Look to God for Help
Cooranbong, N. S. W.,
June 8, 1898
There are times when the truth must be spoken, whether men will
hear or whether they will forbear. The Lord is greatly dishonored
when those who profess to believe the truth fail to harmonize among
themselves, and make appeals to lawyers. Will you study the word of
God and heed the instruction given on this point? The interests of the
cause of God are not to be committed to men who have no connection
with heaven.
Matters have been presented before me that have filled my soul
with keen anguish. I saw men linking up arm in arm with lawyers,
but God was not in their company. Having many ideas regarding
the work, they go to the lawyers for help to carry out their plans. I
am commissioned to say to such that they are not moving under the
inspiration of the Spirit of God.
“Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire
of Baal-zebub the God of Ekron?”
2 Kings 1:3
. Men in responsible
positions are uniting with those in the church and out of the church,
whose counsel is misleading. Is it necessary for the Lord to come to
you with a rod to show you that you need a higher experience before
you can be fitted for connection with the family above? Will you
link up with men who have a faculty for accusing, for thinking and
speaking evil of the things that God approves? In the name of the
Lord I tell you that you need clearer discernment and clearer spiritual
eyesight.
If the light which God has given you over and over again, that mis-
sionary centers should be established in many cities, and that the labor
and the means centered in Battle Creek should be divided and planted
in many places, had been followed, the present state of confusion and
the dearth of means would never have been.
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Men located in Battle Creek have disregarded the counsels of
the Lord because it was more convenient for them to have the work
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