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What Love Does, March 8
While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God
while I have any being.
Psalm 146:2
.
For half a century I have been the Lord’s messenger, and as long as my
life shall last I shall continue to bear the messages that God gives me for
His people. I take no glory to myself; in my youth the Lord made me His
messenger, to communicate to His people testimonies of encouragement,
warning, and reproof. For sixty years I have been in communication with
heavenly messengers, and I have been constantly learning in reference to
divine things, and in reference to the way in which God is constantly working
to bring souls from the error of their ways to the light in God’s light ....
I love God. I love Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and I feel an intense
interest in every soul who claims to be a child of God. I am determined to be
a faithful steward so long as the Lord shall spare my life. I will not fail nor
be discouraged.
But for months my soul has been passing through intense agony on ac-
count of those who have received the sophistries of Satan [pantheistic teach-
ings; see
Testimonies for the Church 8:255-304
] and are communicating the
same to others, making every conceivable interpretation in various ways to
destroy confidence in the gospel messages for this last generation, and in the
special work which God has given me to do. I know that the Lord has given
me this work, and I have no excuse to make for what I have done. In my expe-
rience I am constantly receiving evidence of the sustaining miracle-working
power of God upon my body and my soul, which I have dedicated to the Lord.
I am not my own; I have been bought with a price. And I have such assurance
of the Lord’s working in my behalf that I must acknowledge His abundant
grace. I love the Lord; I love my Saviour, and my life is wholly in the hands
of God. As long as He sustains me, I shall bear a decided testimony.
Why should I complain? So many times has the Lord raised me up from
sickness, so wonderfully has He sustained me, that I can never doubt. I have
so many unmistakable evidences of His special blessings, that I could not
possibly doubt. He gives me freedom to speak His truth before large numbers
of people.—
Letter 86, March 8, 1906
, to Elder G. I. Butler, president of the
Southern Union Conference.
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