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message is truth, it will be mingled with men’s inventions and will
teach for doctrines the commandments of men. If there was ever
a time when we should watch and pray in real earnest, it is now.
There may be supposable things that appear as good things, and yet
they need to be carefully considered with much prayer, for they are
specious devices of the enemy to lead souls in a path which lies so
close to the path of truth that it will be scarcely distinguishable from
the path which leads to holiness and heaven. But the eye of faith
may discern that it is diverging from the right path, though almost
imperceptibly. At first it may be thought positively right, but after a
while it is seen to be widely divergent from the path of safety, from
the path which leads to holiness and heaven. My brethren, I warn
you to make straight paths for your feet, lest the lame be turned out
of the way.
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Hovering Over the Churches
[Special Testimonies, Series A 4:4-10 (1895).]
Cooranbong, Australia,
September 1, 1895
Dear Brother and Sister-----,
Brother-----laid out before me the plans for meetings to be held
for weeks in different places among those who know the truth.
Doubtless some who have newly come to the faith would be bene-
fited, but I know you are not on the right track. Some of those called
together will no doubt have their faith strengthened and confirmed;
but this work is not bearing the message of warning to those who are
still in darkness and error, who know not the truth. Time is passing,
the perils of the last days are upon us; and how many will say to us
in the last great day when every man shall receive according to his
works: Why have you not warned us? You have not told us those
things that we should have known.
Christ says, “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to
repentance.” Let our ministers go forth weighted with the solemn
message of warning. When men have had every advantage to obtain
a knowledge of the truth, how shall plans be laid to keep our laborers
from the work of saving souls in the darkness of error? The time