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Christian Service
because self was not under control, that the religion of Christ became
distasteful to them?
The world must be warned of the soon coming of the Lord. We
have but a little time in which to work. Years have passed into eternity
that might have been improved in seeking first the kingdom of God and
His righteousness, and in diffusing the light to others. God now calls
upon His people who have great light and are established in the truth,
having had much labor bestowed upon them, to work for themselves
and for others as they have never done before. Make use of every
ability; bring into exercise every power, every intrusted talent; use
all the light that God has given you to do others good. Do not try
to become preachers, but become ministers for God.—
The Southern
Watchman, June 20, 1905
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Forceful Illustrations
Divine love has been stirred to its unfathomable depths for the sake
of men, and angels marvel to behold in the recipients of so great love
a mere surface gratitude. Angels marvel at man’s shallow appreciation
of the love of God. Heaven stands indignant at the neglect shown to
the souls of men. Would we know how Christ regards it? How would
a father and mother feel, did they know that their child, lost in the
cold and the snow, had been passed by, and left to perish, by those
who might have saved it? Would they not be terribly grieved, wildly
indignant? Would they not denounce those murderers with wrath hot
as their tears, intense as their love? The sufferings of every man are
the sufferings of God’s child, and those who reach out no helping hand
to their perishing fellow beings provoke His righteous anger.—
The
Desire of Ages, 825
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I have read of a man who, journeying on a winter’s day through the
deep, drifted snow, became benumbed by the cold which was almost
imperceptibly stealing away his vital powers. And as he was nearly
chilled to death by the embrace of the frost king, and about to give
up the struggle for life, he heard the moans of a brother traveler, who
was perishing with cold as he was about to perish. His humility was
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aroused to rescue him. He chafed the ice-clad limbs of the unfortunate
man, and, after considerable effort, raised him to his feet; and as he
could not stand, he bore him in sympathizing arms through the very