Unity Among Laborers
“Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let
him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of
wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory
not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from
above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife
is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from
above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated,
full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make
peace.”
James 3:13-18
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The principle here laid down is the natural outgrowth of the Chris-
tian religion. Especially will those who are engaged in proclaiming
the last solemn message to a dying world seek to fulfill this scripture.
Although possessing different temperaments and dispositions, they
will see eye to eye in all matters of religious belief. They will speak
the same things; they will have the same judgment; they will be one in
Christ Jesus.
We are here today to compare ideas and to form plans so that
all may labor in harmony. No one should feel that his judgment is
faultless, that his ideas are above criticism, and that he can pursue a
course of his own, regardless of the opinions of others with whom he is
united in labor. When we think we know all that is worth knowing, we
are in a position where God cannot use us. The third angel’s message
is not a narrow message. It is world-wide; and we should be united, so
far as possible, in the manner of presenting it to the world.
Man is fallible; but the message is infallible. With it all should be
in harmony; it is the center of interest, in which all hearts should be
united. We may get up points that are of no consequence, and seek to
maintain them; but we shall gain no strength by so doing. The message
is to prepare a people to stand in the last great day, and to be united
in heaven above. None should feel that it is of no special importance
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