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A Firm Stand for the Right
God calls upon His workers, in this age of diseased piety and
perverted principle, to reveal a healthy, influential spirituality. My
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brethren and sisters, this God requires of you. Every jot of your
influence is to be used on the side of Christ. You are now to call things
by the right name and stand firm in defense of the truth as it is in Jesus.
It behooves every soul whose life is hid with Christ in God to come
to the front now and to contend for the faith once delivered to the saints.
Truth must be defended and the kingdom of God advanced as it would
be were Christ in person on this earth. If He were here He would
be drawn out to rebuke many who, though professing to be medical
missionaries, have not chosen to learn of the great Medical Missionary
His meekness and lowliness. In the lives of some occupying high
positions in the medical missionary work, self has been exalted. Until
such ones rid themselves of every desire to uplift self, they cannot
clearly discern the character of Christ, nor can they do the work that
He did.
When the Holy Spirit controls the minds of our church members,
there will be seen in our churches a much higher standard in speech,
in ministry, in spirituality, than is now seen. The church members
will be refreshed by the water of life, and the laborers, working under
one Head, even Christ, will reveal their Master in spirit, in word, in
deed, and will encourage one another to press forward in the grand,
closing work in which we are engaged. There will be a healthy increase
of unity and love, which will bear testimony to the world that God
sent His Son to die for the redemption of sinners. Divine truth will
be exalted; and as it shines forth as a lamp that burneth, we shall
understand it more and still more clearly.
The testing truth for this time is not the fabrication of any human
mind. It is from God. It is genuine philosophy to those who appropriate
it. Christ became incarnate in order that we, through belief of the truth,
might be sanctified and redeemed. Let those who hold the truth in
righteousness arouse and go forth, shod with the preparation of the
gospel of peace, to proclaim the truth to those who know it not. Let
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them make straight paths for their feet, lest the lame be turned out of
the way.