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the day of Pentecost. Not a vestige of the influence of selfish, worldly
monopolies is to make the slightest impression on the people who are
watching and working and praying for the second coming of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory.
As a people we are not ready for the Lord’s appearing. If we would
close the windows of the soul earthward and open them heavenward,
every institution established would be a bright and shining light in
the world. Each member of the church, if he lived the great, elevated,
ennobling truths for this time, would be a bright, shining light. God’s
people cannot please Him unless they are surcharged with the Holy
Spirit’s efficiency. So pure and true is to be their relationship to one
another that by their words, their affections, their attributes, they will
show that they are one with Christ. They are to be as signs and wonders
in our world, carrying forward intelligently every line of the work.
And the different parts of the work are to be so harmoniously related
to one another that all will move like well-regulated machinery. Then
will the joy of Christ’s salvation be understood. There will then be
none of the representation now made by those who have been given the
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light of truth to communicate, but who have not revealed the principles
of truth in their association with one another, who have not done the
Lord’s work in a way that glorifies Him....
After Christ rose from the dead, He proclaimed over the sepulcher,
“I am the resurrection and the life.” Christ, the risen Saviour, is our
life. As Christ becomes the life of the soul, the change is felt, but
language cannot describe it. All claims to knowledge, to influence, to
power, are worthless without the perfume of Christ’s character. Christ
must be the very life of the soul, as the blood is the life of the body....
Cleansed From All Selfishness
Those who are connected with the service of God must be purified
from every thread of selfishness. All is to be done in accordance with
the injunction, “Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all” (
Colossians
3:17
) “to the glory of God” (
1 Corinthians 10:31
). God’s laws of
justice and equity must be strictly obeyed in the transactions between
neighbor and neighbor, brother and brother. We are to seek for perfect