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who are without hope and without God in the world. There are rich
fields of toil waiting for the faithful worker.
The laborers in God’s cause should bow before Him in humble,
earnest prayer, and then go forth, Bible in hand, to arouse the be-
numbed senses of those represented in the Word as dead in trespasses
and sins. Those who do this work will be greatly blessed. Those who
know the truth are to strengthen one another, saying to the ministers,
“Go forth into the harvest field in the name of the Lord, and our prayers
shall go with you as sharp sickles.” Thus our churches should bear
decided witness for God, and they should also bring Him their gifts and
offerings, that those who go forth into the field may have wherewith
to labor for souls.
Who is working faithfully for the Master in this age of the world,
when the corruption of the earth is even as the corruption of Sodom
and Gomorrah? Who is helping those around him to win eternal life?
Are we cleansed and sanctified, fit to be used by the Lord as vessels
unto honor? Will every church member now remember that deformity
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is not from God? The Divine Being is to be worshiped in the beauty
of holiness; for He is excellent in majesty and power....
God desires His people to show by their lives the advantage of
Christianity over worldliness. We are to live so that God can use
us in His work of converting men and women and leading them to
wash their garments of character and make them white in the blood
of the Lamb. We are His workmanship, “created in Christ Jesus unto
good works” (
Ephesians 2:10
). Through us God desires to reveal His
manifold wisdom. Therefore He bids us let our light shine forth in
good works.—
Manuscript 73a, 1900
.
The Shadows of Satan
[
Appeared in Notebook Leaflets, the Church, No. 3
.]
Bear in mind that the time will never come when the shadow of
Satan will not be cast athwart our pathway to obstruct our faith and
eclipse the light coming from the Sun of Righteousness. Our faith must
not stagger, but cleave through that shadow. We have an experience
that is not to be buried in the darkness of doubt. Our faith is not in
feeling, but in truth. None of us need flatter ourselves that while the
world is progressing in wickedness we shall have no difficulties.