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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
the hope that is within them, and honoring God in any branch of the
work where they are qualified to labor....
As the disciples of Christ it is our duty to diffuse light which
we know the world has not. Let the people of God “be rich in good
works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; laying up in
store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come,
that they may lay hold on eternal life.”
1 Timothy 6:18, 19
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The Remnant Church Not Babylon
[The Review and Herald, August 22 to September 12, 1893.] I have
been made very sad in reading the pamphlet that has been issued by
Brother S. [See appendix.] and by those associated with him in the
work he has been doing. Without my consent, they have made
selections from the
Testimonies
, and have inserted them in the
pamphlet they have published, to make it appear that my writings
sustain and approve the position they advocate. In doing this they
have done that which is not justice or righteousness.
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Through taking unwarrantable liberties they have presented to the
people a theory that is of character to deceive and destroy. In times
past many others have done this same thing, and have made it appear
that the
Testimonies
sustained positions that were untenable and
false.
I have had light to the effect that the position taken by Brother S.
and his sympathizers is not true, but one of the “lo, heres,” and “lo,
theres” that will characterize the days in which we are living. As a
sample of the way in which Brother S. has compiled this pamphlet, I
will give the following incident: I wrote a private letter to one of our
ministers, and in kindness, thinking that it might be a help to Brother
S., this brother sent a copy of it to him; but instead of regarding it as
a matter for his personal help, he prints portions of it in the pamphlet
as an unpublished testimony, to sustain the position he had taken.
Is this honorable? There was nothing in the testimony to sustain
the position Brother S. holds; but he misapplied it, as many do the
Scriptures, to the injury of his own soul and the souls of others.
God will judge those who take unwarrantable liberties and make use
of dishonorable means in order to give character and influence to