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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
have educated themselves in economical habits, so that they may
have gifts and offerings for the Lord’s house? How many have had
their hearts warmed by the practical exercise of benevolence? How
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many have made earnest efforts to inspire others to work for the
Master? To work at home successfully will need a spirit, faith, and
perseverance that will not fail nor be discouraged. There is not one
inactive in heaven, and no one will enter the mansions of bliss who
has failed to show love for Christ, who has put forth no efforts for
the salvation of others.
Who can tell the work that might have been done in our churches,
if those who had advocated the truth had not left these feeble
churches, to crowd into Battle Creek? If all our people had been
faithful, diligent, God-fearing servants of Christ, and had put forth
efforts to make their influence as far-reaching as possible at home,
where they were, how many souls might have been saved! One taper
kindled in one place might have been the means of kindling many
others, and the result would have been that the voice of praise and
thanksgiving would have been heard, and many would have said:
“What hath God wrought! He hath done exceedingly abundantly
above all that we asked or thought.”
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Direct Dependence on God
[Special Testimonies, Series A 3:39, 40 (1895).]
February 19, 1895.
It is not in the order of God that any man, or any class of men,
should assume that God has made them conscience for their brethren,
or put forth their finite hand in a patronizing manner to control the
Lord’s delegated workers, thus endangering the safety of the Lord’s
heritage as well as their own, and retarding the work of God. God
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does not confine Himself to one man, or to a set of men, through
whom to accomplish His work, but says of all, Ye “are laborers
together with God.” This means that every believing soul should
have a part to act in His sacred work, and every individual believer
in Jesus Christ is to manifest to the world a symbol of Christ’s