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them and the ministers who are bearing the gospel message. There
should be no union until there is a change.
When medical missionaries make their practice and example har-
monize with the name they bear, when they feel their need of uniting
firmly with the ministers of the gospel, then there can be harmonious
action. But we must firmly refuse to be drawn away from the platform
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of eternal truth, which since 1844 has stood the test.
Alpha Presented in “Living Temple”
I am instructed to speak plainly. “Meet it,” is the word spoken to
me. “Meet it firmly, and without delay.” But it is not to be met by our
taking our working forces from the field to investigate doctrines and
points of difference. We have no such investigation to make. In the
book Living Temple there is presented the alpha of deadly heresies.
The omega will follow, and will be received by those who are not
willing to heed the warning God has given.
Our physicians, upon whom important responsibilities rest, should
have clear spiritual discernment. They are to stand constantly on
guard. Dangers that we do not now discern will soon break upon us,
and I greatly desire that they shall not be deceived. I have an intense
longing to see them standing free in the Lord. I pray that they may
have courage to stand firm for the truth as it is in Jesus, holding fast
the beginning of their confidence unto the end.—
Special Testimonies,
Series B, No. 2, 49, 50
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