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Establishing Faith in Bible Truth
“I attended the camp meeting held at Waterville, Maine, September
6-11. Here in my native State I met dear brethren and sisters whose
interest has for years been identified with the cause and work of present
truth.... We had some very precious seasons at this camp meeting.
Many cheering testimonies were borne; but there was not that thorough
work which we greatly desired to have accomplished.... There is a
kind of faith that takes it for granted that we have the truth; but the
faith that takes God at His word, which works by love and purifies the
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heart, is very rare.”
“In His word, God has revealed saving truths. As a people we
should be earnest students of prophecy; we should not rest until we
become intelligent in regard to the subject of the sanctuary, which is
brought out in the visions of Daniel and John. This subject sheds great
light on our present position and work, and gives us unmistakable
proof that God has led us in our past experience. It explains our
disappointment in 1844, showing us that the sanctuary to be cleansed
was not the earth, as we had supposed, but that Christ then entered
into the most holy apartment of the heavenly sanctuary, and is there
performing the closing work of His priestly office, in fulfillment of
the words of the angel to the prophet Daniel, ‘Unto two thousand and
three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.’
Daniel 8:14
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“Our faith in reference to the messages of the first, second, and
third angels was correct. The great way-marks we have passed are
immovable. Although the hosts of hell may try to tear them from their
foundation, and triumph in the thought that they have succeeded, yet
they do not succeed. These pillars of truth stand firm as the eternal
hills, unmoved by all the efforts of men combined with those of Satan
and his host. We can learn much, and should be constantly searching
the Scriptures to see if these things are so. God’s people are now
to have their eyes fixed on the heavenly sanctuary, where the final
ministration of our great High Priest in the work of the judgment is
going forward,—where He is interceding for His people.”
The Review
and Herald, November 27, 1883
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