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Selected Messages Book 2
We have been working with all our powers to encourage our people
to come to God in faith, and to believe that His Holy Spirit will be
freely given them as a teacher and guide, and that by its ministration
they may know the will of God.—
Ibid, 16-20
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Casting Lots in Selecting Church Officers
I have no faith in casting lots. We have in the Bible a plain “Thus
saith the Lord” in regard to all church duties....
I would say to the members of the church in_____, “Read your
Bibles with much prayer. Do not try to humble others, but humble
yourselves before God, and deal gently with one another. To cast
lots for the officers of the church is not in God’s order. Let men of
responsibility be called upon to select the officers of the church.”—
Letter 37, 1900
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