Chapter 6—High Spiritual Standards for God’s
Workmen
Greater Spirituality Needed in Adventist Centers—In the cen-
ters that are formed in some places, there is constant temptation to
carry the work after worldly methods. I have had presented before me
the dangers before us in the future. This light I have tried to present
with pen and with voice. Let the work be carried forward intelligently
by men and women of sound faith and strict religious principle.
There is need of greater faith in our ranks. Our people in Wash-
ington and in Mountain View are not in the state spiritually that God
requires of them, and they are not doing the work that is demanded
for this time. Some realize in a measure the times in which we live,
but only a few seem to be fully awake to the situation. There is a
work outside of their regular daily business that should be done. The
simplicity of true godliness is not maintained. There needs to be an
expression of greater humility.—
Letter 164, 1909
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Spirit-filled, Farseeing Men Needed—Our great need today is
for men who are baptized with the Holy Spirit of God—men who walk
with God as did Enoch. We do not want men who are so narrow in
their outlook that they will circumscribe the work instead of enlarging
it, or who follow the motto: “Religion is religion; business is business.”
We need men who are farseeing, who can take in the situation and
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reason from cause to effect.—
Testimonies for the Church 5:555
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Thinking, Praying Men—Those who bear responsibilities must
be men trained for the work, men whom God can teach and whom He
can honor with wisdom and understanding, as He did Daniel. They
must be thinking men, men who bear God’s impress and who are
steadily progressing in holiness, in moral dignity, and in an under-
standing of their work. They must be praying men, men who will come
up into the mount and view the glory of God and the dignity of the
heavenly beings whom He has ordained to have charge of His work.
Then, like Moses, they will follow the pattern given them in the mount;
and they will be on the alert to secure and bring into connection with
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