A Neglected Warning
St. Helena, California,
November, 1901
“Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; a blessing,
if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command
you this day: and a curse, if ye will not obey.”
Deuteronomy 11:26-28
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“And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto My
commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your
God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, that I
will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and
the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and
thine oil. And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou
mayest eat and be full. Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not
deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
and then the Lord’s wrath be kindled against you, and He shut up the
heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and
lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth
you.”
Verses 13-17
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“Therefore shall ye lay up these My words in your heart and in
your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be
as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children,
speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou
walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts of thine house, and
upon thy gates: that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your
children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give
them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.”
Verses 18-21
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If Seventh-day Adventists had walked in the way of the Lord,
refusing to allow selfish interests to control them, the Lord would
greatly have blessed them. Those who have remained in Battle Creek
contrary to the will of the Lord have lost the valuable experience and
the spiritual knowledge they might have gained through obedience.
Many of them have forfeited the favor of God. The heart of the work
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