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Be Singular—for Christ’s Sake, October 28
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a
cause to decline after many to wrest judgment.
Exodus 23:2
.
To be singular for singularity’s sake is positively detestable, below the dignity
of a Christian, but to be singular because it is necessary to be so as the result of
worshipping God and Him only, places Heaven’s dignity upon man. We must not
be afraid of being singular when duty requires us to be thus to exalt and honor
God....
Do not court singularity for the sake of being odd, but for the sake of avoiding
sin and dishonor to God. And in this case we are not to mind even the multitude
who are against us. “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.”
Because the law of God is made void in our world, does it make it a virtue
to transgress that law? It may appear to the world a very small matter for the
Christian to be in harmony with the world by just the act of keeping Sunday for
the Sabbath in the place of the seventh day, but God’s Word says the seventh day
is My holy day. The man of sin says, “I make a Sabbath for you and you must
keep the first day of the week.” ...
God has a church. It is not the great cathedral, neither is it the national
establishment, neither is it the various denominations; it is the people who love
God and keep His commandments. “Where two or three are gathered together in
my name, there am I in the midst of them” (
Matthew 18:20
). Where Christ is even
among the humble few, this is Christ’s church, for the presence of the High and
Holy One who inhabiteth eternity can alone constitute a church.
Where two or three are present who love and obey the commandments of God,
Jesus there presides, let it be in the desolate place of the earth, in the wilderness,
in the city enclosed in prison walls. The glory of God has penetrated the prison
walls, flooding with glorious beams of heavenly light the darkest dungeon. His
saints may suffer, but their sufferings will, like the apostles of old, spread their
faith and win souls to Christ and glorify His holy name. The bitterest opposition
expressed by those who hate God’s great moral standard of righteousness should
not and will not shake the steadfast soul who trusts fully in God....
They that will be doers of the word are building securely, and the tempest and
storm of persecution will not shake their foundation, because their souls are rooted
to the eternal Rock.—
Letter 108, October 28, 1886
, to her older sister and her
husband who had not accepted the Sabbath truth.
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