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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
I have not liberty to place my writing in the hands of men who
feel that their work is to act the part of detectives over their brethren.
My brethren in positions of trust, will you not discern your own de-
ficiencies and put on the whole armor of righteousness yourselves?
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Will you not be just as watchful and critical over your own spirits and
temperaments and words as you are over those of others, lest God
should be dishonored, and His truth misrepresented? Your discern-
ment would be greatly improved if you would do this. The truth, the
living word, would be as a fire shut up in your bones, which would
shine forth in clear, unmistakable distinctness, representing Christ
to the world. “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see
your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”
Could none of those who have made themselves detectives see
the tendency of the position they have taken in endeavoring to be-
come a controlling power? Where was their clear spiritual eyesight?
Why could they discern a mote in the eye of a brother, while a beam
was in their own eye? Oh, if ever a temple upon earth needed purify-
ing, the institutions in Battle Creek need it now! Will you not seek
God most humbly, that you may give the Laodicean message with
clear, distinct utterance? Where are God’s watchmen who will see
the peril and give the warning? Be assured that there are messages
to come from human lips under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
“Cry aloud, spare not, ... show My people their transgression, and
the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek Me daily, ... as a nation
that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God.”
We are soldiers of Christ. He is the Captain of our salvation, and
we are under His orders and rules. We are to wear His armor; we
are to be marshaled only under His banner. We are to subdue not
our brother soldiers but our enemies, that we may build up Christ’s
kingdom. We are laborers together with God. We are to keep on the
whole armor of God, and work as in view of the universe of heaven.
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Let every man do his duty, as given him of God.
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The Need of Divine Guidance
[Special Testimonies, Series A 6:56-60 (1896).]