Warnings and Counsels Given to the Battle Creek
Church
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The articles included in this chapter are taken from testimonies first
published in leaflet form and distributed to the members of the battle
creek church in 1894, 1895, and 1898.
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Granville, N. S. W.,
July 20, 1894
I wish to remind my brethren of the cautions and warnings that
have been given me in reference to constantly investing means in
Battle Creek in order to make a little more room or to make things
more convenient. New fields are to be entered; the truth is to be
proclaimed as a witness to all nations. The work is hindered so that
the banner of truth cannot be uplifted, as it should be, in these new
fields. While our brethren in America feel at liberty to invest means
in buildings which time will reveal that they would do just as well
and even better without, thousands of dollars are thus absorbed that
the Lord called for to be used in “regions beyond.” I have presented
the warnings and the caution, as the word of the Lord; but my heart
has been made sad to see that, notwithstanding all these, means has
been swallowed up to satisfy these supposed wants; building has been
added to building so the money could not be used in places where they
have no conveniences, no building for the public worship of God or to
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give character to the work, no place where the banner of truth could be
uplifted. These things I have set before you; and yet you have gone on
just the same, absorbing means, God’s means, in one locality, when
the Lord has spoken that too much was already invested in one place,
which meant that there was nothing in other places, where there should
be buildings and facilities, to make even a beginning.
What call had you to invest thousands of dollars in additional
school buildings? You supposed that this outlay was needed, but did
not entreaties come to you not to invest money thus?
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