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To Lift the Standard High, July 27
Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people;
cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a
standard for the people.
Isaiah 62:10
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Perplexities will increase; but let us, as believers in God, encourage
one another. Let us not lower the standard, but keep it lifted high, looking
to Him who is the Author and the Finisher of our faith
We all need greater Christian courage, that we may uplift the standard
on which is inscribed the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
We are to make no compromise with the leaders of rebellion.... We must
have a firm determination to do the Lord’s will at all times and in all
places
Let the truth for this time be cordially received and become the ba-
sis of character, and it will produce steadfastness of purpose, which the
allurements of pleasure, the fickleness of custom, the contempt of the
world-loving and the heart’s own clamors of self-indulgence are power-
less to influence.... We have marked illustrations of the sustaining power
of firm, religious principle. Even the fear of death could not make the
fainting David drink of the water of Bethlehem, to obtain which, valiant
men had risked their lives. The gaping lions’ den could not keep Daniel
from his daily prayers, nor could the fiery furnace induce Shadrach and
his companions to fall down before the idol which Nebuchadnezzar set up.
Young men who have firm principles will eschew pleasure, defy pain, and
brave even the lions’ den and the heated fiery furnace rather than be found
untrue to God
Let it be written upon the conscience as with a pen of iron upon the
rock, that real success, whether for this life or for the life to come, can be
secured only by faithful adherence to the eternal principles of right
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Letter 2, 1912
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The Review and Herald, May 9, 1899
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Testimonies for the Church 5:43
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Testimonies for the Church 7:164
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