam
ing with a heavenly light, and as he
opens his arms to embrace this faithful
disciple, angels of glory shout with
glad refrain. Hosanna in the Highest.
A Man with a History.
Ill* Body Covered with Lnm|>«. Could
not eat null IhoiiKht he was
going to dry up.
(From th* Ntiifhvill*, l*no , Hanner.)
Mr. .john W.Thomas, Jr., of Theta. Tenn.,
1b a mail with a most interest eg history.
“It WM in ’B4, said he to a reporter
who had asked him for the story of his life,
when J was working in the silver mines of
New Mexico, that my troubles began.
“ From simple indigestion my nr lady de
veloped into a chronic inability to take any
substantial food, and at times 1 was pros
trated by spells of heart palpitate n. On
the 11th of April, I suddenly c<d
laijsed, ami for days 1 was unconscious,
in fact 1 was not fully myself until July.
On September Ist 1 weighed but 70 pounds
wiiereaa my normal weight is 105 pounds.
Ah over my body there were lumps from
the size of a grape to the size of a walnut,
my finger* were cramped ho that 1 < >u d not
more than half straighten them. I had en
tirely lost control of my lower limbs ami
mv hand trembled so that 1 emi.d not drink
without spilling the liiiuid. Nothing would
remain on my stomach, and it seemed that
I must dry up before mauy mure days had
pass <l.
“ I made another round of the physicians,
calling in one after the other, and by the
aid of morphine ami other medicines they
gave me. 1 m maged to live though barely
through the fall.”
H ‘re Mr. Thomas displayed his arms,
an I ju.st above the elbow of each there was
a large irregular stain as large as the palm
of the hand and of a purple c dor, the space
covered by the mark was sunken nearly to
the bone. “That,’ said Mr. Thomas, “is
what the doctors did by putting morphine
into me.
“ On the 11th of December, 1893, just eight
months after 1 took permanently to bed —4
shall never forget the date—my cousin, Joe
Foster, of Carters’ (’reek, called on me and
eave me a box Williams' Pink Pills
for Pi le People£hey had cured him
of partial paralyse, M.th which 1 knew he
hid all but died. I followed his directions
and began taking the medicine, as a result
1 st md before you to-day the most surprised
man on earth. Look at my hand, it is as
steady as yours; my face has a healthy look
about it; 1 have’ been attending to my
duties for a month. Since I began taking
the pills I have gained 30 pounds, and I am
still gaining. All the knots have disap
peared from my body except this little
kernel here in mv palm. 1 have a good
appetite and 1 am Almost as strong as I ever
was.
“ Yesterday I rode thirtv-seven miles on
horseback, 1 feel tired to-day but not sick.
1 used to have fmm two to four spells of
h ‘art palpitation every night, since I began
the use of the pills 1 have hud but four
■p 41s altogether.
“1 know positively that I was cured by
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and I believe
firmly that it is the most wonderful remedy
in existence to-day, and every fact I have
presented to you is known to my neighbors
as well as to myself, and they will certify t®
the truth of my remarkable cure.”
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BY C E. W. DOBBS, D.D.
Dear dr. Dobbs: In our les
son today, Dcut. 6:8-15, in ques
tions, was asked: “Are Chris
tians in any danger of becoming
idolaters?"
2. Do the prayers of others do
you any good if you don t know
they are praying for you, or
hear them praying for you? In
other words does our'prayers do
the heathen any good if they
don’t know we are praying for
them, they knowing nothing of
God?
3. If a brother commits a
wrong against his brethren can
the brother that commits the
wrong get forgiveness for the
wrong without asking his broth
er's pardon, first going to his
brother, or can the brother goto
God and get forgiveness for the
wrong done to his brother? If
you answer that the offending
brother has to go to the brother
he lias wronged. first, before he
can get forgiveness, suppose this
brother was in a far distant land
and had seen that he had wrong
ed a brother here before he left?
The last two questions were
asked at our Sunday school by a
Methodist minister. w.a.m.
1. No that is. in the primary
sense of idolatry—the worship
of idols as gods. It is customary
to apply the lesson against the
soul fixing its affections supreme
ly on any but God: but that is
not the prime meaning. In this
accoinmodated sense Paul says
covetousness is idolatry.
2. Paul prayed for Israel who
Cared nothing for him or the
gospel (Rom. 10-l), and he urged
the Thessolonians to pray for
him and his work as an apostle
(2 Thes. 3:1). He desired also
that prayers and supplications
be made for all men (1 Tim. 2:1).
The Lord taught us to pray:
“Thy kingdom come. Thy will
be done in earth, as it is in heav
en." Jesus prayed for Peter be
fore Peter knew anything of his
Lord's petition in his behalf.
(Luke 22:31,32.) He also prayed
for all who believe on him in all
time. (John 17:20). These ex
amples and precepts answer the
question. If prayer be a real
thing an act of worship of God
and the expression of our abso
lute dependence on God and trust
in his power and grace such
praying is both as reasonable
as it is scriptural. We tire not
required to understand the phil
osophy of prayer, nor should we
seek to harmonize prayer with
poor proud human reasoning: it
is enough to know the will of
God and do it, assured by the
word and experience that he
serveth best who prayeth most.
3. Unquestionably it is the duty
to confess the wrong done to our
brother. But till wrong is sin
against God. First of all confes
sion is to be made to him. David
sinned grievously against Uriah,
but when his soul poured out its
contrition he cried: “ Against
thee, thee only, have I sinned.”
(Psi. 51:4). So, while it is our
duty to confess to our brother
whom we may have wronged,
first of all confession is due to
our God. But little confidence is
to be placed in any one's peni
tence who refuses to acknowl
edge a wrong done a brother. In
the supposed case (and many
other impossible cases may be
imagined) the truly contrite
heart will confess to God, and
may rest assured of forgiveness.
God does not deal with his chil
dren upon the low plane of cas
uistry indicated by such ques
tions as those raised by the min
ister mentioned. In all such mat
ters we are to be governed by
the principles laid down in the
blessed gospel of Love. Recon
ciliation to God implies reconcil
iation jwith our brother, and the
sincere penitent will know how
to act in all these supposed cases.
Holy reverent fear of God and
trusting love ever prove a better
guide in the path of duty than
any number of petty rules and
minute prescriptions would pos
sibly be.
Dr. Dobbs: 1. Can a man
shorten his dys? If so, how?
2. Is God the author of death
absolutely?
2. Can a Baptist consistently
with his profession, or the Bible,
bind himself under solemn oath
to any persons or persons, that
he will not vote for a certain clan
or nation of people? Information
is the only object in view.
Please answer the above
through the Index. t. w.
1. The psalmist says that
“bloody and deceitful men shall
not live out half their days."
(55:23). And Solomon said “The
fear of the Lord prolongeth days,
but the years of the wicked shall
be shortened." (Prov. 10:27.)
In Eccl. 7:17, the exhortation
is: “Be not overmuch wicked,
neither be thou foolish: why
shouldest thou die before thy
time?" Eliphaz the Tenianite
asked: “Hast thou marked the
old way which wicked men have
trodden? Which were cut down
out of time, whose foundation
was overflown with a flood;
which said unto God, Depart
from us: and what can the Al
mighty do for them?" (Job
22:15--17). Os course, every
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one's years are determined so far
as G<>d's foreknowledge is con
cerned, just as all events are
known by him; but that fact does
not destroy the responsibility of
the wicked. Everyone is to use
the ordinary means to preserve
health and life. As tt general
rule godliness is promotive of
both, and a wicked lite, especial
ly ti life of lust and intemperance,
tends to destroy the one and
shorten the other. Jesus laid
down the same principles when
he said. "They that take the
sword shall perish by the sword.
Os course we refer only to gener
al i>rineiples.
2, God is the “author" of
death only in the sense that he is
the author of all things evil - that
is by his permissive providence.
Death appears to be the ne
cessary end of human nature. It
comes alike to saint and sinner,
but Balaam's prayer was wise:
‘’Let me die the death of the
righteous, and let my last end be
like his." "The wicked is driven
away in his wickedness, but the
righteous hath hope in his death.
‘•Precious in the sight of the
Lord is the death of his saints."
“All things are yours, whether
life or death." Death is twin
sister to sin. and sin is the sting
of death, but “thanks be to God
who giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Instead of troubling ourselves
about the abstract question of
the “author"* of death, wisdom
says we should seek the life of
the holy that we may die the
death of the righteous.
3. This question trenches too
closely on forbidden ground. A
Baptist, and no one else in our
opinion, has the moral right to
bind himself by extra-judicial
“oaths." Such oaths are not le
gally punishable, and are really
null and void in law. But if a
Baptist, as a citizen, believes a
certain class of people are dan
derous to our civil and religious
liberties, he certainly committs
no wrong by covenanting with
others of his mind not to vote
for that class. Os course no true
Baptist will engage in any move
ment which savors of persecu
tion for conscience sake.
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