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they make the love of the Redeemer in their behalf of no avail to them,
and He looks with sadness on their work.
Such youth meet with eternal loss. How will their fun and frolic
appear to them in the day when every man shall receive from the Judge
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of all the earth according to the deeds done in the body? They have
brought to the foundation wood, hay, and stubble, and all their life
work will perish. What a loss!
O, how much better is the condition of those who act their part in
God’s service, looking to Jesus for His approval, writing daily in their
account-book their mistakes, their errors, their sorrow, the victories
they have gained over temptation, their joy and peace in Christ! Such
youth will not have to meet their life record with shame and dismay.—
The Youth’s Instructor, June 22, 1899
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The Chosen Agency
Our confession of His faithfulness is Heaven’s chosen agency for
revealing Christ to the world. We are to acknowledge His grace as
made known through the holy men of old; but that which will be most
effectual is the testimony of our own experience. We are witnesses for
God as we reveal in ourselves the working of a power that is divine.
Every individual has a life distinct from all others, and an experience
differing essentially from theirs. God desires that our praise shall
ascend to Him, marked with our own individuality.—
The Ministry of
Healing, 100
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