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manner, there will be a steady and substantial gain. [
In confirmation of
this, witness the development of the work in the Scandinavian Union
Conference, at the close of 1914, to a membership of 3,807, divided
into six local conferences and three missions.
] A high standard should
be placed before those who are newly come to the faith. They should
be educated to be careful in speech and circumspect in conduct, giving
evidence that the truth has accomplished something for them, and thus
by their example shedding light upon those who are in darkness....
“Those who have received the truth may be poor, but they should
not remain ignorant or defective in character, to give the same mould,
by their influence, to others. When the church fully receives the light,
darkness will be dispelled; and if in holiness of character they keep
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pace with the truth revealed, their light will grow brighter and brighter.
The truth will do its refining work, restoring the moral image of God
in man, and the darkness and confusion and strife of tongues which is
the curse of so many churches, will cease. The power that God will
give to His church, if they will only walk in the light as fast as it shines
upon them, is scarcely conceived of.
“The Lord is soon to come, and the message of warning is to go
forth to all nations, tongues, and peoples. While God’s cause is calling
for means and laborers, what are those doing who live under the full
light of the present truth?”
The Review and Herald, October 5, 1886
.
The Conference in Sweden having closed, two weeks were spent
in Christiania, in earnest labor for the church and for the workers in
the publishing house. At that time the new publishing house had been
completed, and the various departments of the printing work had been
moved in and were in operation.
When Mrs. White was shown through the several departments
of the new printing plant, she expressed great joy over the thought
that with the facilities thus provided, periodicals and books suitable
for the field could now be printed in acceptable form and sent forth
on their mission. It was on the occasion of this visit, when reaching
the pressroom, that she declared that this very room, with its presses
running as they were seen that day, had been shown her in vision years
before.
The meetings in Christiania were followed by ten days of labor in
Copenhagen, after which the party returned to Basel.
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