Preparing for the Final Crisis
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come into your hearts and lives.—
General Conference Daily Bulletin,
April 13, 1891
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The Sunday-Law Crisis
In the night season I seemed to be enumerating in my mind the
evidences we have to substantiate the faith we hold. We see that
seducers are waxing worse and worse. We see the world working to
the point of establishing by law a false sabbath, and making it a test
for all. This question will soon be before us. God’s Sabbath will be
trampled under foot, and a false sabbath will be exalted. In a Sunday
law there is possibility for great suffering to those who observe the
seventh day. The working out of Satan’s plans will bring persecution
to the people of God. But the faithful servants of God need not fear the
outcome of the conflict. If they will follow the pattern set for them in
the life of Christ, if they will be true to the requirements of God, their
reward will be eternal life, a life that measures with the life of God.
At this time a very decided work in character building should
be going forward among our people. We are to develop before the
world the characteristics of the Saviour. It is impossible to please God
without the exercise of genuine, sanctifying faith. We are individually
responsible for our faith. True faith is not a faith that will fail under
test and trial; it is the gift of God to His people.—
The Review and
Herald, September 30, 1909
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If ever we needed to manifest kindness and true courtesy, it is
now. We may have to plead most earnestly before legislative councils
for the right to worship God according to the dictates of conscience.
Thus in His providence God has designed that the claims of His law
shall be brought before men in positions of highest authority. But as
we stand before these men, we are to show no bitterness of feeling.
Constantly we are to pray for divine aid. It is God alone who can hold
the four winds until His servants shall be sealed in their foreheads.—
The Review and Herald, February 11, 1904
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