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Christian Service
The people of our land need to be aroused to resist the advances of
this most dangerous foe to civil and religious liberty.—
The Spirit of
Prophecy 4:382
.
Shall we sit with folded hands, and do nothing in this crisis? ... God
help us to arouse from the stupor that has hung over us for years.—
The
Review and Herald, December 18, 1888
.
A Wise Course to Pursue
To defy the Sunday laws will but strengthen in their persecution
the religious zealots who are seeking to enforce them. Give them no
occasion to call you law-breakers. If they are left to rein up men who
fear neither God nor man, the reining up will soon lose its novelty for
them, and they will see that it is not consistent nor convenient for them
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to be strict in regard to the observance of Sunday. Keep right on with
your missionary work, with your Bibles in your hands, and the enemy
will see that he has worsted his own cause. One does not receive the
mark of the beast because he shows that he realizes the wisdom of
keeping the peace by refraining from work that gives offense, doing at
the same time a work of the highest importance.—
Testimonies for the
Church 9:232
.
When we devote Sunday to missionary work, the whip will be
taken out of the hands of the arbitrary zealots who would be well
pleased to humiliate Seventh-day Adventists. When they see that we
employ ourselves on Sunday in visiting the people and opening the
Scriptures to them, they will know that is useless for them to try to
hinder our work by making Sunday laws.—
Testimonies for the Church
9:232, 233
.
Sunday can be used for carrying forward various lines of work that
will accomplish much for the Lord. On this day open-air meetings
and cottage meetings can be held. House-to-house work can be done.
Those who write can devote this day to writing their articles. Whenever
it is possible, let religious services be held on Sunday. Make these
meetings intensely interesting. Sing genuine revival hymns, and speak
with power and assurance of the Saviour’s love. Speak on temperance
and on true religious experience.—
Testimonies for the Church 9:233
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Let the teachers in our schools devote Sunday to missionary effort.
I was instructed that they would thus be able to defeat the purposes