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Testimonies for the Church Volume 8
If the members of the Battle Creek church do not arouse now and
go to work in missionary fields, they will fall back into deathlike
slumber. How did the Holy Spirit work upon your hearts? ...Were you
not inspired to exercise the talents God has given you, that every man
and woman and youth should employ them to set forth the truth for
this time, making personal efforts, going into the cities where the truth
has never been proclaimed, and lifting up the standard?
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Have not your energies been quickened by the blessing that God
has bestowed upon you? Has not the truth been more deeply impressed
upon your soul? Can you not see more clearly its relative importance
to those who are perishing out of Christ? Since the manifest revealing
of God’s blessing, are you witnessing for Christ more distinctly and
decidedly than ever before?
The Holy Spirit has brought decidedly to your minds the important,
vital truths for this time. Is this knowledge to be bound up in a napkin
and hidden in the earth? No, no. It is to be put out to the exchangers.
As man uses his talents, however small, with faithfulness, the Holy
Spirit takes the things of God, and presents them anew to the mind.
Through His Spirit God makes His word a vivifying power. It is quick
and powerful, exerting a strong influence upon minds, not because of
the learning or intelligence of the human agent, but because divine
power is working with the human power. And it is to the divine power
that all praise is to be given.
Shall the selfishness and the ease of those who have earthly com-
forts and attractive homes allure us? Shall we cease as moral agencies
to use our powers to the saving of souls? Shall our voices be indistinct?
Then God will put His curse upon us who have had so great light, and
inscribe upon the walls of our homes: “Lovers of pleasures more than
lovers of God.”
2 Timothy 3:4
. He will put a tongue in the stones, and
they will speak; but God commands of you in Battle Creek to go forth.
How to Gain Success
Resolve, not in your own strength, but in the strength and grace
given of God, that you will consecrate to Him now, just now, every
power, every ability. You will then follow Jesus because He bids you,
and you will not ask where, or what reward will be given. It will be
well with you as you obey the word: “Follow Me.” Your part is to lead
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