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given to patriarchs and prophets. And after giving them this precious
instruction, He promised to give them the Holy Spirit whereby all
things that He had said unto them should be brought to their remem-
brance.
We are in continual danger of getting above the simplicity of the
gospel. There is an intense desire on the part of many to startle the
world with something original, that shall lift the people into a state of
spiritual ecstasy, and change the present order of experience. There
is certainly great need of a change in the present order of experience;
for the sacredness of present truth is not realized as it should be, but
the change we need is a change of heart, and can only be obtained by
seeking God individually for His blessing, by pleading with Him for
His power, by fervently praying that His grace may come upon us, and
that our characters may be transformed. This is the change we need
today, and for the attainment of this experience we should exercise
persevering energy and manifest heartfelt earnestness. We should ask
with true sincerity, “What shall I do to be saved?” We should know
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just what steps we are taking heavenward.
Warned in Regard to Time Setting
Christ gave to His disciples truths whose breadth and depth and
value they little appreciated, or even comprehended, and the same
condition exists among the people of God today. We too have failed
to take in the greatness, to perceive the beauty of the truth which God
has entrusted to us today. Should we advance in spiritual knowledge,
we would see the truth developing and expanding in lines of which
we have little dreamed, but it will never develop in any line that will
lead us to imagine that we may know the times and the seasons which
the Father hath put in His own power. Again and again have I been
warned in regard to time setting. There will never again be a message
for the people of God that will be based on time. We are not to know
the definite time either for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit or for the
coming of Christ.
I was searching through my writings, before coming to this meet-
ing, to see what I should take with me to Australia, and I found an
envelope on which was written, “Testimony given in regard to time