Appeal to D. M. Canright
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Now, Elder Canright, for your soul’s sake grasp firmly again the
hand of God, I beseech you. I am too weary to write more. God deliver
you from Satan’s snare is my prayer.—
Letter 1, 1880
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Exalting Christ
Every soul who truly accepts Christ by faith will walk in humility
of heart. There will be no exalting of self; but Christ will be exalted as
the One on whom the hope of eternal life depends. “By grace are ye
saved through faith” (
Ephesians 2:8
), the apostle Paul declared. And
it is the grace of Christ in us that makes us His witnesses. We can
be overcomers only by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of
our testimony. By a well-ordered life and a godly conversation, we
become lights in the church and in the world. Spiritual things must be
spiritually discerned. Those who drink most deeply of the waters of
salvation will reveal most fully the meekness and lowliness of Christ.
I am bidden to say to those who have been called to teach the Word
of God to others:
Never encourage men to look to you for wisdom. When men come
to you for counsel, point them to the One who reads the motives of
every heart. A different spirit must come into our ministerial work. No
persons must act as confessors; no man must be exalted as supreme.
Our work is to humble self and to exalt Christ before the people. After
His resurrection, the Saviour promised that His power would be with
all who would go forth in His name. Let this power and this name
be exalted. We need to keep continually before our minds the prayer
of Christ when He prayed that self might be sanctified by truth and
righteousness.
The power of the eternal Father and the sacrifice of the Son should
be studied more than it is. The perfect work of Christ was consum-
mated in His death upon the cross. In His sacrifice and His intercession
at the right hand of the Father, is our only hope of salvation. It should
be our joy to exalt the character of God before men, and make His
name a praise in the earth.—
Manuscript 137, 1907
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