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which will not help them spiritually, such as, Who is to compose the
hundred and forty-four thousand? This those who are the elect of God
will in a short time know without question.
My brethren and sisters, appreciate and study the truths God has
given for you and your children. Spend not your time in seeking to
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know that which will be no spiritual help. “What shall I do to inherit
eternal life?” (
Luke 10:25
). This is the all-important question, and it
has been clearly answered. “What is written in the law? how readest
thou?”—
Manuscript 26, 1901
.
Christ Calls for Unity
Our church members see that there are differences of opinion
among the leading men, and they themselves enter into controversy
regarding the subjects under dispute. Christ calls for unity. But He does
not call for us to unify on wrong practices. The God of heaven draws
a sharp contrast between pure, elevating, ennobling truth and false,
misleading doctrines. He calls sin and impenitence by the right name.
He does not gloss over wrongdoing with a coat of untempered mortar.
I urge our brethren to unify upon a true, scriptural basis.—
Manuscript
10, 1905
.
No Strife for Supremacy
When the laborers have an abiding Christ in their own souls,
when all selfishness is dead, when there is no rivalry, no strife for
the supremacy, when oneness exists, when they sanctify themselves,
so that love for one another is seen and felt, then the showers of the
grace of the Holy Spirit will just as surely come upon them as that
God’s promise will never fail in one jot or tittle. But when the work of
others is discounted, that the workers may show their own superiority,
they prove that their own work does not bear the signature it should.
God cannot bless them.—
Manuscript 24, 1896
.
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