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Brightest and Best, January 21
And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry
you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver
you.
Isaiah 46:4
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I feel anxious that in our old age we who have known the truth for so
long shall become mellow in spirit and in our methods of labor; that we shall
understand the simple, yet important and comprehensive truths of the third
angel’s message; and that we shall receive these truths in the love of God,
and impart them to others....
Every day put on Christ. Hold the beginning of your confidence firm unto
the end. The Lord has not forsaken you. He desires you to grow in grace, to
increase in ability to help the people. But if you interest them, you must speak
right to the point, and you must stop before you think you are half through.
I cannot endure the thought of any of our aged believers decreasing in
influence and efficiency. The Lord wants you to cooperate with Him in
making all you can of yourself. If you will unite willingly with Him in this
work, your last days will be your brightest and best....
Open the windows of your soul heavenward and close them earthward.
Let the rays of the Sun of Righteousness shine into the chambers of the mind.
To cultivate the meekness and lowliness of Christ, to wear His yoke and bear
His burdens, this is the lesson before you, and it concerns you and all with
whom you are brought in contact. Cultivate the heavenly virtues. Purify your
soul from all defilement. Obtain a fitness to be received as a member of the
royal family.
Instruction from the Word of God, right amid the cares of building, will
keep the minds of the workers sweetened with grace, and will help them to
accomplish their work. As the Lord impresses their minds, they will catch
the most precious ideas from one another. Angels of God are on the [Sydney]
Sanitarium ground. Then let the workers speak words that will be a blessing
to those around them. Act your part, my brother, in the love of the truth. Have
faith in the Scriptures as the Word of the living God.—
Letter 11, January 21,
1901
, to Dr. M. G. Kellogg, working in Australia.
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