328
Life Sketches of Ellen G. White
appalling. God cannot forbear much longer. Already His judgments
are beginning to fall on some places, and soon His signal displeasure
will be felt in other places.
“There will be a series of events revealing that God is master of
the situation. The truth will be proclaimed in clear, unmistakable
language. As a people we must prepare the way of the Lord under
the overruling guidance of the Holy Spirit. The gospel is to be given
in its purity. The stream of living water is to deepen and widen in its
course. In all fields, nigh and afar off, men will be called from the
plow and from the more common commercial business vocations that
largely occupy the mind, and will be educated in connection with men
of experience. As they learn to labor effectively, they will proclaim
the truth with power. Through most wonderful workings of divine
Providence, mountains of difficulty will be removed, and cast into the
sea. The message that means so much to the dwellers upon the earth,
will be heard and understood. Men will know what is truth. Onward
and still onward the work will advance, until the whole earth shall have
been warned; and then shall the end come.”
The Review and Herald,
July 5, 1906
. The closing paragraph, with many similar counsels given
during those busy months spent in soul-winning service in the great
cities of the land following the San Francisco earthquake, may be
found in the section on “The Work in the Cities,” in “Testimonies for
the Church,” vol. 9.
[416]