Our Present Truth Message
Reaching Large Congregations—We should make efforts to call
together large congregations to hear the words of the gospel minister.
And those who preach the Word of the Lord should speak the truth.
They should bring their hearers, as it were, to the foot of Sinai, to listen
to the words spoken by God amid scenes of awful grandeur.—
Letter
187, 1903
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Give the Trumpet a Certain Sound—Those who present the
truth are to enter into no controversy. They are to preach the gospel
with such faith and earnestness that an interest will be awakened. By
the words they speak, the prayers they offer, the influence they exert,
they are to sow seeds that will bear fruit to the glory of God. There
is to be no wavering. The trumpet is to give a certain sound. The
attention of the people is to be called to the third angel’s message. Let
not God’s servants act like men walking in their sleep, but like men
preparing for the coming of Christ.—
The Review and Herald, March
2, 1905
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Proclamation of Truth Our Work—In a special sense Seventh-
day Adventists have been set in the world as watchmen and light-
bearers. To them has been entrusted the last warning for a perishing
world. On them is shining wonderful light from the Word of God. They
have been given a work of the most solemn import,—the proclamation
of the first, second, and third angels’ messages. There is no other work
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of so great importance. They are to allow nothing else to absorb their
attention.
The most solemn truths ever entrusted to mortals have been given
us to proclaim to the world. The proclamation of these truths is to be
our work. The world is to be warned, and God’s people are to be true
to the trust committed to them....
Shall we wait until God’s judgments fall upon the transgressor
before we tell him how to avoid them? Where is our faith in the Word
of God? Must we see things foretold come to pass before we will
believe what He has said? In clear, distinct rays light has come to us,
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