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To Live in Harmony With His Law, July 6
Be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do
according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee:
turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest
prosper whithersoever thou goest.
Joshua 1:7
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God calls for men,—for those who in His sight will be
true
. Reforms
must be brought about in the churches. There is now great need of rein-
stating in the hearts of men and women an old-time reverence for the ten
commandments. Through obedience to these commandments, humanity is
to be sanctified, that the results of skepticism shall not be strengthened, but
that the foundation of our faith shall be made manifest, and all the precepts
of God’s holy law enforced. The realization of individual responsibility is
to be awakened. Men are to remember that in order to be regarded as
men
by the Lord, their course of action must be just, pure, and true
Men and women may shun the reproach they are called upon to bear
for Christ’s sake, they may do the works of the children of transgressors,
but as surely as they do this, they will receive the reward of the evildoer.
They may climb to places of distinction, they may stand high in the literary
world, and with proud superiority they may resist the truth of heavenly
origin; but in the end they will lose all.
Our happiness and salvation depend upon eating the bread of life;
that is, obeying the words and doing the works of Christ, advancing
righteousness and restraining unrighteousness. Nothing can give such
self-reliance, such courage, such an increase of talents and ability, as a true
estimate of the requirements of God’s law.... Love for Jesus Christ leads
us to obey God’s commandments, which are a lamp to our feet and a light
to our path, securing for us the illuminating, purifying, blissful presence
of both the Father and the Son. He who is obedient can commune with
God even as did Enoch
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Manuscript 24, 1891
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18
Letter 29, 1900
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