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The Messengers
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The Lord has often given me a view of the situation and wants of
the scattered jewels who have not yet come to the light of the present
truth, and has shown that the messengers should speed their way to
them as fast as possible, to give them the light. Many all around
us only need to have their prejudices removed and the evidences
of our present position spread out before them from the Word, and
they will joyfully receive the present truth. The messengers should
watch for souls as they that must give account. Theirs must be a life
of toil and anguish of spirit, while the weight of the precious but
often-wounded cause of Christ rests upon them. They will have to
lay aside worldly interests and comforts and make it their first object
to do all in their power to advance the cause of present truth and
save perishing souls.
They will also have a rich reward. In their crowns of rejoicing
those who are rescued by them and finally saved will shine as stars
forever and ever. And to all eternity they will enjoy the satisfaction
of having done what they could in presenting the truth in its purity
and beauty, so that souls fell in love with it, were sanctified through
it, and availed themselves of the inestimable privilege of being made
rich, and being washed in the blood of the Lamb and redeemed unto
God.
I saw that the shepherds should consult those in whom they have
reason to have confidence, those who have been in all the messages,
and are firm in all the present truth, before they advocate new points
of importance, which they may think the Bible sustains. Then the
shepherds will be perfectly united and the union of the shepherds will
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be felt by the church. Such a course I saw would prevent unhappy
divisions, and then there would be no danger of the precious flock
being divided and the sheep scattered without a shepherd.
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