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earnestly to help him to take hold of the work, not as a fighter, con-
tending and debating, as was his habit, driving people away from the
truth rather than into it. He saw we talked the truth, not with storm;
not pelting the people with denunciations like hailstones....
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This brother ... said he had received much light, and would labor
in altogether a different manner than he had done. The _____ are an
excitable people. They will bring every power to bear suddenly, and
under great excitement will exclaim, “Is this so? What will you do?
Will you keep the Sabbath? Say Yes or No“! They are as sharp as a
razor, [and] cut off the ears of the people, ... and that is the end of the
business so far as converting them to the truth is concerned.
Now we have to work with these men who are really intelligent, just
as we worked with them one by one in the infancy of the Seventh-day
Adventist work; separating from these precious souls their unsanctified
ways and manners; talking to them about Jesus, His great love, His
meekness, His lowliness, His self-denial. These rough stones we bring
if possible into the workshop of God where they will be hewed and
squared, and all the rough edges removed, and they be polished under
the divine hand until they will make precious stones in the temple of
God and shall be living stones emitting light. Thus they may grow up
into a holy temple for God.—
Letter 44, 1886
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Publications in Every Language—To give all nations the mes-
sage of warning—this is to be the object of our efforts....From city to
city, and from country to country, they are to carry the publications
containing the promise of the Saviour’s soon coming. These publica-
tions are to be translated into every language; for to all the world the
gospel is to be preached.—
The Review and Herald, February 9, 1905
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